3 months

 Liam is 3 months and doing great.  His herniated belly button healed itself really quickly.  He is way less colicky and usually only fusses to eat or to put himself to sleep.

Here are some compares with mom and dad.  

Jared's eyebrows and ears. Sahara's eyes and chin.

We'll have to check again when Liam catches up to their ages, around 1ish.  

BUT NO RUSH LIAM!!

Repotting and Fall Gardening

I have some new cactus friends in the kitchen.  Fat fingers and flat fingers I'm calling them.

These 2 were replanted in pots with actual drain holes.

These 2 got new pots almost 3 times what they were in.

This guy got one of the pots that one of the floor plants were in.

What a mess.  Look at those roots!

I also planted 25 bulbs in front of these bushes and trimmed them.  They were looking pretty shaggy.  I'll have to wait until spring/summer to see how the bulbs do.

 

 

Ask and Ye Shall Receive

So this past summer I noticed how horrible our road signs were.  The picture actually makes them look better than they were.  I decided to message the City Hall on their facebook page and sent them the picture and asked who I might need to ask for replacements or what the process is.  They said they'd send someone out to look at them.  3 months later, I refreshed their memory looking for an update.  They said as soon as they had new signs to order, they would put our street signs on the list too. 3 weeks later and they were installed! 

Nice and fresh!!

 

Halloween 2020

We bought 2 pumpkins

  Canyon picked a big orange one and I chose a small white one.  They sat on my dining room floor for 2 1/2 weeks.  They both had stickery stems so when I went to lift up the big orange, I leaned over it and put my hands down with my thumbs in the back.  When I squeezed to pick it up, my thumb went through it.  Gross!  I flipped it over and it had been rotting on the back and bottom for who knows how long.  In the trash big orange went.

So Canyon gutted little white.

He got a worried face because he had been sitting next to big orange as he rotted and he had to silently witness the whole thing.  He's seen things man. 

Jared is a fan and Sahara a vender selling hotdogs with ketchup and mustard.

The crew.

Canyon and mom are Super Fans.

Easy last minute costume because we had all the gear anyway.

Jupiter and Hippie are Charlie Brown and the Great Pumpkin.

We trick or treated at about 15-20 houses.  Half just left a bowl out.  We left a bowl out after we gave candy out to 3 groups before we left ourselves.

It was a pretty good night.  Not nearly as packed as usual.  I over estimated how much candy to buy and have 4 bags left.  I hope they keep till next year because that's what they will be saved for! 😁

At Home Away From Home - Fair, Masters, Bumkin, and Daycare

Checked out the Spanker Creek Farm Arts and Crafts Fair.

So many more things to do in NWA.

Totally should have gotten this dragon but it was $150.

Chillish and windy so Liam used his cloak of invisibility and it worked out great!

Beautiful mums but I can't keep those alive.

Sahara officially graduated with her Masters!!!

Way to go Sahara!!!

The houses that do the Christmas lights do Halloween also so we checked them out.  Pretty cool!

Sweet Liam in his bassinette.

Then we tortured him with bumkin pumpkin pictures.  He hated it but the whole thing from start to finish was less than 10 minutes from paint to bath.  He threw a fit the whole time.

Monday came before we knew it and it was his first day of daycare.  He did great.  They adored him.  He drank from the bottle and napped just as he should.  He was spoiled.  They use an app which sends mom and dad little updates throughout the day and tracks feeding and diaper changes and mood.  How nice!

Oh, it looks like daycare is going to torture him with arts and crafts too.  😂

 

Canyon's 22 in Bentonville

Canyon's birthday weekend was spent in Bentonville.  We went to a little roadside pumpkin patch but didn't buy pumpkins there.  They wanted too much for them.  Later we got some on sale at Walmart that were just as good anyway and $3 a piece! Sahara even got a huge tri colored mum for $12 instead of a single colored one for $20.

We also hit The Razorback Shop and Target where Canyon picked out a few things and then back to the house with Subway for lunch and to open gifts.

Thanks everyone!

We made cookie brownies and sang in the evening after dinner and that was about it.

 

Liam got his first Dolly Imagination Library book.

And we decorated the house for Halloween.

OH NO!

Ok, heard a gun shot.  It was close, but not unusual.  We have a small stretch of woods behind the house and a big farm land past that.  Then two more shots.  Really close.  Decided Canyon and the dogs needed to come in from the back yard.  The dogs were unusually quiet considering. Now that I'm outside I hear people yelling out front and more bangs which I can tell are coming from the front and not the woods or farm.  I had left the back door open and they went charging in.  I got Canyon off the swing and notice sirens from all directions heading this way and rush him in the house as quickly as possibly.  He hears them too now that he has his music out of his ears.  I'm trying to keep us quiet because I'm not sure what all the ruckus is out front, civil war, WWIII, zombie apocalypse...all I know is that I don't want the yelling/gun firing people in the front yard to know we are in the back yard.  So I'm trying to get us locked in the house.  Canyon gets in the house and sees the firetrucks through the front windows from the back door and makes a mad dash to the front door.  I stop him still not knowing what is happening and go to check the window.  Then I see what it is.  My neighbor's house is totally engulfed in flames.  At first we just watch and then I realize Canyon has a baseball teammate that lives in either that house or the one next to it so I facebook message his aunt and uncle to check on him.  It took 20 minutes for 1 of them to notice my message which seemed like forever.  They were not home and are the neighbors.  Their house and the house on the other side had some damage too. The residents of the home burning, mom and 4 kids, were able to get out but lost everything. Our road was blocked off from 7 until 10:30 and at 9:30 when I went to bed there were still 3 firetrucks in front of my house.

What a sad mess.