St. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day. Matty was enjoying the day. He had physical therapy and speech therapy today and he was pretty tired.

As a prelude to St. Patrick's Day we had an impromptu pizza party on Monday night. Grandpa had taken the four oldest grandchildren to the movies and had their traditional Bourbon Street Chicken and then played in the play area at the mall. The Moms hung out at the house with the little ones.

We invited the Dads to come over after work and we ordered pizza.

Kayda is enjoying her pizza.

Matty is enjoying a few moments without his feeding tube. What a cute little guy!

Megan checking out the calendar. Only four more months!

Karen and Kayda

Reddin's ritual after Payton's bath. She gets a free ride.

After the baths.

We have a streaker in the house.

Sawyer and Abby ready for St. Patrick's Day in their sleeping attire.

Sawyer the Entrepeneur

Sawyer is the quite the little business woman. When she came over on Monday Wayne took her out to pick lemons with him. She picked her bag of lemons and then came in to me with the idea of setting up a table and sign to sell her lemons.

At the start of her business

First customer of the day.
She sold $3 worth of lemons and then sat there for awhile longer.
No one was coming to buy her lemons so she came up with the idea of going to neighbors with a bag of lemons to sell. She went to the Slushers and of course Kim bought a bag. She then came in an conned her grandmother out of another dollar. On Saturday the neighbors across the street had had a garage sale and Sawyer had her eye on a very large stuffed dog that had a price tag of $4.

The next thing we know she has brought this dog home. She had gone over to the neighbors and knocked on their door and asked if she could buy the dog. She gave them 25 cents. She drives a hard bargin.

Abigail the Fearless :(

I do not think that Abby is afraid of anything as the following account demonstrates. Friday Carrie came over to visit. Grandpa and Sawyer were downstairs watching a movie. Carrie and I were in the living room talking. Abby had gone outside to play in the backyard. As we were visiting we heard little feet on the roof. Carrie immediately got up and ran out the back door. Abby was on the roof.

She had moved a chair over to the gate...

so she could get the gate open.

Once on the porch she climbed on the tub...

to get to the roof. She did not stay on the lower more level part...

but proceeded to climb to the higher more steep part.

This is where Carrie found her. We all know Abby and if you go after her she runs. Carrie immediately started yelling for her to stop. Did she stop, not Abby but...

ran to the other side of the roof where if she fell it would be straight to the ground. It was definately a scary moment for Carrie. And as we sat in the living room and Abby continued to play outside, we heard the gate open two more times, even though she had gotten a spanking. She might make her third birthday.