The definition of Chaos. . .

"Mommy, you shouldn't call people names, it's not nice. . . . . Yes you did, You called me "chaos"!"

Quote from Kyler Pitts

12/05/2009

said while sobbing

Actually, I didn't call him "chaos". I was simply defining the situation. Which, correct me if I'm wrong, THIS is Chaos. . .

Saturday pancake breakfast at the school

3 anxious little boys, 1 mom (me -- and only me -- Kerry was helping Dad with floors)

1 travel pancake breakfast complete with syrup for Kyler

3 santa hats, 4 coats

Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus, craft tables, classmates and lots of excitment

Add to that. . .

Kyler pulling up his shirt, pulling down his santa hat over his head and acting crazy and 1 slow moving line to see Santa

Conclude with. . .

Kyler running through the parking lot to get to the car and me dragging other 2 behind me.

THAT is CHAOS!

Once we were all back in the car we sat in disbelief. Jayden's reaction was one of awh and sincere concern for his little brother. The same little brother who has had his Christmas list since Halloween, the one who prides himself on his secure placement on the nice list. That same little brother had in one fail swoop knocked himself onto the Naughty List. Not only did he fall apart in public, but he did so in the presense of Santa, Mrs. Claus and 100's of unseen elves who were there but for the sole purpose of reporting behavior back to the north pole! Kyler knew his fate. . . his response (while sobbing). . ."I KNOW I'M ON THE NAUGHTY LIST!, I don't know what happened ,I was just outta control"

I believe that Santa understands that a lose of control every now and then just happens. Kyler, however, is determined to insure his rightful place on the nice list, and jumps to attention with the mention of Santa.

Thankfully, chaos occurs in spurts!

What's going on around here. . . ?

How do you like my dining room? No, a tornado did not hit our house. This is destruction week. (well, actually it has been destruction past 6 months!--but this is the closing week! )Although, my house is a mess at present time, come Monday morning (right, Dad?) I will have BEAUTIFUL hardwood floors!!!!! So, all this mess is worth it!

This is before. . . and I will post my "after" shot next week.

Mommy's Little Helper: This is Evan's idea of helping me do laundry. I had to get a shot of it, because he does this EVERY time. He says, "I want to help". He is in charge of putting the clothes in and the soap (his favorite part!).

This is just Jayden, being Jayden. He communicates alot by hand signals these days! No picture of Kyler this time, but I have a funny story I don't want to forget . . .

On Monday when I picked Kyler up from school, he told me I was in serious trouble! "ALWAYS check my pockets before you send me to school!". Apparantly, I had washed and dried his pants with a pocket knife in them -- so to Kyler's surprise, he realized when he got to school that he had a POCKET KNIFE in HIS pocket!!! If you will remember taking a pocket knife to school is spoken of frequently in our home, because of Jayden's "pocket knife incident". KYLER WAS HORRIFIED! I am sure that suspension, police, squad cars, etc were running through his mind! He told me that he found out if you move "rrrrreeeaaalllly SSSSLLLLOOOWWW" you can't hear it moving around in his pocket. So, he wasn't able to run at recess or move around at a normal speed ALL DAY LONG. (I am sure teachers were wondering what the heck was up with Kyler today!) He was relieved to be home and get that thing out of his pocket. Note to self. . . . CHECK POCKETS -(you'd think I would know this by now!)

I am THANKFUL for. . .

Family, good food, and . . . . . . poo-poo?

The last addition was made by Evan at Thanksgiving dinner blessing. AND he really IS thankful for poo-poo: because that's all he talks about these days --"potty talk" is running rampid in our household , and about the time I began to gain some control over it, Auntie M surprised the boys with whoopie cushions --lots of laughs, but here we go again!

This is how our Thanksgiving went. . .

We had planned on being in Sheridan on Thanksgiving Day, but that didn't work out this year, so we spent the day lounging at home -- football, playing and putting up the christmas tree -- plus it was my Birthday! We didn't eat real thanksgiving food, we saved that for later, so it was just a good relaxing day.

On Friday we headed to Carlisle and got to eat some Nicks with Meme and the other Pitts' crew and the boys got to play with their favorite cousins - Morgan and Maddie.

On Saturday we headed to Arkadelphia for our official Thanksgiving Day Celebration. Mim and Uncle Mike were there to celebrate as well as our K-9 family members - CoCo and Sheema. We ate yummy turkey, dressing, and all the fixins! (pumkin pie too of course -- my fav!) Also - celebrated Pop's whopping 60th Birthday that is coming up. Aunti M flew from her new home in Texas to celebrate with us! And --- I can't leave out Evan's new girlfriend - Miss Molly Williams! "her is soo cute" per Evan -- I think I see an arranged marriage! Jayden and Kyler got to play with Matthew and I got to catch up with Jenny. It was a great day! And yes, we have LOTS to be thankful for . . . . even poo-poo, Evan!

* you know the drill - pics from Arkadelphia can be seen on Mom' blog!

BURRRRRRR!!

Cold Weather is here. . . we even saw a few flurries yesterday morning on the way to school. Look at Kyler all snug and bundled before school.

Open Season

The boys took off on Friday for their GREAT GRANT COUNTY ADVENTURE! Yes, as all those crazy camo hunters hauling trailers, 4-wheelers, and hunters orange descended into hunting heaven, my boys were right there part of the action! As I was told, they prepared deer stands, hunted, took breaks at the house, and saw ALL the action, as friends dropped by throughout the weekend to eat some Gumbo and Boiled Shrimp (courtesy of Frydaddy!) and show off their kill. Besides all the hunting action, they also fed goats, shot the Beebe gun (a few squirrels are a little gun shy, due to Jayden!),played with cats, rabbits, cows and horses. WHEH! it makes me tired just thinking about it! The boys were exhausted (including Kerry) when they returned.

And what you ask were Evan and I up to? Well, we headed to Pop and CiCi's lake house for a mini getaway. Evan was feeling so left out, we had to do something to make it special, and you know how he loves the lake house. Thanks to Papaw and Ninny for providing such a great hunting camp for my boys -- they'll be back!

*"Mr. Mike" and Hayden were part of the crew that headed down from NWA. Here's a pic of Hayden and Papaw.

*I was dependent on Kerry for pics - so no cute group photos of boys in camo, like I had hoped for!

Yea Kerry!

Take a look at this. . .

Kerry got this award at their Quarterly Sales Meeting. The VP flew in from Dallas to present it to him! We are so proud!

Take a look at the region this includes. . . what an honor!

Bikes, BOOKS and Barbeque

The boys' school had the coolest program last week. Kerry had a home builders association meeting, so the boys and I made this adventure on our own. There was food to eat (we didn't partake in this part, but it looked good), bike raffles, and the book fair. The boys got to buy MORE books at the book fair, and even Evan got to get a book. THEN, after we had gotten home, I got a call that EVAN had won a bike!!!! Can you beleive this?? I don't think I have ever won anything! The boys were so excited - we are actually saying that the "pitts brothers" won a bike and it is still (one week later) sitting in my living room!