...washable crayons...
...pretty much dissolve away to nothing as soon as they get wet...
"melt in your mouth not in your hand..."
He loves his dog made out of the same material as his favorite blanket
Nearly all of my flowers fell over this year and broke so I brought them inside and enjoyed them here instead. :) (On a side note, it's funny...last year, I had mostly orange ones and like one pink and one yellow...this year, all I had was pink...)
Brandon kept finding his computer turned off when he wasn't looking.
We didn't know what was happening...if a kid was doing it or if it was something else...
then the little culprit went for the shiny silver button while he was using it.
Brandon: "No!"
Jubi: "Rats! He caught me!"
Reading books
Even Noah is "reading" a book. It's an ABC book and he's got about 1/2 of the letters right.
Jubilee has discovered this amazing viewpoint she has from the loft.
"Hi, down there! Hi!"
It's daddy!
Playing dollies
"Peek-a-boo, Mommy! I'm up here again! Better come get me!"
Isaiah wanted to play with Jubilee. He brought her Jessie and then Jessie and Woody had a fun time playing together. :)
She always looks so cute when she's concentrating like this
Aunt Jen sent the kids some clothes. Abby and Emma had a fun time making outfits and posing it up for the camera. All of the poses are their own idea. I just played along by taking a few pictures of them so I could show Aunt Jen how much fun they were having with the clothes she had sent. They made the outfits and everything else on their own.
The clothes were mostly for girls...but the boys pilfered a few outfits they thought they'd want to pose in. Of course, Jubilee wanted to pose too.
Don't they look like big first graders? :)
At this point, Emma got tired of playing and stayed in the same outfit. Abby kept going.
"Mama, we're working out!"
Emma's bored.
Noah's a baseball player
School time
He's doing first grade math.
Shape and pattern blocks.
...the day Abby was the only one who could make Jubilee go to sleep...
School...squirt the letters. This was supposed to help Noah who is super active and has a short attention span.
but mostly, the kids were super distracted by what we found under the pool after we moved it.
and Jubilee was trying hard to break her head on the pavement by climbing up and down the concrete stairs so I was a little occupied...
the yucky worm things we found under the pool. We'll have to try again and get rid of whatever those are if they come back.
#6...will it be a boy or a girl?
playing school on the stairs
I got a cleaning urge...I took all the books out of the office and put them in the kitchen area. I just hate how crowded the office feels. This really helped.
and now we can use the area by the fireplace for school...school by the fire! :) That sounds like fun. :)
and this room isn't so awful anymore...
but I still kind of don't like it and I think that's mostly because it's red and purple.
Jubilee likes this talking dog. It says, "Bye Bye" and she'll sit up and wave at it. "Hi! Hi! Hi!" It says, "Can you give me a hug?" and she kisses and hugs it. It sings and talks and she wrestles and plays with it. I think she thinks it's as good as a brother or sister.
...The few days Jubilee was sick and not sleeping and so I made her a little bed beside mine so she could actually sleep.
School in the new setting
Peek-a-boo! Jubilee gets to do school too sometimes.
How it looks from my chair
Abby decorates her pages sometimes. Our math has two main characters who keep re appearing through out. A clown and a seal. The seal was absent from this page, so Abby drew it on the page and added a picture of herself on the kite.
This kid is so wiggly! I think I need to make him do school in the shower. He writes on EVERYTHING w/o even meaning to. Good thing Wet Erase pens come off so easily.
Sick baby
Little engineer. He's building a train track with dominoes for the little mexican train markers.
All 5 of them were being cute on the stairs so I took a picture
Jubilee's very favorite baby at the moment.
I found a bunch of little babies and put them in a bucket for her to distract her one day. She LOVED it. She kept giving them kisses and hugs and saying, "Hey! Baby! Hi! Dolly! Baby! Hi!" She had to give every single one of them at least one hug. It was super cute.
Kisses for her favorite baby.
Hugs for another baby
Hugs for the whole bucket... apparently, all I need to do for her birthday is raid the tiny baby bin at Wal-mart. LOL ;)
Isaiah put the walker up on a "jack" to inspect the flat tires.
If there is anything this kid knows about, it should be flats. LOL
We had one over the pass once, and then two on the last trip. Those two were patched but continued to leak so they were patched again and one continued to leak so that one was replaced by Sonny's tow company. :) Now, I *think* they are all good. :)
Inspecting the tire. By the way, he hasn't actually seen the work of putting a car on a jack or replacing a tire...but he knows somehow.
Making a baby house for Jubi's babies.
Changing a baby's diaper
