Tuesday, July 13, 2010

big box

We bought a new dresser for Isaiah's room this week (which has actually had a complete makeover in the last few months-including a new closet -- more to come on this when we are all done!). The dresser came in a huge box. The kids have had lots of fun playing in this box. I took a few pictures the first time they played in it, by now it's about crushed and ready for the recycling center. It's the simple things in life that are the best!

Friday, July 9, 2010

happiness is...

my very first red cherry tomato of the season fresh out of my garden...there isn't anything that tastes better! YUM.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

conversations of the day...

Tonight as I was tucking Isaiah into bed...

"Can Jayda come and sleep over at our house tomorrow?" (by the way tomorrow means any day in the future to Isaiah, just like yesterday is any day in the past)

"Sure!"

"We need to buy a purple, I mean red, sleeping bag for Jayda, and a smaller sleeping bag for Jonah and a really tiny sleeping bag for the new baby and a really big sleeping bag for Laura."

"Okay"

With a huge smile, "yeah, that sounds good."

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The text message that Mark sent me today while I was at work...he's quoting Levi.

"I love you mommy, it's mommy daddy daddy see wohh daddy boop laugh owey daddy ticu ticu ticu hahahaha be tititit daddy help."

side note -- Levi likes to say "boop" while he's poking you - like when a grownup will see a baby and say "boop" when they touch its nose. Levi does this only will "boop" you anywhere! :) and he really, really likes to tickle people/toys/anything right now. he will do a tickling motion while saying, "tickle tickle tickle" so I'm sure the ticu ticu is Levi tickling something

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

artistic

I accidentally took a picture that I think is neat -- in an artistic sort of way. I have to share it.

Monday, July 5, 2010

biker friends

Isaiah has been loving his bike these last few weeks. He wants to ride it to the park all.the.time! The park right up the street is at a church with a HUGE parking lot. The lot is almost always completely empty and the perfect spot to ride a bike.

The other morning he rode it up to the park and found a biker friend. It was too cute. The boys rode around chasing each other all over the parking lot for a good 30 minutes. While the boys biked, Levi had fun playing at the park (when he got tired of chasing the boys on their bikes - see the picture above).The boys needed a break from the bikes so they came to play too...then went back to the bikes, back to the park, back to the bikes over and over. The only hard part was I required that Isaiah wear a helmet. He has crashed several times and I just feel it's important that he has the helmet on. The other little boy wasn't wearing one. How do I nicely explain to Isaiah that he must wear his helmet in front of the other little boy and his grandpa? Luckily Isaiah was satisfied with the explanation, "mommy wants you to be really safe when you ride your bike."

Several other kids showed up at the park and we ended up staying for over 2 hours enjoying the company and the fun. Keira was with us that day and she had a BLAST. I think she went up the stairs and down the slide at least 30 times in a row! :) She also mastered the bridge.
Hopefully we'll run into the biker friend from the park again! Gotta love the park!

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Thursday, July 1, 2010

slip 'n slide

Isaiah has been enjoying looking at the weekly ads to see all the different swimming pools and water stuff that stores have on sale. He gets so excited about them and usually asks if we can buy just about every single thing in the ad. We had yet to buy him anything because he has so much fun in our little pool and the sprinklers that we have.But last week we found a slip 'n slide on sale for $3.99. I figured for that price we can try it.

We had lots of fun playing with it. Isaiah was the only one who actually went down the slide on his tummy.
Keira happened to be at our house (she came to play a few days since her daycare was closed) she and Levi loved splashing in the water that sprayed out the side and jumping on it.I'm sure we'll have many more days sliding around in the water. FUN!