Jack says...

"You can write that down."

after telling an ER nurse that his dad thought about being a police officer when he was a kid, but then decided to not be, now he works for Home Depot and his name is Jason. :)

He charmed all the nurses in the ER the other day. He is feeling much better now.

Kindergarten and Second Grade...

Can't believe that school has started again. And that this year BOTH Jack and Ella are going.

Jack is a kindergartner and Ella is in second grade already. Both were very excited and are settling in to the new year. Linc and I are adjusting as well. The house is pretty empty. :(

Here are some of the first day of school pics. Jack just spontaneously did that silly pose. He cracks me up.

Jack says...

"Hi Ethan."

as he is walking to the bathroom at Target with Jace past a boy and his mom who are walking in.

Jace says, "Do you know that boy, from church maybe???"

"Nope, I just wanted his mom to say, 'Do you know that kid.' I heard her call him Ethan."

Oh, my great observer. He misses nothing.

Summer Fun...

Hello!

I seem to fall off the grid a bit when summer hits. We have really been enjoying some down time. VBS, vacation, blueberry picking, fun at local parks - have been keeping us busy.

Here are some fun photos of playing with kites in the yard recently. Clothes have been optional for Jack and Linc lately. Jack is wearing underwear in this photo, even though they are hard to see. :)





Linc is all potty trained - he is doing awesome. Jack is still saying funny things but I have been keeping track less well. Ella is missing school a bit. But she is enjoying having down time too. She has to have her tonsils and adenoids removed in a few weeks. :(

We have started a new project - switching the kids rooms around. It will allow us to move Linc to a big boy bed. It may be a very slow project. :) It seems to be happening in small steps. As long as it is done before school starts, it will be fine. Plus, when the rooms started as complete disasters, there is extra work to be done.

Hope to post again soon.

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. :)