I need to begin journaling at the end of each day. I often find myself asking, "what do I want to remember about today?" Usually it is a story about the boys, something we did as a family, or a mental note what I could do better as a mom/wife. I also find myself feeling guilty I didn't start when the boys were born, but better now than never. Here are my take aways for today...
Brody copies LITERALLY EVERYTHING that Luke does. Yesterday, Luke coughed, so Brody coughed. I looked at Howie and said, "you have got to be kidding me." Today Luke raised his hands in the air at dinner and so did Brody. Luke said, "oh man!" Brody echoed. We went to McDonalds so they could run off some energy in the play place and B followed Luke all over. At one point Luke was standing there thinking, with his pointer finger on his temple. Brody right behind him trying to do the same. Brody was coloring on the floor and Luke was doing his sticker book on his bed, Brody wanted to move up to the bed. Today I thought, all I really have to do is parent Luke, and Brody will fall in line. :) The kid LOVES his brother.
On our way to the store we spotted three deer in a field eating grass. I went by too fast for the boys to notice so I turned around and went by really slow. The were very close to the road so they were right out Luke's window. I turned back around to head down the hill, but pulled into the turn lane so we could stop to watch the deer for a moment. They were looking right at us. Luke kept commenting how cool and pretty they were. I asked him who made the deer.
Luke: "God!"
Mom: "Yeah you're right."
Luke: "Go God!"
Luke: "Who made the trees?"
Mom: "Who?"
Luke: "God!"
Brody: "God!"
Luke: "Who made the houses?"
Mom: "Who?"
Luke: "God!"
Brody: "God!" (see what I mean?!)
Luke: "Who made the fence?"
Mom: "Who?"
Luke: "God!"
Brody: "God!"
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Fall Family Photos
Last week we went out with friends who have a really nice camera. They got some great shots of our family this fall. Here are a few highlights.
Sunday, November 6, 2011
October 2011
Pumpkin Patch
We spontaniously decided to head to my mom's the weekend before Halloween and we hadn't been to the pumpkin patch yet so we made that the event of the weekend. We went to Bi-Zi Farm. Such a great place. I would love to go there again!
Its not a sand box. Its a corn box!
The kids rode mini tractors for awhile. Then we went into an open barn housing a hay maze. We moved on to crushing corn for the chickens, sampling cider, and grabbing some kettle corn before riding the hay ride to the pumpkin fields.
Great Grandma & Grandpa's
We stopped by Grandpa & Grandma Iben's house in our costumes. It was something I always did as a kid on Halloween so I thought it would be fun for both the boys and my grandparent's to "trick or treat" there. They were surprised to have two little monkeys show up at their door. Grandma quickly made up a bag of goodies for the boys, exactly like we used to get.
While we were there, the kids took a trip out to the shed with my mom. They were so excited to find two plastic lawn flamingos! They crashed threw the door just thrilled to show me what they found. This was at a time they were really into the movie "Gnomeo and Juliet" about garden gnomes. In it there is a charactor named "Featherstone" who is a lawn flamingo. I think they thought they found a celebrity. They sure acted like it!
Halloween
We didn't do any trick or treating but the boys put on their costumes for the evening and we took a walk to a friend's house. Some friends from church came over and we set up a Glow Station outside our house. Families could grab hot chocolate, a glow bracelet and even warm up by the fire for a bit before heading back out for more candy. Here's the boys enjoying a nice hot cup of cocoa in the cold.
We spontaniously decided to head to my mom's the weekend before Halloween and we hadn't been to the pumpkin patch yet so we made that the event of the weekend. We went to Bi-Zi Farm. Such a great place. I would love to go there again!
Its not a sand box. Its a corn box!
The kids rode mini tractors for awhile. Then we went into an open barn housing a hay maze. We moved on to crushing corn for the chickens, sampling cider, and grabbing some kettle corn before riding the hay ride to the pumpkin fields.
Great Grandma & Grandpa's
We stopped by Grandpa & Grandma Iben's house in our costumes. It was something I always did as a kid on Halloween so I thought it would be fun for both the boys and my grandparent's to "trick or treat" there. They were surprised to have two little monkeys show up at their door. Grandma quickly made up a bag of goodies for the boys, exactly like we used to get.
While we were there, the kids took a trip out to the shed with my mom. They were so excited to find two plastic lawn flamingos! They crashed threw the door just thrilled to show me what they found. This was at a time they were really into the movie "Gnomeo and Juliet" about garden gnomes. In it there is a charactor named "Featherstone" who is a lawn flamingo. I think they thought they found a celebrity. They sure acted like it!
Halloween
We didn't do any trick or treating but the boys put on their costumes for the evening and we took a walk to a friend's house. Some friends from church came over and we set up a Glow Station outside our house. Families could grab hot chocolate, a glow bracelet and even warm up by the fire for a bit before heading back out for more candy. Here's the boys enjoying a nice hot cup of cocoa in the cold.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)