Halloween Weekend

A little blurry- but you can see that Grace is an elephant, Caleb is Frankeinstien, Spencer is bat, Ryan is Hobbs, and Emily is a bee. Maggie the Bassett hound is a butterfly.

It's always fun to the with kids on Halloween. I like the way Sarah handles the candy. It all goes into one big bowl and we all share with 100 % control by the adults. None of that "that's mine" and someone eating theirs all up first and then being mad that someone else has a lot left.

Perkins Family Pumpkins

Jason and I drove down to Vancouver WA for the Halloween Weekend so he could meet some family. My sister Sarah and her family live there and my brother Karl lives in Hillsboro OR. I wanted to see the kids in their costumes and Jason wanted to go to Mulitnomah Falls together. Here are some pic's of the weekend.

I was putting on Graces diaper for bed the first night and Grace proceeded to tell me that Me, Mommy and Daddy were all nice and wiped her bottom, but Jason was mean. She had not interacted with him yet at all.

In church on Sunday Grace sat right in his lap and started playing with him. She was pulling his tie and such and it was getting a little crazy so he tried to get her to stop by play bitting her like a bear. She said "Don't eat Becky, Don't eat Becky!"

After church we had the 3 youngest climbed up all around and on us. It was pretty fun.

Jason is great with kids.

Sunday Afternoon @ the Perkins

The weekend of March 7 and 8th I went down to Vancouver WA to see my sister Sarah and her family. They have 5 kids: Emily is 12, Ryan is 9, Spencer is 6, Caleb is 4 and Grace is 2. They also have 2 Basset Hounds named Maggie and Cloe. Sat I bathed both of the dogs and we took them to the dog park for the first time. It's just down the street! We forgot it was day light savings time and woke thinking it was 7:30, but it was really 8:30! Church was at 9am and so we had a lot of time in the afternoon.

This is Spencer with fort #2 after mom found out they were making a fort in her room!

This is Ryan and Caleb taking advantage of the bedroom fort while it lasts.
This is Emily practicing her violin. What a good girl!

This is Sarah and Blake spending some quality time on the internet together.

This is cute, sweet, funny Grace in the morning.

This is me with the whole crew. I love their guts!

Caleb and Grace

Caleb and I were making fruit salad. My parents always liked to save and drink the juice the canned fruit was in. Sarah doesn't save it, because it has sugar. Caleb, asked for a piece of fruit. I gave him one and he said a little huffy "you fed me sugar!" Then this evening while working on the blog he showed his mom his elbow with a band-aid on it and asked "does this feel better?" Yes, Sarah answered and he went off happy. It was so fun playing with Caleb today. I asked him the french fry question again and he said no that he wasn't yellow- but Gracie- his little sister is a french fry, because she's yellow!


Emily is so great with the computer. She helped me so much.

Funny Kid Stuff

About 2 years ago, I was babysitting for my sisters then 4 kids while they were gone. The last day we were all on the floor and Spencer who was 3 or 4 was sitting on my lap. He said to me while rolling his eyes "I'm sitting on your penis!" The more mature Ryan said to Spence, "She doesn't have a penis." After a little explaining about sex organs, Spencer said, while pushing on my boobs, "but you have baby milk!" I explained that no, I didn't. You had to have a baby to have baby milk. I know Spencer, It's so confusing! I'm sure at the age of six he's got it by now though.

On the weekend of the forth, I was getting 3 year old Caleb ready for church. I told him in my cute kid voice that, "I loved him, he's so cute, I just wanted to eat him, he's like a french fry."
He reasoned his way out of that by saying, "but french fries don't wear feet. I'm not yellow. French fries don't wear feet, or socks!" Ya gotta love kids!






About 3 years ago, I was at work, and my boss had a little Spencer too. Spencer was also three. 2 tall RM men came in to get a job. Spencer said to the tall buff one, "Do you have breasts?" The guy was so cute with him. He got down on his level and said, "No, I have pectorals", as he patted them. He then said, "and let me give you some advice, just between us guys, don't ask girls that!" Oh, what a smart fellow.