Mother-Daughter Banquet

Tonight was our annual Mother-Daughter Banquet at the church. In years past I've always struggled with going to these banquets. My own mom did not live close by to attend with me, and I didn't have a daughter. I'd go alone, or sit with other ladies, but the simple fact is, nobody else can replace my mom.

Well that has changed and my little Brooke and I went to our second banquet together. The theme was tropical and the decorations were nice. But the best part for me was being able to be there with my little girl. I'm so thankful that God has allowed me to be a mother. And I'm especially thankful today that He gave me an adorable little girl to go to banquets with me!

A Nice Day

We had a nice, productive day today. This morning we got the boys' rooms cleaned, reorganized and rearranged. This job is not for the faint of heart, folks! It is such a relief to walk in and see things where they belong. How long this will last, I don't know, but I'm going to enjoy it while it's here!

We went to the city to do a bit of shopping. While we were there David wanted to go to Cici's Pizza for lunch. The kids loved having all-you-can-eat pizza and brownies. While we were there looking at our good, happy children, David said, "I love my family." What a sweet thing to say.

And now the kids are all tucked in and the lights are out. It's supposed to be quiet, but Trevor is in his own room listening to a Patch the Pirate CD and singing along rather loudly, "When sin comes knocking at your door, put on your running shoes, Mate." He's being such a blessing to this momma's heart, I just can't seem to go in there and tell him to be quiet. So I'm going to listen to his serenade while I finish blogging and start putting some more laundry away.

Good night! I hope you have a blessed Lord's day tomorrow!

A Day Outdoors

We had a decent day weather-wise on Thursday. The boys spent some time playing catch and batting baseballs with David. I went walking with Brooke up the hill by our church. It was a bit windy and we needed jackets, but it was nice to be outdoors again after a long winter. When I realized there were going to be a lot of good photo-ops, I went back to the house for my camera. I took some fun pictures of the cutest kids I've ever seen. ;-)

My Three Sons

And here's a bonus photo from the other night. Brooke loves to "hide" behind her hands these days. It's too cute!

Logan

Here's my Logan. He loves his momma so much he's always giving me slobbery kisses.

He really wanted to play "hockey" with his dad the other day.

Trevor

Trevor is just getting to be a big boy. He's handy to have around the house because he can do things that big boys can do.

Cole

Here are some random photos of our Cole Boy.

We're playing Pictureka. It's fun!

He's been a real sweetheart lately, giving me a lot of notes like this one:

To Whet Your Appetite

I finally found my camera card. We played outside with the kids yesterday, and even though it was windy, we had a good time. I grabbed my camera and made the kids do all kinds of poses. I don't have time to post a bunch right now, but here's a good one of the four of them together.

Here He Is

Here's Cole, in his toothless glory:




He lost the other front tooth well. Hopefully those two front teeth will come in before Christmas! :-)

Brooke Says. . .

Brooke says a lot of things these days. Of course, with her baby talk, things don't always come out the way they are supposed to. But that just makes it so much more fun to listen to her.

She says a lot of words, but here are some of the things she says, with the phonetic pronunciations after them:
shoe - who
sock - hock
spoon - Poon (She really pronounces the "P.")
Logan - Ya-Ya
Trevor - Ya-Ya
Amen - A-Nen
cup - cuk
book - boop
Thank you - day-du
Brooke - Bee
please - deez

Our favorites are the "S" words. She doesn't say the "S" sound. We always tease about getting our "hocks and whose" before we leave the house.

Brooke found this 2 liter and had the best time carrying it around the kitchen. It was pretty funny listening to her grunt and groan as she would pick up the bottle from the ground.

Here's Brooke trying to follow in her daddy's footsteps . . . . literally.

Too cute for words!

Finally!

Cole's first tooth finally came out Sunday night! He was so exited! Earlier that day I tried to talk him into letting me tie a string around his tooth, so he could pull it easily. He wanted nothing to do with that!

After he went to bed and the lights were out, he came running to me to show me his little baby tooth. It had finally come out. I do have pictures of his toothless grin, but sadly, I can't find my little camera card. Cleaning off my computer desk is on my "To-Do" list today, so maybe I'll edit this post later with a cute picture of our new toothless wonder.

Ice Cream and Playdough

David brought some ice cream home the other day and we've been enjoying that tasty treat for a few days. It always amazes me that babies know what the good stuff is. And I don't mean the good-for-you-healthy-stuff. I mean the stuff that is yummy on your taste buds!

David had given Brooke some ice cream but it was all gone. I was touched that Logan was willing to share his with his sister. (Face it, Folks! Momma wasn't even gonna share that stuff with the baby!) I know these photos aren't the best quality, but put together, you can see how the ice cream sharing went.

When Nana was here in October she made the kids playdough. It smells like Thanksgiving. Seriously! The playdough has cinnamon, cloves, & nutmeg. . . all the traditional pumpkin pie spicess. She'll be happy to know that the kids have been playing with the dough again lately.

Sunday Photos

While everyone was spiffed up, I wanted to get pictures of the kids. Somehow Trevor and Logan disappeared, so I just got Cole and Brooke. Cole was having such fun posing with his sister.

I'm really enjoying my Sunday School class. I told the story of the feeding of the five thousand. I was trying to think of a good illustration and here's what I came up with:

Five loaves and two fishes - John 6

The kids loved it!