Wordless Wednesday

A quick story first.

I looked all over town for a fireman costume.  I found a fireman dress costume, but not a  costume appropriate for a little boy.

Eventually, I gave up - bought a fireman hat and some wings and thought - FIRE FLY!  Buttin wasn't very impressed with my creativity. 

Unfortunately for me (but fortunately for Buttin and maybe Cash) one of our misfits had a Fireman toddler costumer.

Here he is!  This picture is for Dadoo.

Pictures

**CAUTION - You might not want to go beyond the 1st picture**

The picture I SHOULD show:

The picture I WANT to show:

Pretty sure I'm making Mother of the Year for this one.

Misfit Monday

Today we are thankful for healthy, safe misfits.

A couple misfits got into a car accident today (they were together), but they were released quickly from the hospital with some minor cuts and bruises.  I'm sure they'll be sore tomorrow, but they were very fortunate for a roll-over collision.  

We also had another misfit who was kind of missing last week and who returned today from wherever he was.  

Here is Cashman today testing out part of his costume.  He really likes the wings.

This & That

A couple things:

• I had a Chicken appointment on Friday - a very uneventful Chicken appointment.  My midwife and I just sat around and chatted.
• Today we saw the documentary The House I Live In.  It gets FOUR COOKIES, but it's kind of depressing.  It's all about the failure of the War on Drugs, and how we're not really doing anything about it. 

Here is Cub trying to climb a tree.

Pumpkin Painting

This morning I had breakfast with some of my baby mama friends. 

One of them mentioned how much fun her son had painting pumpkins so I decided Cash should paint pumpkins this afternoon.  He had a pretty fun time, until he got distracted by something shinny or a lolipop.

Filanthropy Friday

It's Food Drive time again!

The past few weeks I've been working with my fellow members of the Austin Apartment Association to raise money for the Doc & Gayle Young Food Drive.  

Our goal this year is $40K, and even though Thanksgiving might feel like a LONG time from now (it's not), we are in our final fundraising push.

This week, I'm donating $40.  My $40 donation will buy one food pack for an Austin family.

10-12 lbs turkey
5 lbs potatoes
1 doz dinner rolls
1 box stuffing
1 can yams
1 can corn
1 can green beans
1 box cookies
1 lb margarine
5 lbs flour
4 lbs sugar
1 can fruit cocktail
1 box Jell-o
4 lbs dry beans
4 lbs oranges
2 lbs rice

Too bad the food pack doesn't supply cookie dough - I'm going to push for that next year.

Two Months Till Christmas!

Two months till Christmas and I'm extremely unprepared for Halloween.

Last year, I walked in to a Goodwill and found a costume for Cash within two minutes.  This year I have not been so lucky.  Cash doesn't really understand Halloween, but if I ask him what he wants to be - it varies from a cat to an elephant to a mommy.  I thought a "Fireman" might be cute, but I haven't been able to find a fireman costume anywhere (I have been able to find a "Fire Chief" dress for a little girl).  Yesterday, I walked into (what feels like) the fifth costume store or Goodwill I've been to and just bought something.  I think it's pretty clever, but Buttin wasn't so impressed.

I'll keep it a surprise for now and if Cash dresses up as something else, I'll share my very CREATIVE idea next week. 

This afternoon, Cash and I were outside playing.  He was cracking me up because he would walk up to every inanimate object (a rock, a stick, an acorn, a pile of poo) and yell, "My name is Cash".  

We took a couple self-portraits today (I'm trying to include me in more pictures) and although I'm not really in the picture, I love it.