Cornbelly's

A couple weeks ago we went to Cornbelly's up at Thanksgiving Point. We had a good time last year so we decided to go again. I don't have a lot to say about it, except that it was fun again. Here are a bunch of pictures to show all the cool things we did. :)

Memory Made

Claire- "how did Jesus put hair on our heads?"
Me- "I'm not sure, you should ask him that someday"
a few minutes later...
Claire- "Mommy, I'm going to go to the toy room and pray to ask Jesus how he put hair on our heads"
(she runs to the other room, I try to sneak close so I can hear, but I missed it, she runs back to me all excited)
Claire- "I did it, I asked Jesus." :)

I loved this moment. It's so neat being a parent and seeing your child learning and using concepts that you've taught them. :)

memory made

"my tummy has a nose!" - everett, said while looking down as he got his diaper changed... yep.

Kite Flying and Photo Challenge #3

The other day the kids were given some kites and Claire wanted to take them outside right away. Even though it's been raining off and on lately, we saw a break in the clouds Monday afternoon and went kite flying. Everett quickly lost interest in his and found other things to keep him occupied while Claire thoroughly enjoyed her time running around and keeping the kite afloat while yelling, "Fun!" over and over again. I took the opportunity to take pictures for my photo challenge this week...

"Diptych or Triptych"

Glasses

In June, after a couple of my sisters asked about it, we started noticing occasionally that Everett's eye would turn in. We noticed it happening more and more since then, but weren't too concerned since he seemed to be able to see fine. During his 2 year checkup, we asked about it and were told to take him to a pediatric ophthalmologist.

When we took him in to see the ophthalmologist, they did a couple tests and we were told that he was extremely farsighted, more so in the one eye. He has been straining his eyes to focus which is causing the one eye to curve inward. He prescribed him the glasses and we left. A week later the glasses came and this last week we've been trying to adjust to them.

I have to say it's been a pretty emotional and difficult week. Everett will wear his glasses for a good amount of time, but takes them off when he's "done". I usually have to bribe him to put them back on again or tell him he can't do something he wants to do unless he puts his glasses on. I feel like such a meanie mom. He's been tilting his head up and down to look either above or below them. He doesn't like to look through them. I know it takes getting used to, but I kinda expected him to like them at least a little because they're supposed to help him see better... I called and voiced my concerns to the doctor but they told me to keep trying a little longer and stick with it until his appointment next month so we'll see how it goes... 

Creative Photo Challenge #2

Simplicity

sim·plic·i·ty

noun 

-the quality or condition of being easy to understand or do. 

 

I had a bunch of ideas for this one at first, but they didn't exactly play out well when I tried to capture them. So here's what I got. :)

Creative Photo Challenge #1

So I've always kinda wanted to do one of those 52-week photo projects or a photo-a-day for a month or (even scarier) a 365-day photo project. However, I've never tried because they've always intimidated me. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to keep it up with how busy life gets sometimes.  I found this list of themes on Pinterest though and decided to give it a shot (by myself, not with the website). I just liked that it said no timeline, no pressure, no failure. This is just a personal challenge I want to try to hopefully strengthen my photo taking skills and creativity. I will be trying to get these done once a week, and posting them so I know people will see them and therefore I'll try harder. :)

"Morning"
So originally I saw morning and thought, that should be pretty easy... However we live in a basement and I realized how dark it is, especially early morning when my kids wake up. I kept trying different things though and didn't like how they were turning out. Claire woke up a little later this morning though and since Scott was at football, we played in our bed this morning. I opened our blinds and hiked up my ISO super high and got this shot, which I loved. :)