Kids say the darnest things....

I've got more of these.....Did I tell yall the "crap" story? oh, well, here it goes.... So, Turner a few weeks ago, had a bout of diarreah. I'm thinking too many strawberries in one sitting or just a yucky stomach bug going around. So...while sitting at dinner, Johnny says, "buddy, you are not sleeping with me tonight, you're not crappin' on me!" well, Turner got very upset and starting to cry and with the most pitiful voice ever looked at him and said..."Well, can I crap on mommy?"
We fell on the floor laughing and he was still so sad.

While on the way to preschool the other day-we have to wake up early on these days- Turner is rubbing his eyes and starts getting frustrated. I said "What's wrong?" he yells " I've got sticky sap in my eyes mommy!" I laughed and said "oh, you mean sleep?" he of course retorted "No, I'm awake, mom!"

The worst ever!!!!!Can't believe I'm even going to tell you all is when it was just me and Turner at home and I was cooking dinner, so he runs up behind me and smacks my behind and then says, "oh, i'm sorry mommy, is baby sister growing in your butt?" I cracked up laughing and turned around and said "no, why?" he said, "because mommy your butt is growing!" all inquisitive-like. It really wasn't funny to me, but Johnny reminds me of that all the time. My friend Ashley does too!!!!

I'm sure I have many more, these are just the few that pop into my mind right now!! Enjoy!

MACK IS BACK!!!!!!

Mack is back!!!!He's home safe with us, hungry, thirsty, absolutely filthy but we don't care, he's back with us!!!!!
A lady called me about 10:15pm tonight and said, did you find your dog? I said , no, we haven't. She said she thought she just saw him down the road and to hurry. Of course I ran in the car flew up the road and there he was wandering around. He went right to her, she came to meet me and got ahold of him. He was so freaked out, he didn't know what to do. So I praised her and put him in the car and Turner started yelling. He was so excited!
He has thorns and stickers all over him since he has so much hair so he ate and drank and we gave him a bath and now he wont leave my side and just keeps staring at me!
Thank you so much for all of your prayers and thoughtful words. You wouldn't believe some of the things that people were saying to me when I was passing out fliers. It was awful! So I appreciate you all and especially the lady down the road. I have her name and number on caller id so am going to call and bring her a present tomorrow!
Thanks again, our best friend is back!!!!

Mack's Missing!!!!!Please pray for safe,quick return!!!

So I went to walk our dog tonight about 10:40pm and he took off after a cat and hasn't returned. Me and many neighbors frantically searched for him for hours and can't find him. Johnny even came home from working night shift and scoured the woods around the house for hours to no avail. Please pray for Mack's safe and quick return. He sleeps at the foot of Turner's bed every night as you can see and just don't know what we'd do without him. Dogs really are a part of your family!

After shedding so many tears tonight, pray for me to aslo keep my strength to 'talk' to Turner tomorrow with wise words and a strong heart. T knows he's missing but fell asleep in my bed while we were searching around the house. It's hard not to blame yourself, ya know?. I'll keep ya posted!

Hope there's never a fire!!!!

Don't have pics of this one bc I'd have to post a Warning:!

So doorbell rang the other day, dog went barking and child ran yelling to the door. Guess we don't have visitors often enough!? It was the Loudon County Volunteer Fire Dept. He's doing his speal and asking for donations for new equipment and hopefully we wont ever need them bc we aren't in the city-blah blah. I fully intend on writing a check before he went on with his speech. Well, Turner of course raises his hand to give a high five and the very nice gentlemen says, 'well, buddy maybe I'll take a raincheck on that high five" I was kinda perplexed and was thinking man, that was almost rude..UNTIL... I looked down from trying to block the dog from running out the door and noticed that Turner with his hand still raised-has NO pants on, NO underwear on, NOTHING but a shirt that was obviously too small!!!! So, I gasped-"Turner go put some clothes on" with an embarrased grin, then I kinda pushed him around the dog to go run and get clothes on, he trips over the vacuum cleaner exposing even more than he had before and now not only do I look like a bad mom, I look like an abusive, horrible mom!!!!!

I looked at Turner and said, "did you trip over the vacuum cleaner?" even though it was obvious. He was screaming and crying of course bc he had an aduience-"no you pushed me down!!!"

So I looked at the nice Fireman and asked if he could come back Friday, he said sure is this 170 or 160. I said 170, I'm so sorry, crazy day!? He said, "no problem, I understand". This was over a week ago!!!!!

Do I even need to tell you that the Loudon County Volunteer Fire Dept. has NOT been back to our house to collect their donations from the Deakins Family?????!!!!!!

How embarassing!!!!!

Turner's Trail Mix

Turner loves "Trail Mix"! We go to different grocery stores looking for new trail mix. Well, Turner has a new name for all of the pieces of the trail mix. He came to me this morning asking for "meatballs". I figured since we had meatloaf for dinner last night thats what he was asking for. Boy was I wrong....he brought me the trail mix tupperware and started picking out pieces and calling them by different names.

Let me translate for you.....
"Turner calls them":-- What they really are:
"Meatballs" --chocolate malt balls-whoppers
"chicken pops"-- chocolate morsels
"pennies" --M & M's
"peanuts with skin"-- Almonds
"wrinkles"-- raisins/dried fruit

I thought it was so stinkin' funny. I had to take a picture and have him 'point them out' to me!
Kids Say the Darnest Things!!!!

Baby Isaiah and Johnny share a birthday!

My good friend Ashley Archer had her baby boy today at 11:23am-3 weeks early of her due date and she's not too upset about it. Isaiah Kahlil weighs 5 lbs 12 oz and is 18 1/2 in long. He is a tiny little thing but knows what he wants, when he wants it already...diaper change, food, being held, etc.
Coincidentally, it's Johnny's birthday too!!!! He says it can only mean "greatness" for Ashley's little guy! Congrats to both!!!

Escaping Gustav for a mini-vacation!

Evacuating turned out to be the best for everyone!! No power for 6 days is not my idea of fun!!!
We did lots of fun stuff when my family came up to run away from the hurricane! We went to the Smoky Mts and in all the years that I've been to Cades Cove, I've never seen a bear until this trip and we saw 2 different bears around the park! One we just barely caught with our camera! You can see him in the bottom left hand of the first windshield picture. Turner is in the other. We went to the Boomsday fireworks, ate great food, went shopping, painted the baby's room, and just had a little mini-vacation. Of course, worrying about dad the entire time!!!
I did get some pictures of the mess and damage from the hurricane from my family today, so will be posting those soon, along with my friend-Ashley Archer's new little boy, who arrived today, on Johnny's birthday! To be continued!.....