Thursday, September 6, 2012

Pool days are over!


Well, it is with sadness that we say goodbye to our pool for the season. Labor day was the last day that the pool was open, and boy are we going to miss it!
I wish I had taken video of the girls swimming, but alas, I never did. Olivia however learned how to swim well enough that she crossed the entire width of the pool, ON HER TUMMY (not her back which she tells me is lots easier) without any help! She is quite the fish and I have decided she needs regular swimming lessons, so we are planning to enroll her at the rec center soon!
This picture is of Nathan after a swim at the pool. He was shivering from cold when we left, so we came home and quickly got him in his jammies and wrapped him up in his blanket- where upon he immediately fell asleep...I couldn't resist the chance to just snuggle him, so here I sat, on the couch, in my WET swimming suit and cuddled him for 20 minutes. It was a little piece of heaven. He's too busy most times these days for snuggling :)


And this shot is of Logan after a trip to the pool. When we were leaving, he was all wrapped up in his towel and biffed it on the pavement. With his hands stuck inside his towel, he caught himself with his face! This is the damage...


He was one worn out little boy!

Ally's First Day of School


Here is our sweet Ally- on her first day of 2nd grade, and her first day at Murphy Creek Elementarty school. Her teacher is Miss Jeschke, and as you can imagine, she was SUPER excited for school to start!






Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Walking? Already?

Does anyone else find it unusual that my 8 month old baby is about to WALK? He can walk anywhere he want to go as long as he can hold onto something, and can stand by himself for 5-10 seconds at a time. He has NO interest in crawling, and is never happier than when you walk with him...

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Kids say the funniest things.

The kids have said a few things lately that made me giggle and I wanted to write them down.

Olivia says "silent language"- she means - sign language

Logan says "popsi-cold"- he means- popsicle (well it is cold right?)
Logan says "taco-rito" - he means- anything in a tortilla- tacos, burritos, quesadillas
Logan says "in-a-ma-fridge" translation- in the fridge
Logan says "on-a-ma-couch" translation- on the couch - he adds an "a-ma" to everything.
like on-a-ma-shirt, or in-a-ma-room... you get the idea. It's pretty funny.

One more... Logan used to say "nu-nu boss" ... which means- You're not the boss :)

Monday, July 30, 2012

Words to live by...

Kindness

My new motto. I am totally going to memorize this!

Friday, July 27, 2012

Corny

Nathan needs to eat everything we are eating. He will grunt and squawk until he gets a taste of everything on your plate. And the other day we found he is especially fond of corn on the cob...well, corn bits left on the cob really :) He gnawed on this corn cob for 10 minutes and was happy as a lark.

Meanwhile, the other kids were eating watermelon dipped in A-1 sauce....
And yet they won't eat zucchini, go figure.

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Blog, blog, blog, blog, blog...

There have been a TON of blog post that have been waiting and waiting for me to sit down and get them put together, so here goes...

This is, or was, Ally's new room, (in the loft) until she realized that she missed her brothers and sister and wanted to sleep back in the same room with all of them. I think that's sweet :)


This one is specifically for Grandma Laing....Look familiar? Your gifted hands are everywhere in this photo. Thanks for all the great quilts. We surely do love them. :)