Children's Moments: Random Pictures

Here are two random pictures in the midst of a variety of other events:

Lisa discovered her hands!  It's fun to watch her play with them.

My Northwest son had no care for the rain or cold.  He just wanted to play in the dirt...

Blessings

Randomness

As I worked through July and the beginning of August picture pile up, there were a few pictures I wanted to post that were
random from anything else.  So here they are...

He looks like such a little farmer in this picture, heading out to the corn fields.

Lisa had her first four-wheeler ride out to the river.

Canadian Geese heading south at the beginning of August???  Cold winter coming on???

So tuckered out from the day he couldn't even finish eating one of his favorite foods.

Brandon's blanket for kindergarten.  He's already "just about" fallen asleep on it a couple times
according to his classroom aid.

We had our Bible study summer bbq out at the river this summer and enjoyed a spectacular sunset.

Blessings on your week.

February and March

A perfect capture of my children's personalities....they were both very proud of the "fort" they had built and Brandon wanted his picture taken with it, Micah, however, wanted nothing to do with the camera.

Brandon being the big brother and making breakfast for the two of them, including cutting the bread with a butter knife.

A rare and precious moment.

One Friday, after weeks of rain and cloudy skies, we had some brilliant sunshine and 52 degrees
so we headed out to the "blue boat park".  Even though it was windy enough to fly the kite by itself,
Brandon ran too--none of this standing still business.

Once again, Micah made it difficult to get a picture of him.

There was a free tee-ball clinic in Bellingham at the beginning of March, so to get a feel for whether Brandon would enjoy
doing a team sport here in town, we let him experience this first.  At first he refused to do anything until I pulled him aside
and reminded him how good he was at hitting the ball at home.  Then he decided to give it a try and loved every minute
with a ball.

He is a very strong hitter!

But when they gave him a bat to "pretend" hitting a ball and then arbitrarily run
around the bases--he would have none of it!

Just for fun at the end, they played "What Time is it Mr. Fox" and Brandon really got into that as well.

Tomorrow we begin a new season of life.  Brandon starts playing tee-ball on a team.  He's pretty excited but a little apprehensive as well.  It helped that the coach told us he should bring his own glove...that got him really excited.  Here's to trying new things.

Random Flowers Day

Wowzas!  It's been a while since I posted.  We've had a pretty wild, busy and fun past three weeks.  I downloaded over 8 GBS of pictures this morning from my camera to edit and post about to give you an idea.

Tuesday this week it rained and rained and rained...again.  Knowing I was past my rainy/dreary weather limit, my wonderful hubby brought me SUN flowers after work.  It was random flowers day--one of my most favorite days (whenever they roll around)!

I sure did marry me a good 'un.  I love that man!

Blessings on your Friday--hopefully it's as sunny and beautiful as ours is today!

Housecleaning

Well, after being flat in bed, pretty much incoherent for the majority of two days, I'm finally starting to feel like myself again.  Micah started the vomitting at 5:30 Sunday morning and Brandon and I followed.  It is a nasty flu bug that's flying around town.  Bryan came down with a major cold that morning as well so it was a rough start to the week. 

However, things are starting to feel "normal" again.  Yesterday I washed ALL the bedding and each room down, which was a big all day job.  We also FINALLY bought a new vacuum so the carpets are actually getting cleaned--such a relief.  We've been looking for a while because we had some very specific requirements in a very limited budget.  I think the Kenmore we ended up with will be good.

In the midst of all the cleaning I looked at my camera and realized it's the middle of November and I hadn't emptied it yet this month...oops.  It was fun to go through the pictures I had taken, even though there weren't very many.

Without further ado, here is the beginning of what there was:

Brandon has started to discover the joy of climbing trees and we have some great ones for climbing.  He isn't, however, quite tall enough to be able to get up into all of them on his own so we devised the use of the yellow crate and this tree he can get up into on his own now.  He's quite proud of himself!

Micah, in all of his stubborness, is refusing to walk on his own.  He's capable and will walk between Bryan and I, walk along the couch without holding on and basically stand up without holding on, but he will not walk.  It will suddenly happen one day, when he decides he's ready.  Bryan and I were having him walk between us, across the living room the other day but his PJs were getting in the way, so we stripped him and realized we hadn't changed his diaper in a while.  :)

It's the cold time of year again.  Frost is a regular occurance and I've always found it quite beautiful when it lines the colorful leaves.

And then yesterday, much to Brandon's great delight and my great chagrin, it snowed.  "Mommy, it's snowy time!!  But it's rain snow.  When it's all done we can go out and make a snow man."  Thankfully it didn't get that deep and didn't stay.  It might not be so this weekend, though...

Blessings on your Thursday.

Pumpkin

In other news, I decided to try make my own pumpking (for baking) this year. 

Brandon and I have really been enjoying "working" together lately.
He did stick with this too long since it was pretty hard to scrape the seeds out, but
at least he was willing to give it a try.

I tried two methods.  Half of the pumpkin was oven roasted and the other half was cooked in the crockpot. 
The oven definitely works better.

Measured pumpkin, ready to use.

Last week pumpkins were on sale at Freds for 18 cents/lb.  A can of pumpkin (1lb) is $1.69.  That's a pretty significant difference...nevermind that it's healthier this way. 

Have a good day.

"The Cold's in the House"

Have you ever played that game/sung the song, "The Farmer in the Dell"?  I was thinking about it this morning and came up with my own rendition:

The cold's in the house, the cold's in the house
Hi-ho the sneezio the cold's in the house.

The cold takes one brother, the cold takes one brother,
Hi-ho the sneezio the cold takes one brother.

The cold takes the young one, the cold takes the young one,
Hi-ho the sneezio the cold takes the young one.

The cold takes the mom, the cold takes the mom,
Hi-ho the sneezio the cold takes the mom.

Here's to praying the father doesn't get taken!