I Voted for the Bomb!

Today I went to volunteer in my four year old son's class; they had just voted that morning, so I was asking everyone who they voted for. One of the kids said, "I voted for The Bomb!" Luke and I love looking at the Electoral Maps, and Luke keeps saying that McCain is really getting damaged.

While I was helping Anakin put on his shirt, he exclaims, "Coming through the black hole."

Luke keeps saying, "What the heck!" I'm not sure where he got that from.

The best was when the boys were playing one of their new games: The Night Sky.
They get out their books that are star charts and planet maps, and pretend to go flying through space. One of their maps is just the sun and the planets (not Pluto). Anakin tells Luke to stop at the moon, Luke looking at his planet maps says, "I can't! I don't know where it is because it's not on the map!", Anakin then replies, "You just passed it." They can pretty much remember all the planet except Uranus.

A close second or third, well maybe fourth. We also went to the Library today where the boys got to go to story hour and learn about pumpkins. They learned all about pumpkin heads. Then on the way to school, we see a pumpkin head, and I yell--"Look and pumpkin head!" Anakin says, "That's a scarecrow one." And it was.

Anakin and our pumpkin head

The Flag Game

My husband taught my boys how to play capture the flag, but of course with all games--they morph into something new, with new rules. We start from our back porch(base) and throw out a marker. The boys then run, get the marker, and try to bring it back to base. It's always them against me, and somehow whenever I run the marker into base it's against the rules, "Mom you are never allowed to win!" I'm thinking, "You guys scored five goals, and I only scored one, so I'm still not winning," But they don't see of it that way. Because it's a team sport, the boys are allowed to tackle, block, distract me while the other boy makes it into base. If I do capture one of the boys, then they throw it to the other team member, or can get away from me, somehow. They also have great stealth powers. When they lie flat in the grass, you can't see them, even though somehow you can see them on the video. Maybe the stealth powers just work on the naked eye. It's very important that the marker is hidden underneath them, because the marker doesn't have that same ability. Last night the boys added another dimension--three markers instead of one, I still can't even take one of the markers into base, and it is very confusing, I mean fun. "Luke" took this video, of our game, it's kind of long, but also kind of fun!

The Winner Is........

Not the Star Wars Family. We went to Trunk r Treat last night, and the Grease themed family beat us out. Their costumes were great, and they looked awesome, but really is Grease really better than Star Wars?

Leia and Padme (my niece)

Luke, Ben(my nephew), Anakin

Han Solo and Leia

The family!

The real winner of the giveaway: A Goddess in Progress! She guessed 301, and there were 297 M&M's in the jar. Send me your address at kaylynntjedotgmail, and I will send you an Austin movie. Please don't demand a recount because I already counted them twice. As for the M&M jar, I'm tempted to keep it myself, but I thought I could deliver it to Annie. She voted the 268 and was the closest "local" voter. My favorite part is when my sister estimated a number, and requested a movie. Then a few days later her husband estimated a number, and requested the same movie. Isn't that so sweet! Don't worry Martha, I believe you have a birthday coming up, and I can send you either Cranford or Northanger Abbey. Did anyone notice that Pam from The Office wanted to watch Cranford with Jim, but he refused. On the other hand, my husband would much rather watch Cranford than West Wing, and we already watch Battlestar Galactica together.

There Is Still Time to Win!

There is still time to bid on the give away below--I will post the winners midnight Central Time on Saturday!

Estimation & A Give Away

100th Post Estimation Game
How many M&M's are there?

OK, so my 100th post is only days away. So let's celebrate with a giveaway, but you have you estimate to win. There is only one canning jar of M&M's--I just took two pictures.

Rules:
1. Leave a comment with your estimation (not guess)
2. The closest estimation wins (over or under this is not Price is Right)
3. If there are more than one winner, I will put names in a hat and choose the winner.
4. If you win and are local, you also get the M&M's

Prize: One of these nine classic movies.

What better way to celebrate but with an estimation game and a little romance. Please include your choice of movies in your guess!

Tummy and Butt and Thighs, Oh My!

I love to go trail running, and I don't get to do it enough as I would like. But this week I got to go twice. Both days were perfect for running: on the cool side, fall colors, and the sun was just coming up. I am always trying to come up with really good spiritual thoughts, but they just don't really come up to snuff. Here are the two that are in the very rough stages:

1. Sometimes I like to explore different trails, but I don't carry a map or compass with me. So I stand at the trail map, trying to memorize it and thinking, "When I come to this point, I will turn right, then left, then right again." I can do this. I am always getting lost, and have to try to find my way out of the state park. Spiritual thought: You can't go through life without your spiritual compass and map, you will get lost.

2. I have been trying to push myself a little. I run, walk, run, walk. I'm trying to run more than walk. So at one point I decide that I am going to run until I come to the road. I start running and I keep running, then I just can't do it anymore, so I stop and walk. Seconds later I get to the road. I know I would have kept running if I knew I only had a little farther to run. Like any challenge in life, if we knew we would come of the conqueror, we would keep on trying.

So really not so great, a little ruff and a bit contrived. Now this is when I decide to just try and motivate myself to run, run and run. I came up to this little chant from The Wizard of Oz: Lions, and Tigers, and Bears, oh my, but instead I think: "Tummy and butt and thighs, oh my!" This works! I did my best run. Now I just need to do that chant when I steal bites of ice cream out of the freezer.

Ghostes and Goblins

Anakin drawing the ghost face.

Here is Gypsy Girl--I just love the smile.

Anikin again!

Don't they look cute and scary at the same time!

Mike and the kids made these ghosts and hung them outside. My five year old always calls them "ghostes" instead of "ghosts".