RockinRRanch

The ball is about to head my direction.

It bounced off my head, onto the cupboard, and got stuck in the window.





Where'd Adam go?


Watch out Jacob









Checking out the peppers.




Silly faces for the camera.








Jacob woke us up shortly before 8am. Adam was up soon after that. Jacob pointed at the clock and asked, “what does that say?” He likes me to tell him what time it is. After breakfast we had a little time to read books. We left for church soon after 9am. On the way Jacob was talking about what he had done “last morning (yesterday)”. Jacob excitedly walked back to his class and told me he was going to sit on a yellow chair. He searched for a yellow chair and then climbed over a row to get one. Adam cried as I left him in the nursery, but quickly stopped when they asked him if he wanted a snack. When we picked Jacob up from his class he was excited to find and show us the paper he had done. The boys always like to get drinks from the drinking fountain. They wanted to play at the churches playground so we took them over there for a little while. We had fun teeter-toddering with the boys. They wanted to try out every teeter todder. We got home from church around 11:30. Before going inside we let the chickens out of the coop. Every time we get out of the car Adam says, "chit-tin (chicken)?" He wanted to get them an apple and asked Daddy for help. While we were waiting for lunch to be ready we had some fun playtime. Daddy walked around with the tunnel over his head. He would pick thing (toy, the boys, pillows, the exercise ball) and “spit” them out. It was really funny when he’d pick up a pillow and “spit” it out at the boys. Jacob said he was a “giant truck that picks thing up and spit them out”. Jared “spit” the exercise ball at me and it hit my head, bounced onto the kitchen cupboard and got stuck in the window above the sink. Too funny! Then we played in the hallway with the shake and go cars. After lunch I folded and put away the laundry. Jacob, Daddy, and Adam played with the tunnel and fire truck playhut. Adam came over to me carrying Jacob heavy matchbox cars case. I opened it up for him and he got a few out to play with. Then I read some books to the boys. After laying Adam down for his nap we played Crazy 8’s. Jacob and Daddy played against me this time. After each game Jacob would say, “I wanna play that again”. Then Jared and I played a game of Slap Jack. After Jared won me in that, he and Jacob played the matching game. Jacob played with his cash register while he rested. Then we went outside to work on clearing the brush. Jacob played with his tractor and had fun climbing a little tree. Jared and I were pulling out the cut down trees to load on the trailer, which was parked on the side of the road. I noticed several hornet in the tall grass but didn’t think too much about it and continued loading trees. We were walking right thru the area where I'd seen the hornets. Well, of course, I got stung. Jared looked for the nest and then he got stung twice. Now the area I’d seen the hornets was covered with mad hornets. We moved the trailer and worked on loading the piles over by the goat paddock where we first started cutting. Adam woke up. I brought him outside with us. It was another beautiful, cool evening. The boys played in the back of the car. Then the boys and I rode back there while Daddy pulled the trailer behind the house for unloading. We had fun riding in the back with the door open. Adam hung on tight to my arm. Then we drove back to pick up Jacob tractor and trailer. Jacob was excited that we were haling them on the trailer. We noticed a couple pumpkin plants growing up by the house in the flower garden. Adam found the bubbles and we had fun blowing them. We walked over to check on the horses. As we walked over there Jacob sang a song that went, “were checking on the horses” over and over as he moved his arms. He wanted me to sing it also. The boys liked looking inside the gravity wagon when Daddy turned the wheel and opened the door. Daddy found some mint and let them smell it. The boys had fun getting pulled around in their wagon. I picked some green peppers from the garden. We went inside at dinnertime. While dinner was cooking I cut up the peppers for freezing. Adam liked checking out the peppers. Jacob liked pulling off the stem after I cut around the top. After dinner we headed into town to get some ice cream from meijer. Jacob was almost asleep when we got there. He was crabby in the store. Then he got kicked in the face by Adam’s dangling feet. When we got home we locked up the chickens. It was bath time and Adam ran really fast right to the tub. He right away started trying to pull off his shirt. Jacob cried in the tub and complained that he didn’t feel good. I quickly washed him up and took him out. After drying him off, I wrapped him in a towel, and held him tight on my lap as Adam played. That seemed to make him feel better. He asked for ice water and went out to asked Daddy to get him some. After the boys were in bed Jared and I had ice cream and watched I Love Lucy.