Playground Pictures

Back in the fall my Mom decided that she needed a new picture of the kids at her house.  One that included our little Violet since she was absent in all of the others.  So one afternoon after school we took the kids to the playground by her home and she took some very cute pictures.  I've been meaning to post them for months.  Here they are...finally.

This is the one both my mom and I had developed and framed.

And I had to include these ones because Lillian's face in them cracks me up! Especially the one on the right.

Odds and Ends

Just some random pictures from the past few weeks.

We got the kids these bean bags for Christmas and when they aren't using them as weapons they love to relax on them.  I love to see them snuggled up with their bean bags and blankets to watch a movie. 

Violet is getting so big.  She's learned how to sit up all by herself and has found her voice in the last couple of weeks.  

The older kids love to listen to her squawk and squeal at them.  Lillian just mostly loves to make her scream.

Such a cutie!

Birthday Boy

It's nearly half way through January and I am just barely feeling like I've recovered from the craziness of Christmas.  It was magical and fun and loud and exciting as always but unfortunately I missed getting it on video like I'd planned because, while I thought I was videotaping on my phone, I was actually just taking lots and lots of blurry pictures.  Not all that surprising given that I don't know how to use 95% of the features on my phone.  So instead of recapping Christmas I'll just jump right into the New Year.  More specifically Walker's sixth birthday.  It's so hard for me to believe that he's already six years old.  It's been so fun this year to watch him learn and grow in school and enjoy making new friends and becoming more independent all the time.  Mrs. Semeniuk, his kindergarten teacher, is the authority on everything and he comes home every day with all sorts of new things to teach us about.  One of his favorites being how astronauts use the bathroom in space.  He loves all things super heroes and transformers and science and lately can't get enough of his harmonica that Santa left for him.

For birthday breakfasts the kids always get a sugar cereal of their choice.  Walker picked a box of three from Costco so his bowl in this picture is full of Cookie Crisp, Lucky Charms, and Nestle cereal.  

More Geronimo Stilton books, he loves them.

Between Christmas and his birthday he got enough Lego to build an army.  In this picture he just opened Star Wars Lego.  He can't get enough of it!

To keep with tradition here are my six favorite things about our handsome boy.

1) His sweet dimples.

2) How helpful he is.  He's always the first to follow direction and typically only has to be told to do something once.

3) He loves being a big brother to baby Violet.  He loves to make her laugh and smile and is very protective of her.  He's protective of Lillian too but only when he's not pestering and picking on her.

4) His thoughtful prayers.  

5) His contagious giggle.

6) How much he loves Bridgett.  I think he loves her about as much as she fears him, which is a lot.

Happy Birthday sweet boy!