Thanksgiving dinner:
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Fun at Pops and Dottie's
We spent Thanksgiving in Virginia at Pops and Dottie's house. It was fun to be there with lots of family, but I think the highlight for our kids was the treehouse/swingset that was built since the last time we visited. As you can see in the pictures below, the kids loved it! Unfortunately, those were pretty much the only pics we took while we were up there. Enjoy!
Thanksgiving dinner:
Thanksgiving dinner:
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Happy Thanksgiving!
Here are the Thanksgiving crafts we did this year:
Handprint turkeys
Pilgrims
Woven placemats
Can you tell which one of my kids we have tons of great pictures of, and which one we have very few of?
Handprint turkeys
Pilgrims
Woven placemats
Can you tell which one of my kids we have tons of great pictures of, and which one we have very few of?
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Levi
Look who got a big boy haircut!
Levi up to his normal mischief:
He can find alternate uses for just anout anything...
And making a mess is what he does best!
Levi up to his normal mischief:
He can find alternate uses for just anout anything...And making a mess is what he does best!Friday, November 11, 2011
Random updates
Most of what has been going on at our household over the past week is sickness. Thankfully, we are mostly better and have FINALLY been able to leave the house as well as get together with friends. Hopefully that was our sickness stretch for the winter!
For those of you who knew our fish, Fred, we have bad (but kind of good) news. After over 3 years of living with us, our beta fish stopped breathing...resulting in being flushed. We explained to Addie that she would not see Fred anymore, but that we would get a new fish soon. I took the kids to the pet store a week or 2 ago and let Addie pick out a new beta to purchase and bring home. I also let her know she got to name the fish. Once she understood that he too could not be named Fred, she told me that his name was Soap. I had to confirm with her that Soap was in fact the name she had decided on, and it was. When she has been asked how she came up with that name, she just says "that's his name", as if there was not even a thought that went into it-that's his name, just like Levi is Levi and Addie is Addie. We often hear Addie say "Soap lives in water."
After a lot of time indoors, cooped up at the house, we decided to have a movie night for the first time. It was a HUGE hit with Addie. We watched "Shrek 2" and though Levi couldn't sit still (no surprise there), Addie was not bothered by his activity. She asked about a million questions while watching the movie and loved every minute of it. She did not get up from her seat once. When I brought her her very own bowl of popcorn, she was absolutely in heaven. Ever since the movie ended, she has been saying "maybe we can do that again sometime. I'll sit on the couch between Mommy and Daddy and we can watch a movie and eat some popcorn." We will definitely do it again sometime soon.
Levi likes to "take me downtown Charlie Brown" (aka, hit me repeatedly while I'm down without getting in trouble)
a smiling pic of Addie while she's looking at the camera-a rareity
Even though he rarely stops, Levi is still a snuggler, which Bob and I both love. We are working on getting that thumb out of his mouth, but when he's tired, it's hopeless
Lastly, we had some friends over yesterday to have a "bread playdate." We baked soem bread together, then gobbled it up-it was delicious! For anyone who has not yet tried Fleischmann's new Simply Homemade bread mix, it is extremely easy to make and delicious to eat. Here are the girls (and Levi) with their oven mits on!
We played for a while as the bread was cooking...
And there's the tasty bread!
Bob got me an early Christmas presents a few weeks ago-a new camera! It is a DSLR (for those of you that know what that is), so we are hoping to be able to capture our kids' smiles, even though they never pose to give us one. These first 2 pics are ones I got of them that turned out great-never would have got them with our old camera. It's nice to be able to just hold down the shutter button and let it click away!
For those of you who knew our fish, Fred, we have bad (but kind of good) news. After over 3 years of living with us, our beta fish stopped breathing...resulting in being flushed. We explained to Addie that she would not see Fred anymore, but that we would get a new fish soon. I took the kids to the pet store a week or 2 ago and let Addie pick out a new beta to purchase and bring home. I also let her know she got to name the fish. Once she understood that he too could not be named Fred, she told me that his name was Soap. I had to confirm with her that Soap was in fact the name she had decided on, and it was. When she has been asked how she came up with that name, she just says "that's his name", as if there was not even a thought that went into it-that's his name, just like Levi is Levi and Addie is Addie. We often hear Addie say "Soap lives in water."
After a lot of time indoors, cooped up at the house, we decided to have a movie night for the first time. It was a HUGE hit with Addie. We watched "Shrek 2" and though Levi couldn't sit still (no surprise there), Addie was not bothered by his activity. She asked about a million questions while watching the movie and loved every minute of it. She did not get up from her seat once. When I brought her her very own bowl of popcorn, she was absolutely in heaven. Ever since the movie ended, she has been saying "maybe we can do that again sometime. I'll sit on the couch between Mommy and Daddy and we can watch a movie and eat some popcorn." We will definitely do it again sometime soon.
Levi likes to "take me downtown Charlie Brown" (aka, hit me repeatedly while I'm down without getting in trouble)
a smiling pic of Addie while she's looking at the camera-a rareity
Even though he rarely stops, Levi is still a snuggler, which Bob and I both love. We are working on getting that thumb out of his mouth, but when he's tired, it's hopeless
Lastly, we had some friends over yesterday to have a "bread playdate." We baked soem bread together, then gobbled it up-it was delicious! For anyone who has not yet tried Fleischmann's new Simply Homemade bread mix, it is extremely easy to make and delicious to eat. Here are the girls (and Levi) with their oven mits on!
We played for a while as the bread was cooking...
And there's the tasty bread!
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Halloween festivities
Warning: there are a LOT of pictures in this post. Please browse as much or as little as you would like. Enjoy!
The Clarke family came down for a visit this weekend, and we had a great time with them. On Saturday morning, some of us went to the library for their Halloween party. We generally go to the library once a week for storytime, but obviously Daddy does not get to be a part of that. So, it was fun to be able to go as an entire family to listen to books and do some crafts.
That afternoon, our church had a fall festival kind of event. Here are all the kids, ready to go play lots of games and bring home an abundance of candy!
Our little giraffe and Tinkerbell:
The Clarke kids:
Thankfully, Addie and Addisyn got to see each other real quick:
Sunday night, it was pumpkin carving time with Daddy:
Sweet outfit, huh?
Ready to go trick-or-treating!
Happy Halloween!
The Clarke family came down for a visit this weekend, and we had a great time with them. On Saturday morning, some of us went to the library for their Halloween party. We generally go to the library once a week for storytime, but obviously Daddy does not get to be a part of that. So, it was fun to be able to go as an entire family to listen to books and do some crafts.
That afternoon, our church had a fall festival kind of event. Here are all the kids, ready to go play lots of games and bring home an abundance of candy!
Our little giraffe and Tinkerbell:
The Clarke kids:
Thankfully, Addie and Addisyn got to see each other real quick:
Sunday night, it was pumpkin carving time with Daddy:
Sweet outfit, huh?
Ready to go trick-or-treating!
Happy Halloween!
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