Weekly Winners, September 14-20

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This was a crazy week around here, what with the windstorm and the power outages and what-not. Six days later, most people in our area (including both of my brothers & their families) do not have power at their houses still. We are so fortunate to have never lost ours!

Anyhoo, here are some pics I snapped this week. This first one is of the ginormous uprooted tree I first showed you in my Wordless Wednesday post.

broken yet beautiful

The park that tree lived in is also home to a very cute trashcan!

pretty trashy

Since I was taking pictures near downtown, I decided to go up to the levee and take pictures across the Great Miami River.

This is the back of the First Baptist Church in Dayton.

back of church in the great miami river

I am usually rather annoyed by these geese when they are on land but they suited my purposes here!

geese fly over the great miami

I tried to get some sun spots. This is looking out over the usually unattractive I-75.

sun spots

Finally, on to the kiddos. She’s not cute or anything, is she?

poser

When you’re 4, there’s nothing like running as fast as you can down a steep driveway.

happy happy boy boy

When you’re almost two, there’s nothing like watching your big brother race toward you as fast as he can up a steep driveway!

so. excited!

Except getting sidewalk chalk all over your buns!

chalky bottom

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Weekly Winners September 7-13

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This week’s photos were all taken in one fun, beautiful, near-perfect afternoon at the park.

Sophie climbed up the steps to get to the slide all by herself. She was SO proud!

mischievous girl

Then she took the plunge and went down! Whee!

whee!
It was a fast slide, and she landed kind of hard on her buns. She didn’t want to go again. Oops, I guess I should have caught her instead of taking her picture!

Then, we moved on to the swings, which were guarded by the Scarecrow,

scarecrow

the Tin Man,

tin man again

and the Cowardly Lion.

lion

Joshua took a solo swing while I was chasing Sophie around:

swingin' solo

Then Sophie had her turn!

swingin' So

Joshua also really enjoyed the playground equipment:

happy climber

It was such a great day! I hope we get some cooler weather this week so we can go back there again.

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Tantrum of the Century

Joshua Kenneth, my sweet, easy-going child, is upstairs in his room screaming, “I WANNA SLEEP IN MOMMY’S BED!” over and over and over. He is on about minute twenty of this tantrum and Bobby and I are looking at each other and shaking our heads, like, “Who IS this kid?”

He had school today, a long day for a little guy, and was so out of sorts by 5:00 that I gave him a pre-dinner nap…which seemed to help…until bedtime.

My neck muscles are tensing. A vein is throbbing in Bobby’s forehead. Joshua is undoubtedly going hoarse. I just really hope he doesn’t make himself puke.

‘Cause we had pizza for dinner. And I do NOT feel like cleaning that up.

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