Veggie Tales - LIVE!

The sign for Veggie Tales LIVE went up about 4 weeks ago. We had to pass the sign every day on the way home. Luke would see the sign and ask to go to Veggie Tales every day! I had to keep telling him that the show wasn't til October 3rd. Of course, a 3-year old doesn't understand time. So every day I promised I would take him but he had to wait.

Well, being the procrastinator that I am, I wait til the day before to call and get tickets. The 6:30pm show was SOLD OUT! Yep - I was gonna be in trouble! Oh, but the 1pm show was still available. Now, mind you, we are talking about a Friday. I hadn't planned on taking off from work to go see the Veggie Tales, but it looked like I was going to have to. So on Friday, I take Luke to school, I go to work, and then at 12:30 I pick him up from school and head over to the Knoxville Christian Center.


That's Bob (the tomato) and Larry (the cucumber)


He LOVED it!


At times though, he was more interested in the other kids around him. Here he is playing with the 10-month old sitting behind us.


Yes, we actually paid money to go see people dressed in vegetable costumes dance and sing on stage. (In my opinion, this was worse than the night we saw The Backyardigans Live).


Isn't that cute? They all laid on the floor together during one part of the show. I think Luke even started it.


This was cool. They sang and danced to the old '70s song 'Car Wash' and blew bubbles out in the crowd.

I guess it's no secret that I would have rather seen The Wiggles. At least they are real people. I just can't get over the big funny costumes. But Luke loved it - costumes and all. And that alone was worth going. I knew there was no way I could tell him 'sorry, it's sold out.'

Next time, though, I will just avoid the sign. That way, he won't even know about it in the first place!!

Peanut Butter Cookies

We made Luke's teacher, Ms. Jamie, some cookies for her birthday. Luke really wanted to help but I had to keep stopping him from putting his hands in the dough.


Too cute.


So he kept me company by singing to me.


I told him he could have ONE cookie but that was it.


YUM! Happy Birthday, Ms. Jamie!!

Weekend at Cades Cove

I (Katie) wanted to spend my birthday in the mountains, so we loaded up the car and drove over Cades Cove on Friday. The drive to Townsend is less than 45 minutes from our house.


We stopped at Sonic in Maryville and got Luke a chocolate milkshake!


We saw turkeys in the field.


He was having so much fun just running around everywhere!


He loved the sunroof. (And by the way, that's the rental car, otherwise he would not be allowed to drive his cars on the roof of Mommy's BMW!!)

He loves the horses ... from far away. He would NOT pet one. They were so friendly, though, and starved for attention.

This is "On Your Mark. Get Set. Go!" He loves to run, just like Mommy.


We found this mama deer with 4 fawns. They didn't stick around for pics so I had to get what I could.


"They went that way"




Family pic... A certain little person wouldn't stand still for very long to get a nice group shot.




We found a butterfly on the ground.


This is the coyote that walked up on us while we were having our picnic. He's probably only 20 yards away from our blanket.




We didn't hike all the way to Abrams Falls, though I really wanted to. Maybe next time. As we hiked down the Elijah Oliver Trail, we passed a lady who said she had just seen a bear! She was trekking it out of there. Me, I would really really like to see a bear! In all my years of going to Cades Cove, that is the one thing I have never seen. I've had plenty of near misses though. And this was another miss. If we had been three minutes further down the trail, I would have seen a bear. Oh well. Maybe next time.

You can see more 'artsy' pictures on my other Blog here.

Random Pics

Here are some cute random pictures...

It's Football Time in Tennessee

Luke was so excited to watch the football game!!! Go Vols!!

But he insisted on wearing his cowboy boots with his jersey...





Then he insisted on wearing the boots to church this morning too. It was cute, though. And he even got several compliments on them!
I found them at a children's clothing sale for $4! I think I got my money's worth - he loves them!!!

What a MESS!!

When I picked him up from school the other day, he didn't want to leave. He was having fun playing with Lincoln Logs. I told him that there was a big bucket of legos in his closet that we could play with when we got home. Well, then we made a few stops on the way, we ate dinner, took a bath, got ready for bed and forgot about the legos. So the next morning, he woke up an hour early asking about the legos. He didn't forget!!



So we got them out and played with them while Mommy was getting ready for work.


There were 2 rules about the legos - 1) you don't dump them out and 2) you don't put them in your mouth ... (there are some really small pieces)




So this is what his room looked like a little later....


And this is his toy room, which we call 'Lukeville' ... he has more toys than 10 kids should have!
I really don't know why I bother cleaning it up -- I will pick all the toys up and next thing I know, Tropical Storm Luke comes through and leaves a path of destruction.

Having fun with Picasa...

I just downloaded Picasa3 and I am loving it!!! It's way easier than scrapbooking, and I feel almost as creative.

Here's a little recap from our summer... some pics you've seen and some you haven't ...

Space Chimps

I took Luke to see 'Space Chimps' at the dollar theatre. (Well, it's not the dollar theatre anymore, it's $4, but that includes unlimited popcorn and drink with the ticket price - not a bad deal).

Anyway, he was glued! He loved it!! And I actually laughed out loud more than once. I highly recommend.

Hello, McFly!

One of my favorite movies of all time is Back to the Future (I, II and III). I was in the mood to watch it the other day, and since the movie is rated PG, I thought it would be an okay movie for Luke to watch. Sure, there are a few cuss words but I was hoping he wouldn't pick up on those. Plus, most of the time we put one of his movies in, he loses interest and starts playing with his cars (and Greg and I are left to watch his movie, 'cause God forbid we turn it off). But not this time - he was glued from beginning to end! And he has asked to watch it almost every day since then. He is so obsessed with it, in fact, that his new favorite song is Huey Lewis and the News "Power of Love". He asks to hear it every time we are in the car. I've also downloaded "Back in Time" and "Johnny B. Goode" for him. I think his favorite part of the movie is at the very end when Marty is playing the guitar at the dance. When Luke saw that, he had to run and get his Wiggles guitar and play it the same way Marty was - behind his head, on the floor, etc.

But that's not the funny story. I told you all of that so I could prepare you for this...

So, yesterday I pick him up from school. I ask him all of the usual questions - "how was your day?" "what did you do?" etc. And he tells me that he went up to Jack (another little boy in his class) and he says, (while knocking on his head), "Hello, McFly, Anybody home? Think Butthead." My mouth dropped open. While trying to hold back from laughing, I ask him where he heard that. He said "on Back to the Future - Marty said that." Um no, actually, buddy, Biff is the one who said that to Marty, but that's beside the point.

Guess I'm gonna have to start censoring his movies a little better. Which probably means that another one of my favorite movies, 'Dumb and Dumber' is out of the question! :)