Craziness...

Things got a little crazy after the last post.  That week Chloe came down with a virus called hand, foot, mouth disease.  It causes a fever (her's was relatively low) and then 2 days later break out in a rash/blister in the above stated areas.  Of course though, Chloe decided to have her rash everywhere - legs and bottom seemed to be the worst.  She didn't act like anything really bothered her, except that the first day she wouldn't eat a whole lot.  The doc said she could see some blisters in her mouth but I couldn't find them and after a day she was eating and drinking just fine.  And then as expected Preston contracted it as well, luckily his wasn't as bad as Chloe's; except his fever was really high 104 on Wednesday at school.  The worst part of the whole virus is that it is very contagious, so we had to stay home all week!  AJ and I switched off days so we each had a shortened week and unfortunately it was the weekend I had a course so AJ had to take off on Friday (darn long weekend, right).  On Thursday when I was home, we played outside and just had a normal day - couldn't tell they were sick at all!  I felt bad missing work when they didn't act sick.  Otherwise we've just kind of secluded ourselves so we didn't pass on this lovely virus!
This past Friday the kids were better and AJ and I were able to take the kids to Parents Night Out at church and go out for dinner and ice cream (and Target) without the kids.  It was a great night and we had a really good dinner at a Brazilian restaurant.
Chloe's vocabulary is growing daily.  Today she counted to 4, we say one then she continues it out; she says Rudy and has a name for Preston which sounds kind of like pray; she will say amen after prayers; and several other things but I can't list them all!  She is growing up before our eyes and I'm not liking it! :)
The Cardinals have made it to the World Series and we are enjoying watching every game - tied 1-1 right now with the Texas Rangers.  Hoping for a Championship!!
Lots of pics -

Poor baby!

 Didn't bother her though...

Do they look sick?

 

Daddy forgot to button her onsie before pulling her pants up!

Crazy kid!

 At Parents Night Out, they did face painting...

Sunday Fun!!

 Little ham...

 

Friday's at home are great!

 "Department of Awesome"

 Working hard on his "homework" :)

Pumpkin Patch!

On Saturday we met our friends down at the McWilliams Pumpkin Patch in West Plains.  We had a lot of fun seeing Anna, Levi, Tate and Hayes whom we hadn't seen since Chloe's birthday party.  They are always very hospitable while we are down there and allow Preston to do all the activities as much as he wants!  It was very difficult to get him out of the barn this year where they had a little maze area for the kiddos with a slide and some other things in there (I didn't go in).  As always he had a great time on the train and seeing all the animals.  This year they added a pig chase, where you have to get the ribbon off its tail, and Preston was really excited to participate - he didn't win, and you can only imagine his response!  Picture below...
Chloe seemed to have a great time too.  She enjoyed walking around and exploring everything.  Neither kid took much of a nap on the way down, so we left earlier than expected with both kids falling asleep on the way home and still going to bed at normal times - I think they were worn out!
We had a fantastic time to say the least.  Can't wait until next year!

That is a lot of pics from just the pumpkin patch and there are even more on our Picasa site!  Happy October!