Days Four and Five

I got a little behind, sorry! :)

Evening of Day Three:
Monkey climbed out of the playpen. Luckily, his playpen had been moved and was almost completely against the bed. We were laying in bed and he grabbed my foot. I felt him pulling on it and looked over at him and realized he was pulling himself out of the playpen. He was using his monkey toes to climb the netting on the side of the playpen and his upper body strength (which, uhhmmmm - failure to thrive....REALLY? He can pull himself out of a playpen with his arms!) to pull himself out. So....I guess the playpen gets retired now. I, by the way, do not recall ANY of the other boys being able to climb out of anything before the age of ONE!!

Day Four:
Thursday Daddy had to go back to work. Bryce woke up while Daddy was getting ready and came in our room. He got in the bed with me. He kept trying to get up and I would wake up from my doze and tell him to lay back down and be quiet because everyone was sleeping. He finally sits up and says "I HAVE to find a room I can talk in!" I could not keep from laughing! He didn't care if noone was listening BUT HE NEEDED TO TALK!!!!

Caleb spent the evening sitting around in his 'coon hat and underwear asking questions about THE book! Oh - it was SO hard NOT to laugh at him!!

We went to dinner and went back to our room to pack up. Daddy had decided it would be easiest if we all just went with him to work on Friday so we were sure we were out by check-out time. So, we loaded up what we could in the car Thursday night, so we had less to do early in the am.

Day Five:
We got up and got everything packed up and went with Daddy to work. The boys were VERY excited! Unfortunately, the one time we get to go to work with him - there is VERY thick fog out! We did not get to see anything on the way to the plant! The boys were very disappointed because they wanted to see all of the ships on the Mississippi River!

We got to the plant, and got to see where Daddy works and meet most of the people he works with on a daily basis. They were treated like royalty! One man went through his office and found "treasures" for all of the boys. Caleb got a flashlight, Isaac got a calculator and Bryce got a stainless steel coffee mug. They all got earplugs, their names made with a lablel maker to put on their treasures, and they got to watch a movie on oil-spills (SADLY - THEY WERE VERY EXCITED!!). Then the nurse brought them all pencils and rulers. They also got tours of the firetrucks and ambulances. Everyone was very excited and happy! Andrew got passed around and loved it!

Paul did not really work, he just moved his office to a new office. When he finished we headed out. We checked out a few things locally and then we started our six hour journey home!

The Journey Home:
Andrew usually does okay in his carseat. Well, not on the way there or back. For one, he is mobile enough (and it is still new enough) that he does not want to be buckled down for long. Secondly, he is still rear facing, and there was NOTHING to look at. So he squealed and yelled and screamed just about the entire time both ways! NOT FUN!!! Then you have Bryce's constant talking about NOTHING!

I finally had to get out a piece of paper and write down some of the things being said, because they were TOO funny!

Bryce thinks that clouds are made in Louisiana (which he pronounces Lou-z-anna). If you don't know anything about Louisiana, there are plants EVERYWHERE!! These plants have huge smoke clouds coming out of them. These "clouds" go into the sky. Bryce kept telling us that clouds were made in Louisiana. Isaac kept saying they weren't. Bryce pointed out the smoke coming from one of the plants, and convinced Isaac they were!

Daddy was playing I Spy with the boys. Daddy spied something white. They were doing the stripes on the road, signs, clouds, etc.... Everyone was giving up and Bryce screams "BIRD SPLAT?" We did have quite a few "splats" on the windshield - but Daddy spied a water tower!

No tickets were received on the way home! I am still scared to see the amount for a ticket for going 78 in a 55! As we were going through the same town he got the ticket in on our way down, the car right in front of us got pulled over! DON'T SPEED THROUGH TALLULAH, LA!!!

We were about 50 miles from nowhere and 40 miles from anywhere and on the side of the road we saw something up ahead. As we were getting closer and guessing what it was, we decided it looked like Jesus! Then we got close. IT REALLY LOOKED LIKE JESUS - CARRYING HIS CROSS!!! There was a man in a white robe, with a white cross that was bigger than him. He had the cross resting on the ground, and he was leaning on it - reading what appeared to be a Bible. There was nothing around, it really appeared this man had been carrying the cross (or got dropped off with the cross - who knows). He was not off in the grass or anything, either - he was on the shoulder at the painted line. Paul asked if he should stop and offer Jesus a ride. I asked where he would place Jesus in our STUFFED vehicle. "WHERE WOULD I PUT HIS CROSS?" was Paul's question!

We made it home, unpacked the car, got dinner and came home and went to bed. Today was spend cleaning the rental car and returning it, cleaning the house and trying to get back in our routines. Daddy leaves Monday morning for LA again. I think it will be a little easier for the boys knowing where Daddy is going, who he works with - and, of course, that he is making CLOUDS!!

I DID find my camera (YAY!!!). I will get pictures of the boys in their hats ASAP! Also, I forgot...Tuesday we took the boys to the Mississippi River, to the leviee in downtown Baton Rouge. There is a battleship there - the USS Kidd. We did not get to go on it because they were closed, but the boys enjoyed getting to see it from where we were. I got lots of pictures of them rolling down the hill and playing. They had a really good time! It was really windy and the river is up (and still rising - it has not crested from the flooding that happened here in Arkansas, Mississippi, etc. I think they should hit their high next week according to their news).

I will get the pictures on here as soon as I get a chance. This week we have a drs appt Monday, and AJ is getting his tubes on Thursday, so we will see how things go!