Branson Trip

Annual Silver Dollar City trip!



Cooking class


Kingston got a deputy badge!

We headed out to West Plains, Mo Wed. night to spend the night with my parents. Kingston was so excited to see Mimi and Pops (and Wolfie too)!

Thursday morning we headed over to Branson for a fun day at Silver Dollar City. Pops and Daddy were on Kingston duty while my mom and I went to a cooking/demonstration class at their new Culinary School. Evidently Kingston talked his daddy into riding a swinging boat ride one too many times and daddy ended up vowing not to ride any more rides! Luckily Mimi is a trooper and she rode just about every ride Kingston wanted to ride. Mommy even managed to ride a water ride and got completely SOAKED!

We were all glad to get to the cabin that night and rest!!


The ride that made Daddy sick!


We were all soaked!


Kingston tried to ride this dog statue!

Fall is in the Air!

They had to stop and pose for a picture!


Kingston convinced me he needed one more picture! Cheese!


We were going to share our cowboy hat with Ammie for school, but it ended up being worn by all three kids at some point during the visit. (Yes, Kingston has his mandatory zoo stick!)


This is one of the kids favorite spots for a picture.


We took advantage of a beautiful fall morning, by going to the zoo. Kingston was excited that Julia AND Ammie were both there! The sun was out, the air was cool, and Kingston ran his little legs off (which led us to a BIG nap). We love our friends! Thanks Ammie and Julia for joining us for a great day at the zoo.


It's so cute when they all want to hold hands. Pretty soon the girls are going to think boys are YUCK!


We finally got to see the new baby giraffe!


The butterflies will be going soon, so we made sure we stopped to see them.

Brown Day

Kingston has brown day at school today. He decided himself that he needed brown underpants AND brown socks. Now I'm not a fan of wearing color socks with shorts, but he insisted that if it was brown day, he had to have brown socks!

I love my brother...for now

Kingston already is in love with his baby brother! He daily wants to kiss the baby, sing to the baby and try to wake the baby up. He even tries to translate for Camden (he's crying, he wants to eat, he's singing, he's burping). Let's hope his enthusiasm lasts when the baby starts crying for real!!

3 year old Class

Waiting by the door...when can we get in??


Walking inside...Thanks DD for putting his name on the backpack!



School class has finally started! Kingston was asking at 7:30 this morning if it was time to go and he kept asking every few minutes when we would leave! He had a great day with Miss Amy and all of his friends. He even had a nap!! YEAH!


Kingston and Thomas are ready for school.


Cheezin' for the camera


Kingston meets his new friend Dylan!

Life with boys

Well, I knew it would happen someday... Kingston decided he would go out and play in the water table (with Daddy's permission). Chris and I were inside talking Fantasy Football, of all things. Next thing we know Chris looks outside and sees that Kingston has shed his underpants. That's pretty typical when he's playing in the water. I open the door and tell him to bring me his underpants. He tells me that he pooped in the grass. Thinking I have miss understood him, I ask him to bring me his underpants again. This time he goes over to pick up the underpants and points to his poop in the yard. "See I pooped in the yard", he tells me. Sure enough he had taken care of business and then went about "watering" it with a bucket. What did he think it was going to grow up to be????? Since Chris taught him to use the "outside urinal" he had the pleasure of cleaning up the mess!

Member Night at the Zoo

Playing in the water.


Playing in the fountain, until he cut his finger.


Moving to the music!

This is our first time to go to member night at the zoo. Kingston loved it! He's always wondered why he couldn't get in the water at the zoo, so tonight was his night. He probably could have stayed all night in the water, but we managed to get him out in time to ride a few rides before it got dark.



Riding the rides (he's almost to big!)


Riding with Daddy and his new panda. Thanks Daddy!

The Neighbor's Pond

Kingston decided that he would like to play down at the neighbor's pond tonight. You might be wondering where a pond could be in Memphis,TN. Well the pond is the water puddle out in the back alley!!! Kingston had a great time picking up "sand" and running and splashing through the puddles.



Chris got a good shot of Kingston AND "Camden"


Kingston tried to take off his underpants after he sat in the puddle.

Chuck E Cheese

We had a very fun morning with Ammie today at Chuck E Cheese! Kingston and Ammie both love the sketch machine. Kingston discovered the joy of riding the roller coaster simulator. He rode 3 times!!

Nesting

If you have been wondering what the Barber's are up to....wonder no more! In the spirit of nesting, Mimi and Pops came to help redo Kingston's bathroom and Camden's room. Poor Pops we really put him to work! When you buy a condo that's 30 yrs old, sometimes the little things take a while to fix!!!! We even got Chris in on the action and of course Kingston wanted to help. He would come and tell us that he was downstairs and if we needed his help he would come! He would check in every 15-20 min, just in case. Mimi had the privilege of keeping Kingston busy downstairs! The rooms look great and Chris is glad that we only "fix and redo" every couple of years!




One morning Kingston decided he needed to read to Mimi. So he dug out the books he thought he could read and proceeded on! I think he ended up reading his Bible Story book the most, because he KNOWS the stories in that book the best!

Playing with Mimi and Pops

Feeding the turtle


Riding in the paddle boat.


Making biscuits


Making cookies


Kingston went to West Plains for a visit with Mimi and Pops. He had a ball! I don't think he was ready to come home! Mimi and Kingston packed lots of fun things into 2 days. They fed the turtle, fished, rode in the paddle boat (which Kingston dumped Mimi into the lake!), made biscuits, made two pie crusts, made chocolate chip cookies, watered the marigolds (because Kingston told Mimi they were dying), and read lots of stories!

Making pie crust. Kingston is just like his mommy! We LOVE crust!


Playing in the yard


Watering marigolds

Swimming with Daddy

Daddy got to visit the "Y-Slide" pool with us today! Kingston was so excited to show Daddy how he could jump in the water all by himself and then "swim" back to the wall. Daddy finished off our visit with a snow cone for him and an ice cream for Kingston!!!