Garage Sale!!

So it has taken me almost 2 years but I finally figured out how to make the pictures BIG on the blog!!  Pretty darn easy. Hopefully now you won't need your bifocals to see them. The big event for this past weekend around the Kies house was the GARAGE sale!!  I took some items down to Jody, Hannah and Charlie's house Wednesday for the big sale to start on Thursday.  I took Friday off to help out and then Maddox came down to see what a SALE is all about on Saturday.  Hannah and Maddox manned the  'Cookies for Sale' table while Jody and I entertained the customers.  Unfortunately Saturday was VERY SLOW. Most of the buyers came by on Thursday and Friday.  Maddox and Hannah played in the backyard with chalk, squirt bottles, in Hannah's sand box and then gave 'Dora' a car wash!!  I managed to get a few good pictures, although getting 2    2 1/2 year olds to smile and look at the camera at the same time is easier 'typed' than done. I thought I made a lot of money. $180 at the sale itself. Then I took some stuff that didn't sell to the second hand kids shop and made another $30. AND I'm waiting for a guy to come look at the curio cabinet in the basement that we're selling. I've got $100 on that. So if he happens to buy that later tonight I"ll be up over $300!!! which I'd be ecstatic with.  The main point of the garage sale was to get stuff out of the house of course and we definitely did that. Other than that we didn't do too much.  Eric decided the yard was too dry to mow which freed up some time.  We set up the turtle sprinkler yesterday for Maddox but once we got both kids lathered up with sunscreen and got the hose in just the right spot she decided she didn't want to 'splash' in the water as she had been requesting to do all weekend since we had the sprinkler out watering the yard.  Kennon is still getting up at the crack of dawn, today at 5AM I think. I am starting to transition him to whole milk this week so I"m crossing my fingers that will help him sleep a bit longer.  Just as soon as I posted the blog last week that he was eating EVERY TABLE FOOD in sight and NOT wanting baby food he about quit eating all together. He became so finicky with table food I had to get back out the baby food just to keep something in his stomach.  But, it seems we are back to table food again this weekend.  He is loving being on his feet walking behind the walker and the giraffe. He is a mama's boy wanting to be in my arms anytime I happen to be in the room with him.  I"m wondering if he is going to get teeth or something as he has been pretty needy the last week.  His gums aren't swollen but he is sure finicky.  Maybe that's why he isn't sleeping either. Who knows??  Maddox has always been EXTREMELY predictable.  Kennon is exactly the opposite.  He keeps us on our toes. I have to tell you about one of Maddox and I's conversations we had last night.  I said to her as we were getting her PJs on for bed 'Maddox I love you as big as the ocean' and she said 'I love you too Mommy'.  I said 'How much do love me Maddox?'  There was like at 5 second pause as her little brain ticked and then she said 'THREE' with a big smile on her face and held up her fingers giving me the 'THREE sign' just like Grammy had taught her a couple of weeks ago!! How darn cute was that?? It just melted my heart. She is starting to initiate saying she loves both Eric and I now without us saying it to her first. And she is saying Mommy now instead of MaMa. She is growing up so fast!!  Sorry no Kennon pictures this week. He has been a bit of a fussy little guy always wanting to be held which makes camera shots a bit difficult. I"ll try to get some this weekend. We are so excited my college friend Katie and her family are coming to visit this weekend. Katie and Ed have Evan who is almost 4 and Mackenzie who is about 2 1/2. With our kids it will be quite the fun weekend. We are going to try to go to the zoo!!  We can't wait to see them. Take care.