Batman

Cutest batman around if you ask me! Happy day everyone!

 at Sweet Treats for Seniors last Wednesday!

Pumpkins and S'mores!

With it wet and cold outside, our Saturday started out with something like this...

 and this...

 then the rain cleared up, & we headed to lunch with our amazing and fun Mimi!

 Firehouse subs-yumm!

 Back at Mimis, we got to celebrate fall some more with some fun festive accessories!

 with decorating pumpkins!!!

 and a fire!!! with S'mores! Y-U-M-M! This is probably my favorite tradition during the fall!

 One sad thing I've come to realize about myself is that pretty much all of the traditions that I enjoy and look forward to so much involve food. (or drink-apple cider, hot cocoa, coffee).

 terrible quality of picture but loved that you can see her actually roasting the marshmallows!

 Miss Priss enjoying her treat!

 and to top the weekend off-childcare at church!

 Parker and his buddy Caleb

 and a few more to get you in the mood for the season!!!

Muffins with Mommy

Last week Mrs. Melinda had all the Moms come to school and enjoy muffins with our babies. She handed out a poem that went along with the book If You Give A Mouse A Cookie. It was hilarious and very very fitting for where I am in life. I will share!

If you Give a Mom a Muffin

If you give a mom a muffin,

She'll want a cup of coffee to go with it.

She'll pour herself some.

Her three year-old will come and spill the coffee.

Mom will wipe it up.

Wiping the floor, she will find dirty socks.

She'll remember she has to do laundry.

When she puts the laundry into the washer, she'll trip over shoes and bump into the freezer.

Bumping into the freezer will remind her she has to plan supper.

She will get out a pound of hamburger meat.

She'll look for her checkbook.

The checkbook is in her purse, which is being dumped out by her two year-old.

Then she'll smell something funny. She'll change the two year-old.

While she is changing the two year-old, the phone will ring.

Her three year-old will answer and hang up.

She'll remember she was supposed to phone a friend to come over for coffee.

Thinking of coffee will remind her that she was going to have a cup.

She will pour herself some more.

And chances are,

if she has a cup of coffee,

her kids will have eaten the muffin that went with it.

The whole thing was really cute and fun. Blakely has been going on and on about her new friends, so I was really happy to have finally met some of them! I only got a few pictures.

 Parkey fully entertained Blakely and her friends! On a side note, it amazes me that he is almost as tall as they are! I cannot believe how big my baby has gotten! =(

 Super blurry, but thats what you get with an iphone and crazy kids!

fall days

Fall days are the BEST. I know I've stated that in many posts recently, but this year I'm really trying to soak it all in before the other seasons take over! I've been taking lots of walks with the pup and kids.

 Lighting candles that smell like fall and keeping them lit all day basically so my house is full of the amazing aromas!

 enjoying this beautiful view with my best bud.

going on leaf hunts to see who can find the most.

 picking flowers

 'camping out in her sleeping bag'. This one was all on Blakely. I am amazed at the creativity. To her defense, she has never seen a sleeping bag but they were talking about them at school so she decided this must be what everyone was talking about. LOVE her being 3.

 and lots and lots of lazy afternoons relaxing in the cozy indoors.

Almost 19 Months!

My little buddy is such a sweet, easy going, messy, active boy. I could go on and on! He is my cuddle bug! He loves his mommy so much these days & for that I am so thankful. If i'm ever standing up around where he is, he will run up behind me and grab both legs and stick his face between them and just love on me! 

 It sure is hard to believe that we've already passed the year and a half mark; although, I can't remember life without him there beside me. We are inseparable! Parker goes everywhere with me and I love it! I will sob the day we put him in school!

 I can make him laugh so easily! His laughing is so intense that he often gets hiccups.

 Parker is extremely easy. He entertains himself fully. I'm talking all day. I am so not used to that! Some hectic days where I've gotten carried away cleaning or working on a project, I have to remind myself to go interact and play with him because he is just totally content playing by himself!

 Mr. Man LOVES the TV. He would watch it all day long if I let him!

 He adores his monkey these days and that is an understatement. I washed him yesterday and showed him as I put him in the wash, explaining fully that he was taking a bath and would be out in just a second. Parker cried the.entire.time! Needless to say, he never made it to the dryer.

 This is one example of how he entertains himself. Here we have light reflecting on the floor. This entertained our buddy for about an hour.

  He still doesn't talk. He has said Momma, Zizi and a few others in the past, but on a day to day basis all I hear is jibber jabber!

 He communicates in other fashions, like here is a very common sight to see here at the Lyles. He will beat on the fridge until you open it and hand him his milk.

 Parker loves to color and LOVES crayons.

 This is not a staged photo. This was approximately 4:15am. Clint was out of town and a girl does what she has to survive... At 18 months, I would have hoped to be past seeing this time of day, but Parker man loves the wee hours in the morning!

 and yes, our 80 pound Vizsla sleeps in our queen sized bed Every.Single.Night!

 He's such a fun shopping buddy!

 This is Parker's second time seeing the huge Chick-fil-a Cow...He just isn't quite sure what he's up to...

Well, that's it for today!