Some Random Things...

This is going to be one of those all over the place posts I seem to be getting really good at. :) This is Lincoln's pirate ship. He built it all by himself during quiet time last Sunday. I was pretty impressed. It's probably the coolest thing he's ever built completely on his own. The green pieces sticking out of the front are cannons. On the left side he used a helicopter blade to make a steering wheel. And on the right side is the captain's cabin complete with roof. When I asked him where he was going to sail in his ship he said he wanted to sail to Arizona to visit Aunt Stacey. He's been sailing it around our living room all week, and asks me to put it up high when Ivan is awake, so it won't get broken.

I think at some point in their lives all of our kids have fallen asleep in the jumpy chair, and Adelia is no exception.

Adelia loves her two big brothers. If they are in the room then she has to be watching them, which has been making feeding her a bottle interesting. In this picture, Lincoln is jumping up and down and making her laugh.

The two pictures of the hearts in our window, are an art project gone bad. I read in one of my kids craft books about shaving crayons and then cutting a pattern out of wax paper (we chose hearts) and spreading the shavings on it, covering that with another piece of wax paper, covering that with a towel, and then ironing it. It did not mention that the kitchen towel should be an old one you don't care about. We ruined one of my white dish towels...it now has really stiff waxy heart shapes all over it. Oops. Also, we thought it would be cool to mix colors, but they just came out black. Hence the two black hearts at the bottom of the window. The red ones turned out ok, but I don't think they were anything overly fantastic. I think paint would have looked just as cool, been a lot less messy, and kept the kids attention longer.

I found this love note on the bottom of the bath tub the other morning when I went to get in. Proof that Aaron still loves me, even though I'm crabby in the mornings until after I get a shower. He's the best.

The three amigos, Carson (lives next door), Lincoln, and Ivan. We watched Carson for a couple hours so his parents could go on a hot date. :) The boys wanted to play pirate ship on the bunk beds. So here they are up on Ivan's bed. When Aaron asked them each who they were Carson said, "Captain Carson." Linc said, "Long John Silver." And Ivan said, "A boy!" That Ivan. He sure is turning out to be one funny kid. I love that his sense of humor is so much different than Lincoln's. They are both so funny in different ways. They love their buddy Carson, and were so happy he got to come hang out with us all evening.