Rhett's 5th Tooth

I felt Rhett's tooth one day and it was really loose, so I decided to pull it out. He was freaking out, and screaming when I touched it--even though it didn't hurt that badly--and after TWO whole pulls, the tooth was out! Easiest tooth pulled so far!!!

Kaylee, Ethen, and My Birthday

Gramma and Grampa came over a couple of weeks ago to give us all our birthday presents for October.

Ethen got this monkey folder with Color Wonder finger paints and a coloring book

And a Twister game with a beach towel

Then...

A train set!!!

And Kaylee got this princess set

And this Barbie,

And a Disney Fairies coloring set!

And I got this really cool counter top popcorn machine!!!!!

I was so excited I could not believe it, and we use it at least once a week!!!

THANK YOU GRAMMA AND GRAMPA!!!!!

Cake Time!!!

And now time for cake!!!

Ethen goes to blow out the candle, but when he inhales again,

The candle catches him on the lip!

Then finally he got it, with a little help from Mama

Then he enjoyed the cake

Caty and Ethen's Presents

Here's the kids waiting to open the presents

Caty got this cool bag
And Justin agreed

After a few more of Caty's presents, it was Ethens turn

He got a monkey rolling suitcase from Grammy with jammies and a blankie

Then Grammy got Ethen this huge lion. He loved it!!!

My Boys

Ethen loves his big brother so much, he likes to fall asleep on him

So here he is before,

And just a few minutes later.

Owls

My friend Kirsten got a cupcake book and she made these owl cupcakes, so she brought a family of owls over to us to eat. It took us about 5 days to actually eat them. They were too cute! But the eyeballs from the big owls got eaten after a day.

Rhett's Field Trip

About a week ago Rhett had his first second grade field trip to CAC to learn all about corn. It was a lot of fun, and Rhett definitely wants to go back again someday.

Here we are waiting to leave the school

When we got there, everyone got some popcorn and watched a cartoon
Then everyone got to sing some songs

Here is the teacher teaching how to make plastic out of corn products. It was really cool, and we got the recipe:

1. Place 2 tablespoons of cornstarch in a cup

2. Add 4 drops of corn oil

3. Add 2 tablespoons of water
4. Stir

5. Add 4 drops of food color and stir again

6. Microwave for 50 seconds on high-you can pour into a mold dusted with cornstarch if you like

7. Cool slightly and push out of cup or mold

8. It should look like a muffin or the shape of the mold

Here is the next teacher teaching how corn used to be ground with rocks, how many kernels are typically on a corn cob-800 and how many rows they have-I don't remember, 20? Anyway, after she was done telling the history of corn, everyone got to grind their own corn-enough for one Cheeto

My hard little worker grinding away

Here's the corn Rhett ground all by himself

The next class was a cooking class on how to use corn products. She made Johnnycakes--soooo good!!!!

Then we took a lunch break and the moms visited

Here's my group waiting patiently to go through the maze

Entering the corn maze

Throughout the maze there were random facts about corn that all of the kids got to take turns reading to each other

When we got through the maze, the kids all got to pick 5 ears of corn to take home for decoration, or to turn into bird feed. The kids had so much fun!!!