4 posts from 2009

Summer is over and we've been in first grade for over a month now.  School is going very well but the new schedule has been an adjustment.  Our summer was busy but pretty quiet.  We did manage to take a couple of trips in July after Paul and I realized in June that our summer was so scheduled that there was only a few days left where we could fit in a vacation.  So in July we flew to Chicago for a few days on the boys' first plane trip.  The next week we headed to south Missouri to a YMCA resort called Trout Lodge. There are more pictures on Flickr.

Nathaniel digging

'We had a great time at the lake.  I'm not sure what Nathaniel was digging for in this picture but he had a great time doing it.

Gregory having fun

Gregory and Daddy go past

Out for a little sun

Paul loves being out in the sun about as much as I do.  Never fear, we were using our SPF 500 sunscreen.

Tired of getting photographed

Gosh, it's almost summer.  How'd THAT happen?  Here are a few pictures that I've been meaning to post since Christmas.  You see that I got right on it.

Gregorys painting

This is the cover of a book Gregory created at school.  The title is My Family by Gregory.  As you can see there's always a rainbow over our family.

Gregorys-writing_edited-1

Inside the book, he has a page that says I love my Grandma because she cooks food for me.  Which is absolutely true except that he failed to mention that he eats very little of it except the homemade rolls.  We all ate a lot of rolls.  I ate a lot of everything but that's not the point of this post.  The picture is my Mom's dinner table at Christmas.  It's surprisingly realistic.  There's a heck of a lot of people there but we do spread out to both sides of the table.  The little stick figure guy is Baby Judah which Gregory made a point of showing me.  Baby Judah is almost 3 years old and probably would not appreciate being called a baby.  His older brother used to be called Baby Zeke until the day he showed up with a baby brother.  I suspect Judah may have to live with the Baby name for awhile, at least until another infant shows up in our family.

Nathaniel's writing

Here's a sheet from Nathaniel's book.  In case you can't tell, it's I Love Zeke.  They don't stress spelling in kindergarten.  Zeke and Judah made quite an impression on the boys.

Science Project

Here's something else we did this winter; a science experiment.  Kind of looks like broccoli jello but it was a kit we got that has you experiment with these crystals things that absorb colors.  We has lots of different colors but we found if you dumped them all together; you get broccoli-colored jello.  This sat on my dining room table for at least a month.

Last but not least, spring school pictures.  Evidently one school picture a year is not good enough for this generation.

Nathaniel

Gregory

There are more pictures on Flickr.

During our little community's recent crime wave, we have been reminded that it's prudent to be cautious and we have started locking our doors during the day again.  Locked doors also has helped to keep the cold drafts down and we've had a lot of those here also (woke up -2 degrees one morning, yikes).  But all bad guys need to be warned, my guys are on the case!

Boys looking mean

They are supposed to look mean.  It's hard to look mean with marshmallow guns.  Not only did we get marshmallow guns for Christmas; we got four!  Two for the big marshmallows and two for the mini-marshmallows (for more targeted sharp-shooting).

Boys with marshmallow guns