Snow Day!!

It actually snowed here on Wednesday! The boys were so excited! It didn't start snowing until after we got up and when Josiah saw those first flakes falling he said, "Maybe it will snow enough for me to make my favorite thing--SNOW ANGELS!" And what do you know...it really did snow enough for him to make snow angels. They even got to go "sledding." John pushed them in a laundry basket down the "hill" in our front yard. They flipped over most of the time, but they thought it was great none-the-less! Here are some pictures of their snowy fun day.

Hockey Baby Boot Belly

These boots. They are Micah's boots and to distinguish them from rain boots, cowboy boots and snow boots we have been calling them "hiking boots." Well, I should rephrase that...I have been calling them hiking boots. Micah has called them several other things. They started out as "walkie-talkie boots." Then they were "hockey boots" and now they are "hocken boots." I love all the names that kids come up with for things because I think that's how they hear what we are saying. Makes me wonder what he's thinking when I call his boots "walkie-talkie boots" He's probably thinking that he's got a looney ole mom, cause what do boots have to do with walkie-talkies?? But I guess he goes along with it just to humor me. :) Kids are sweet like that.

And this is for my wacky friends who wanted me to take "artistic" pictures when I was IN LABOR with Josiah. Crazy kooks. And its also for those of you who havent seen me for awhile--this is me 38 weeks 3 days pregnant with baby #3. AND for my mom who tells me I look painful when I'm this pregnant. And it's for me. Who knows if I'll have any more kids? Someday I might want to remember what it was like to be this pregnant! (It's a self portrait, so don't be too critical)

Hot Lava?

This is a picture Josiah drew on the easel sometime last week. He says its hot lava, just different colors (cause "hot lava is really orange"). John thinks it looks like an eagle carrying a distorted world. I think it looks like a blue whale eating a bird. Ahhh, the beauty of abstract art!

Plans for the Future

The other day we were driving in the car and Josiah started talking about when he gets "big like Daddy." This led to a whole conversation about growing up and what he would be able to do and all that. One of his comments was, "When I grow up I'm going to choose me a wife and she's going to play basketball for the Lady Vols. And I'll go to the games and yell "GO TENNESSEE!" and I'll watch my wife play basketball for the Lady Vols." We talked for awhile about "his wife" and her playing for the Vols and all of a sudden Josiah says, "I guess when I choose my wife I better ask her if she wants to be my wife." I told him that would be a good idea...And by the way, there is something very entertaining about listening to a four year old talk about "my wife." Everytime he would say that I would chuckle because something about it was just funny!

Oh, and he also informed me today that after I have the baby I'm going to play for the Lady Vols so he can come watch me play basketball and cheer for me. Now THAT'S an imagination! :)

We've been playing the "Brown Bear, Panda Bear" game based on the Eric Carle books. In the game the players collect different animals like, "green sea turtle" "spider monkey" and "black panther." One of the animals in the game is the "macaroni penguin." Micah calls it the "sgetti penguin," which I think is really cute. :)

Seems like there was another story I was going to tell you, but baby brain is kicking in and I can't remember it. Maybe I'll remember it later and I can add it on here. If not....so sorry! Hope you liked the other stories!!

We survived

We are in the process of surviving some bug that has taken over our whole family. I was out of commission for almost a week because of it! The boys seem to be fairing better than I did, but then again, they aren't pregnant. It really seemed like my body said something along the lines of, "Oh, you want to get sick? Sure! Do what you like, we're busy working on something else right now." Anyway, seemed like my immune system just left me to fend for myself. A week and a half later, I'm finally feeling human again. I think the boys are over the fever part of things, although we're all still stuffy and have this nasty sounding cough. Oh well. This too shall pass!

A couple weeks ago, we went bowling to celebrate Timothy's 9th birthday. Goodness, how did he get to be NINE!?!?? The kids had a great time. The bowling alley had this cool metal thing the kids could roll the ball down to "bowl". It made it much more fun for them (especially Micah) because they were able to play the whole game without getting frustrated. It also helped that the gutter guards were up. :) In any case, Josiah bowled a 123 and Micah bowled a 98!! They were even giving the adults a run for their money. :) Bruce was kind enough to remind me that I was suppose to ROLL the ball, not swallow it. Ha-ha.

Here's a couple of pics:




The other recent adventure was when John's mom took Josiah skiing. He was VERY excited in the days leading up to it and had a great time that day. He was so exhausted when he got home that he didn't even eat dinner, and for him, that's REALLY TIRED! He also made a new friend, Hannah (the only other person in his class that day). He wrote her a note the other day, too. (He's into taking notes recently). Here's the note:

Awwwwwww!

And here he is mostly decked out to go skiing. For some reason he was quite attached to those long johns. He even wore them to bed (which of course meant we had to find Micah grey "long johns" to wear to bed, too)

Doesn't he look fashionable? Hmmmm...questionable.