Five

Reasons Why Banana Pudding is a Good Choice for Breakfast:

1. It has milk in it

2. It has fruit in it

3. It has eggs in it

4. It goes well with coffee

5. Because I'm the mom and I can sneak eat it behind the refrigerator where no one can see me.

A New Pen Pal

Josiah wrote his first letter!

He was so excited and so proud of himself. (and I am a proud momma!) I think he spent an hour deciding what to write and what to draw and what colors to use and how to fold the paper. He used his "spell checker" (me) for almost every word, even though he already knew how to spell them all. He was nervous, too. He kept asking questions like, "Do you think if I put the question mark on the next line she'll know that this was supposed to be a question and I just ran out of room up here?" or "What do you think she'll think about the way I colored us?" (He drew a picture of him and Rylee writing each other letters) I loved watching him do this! And because I'm a photo addict, you can "watch" him take it to the mailbox. :)

Looking both ways before he crosses the street:


Putting the letter in:


Putting up the flag:


Trying to wipe the big ole smile off his face:


BUSTED with the big ole smile!! :)


P.S. His pen pal is my cousin's daughter, Rylee. Jodi (my cousin) and I talked about having the kids write letters last summer, but it just never happened. Josiah remembered us talking about it and asked to do this, this year, all on his own. Because of that, he is much more excited about it than he was at the mention of it last year! :)

P.P.S. Random tidbit...the joy of having a garden is that when your child asks at snack time if he "can just have some vegetables instead," after you decide that he must be part alien, you can tell him there are some sugar snap peas ripe outside and he can go pick some after he's done choking down the 'nilla wafers you gave him.

And he'll be so happy to do it that he'll bring in extras for everyone else!!

All in Good Time

Overheard yesterday in the car:

Micah: I wish my hair was short like yours, Josiah.

Josiah: Well, you can get a haircut.

Micah: I know.

Josiah: So, do you want a haircut?

Micah: Yeah, maybe when I'm...

ten.


Ha-ha-ha! I laughed out loud when he said that! I asked again, just to make sure and he does not want a haircut at this time. Someday, he said.

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Audra is growing up so fast. In just 2 days my baby will be 4 months old! She can rollover, now--well on her way to being mobile!



She is oh-so very chubby and I L*O*V*E it! She's got rolls on her rolls and I think it is just adorable!



I got a chance to make her a silkie last week while the boys were at VBS. She seems to like it. :)



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This picture is one that Micah drew last week at "BBS" (that's what Emilia called it). The theme for the week was Saddle Ridge Ranch and the boys came home with something cowboy-ish everyday.



This is God being a cowboy. He's holding his hat over his head and the lines coming out of his legs are the many, many spurs on his boots.

Three Things

Three quotes from today:

Emilia was pretending to pack up to go somewhere. She came up to me and said,

"Bye, Mommy! Love you soon!"

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Emilia, talking on the pretend phone:

"Mark? Mark? (Mark is our neighbor)

You got Weston there? (Weston is their little boy. He is 1 month older than Emilia.

Ok. Bye."

She puts the phone down. Picks it back up and says,

"Mark? Mark?

I talk Weston?

Weston? I come over now."

John has ordered bars to put on the windows. :)

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This afternoon was not a pretty sight between our boys. Much fighting. Much yelling. Much disagreeing.

My favorite quote (by Micah),

"STOP LOOKING AT ME SUSPICIOUS!"

A Song from VBS

Micah was singing me a song from VBS. He said, "Mommy, I'm going to sing you a song from VBS, but I'm only going to sing you the beginning of the end of it.

A-J-P-P-Y

He shows me all the time,
He shows me all the (hiccup) time.

Only, mommy, it doesn't really have hiccups in it. I just have hiccups right now.

So, now I'm just going to sing you the end of the end of it.

He shows me all the time,
He shows me all the time,
He shows me all the time,
He shows me all the time."

I told him I think the beginning of the end is supposed to be "H-A-P-P-Y." He thought that made more sense.

I love that boy.