Ella's art project...

Ella has a really fun art program in her school. They have art once a week on Wednesdays. Last Wednesday they made paper sculptures. So Ella got the family paper sculpting.



This is Ella's up close.

We all, even Linc and Jack, sat and cut paper and made beautiful creations. Some people took it a little seriously. Cough, cough, JASON. I guess he thought we were turning them into school. But now we can be sure where Ella got her creativity from.

And here is that fabulous creation made by Jason:



Check out the frog. You can't see it, but he even has a fly on his tongue. You probably didn't know he was an artist...

Fun was had by all!!!!

Prayers and Jack's Belated Birthday Blog

Jack turned five since I blogged last. I can't believe he can go to kindergarten in the fall!!!! It really is unbelievable to me.

He was able to celebrate his birthday again and again, of course. The picture above was the day we celebrated with Jason's mom and sister-in-law. But he also celebrated earlier in the month with my family before Aaron and Meghan went to Africa. And we celebrated on his birthday with ice cream at McDonald's and then we had a couple friends over for a bonfire in the back yard.

It was a good birthday. And he is a good boy. I am loving watching him grow!!!!!



This is Lincoln a couple mornings ago. Can you believe those eyes??? They aren't even photo shopped and they are so gorgeous! He has a milk mustache.

I wanted to blog his recent prayer - it was just so cute. Read it in a slow, sweet baby voice to get the full effect:

"thank you for grandpa, uh,

thank you for ice cream,

thank you for sprinkles, and

thank you for fire truck shirt.

AMEN!"

Too precious. Love that he is really thinking about what he is thankful for - he had seen grandpa that day, worn a fire truck shirt and ate ice cream with sprinkles.

And it really is the little things, isn't it? Like sprinkles and fire truck shirts. What more could a boy ask for really????

Lincoln did...

have VERY dry skin the day before Easter.

And he did find some lotion to help him with that problem. He did get the lotion all over himself, the laundry room, and around the kitchen table before Jack came to tell me that Linc was making a mess.

Dry skin no longer...

So innocent looking. :)

Linc's 2!

Linc turned two this week. He is such a sweet and wonderful little guy. His birthday celebrating is lasting all week. We celebrated with my family last Sunday, our immediate family on the day (St. Patrick's Day) and we celebrate with Jace's family today. Nice to have a birthday last a little longer. :)

On Linc's birthday we took a trip to the still quite wet local park. It was fun in spite of all the water and the weather was just great all week.

Here are some fun pictures from the park...







And a picture of Linc with his birthday milkshake. :)



Happy birthday my wonderful Linky!!!!!

The KING of Dress Up

Many of you who see us on a regular basis know that Jack is the king of dress-up. And it is all about the details and the accessories.

Most often he dresses as some sort of policeman but sometimes there are other outfits too. And very often (at least for awhile) the outfits revolved around his footy pajamas. Those are the pj's pictured above with the animals on them. We had to cut the feet out, he had worn them so long.

I thought I would showcase a few here. They will be sure to make you smile. :)



This is my favorite policeman uniform - most days he wears this. It has real county patches from a friend. I'm not sure why this day it also included, strawberry shortcake glasses and a lightening McQueen hat????



This is his Mr. Rob outfit. Mr. Rob is one of his teachers at church.



This is his Grinch outfit. Hence the mean face.



This is his Santa outfit. Yep, that's a dress that was Ella's. :)

I love you, creative boy!!!!!

Jack says...

"Lucy is sick too."

"That's too bad." I say, on Valentine's Day, when we couldn't go to church because Jack had been throwing up in the night. Lucy is a red, fox in socks, named after Lucy Little from the Littles. Previously named Mason, "Why is she sick?"

"She ate fire."

Hmmm. That's a new one.

Jack says...

"I want to sit by the cops!!!!"

as we walk into a restaurant in Lansing with my mom. He's seen their cars in the parking lot - he knows they are there somewhere.

The man seating us, though I am sure he has never gotten this request before, asks if we would like to sit by the cops. Mom and I agree that would be great. And we get a booth right next to them.

Jack is beside himself. He's studying their uniforms. He's making mental notes (and verbal) about what's on their belts. He's soaking it in.

The policemen finish their lunches and one stops by our table as they exit. He asks Jack and Linc, "Are you two related? Do you share well? I have something for you but I only have one."

Yes, yes, we say - they will share. And the city policeman hands Jack a patch. An official patch. He says, "I wonder where that came from?" as he turns and shows us his right shoulder - now no longer sporting his city patch, just some bare threads!!!!

He seriously pulled it off his arm and gave it to my boy who LOVES policeman!!! Thank you so much kind policeman. That was awesome.

Jack can't wait to get it attached to his blue shirt or his blue coat...