Tuesday, November 18, 2008

How it is at our house

This is what Ethan said to Jason regarding why Micah was crying:

"I tried to give him a piggy back ride but I didn't know I couldn't do it"

Muffled laughter coming from the mother in the other room.

Monday, November 10, 2008

Learning

We knew Ethan was learning "popcorn words" at school over the last few weeks. These are words that "pop up" all the time...the, and, I, is, or (among others). This evening he told us about school and that he wrote about what he likes to eat. Jason asked him how to spell eat (because, quite frankly, we didn't think he could spell). He replies "e-a-t". While this is awesome, I think my days of spelling things so my kids don't understand are g-o-n-e. So, we asked Ethan to write his sentence for us so we could see how he writes. Check it out!


Translation: I like to eat pumpkin pie and turkey. Those vowels will get you every time! :) But, he sounded it all out and wrote what he heard. He also make the "e" on the word "like" dotted...because it's a silent "e". Of course. I'm not sure who's learning more in school, him or us.

Halloween '08

I know Halloween seems like it was a while ago already, but when I look at the candy still left in the boys' buckets...it seems like we just went trick-or-treating yesterday! The weather was absolutely perfect this year, so it was fun to wander the neighborhood. Ethan quickly caught on to the fact that we got to more houses if he moved faster. Micah loved choosing candy out of the huge bowls that were offered to him. They had a great time, and this mom is eating way too much candy lately!


Ethan decided that he wanted to be a baseball player, so his costume was easy since we could put him in the Tigers jersey that he loves to wear! Micah loves Mickey Mouse, so when I was given the opportunity to borrow this costume, I jumped right on it!


My kiddos got sillier as the night went on. Hmmm...I wonder why that was?


This was one of the few pictures where he actually smiled instead of giving me serious baseball player faces. A photo happy mom apparently cramps the style of this baseball player.


Our nephew, Colin, stopped by to get in on the fun. His monkey costume was so cute!


I remember sorting through my "loot" after I finished trick-or-treating. Tons of fun to do the same with my kids!


I don't think Micah has ever seen this much candy. He couldn't even carry his bucket by the end of the night! We had to hand it to him at the door when he said "trick-or-treat". We decided when the bucket is too heavy to carry then it's time to head home!

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

October 2008

For some reason, when I haven't blogged for a while, I feel like I have to justify my absence. I don't know why that is, but I am who I am. I'm still here, I still regularly check other blogs. I just haven't paid attention to mine! I have pictures I want to post, but honestly, all of my pictures from the month of October are still on my camera. I've been too lazy to upload them. Someday soon, I'll do a picture montage post.

Also, I've made a conscious effort to simply use my computer less during the day. You see, I was getting distracted by the computer and not focusing on my kids when I should have been. I'm working on a balance...a little "me" time on the computer mixed in with the time I spend with my kiddos. I haven't reached a balance yet, but frankly am OK with the scales tipping toward tons of time with my family and not as much time on the computer.

Things were busy in the month of October in our household. Jason spent a lot of time getting settled into the routine of his new job. He did an overnight out of town, a little mini color tour if you will. He didn't have much time for relaxing in his hotel, or a solid night's sleep without kiddos, since the building alarms went off at 6 am. But, he didn't need the wake-up call that he scheduled! His highlight for the month was finally receiving his company car. He has a pretty snazzy set of wheels, but I'm a little biased. I'm going to try and convince him to take a picture by it, but since he's not one for posing, we'll see how successful I am in that!

I spent a lot of time preparing for an Amazing Race fundraiser for the GEMS group at church. Basically, it was an event where teams competed against each other to complete tasks and solve clues. The first team done with everything won! One great example would be that each team had to purchase a container of ice cream...and then we made them eat it...but we didn't really give them spoons...at least not enough for the whole team. Some teams had small containers, but others didn't think they would have to eat it so the got 1/2 gallons. We had a riot that night, but it was a lot of work! I'm already brainstorming clues for next year. The problem with a fun and successful fundraiser is that you set a standard to live up to for the next year! I have to put my thinking cap on!

The boys had a riot on Halloween (OK, mom and dad did too). Micah quickly caught on to what happened when you said "trick or treat" at the front door of all the houses. Both of their faces were funny when the were allowed to choose whatever they wanted from the candy dish. I found that it can be a "problem" to have cute kids...people put extra candy in their buckets. I love candy. I'm like a child. I've been regularly raiding their buckets. I totally lack self-control when it comes to candy. One of these days I'm going to eat it until I'm sick (like I kind of did on Halloween after the kids went to bed!). I'm ready for the candy to be gone...but then I'll miss it!

Since I don't have any pictures for this post (like I said, too lazy to upload), I'll leave you with this link...proof that my family is around and still smiling! Scroll down the link for family pictures, extended family pictures, and pictures of my two sons!