Chicken Feast

Brian had his friend Alexis over and they wanted to jump in the leaves. Brian Sr. told them if they wanted a leaf pile that they had to rake some leaves. So, they all got a rake and went to work! Alexis knew what she was doing - you could tell that girl had a rake in her hand before! Brian had the right idea, but Sean needed a little teaching. They did a good job - with a little help, and had fun jumping in the pile. It was a little early in the season to get a huge pile of leaves, but they still had fun!

Then, Alexis said that they should go to neighbor's houses and ask them if they could rake their leaves. Brian thought this was a terrible idea until Alexis told him that they would get paid money for it - then he was all in! We knew they needed help, so I sent the kids and Brian Sr. up the street to our friend's house.

She answered the door and said hello to the kids. Alexis asked, "Can we rake your leaves?" She told them, "Okay" and then Alexis added, "For money!" My friend couldn't do anything but laugh and then agreed. They kids raked a little - I think Sean lasted about two minutes. So Brian Sr. had to help out a lot. They finished and walked away with some cookies and a few quarters each. They were more than happy with their earnings! Brian told our friend that she didn't have to pay the kids and she said it was worth a few quarters to her - she will let her husband think that she raked the leaves!

Then they came inside to get ready for dinner. Alexis wanted to eat over and called he mom to ask. While they were getting ready to wash up for dinner, Alexis says that she needs to go to the bathroom. Sean says, "It is hard work to go to the bathroom in this house! First you have to flush, then you have to jiggle (the chain inside to flush sticks sometimes, so we have to jiggle the handle to keep the water from running and running), and you always have to pee only in the water!" Oh what mean parents we are - flush and only pee in the toilet! How can he live with us! He did forget to add "put the seat down" - but it sounds like he has enough to worry about for now!

We had hamburgers on the grill for dinner - Alexis told us that she loves cheeseburgers. She gets her burger and is not too happy about it. She says, "I don't really like burgers too much, but I do like cheese. I wanted to stay for dinner, so I said I liked them!" This girl is a piece of work!

Later, she asks a question, "Do you know that thing when the whole family likes chicken?" I say, "Do you mean when they don't like chicken or meat?" I thought she was trying to say she was a vegetarian so didn't want to eat the burger. She says, "No, when you eat chicken." We all take a few more guesses and nothing is right. Then she says, "You know, the big feast where you have a chicken as a family." I say, "Oh, Thanksgiving. And I think you mean turkey." She says, "No chicken. Wait. No. It is turkey!" And she laughs at her mistake. Then Alexis says, "Yeah. we are going to have Thanksgiving with my family." Okay, it only took ten minutes and totally confusing everyone to tell us that she will eat a Thanksgiving meal with her family! We had to laugh!

Sean smiling in the leaves

Brian and Sean raking
Sean, Brian, and Alexis
silly friends
leaf monster zombies!