Bunk Rookie

Ouch. Our seventeen month old can scale his older brothers' bunk bed foot boards and make it to the top bunk. Yesterday he did it three times within five minutes. The totally scary thing is that he can't even sit in a chair at the dining room table or be on his brother's lower bunk without taking thumping spills to the floor every so often, several times per day. We had to take immediate action and cover the hand and foot holds and make the other kids scale up via an added on ladder I put on when we assembled it. He has the adventure without the skills yet.

Leaves

Every year we have a family tradition. Our silver maple in the front yard turns a beautiful red in the fall. The leaves fall on the lawn. So, we rake up all the leaves into a great big pile and the kids jump in and play. They throw leaves up in the air, roll around, laugh. It's a great time. We take tons of photos. This year the next door neighbor kid joined in. Then we rake them up again, which is no effort compared to the fun we have. We had to cancel our raking plans the previous two weekends so this weekend when we finally got around to it, the leaves were disintegrated to a good degree, but still fun nonetheless.

Night Baseball

We were out in the back the other night. We were in the dark playing baseball with a black ball. The kids could still see the thing and hit it square. Are we old folks that blind?

Chickenbones

Mrs. Scott makes a dish that is an oven fried batch of chicken drumsticks. Crunchy crumb like covering baked in the oven. Our kids call the result, "chicken bones."

Voting For Sandy Koufax

After dropping our oldest off at school today, I went to the polls with the rest of the family. Mrs. Scott and I voted in the political election. As we were leaving home, our one year old picked up a Sandy Koufax baseball card off the floor and brought it with him. He showed it to the election workers as if he wanted to vote for Koufax.

Becuase I Like Them Backwards

Daddy: "Your underwear is on backward"

Our three year old: "That's becuase I like them on backwards."