The strange part about this cotton farm was the fact it was right in the middle of the city. In fact the partial city block of cotton we were picking is the remainder of a 110 acre farm originally established in 1859 to grow cash crops as well as some livestock. The girls liked picking the cotton. The
boys loved playing on the tractors, go figure. We live in the country so we are around animals a great deal and we live near farms, but we have never seen cotton growing in Texas, even on a small scale like this.
boys loved playing on the tractors, go figure. We live in the country so we are around animals a great deal and we live near farms, but we have never seen cotton growing in Texas, even on a small scale like this.
After our adventure to the cotton farm we ran over to see Aunt Jessie and sign some papers for her. The boys played with their dinner and the girls, along with a friend from our unschooling group, played on the computer. We tried to teach Jessie and Kaylee how to play SET, it took them a bit to catch on. It took me and Mady a bit to get it all too, but it is a fun little card game.
Hopefully the boys will learn to sit in chairs one day. They will not sit in highchairs-they must stand in them, which is far to scary for me. We did away with they highchairs a couple of months ago after trying them out again only to find Luke and Ezra still enjoy standing in them more than sitting. I have a couple of pictures of Niki with a pantie liner on her eye I want to post. I am sure anyone reading this is wondering, what the hell is Niki doing with a pantie liner on her eye. Niki is our storyteller, very imaginative kiddo. She was in the bathroom when she found the liner and unwrapped it and stuck it on her arm, sticky side on her arm. She told me it felt like an arm massager. Then she went on to stick it on various parts of her body, one of which was her eye. Once the liner, er, I mean patch, was on her eye she was transformed into a pirate captain. Of course everyone in the room had to get in on the action and soon we were all pirates. It was a 71 picture day on my camera. Don't you just love watching your kids?
Niki and I are watching Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and trying to go to sleep early so we can get up early for the Stock Show! 
2 comments:
Looks like a lot of fun! :) the cotton was a blast wasn't it. :)
That is hilarious about the panty liner eye patch rofl...
Your boys will eventually learn to sit down. I know how scary the high chairs are. I moved mine out of them too because they'd stand up and try to climb out. We used to have one of those picnic table with benches for the kitchen table and that worked good for them to sit at the table with us. I did used to have problems though with them wearing their bowls on their heads like hats, have a few cute pictures of that,lol.
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