Happenings at the Powell House

So, I take a million pictures "because I want to put this on the blog", but I never put it on the blog. I am really going to try and be better about it. Promise. I just can't promise success. :-) A few weeks ago, we were hanging out with my inlaws, and Deegan decided he needed to show everyone how you snore... it was really LOUD, and sounded a lot like a pig! :-) We were all laughing pretty hard, so I had to have a video of it. If you watch 'til the end you can also hear his monkey impression.

Keli came up to my house one day with the kids to help me make apple sauce. We went out to pick the rest of the apples, and got the ones we could reach but still had lots more up high. I was getting ready to get the step stool, and I thought, I guess we should just shake them down. I told Keli that we could just shake it and she kind of laughed with the "ha, yeah you are going to shake the tree hard enough to make the apples come down" kind of tone. Then she realized I was serious. She didn't realize that that is how apple orchards get theirs down so fast! :-) She had a lot of fun shaking the tree! :-) It was like a kid at Christmas time. (Sorry if I embarassed you Keli, but really- I thought it was funny!)

Deegan's favorite pastime is to play with shoes... I give you "Deegan... in Boots!" He wears any and all shoes, no particular favorites. I keep my shoes in plastic tubs, so he only gets the ones that got left out which are usually my church heels or flip flops, but Adam's shoes never get to stay organized because Deegan gets all of them out of the closet and just sits in a pile of shoes while he chooses which ones to put on next. Then he will pick out one for me or Adam to wear too and bring them to us. He has gotten really good at putting the "thong" part of my flip flops between his toes and walking in them. I keep Deegan's shoes on the bottom shelf in his closet, right at about his waist level, which also means that really he just has a pile of shoes on the floor too! :-) Every day, he pulls them out, and every night before bed he sings "neen ut, neen ut" ("Clean up, Clean up, every body every where...") as he puts them all back on the shelf.

One of the things I love about my house is the 3 big trees along my sidewalk, but when fall hits and the leaves turn that beautiful orange and yellow, they also have this bad habit of falling on my sidewalk and lawn.


After cleaning up this mess, Adam had picked up 15 bags of leaves! He said he just picked up some because he knew more were coming anyway, so he didn't even get the lawn clean! Now, 3 days later, I have a lawn full of leaves again and probably will get another 10 + bags before we are done! But we have fun playing in them anyway. Deegan kept putting them on my head. He didn't quite get the idea of just throwing them in the air!

Last but not least, I gave Deegan a hair cut the other day, so Adam took some cute pics. He is so good at getting his har cut! He just sits and plays in front of the bathroom mirror. Good thing because this is a very frequent thing at our house... and I already have to tie Adam down and cut his hair as quick as possible, so I don't think I could handle 2 boys that hate hair cuts!