Pupcakes, Northside and More!

I forgot to write about our trip to the bank to see "Banna" last Wednesday. As soon as we got there they were climbing on Nanna's lap wanting to watch the baby in the water video on her computer. They are so stuck on that thing! After that it was on to Debbie's rubber band tin, their favorite bank toy, along with her antique horse race thing, that I am terrified they are going to break. After getting water, and candy and suckers, and drawing, and watching more videos, it was time to go. Harper was wearing her cupcake dress and tights and the ladies were commenting on how cute it was. So, before we left Harper pretended to pick "pupcakes" off her dress and gave one to each of the ladies to "eat".

Friday-- our trip to Northside! We went to Northside to participate in a science fair project for one of Mrs. Hall's students. She had a pile of toys and she wanted to see what toys the kid's picked. They had to go to a room with her one at a time and choose toys. I am pleased to say they "passed" and picked sex and age appropriate toys. Poor Noah did pick up a Barbie, but he just used it to wipe his nose with and put it back down... he did not play with the Barbie... :) I offered to take Barbie home and wash her, but the girl said it would be ok. Dad was really excited to have the grandkids at school. He ordered us a pizza and we had lunch there with him in his classroom. The kids were a little too distracted to do much eating though. Harper mainly drew on the chalkboard, Juddson ran around trying to escape and Noah found a spot with the big boys, playing computer games of course. The students seemed to enjoy them and they helped keep them from destroying anything or drinking a bottle of poisonous chemicals! Thanks dad, for letting us come for a visit.
The weekend was busy... I didn't get a lot done at home, but we had several outings and did a lot of playing with toys. I have been letting them play too many computer and video games and watch too much tv, so we tried to stay away from all that this weekend. Saturday morning, Josh and I went to the gym together, which was awesome to have him there with me. After we finished there, we went to "chicken donald's" as Harper says (McDonald's) for lunch and let the kids play in the playland for a while. After that we went through an automatic car wash and Juddson screamed and tried to get out of his carseat the whole time because he was scared to death! After that, I ran inside Hobby Lobby and they all waited in the car for me. After that we went home! We were all worn out. Harp and Judd took a little nap and we let Noah play his snow game for a few minutes. After they woke up, we set up Little People town again and we all played with that for a while. They LOVE the laugh and learn town, it's an awesome toy and if you have a little kid, you should get it, another toy that's fun and educational... I like it too, I like to put the 10 apples through the slot and watch it fall down the tree... the hard part is finding the apples.
Judd had some fever during the night, I don't know if he has a cold or is teething or what, and Noah was up most of the night with awful night terrors. I got kicked by his heel into my eye and felt it was too dangerous, so I made Josh take Harper into her bed, and they stayed in there while I dealt with Noah for a few hours until he finally snapped out of it and went back to sleep. So, since the kids didn't feel well and we didn't get any sleep, we missed church. Mom and Dad and Kara still came over after church for lunch and after that it was off for more errands. We had gotten Harper a little cubical shelving unit for her bedroom for one of her gifts and Josh opened it to put it together and it was damaged, so we went to target to exchange it. Judd stayed with mom and dad. We went to get him and Harper went in to kiss Gussieboy. We got home and Judd didn't feel well again, so I held him, and the house stayed a mess.
Some funnies by Harper:
She always wants to know "who gave me this" or "who fixed this for us".... Like she points at our new light fixtures and asks, "who fixed those?" and I will say "Matt" and she nods and says "yeah, Matt" and say something like, "he's my friend." Yesterday she looked out the back window and said "Who made that slide for us?" and I said "Cory and Brock and Daddy" (Brock was the guy who we bought it from who 'helped' Cory and Josh put it together) Last time Harper asked this same question, I answered "Cory and Daddy" and that didn't work, she said "and the other guy" So, now I just answer all 3 of them, even though Brock didn't do much and we don't know him! Anyways, I answered "Cory and Brock and Daddy" and she said "Yeah, I wub dose guys, they are my family" Ahh...
I may have written this next one already, but oh well... we were in a store and 2 men walked by and she waved at them and said "Hi!" and they were nice enough to wave back and keep walking and I said "Who was that, did you know them?" Harper said "yeah, those were my friends James and John." I guess she's been learning about them in Sunday school...
When we were driving to NHS, Pa was in front of us, we were following him and Noah was telling me to go faster and catch him because EVERYTHING is a race or competition to him (I will never allow him to have a driver's license because he cries when we get passed on the interstate...) And I told him I couldn't go any faster. Harper said "yeah, Noah, she can't, the police will get her and take her to jail with the dangerous guys." I guess she got that from me telling them about the numbers on speed signs and that the police will get me if I go over those numbers.... I don't know where she got the 'dangerous guys' part from though.
Dad said Harper told a student that she was "14 months" old. We figured she got that because every day people ask me how old they are, how far apart they are, if they are twins etc. and I tell them their ages and that they are all 14 months apart. She listens and remembers everything..... And speaking of that little sweetie, today is her 3rd BIRTHDAY!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARPER JANE!!! She is my sweet baby girl, my Harper helper! I am so proud of how beautiful she is on the inside and out! Hopefully everyone will come to her Chuck E. Cheese party tonight, she is SO EXCITED and has a super duper, razzle dazzle new birthday outfit with a birthday girl tiara to wear to the party tonight!