Raingutter Regata

On October 22 , Brandon had his first Raingutter Regata. Who knew there was such a thing? For those of you who are clueless like me (ha ha) the Raingutter Regata is when the cubscouts make boats and then try and sail them in a raingutter. Whoever gets to the end fastest wins. B actually won a race! We were very excited, since making boats, cars, etc. is not Pete's cup of tea. The boat turned out really well and Brandon definitely had more fun than he did at the Pinewood Derby. Now we are just frantically finishing up all the requirements for his wolf since his birthday is coming up soon.

Jazz Baby!

In this family we LOVE the Jazz! So, when Pete was asked by some friends if he wanted to take the boys and go to a Jazz preseason game for a boys night out, he was in! The boys had a great time and it helped that the Jazz spanked the Blazers! Oh yeah, baby! GO JAZZ!!!!!

Daron Williams, Andrei Kirilenko, Mehmet Okur

The May's

The Kings

Oh yeah, baby! We rock!

On the train headed back to the car

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!

Okay, it's a lot of pumpkins, Phelon kids! We went to the pumpkin patch on Monday, October 19. We always go to Joe's Place because it's just down the road and it's such a cute little pumpkin patch. We love to go on the hay ride and eat our yummy apple and then pick out the best pumpkins around. It's always a lot of fun. This year was no different, the kids enjoyed every moment and had a hard time deciding which pumpkin was THE pumpkin. Decisions finally made we took the pumpkins to be weighed and paid for then we were home ward bound. Now we just have to carve the pumpkins!

Shay's Open House

Last Monday, October 19th, I went to Shaylee's open house at her school. This is her second year at Children's World of Music and she loves it! She has Miss Michelle again as her teacher and she is having a great year. They did a bit of singing and dancing and then they showed us how they can hopscotch. I went to Shaylee's classroom and watch what they did during their day at school. It was fun to see Shaylee with all her sweet little friends.

I'm a thief!

I stole this picture off my sister's blog! I just died over how cute this picture is of Jaron and Annika. Aren't they darling?!

Jaron and Annika in the General store
of the mini village at Heritage Park

UPDATE!!!

So, after three weeks of hearing Jaron scream every time he got in the tub. After trying EVERYTHING I could think of to get him to not be scared of a spider falling in the tub. I think we may have solved the problem. WOOT! WOOT!

Pete and I got many suggestions from all our friends about what we should do. We tried showering him with Pete, spraying spider "spray", bubbles, balls in the tub, Elmo toys, Kenyon and Shaylee bathing with him... Every bath time we tried something different. The one thing I didn't want to try and really resisted was giving him a popsicle in the tub. I resisted and resisted until finally I said FINE! I'll try anything at this point. I was afraid of the mess it would make and if he would dip it in the dirty water. It just wasn't something I wanted to start, but... IT WORKED!!!! Amazing! The first time I gave it to him he still screamed through the whole bath, so I finally gave it to Shay to eat. She put it down on the ledge right in front of him when she went to play with some toys. I went to grab a towel and all of the sudden the screaming stopped. I rush into the bathroom and there he is just happy as a lark slurping on the popsicle. Oh my gosh! I thought well, let's if it works the next time. Still some crying about getting in, but once the popsicle was in hand he was happy again. No more resistance from me. As long as he is happy and not screaming he can have a popsicle! YEA!!!!!

Happy again!

He doesn't mind sharing with sissy!

Thank you Stacey and Julie for this suggestion. We are happy again at bath time in this house!

Naughty, Naughty Spider!

Remember this picture? Yep, that's how much my baby loved to take a bath. He got in fully PJed! I used to say, "Jaron, bath time!" and he would jump for joy clapping with excitement.



Well now because of this dang thing! Yes, a little black spider that fell in the tub when he and Shay were taking a bath a couple of weeks ago...



... he will no longer get in the tub without kicking and screaming! And I mean hysterical, terrified, I'm gonna die type of screaming! He's like a little leach grabbing on to me with both arms and legs with all his might. I have to peal him off of me to put him in the tub and then he screams the whole time I'm washing him. He yells "Towel, towel, towel..." over and over again, until I get him out and wrap him in his towel and then he just snuggles with me like his been through the most traumatic thing a little guy could ever go through, you know a bath!

When the spider thing happened and he and Shay jumped out of the tub so fast screaming hysterically, I thought it was kind of funny. Just how fast they jumped out considering Jaron has never gotten out of the tub by himself before (he's not very adventurous). I thought it was just a little funny, but I never thought it would scar Jaron the way it did. I thought he would forget about it, but no. It doesn't matter what tub I put him in he goes bananas!

AHHHHHHH! I am at my wit's end!!! I do NOT know how to get him over this. It's been two weeks and it hasn't gotten any better. I feel horrible every time I give him a bath, but a two year old must bathe! Help! What do I do?