tacky ball

We had a fun Labor Day with my family. They all came up here and we left all the kids at our house and went to see a movie. When we came back we barbecued! We had fun. The wreckage afterwards was evidence that the kids had fun too! During the clean up the next day I found some strange things in strange places. Like pieces of a ping-pong paddle on the floor instead of attached to the paddle. The most unusual was a bunch of tacks all over the floor which led to a green kickball with a wig tacked to it. Here is the ball, Savanna had drawns a face on it and attached the wig to it with about 20 thumb tacks.
That ball will never inflate again.
Jared takes the kids to Westons soccer games and practices in the evening while I am at class. I like to hear his stories about things the kids said and did while I was away. It's really hard to be around Savanna long without threatening to punish her, which I did when I found the tacky ball and which he did after spending the evening with her my first day of class. Fiora said, "And you'll be punished for your own sins and not for Adam's transgressions." I guess she has that article of faith memorized.
Savanna asked for a journal the first day of school. I had a journal embossed with her name on it to give her on her baptism day but I figured if she wanted it why wait. She loved it and writes in it occassionally and gets frustrated when I want her to do her homework, reading, or piano when she's trying to write in her journal. I love it!

Weston decided to dress up like goldy locks. Which was weird, but when he turned around and exposed his back and superman underwear he redeemed himself. We were all laughing at his ineptness at putting on a dress and his inadvertent display of boyness.