Spiderman and the Children's Museum

Miller has dressed up as Spiderman almost every day this week.  He went to lunch, church, and the children's museum all as Spiderman.  He has also slept in his costume almost every night.  The funny thing is he doesn't like it when people call him spiderman when we are out.  He wants them to call him Miller. =)

Miller, Maggie, and I enjoyed the Children's Museum on Thursday morning.
Maggie loved the grocery store area. She shopped and shopped!
Miller enjoyed it too.

We had a fun morning together!

Around here...

Some days I think I'm getting into a groove and have this whole 3 kid thing down and then we have a day that rocks my world.  I am learning to have very low expectations for getting things done and instead just try to enjoy this time with my kids while they are little and exhausting. =) Some days its easier said than done.  So now a post to catch up on life a little...

Last week my mom and I headed to the Children's Museum with the kids.  We had never been to the one in Memphis but decided to join since we LOVED Boston's museum so much.  Everyone had a lot of fun and I was pleasantly surprised with the museum.  It is a very good museum.  The boys loved the FedEx Plane area and could have stayed there forever.


We also spent some time with the trucks/cars area.  The boys enjoyed riding on all the different automobiles.


We also did a little fishing in the river.

I think I spend half my day kissing on this little ones cheeks.  They are truly the best and I can't get enough of them.


I spend majority of my afternoons looking at this view.  Maggie in the Ergo carrier.  This is my view looking down at her.  She loves being held close in the afternoons/evenings.  
My most exhausting part of the day is giving these 2 wild men a bath.  Thankfully David does majority of the baths but the few I do wear me out!  They are insane in there.  
The boys love curling up in their daddy's lap and reading books. It makes my heart smile to see this every night.

Austin and I had a special mommy/son date on Wednesday.  I could tell that he needed some quality one on one time with me and we both LOVED it!  It was very much needed for both of us.  He picked the Mac n Cheese place (Panera) for lunch and then to get a cupcake at Muddy's.  He was so sweet throughout the entire date.  He held my hand in the car and wherever we walked and was very polite.  He also made sure we bought cupcakes for Miller, his Yaya who was babysitting the other 2 and his teachers at school.  He also loved that I picked the same kind of cupcake as him.  Since we got home at 1:00 yesterday he has asked at least 25 times if we can do it again.  I really need to make sure I do this often with my big guy.

After my date with Austin I came home to spend some quality time with my sweet girl.  I need to do a date with Miller next.

Just a little recap of the Spence clan.

Pumpkin Patch

The boys and I drove to Hernando, MS to meet my best friend and her youngest at Cedar Hill Farm (this is the same Pumpkin Patch we drove to last week and wasn't open).  We had a blast!   I planned on only staying till a little after lunch so we could make it home for naps but we decided we were having too much fun to make it home in time for naps.  There were so many fun things to do and the weather was great as well.

Neither one of us brought a stroller so we decided pulling them in a wagon was the next best thing.

We started off with a hayride out to the patch to pick our pumpkins.
There was a pirate ship to play on that the boys loved.
We then walked over to the patch to pick the perfect pumpkin.  Sweet Austin took forever making a decision.  He couldn't make up his mind on the perfect one.


Miller and Charlie found the perfect ones pretty quickly.

We then rode the hayride back with our new pumpkins.

We took a break to eat lunch and play on their new playground.  The boys LOVED the new slide.

We then spent some time at the petting zoo (definitely my least favorite part of the day, I do not enjoy feeding the farm animals).
Another highlight was the choo choo train that rode around a small part of the farm.  The boys enjoyed pretending to drive it.

My precious Thiefs!

We then moved on to the pig races.  Farmer Joe chose Miller to represent the black team by holding the black bandanna.  Our team didn't ever win...poor black pigs were too slow.

After our team lost all 3 races we went to ride a pony.  I bought tickets when we first got there for both Austin and Miller but Austin didn't want anything to do with it.  Neither Austin (4) nor Charlie (3) would ride the ponies but Miller rode twice.  He loved it!


Ride #2

It was truly a great day.  I highly recommend making the drive to visit Cedar Hill Farm.