Back to 2 Eyes

Well, Blake has officially entered the world of contact lense wearers, we'll see how long he lasts. Since his 1st pair of glasses that he got the beginning of September, his eyes have changed again! (He can thank his Momma and Grandpa McDowell for that one!) Since he's gotten his glasses he's only been wearing them to school and church,but has gotten to where he can't see well enough for everyday things unless he's wearing his glasses. So he went with Rick to work this morning to check on a patient and Rick fit him for contacts - that's the beauty of Dad being an optometrist, he doesn't have to wait until he's old enough to take them in and out himself! Blake's excited to be able to see better when playing sports since he wasn't able to wear his glasses while playing football...basketball season is just around the corner!

Ashlyn's CTR Ring

Okay, so we have about as girly as a girl that we could possibly have - she loves wearing earrings, she has a bracelet and recently wanted to start wearing one of Blake's CTR rings that he never wears. So we put one on and she wore it for a couple of weeks until I finally had to throw it away because it was so gross - it was just the 25 cent cheepies. She was mad, but forgot about it....until yesterday when we were getting ready for church and she saw them in my jewlery box and insisted on putting one on. All was fine until after lunch today when she wanted to take it off, without asking for help, she used her mouth to slide it off---right down her throat!!! So we'll see what happens, she's swallowed pennies before, but a CTR ring?!! How do ya explain that one to the doctor? Needless to say, we're not letting her anywhere near a ring for a good long time!

Football Party

Blake has his last football game tonight for the season. This weekend they had their end of the season pizza party and got their trophies - bobble head ones! Blake's really had fun this year, but can't wait for next year when they strap on the pads and helmets....heaven help us!

Blake's Writing Assignment

I just had to share Blake's science writing assignment that he brought home today after studying about frogs. It was too cute! I tried to take a picture of it, but it didn't show up very well, sorry.


Frogs
by Blake Harrison

Frogs are near water and when they are little they even live in the water when they are tadpoles. They live near ponds always even when they are a frog! Some frogs you think are slimy. (I think that's because frogs have different scales.) Now of course there are different colors of frogs, but my teacher said that she only had seen two different colors of frogs. (which I think are brown and green.) There are different types of frogs like a tree frog and a bull frog.

For almost the whole frog cycle, the frog is a tadpole! Some frogs are poisonness. (pretty much just in the jungle in Africa.) The sound that frogs make is called croaking. Frogs hop just like the astronauts do on the moon, but not as high. They live in ponds on lilly pads all over the world sometimes. They have long tongues that they use to catch bugs. My mom once saw one in the laundry room in the middle of the night when she was getting water from the kitchen. When we moved to Brunswick there were two frogs that lived in my backyard.

Hikin' on the Suwanee River

Rick finally had a free Saturday that he wasn't working in Atlanta, volunteering at the clinic, attending CE conferences or voluteering at health clinics so we decided to take a day trip out the Suwanee River and do some hiking.

We quickly discovered that Ashlyn was not a hiker and she ended up riding on dad's shoulders for most of the excursion. She kept asking to go to the beach instead.Blake and Dad climbed off the trail to get closer to one of the natural springs that had been created by the river. Blake wanted to touch it to see if it was a hot springs....it wasn't hot, but not cold either. It was about 6 feet deep of crystal clear water.
Here the kids found a huge hollowed out tree that they played in. Ashlyn was pretty freaked out to go in a first because it was dark - can't say I blame her! Ya never know what kinda critters could be in there!Here we all climbed down off the trail to get closer to one of the swamps. The pictures don't do it justice it was beautiful out there, especially with the fall colors starting to change. We enjoyed it so much that we're going back in a couple of weeks to go camping and to take a canoe down the river!

The Loot

So the kids ended up with quite the haul on Halloween. They were determined to hit every house in the neighborhood and after 2 hours of knocking on doors came really close. When they came home to dump their buckets and head out again, Ashlyn decided she'd collected enough and sat down to dig into it all...Blake on the other hand went to tackle the rest of the neighborhood. Once his bucket was full again he only had one street left, but decided he was too tired to walk anymore. Here they are the next morning making trades with their loot. I don't know if Ashlyn enjoyed collecting and eating the candy that night more, or laying it out and organizing all over the living room floor the next morning!