Molly Lost Her 1st Tooth!

A Fun Tradition

     Once a year comes Thanksgiving dinner, and never without much baking and preparation. And everyone knows baking is never without a mess-at least in our house. So with that in mind we have started a tradition of making aprons to somewhat shield our clothing from the torrents of flying flour and the odd flying mashed potatoes. This year Amy choose our color scheme, mom whipped them out with ease, and we adorned ourselves as a soldier adorns for battle.  Only we aren't off to a battle, but we are at praise and thanksgiving to our God for His abundant goodness and His undeserved mercy towards us. Happy Thanksgiving!

Amy, Mom, and Molly with their Thanksgiving armor aprons. As always, the picture took about ten minutes to get a good one.

"So what was his name?!"  says Molly as she took a bite of her Thanksgiving turkey.

Hard at Work

        This                     and                    This


                                  equals

                                                                            This

Easter Hike Video

This is my feeble attempt at making a video.  It was quickly made with my unedited photos and footage from today's hike with Dad and the girls.  Maybe sometime, if I ever have time, I will make a nicer one-but for now at least it's not just sitting on my phone forever unseen and unenjoyed :) 

Nativity Song by Molly

Fruity Goodness

What a blessing to live in the Northwest where we have an abundance of cherries, blueberries, raspberries, plum, blackberries, and more.

And they are right in our own back yard!

Speaking of blackberries.....

 

These three children

picked lots,

 and lots

 of blackberries.

 Mom found recipes.

We mixed

and poured

 and baked

one blackberry pie

 

 and one blackberry crisp.

The pictures were taken by David and Peter, but the anticipation of tasting the delectable desserts caused them to forget to take pictures of the finished products.

O well. There's always tomorrow and there's plenty more blackberries!

Hot Steam

Hot steam = fogged up mirrors = time to draw smileys.

Molly Wants Sheep

Kid Logic Friday

                      Sometimes you wake up and find you have some sort of new bug bite.  Well Molly wakes up and informs me,

"Mommy, I got a hippopotamus bite!"

Where's Molly?

Seed Time!

     Today we planted seeds!!! We also planted flowers around in our yard.

Molly wanted to plant the pumpkins

Planting sunflowers

Dirty Hands!

Future Veggies

"Are we going to eat this mom?"

Sam made plant markers

David's tomato plant

Nasturtiums

Pansies

Molly's pumkin marker

Clean hands! I didn't even have to tell them to wash up :)



Happy Monday!

Good Friday to You

Sam wanted to teach Molly about Good Friday

Terminology

picture taken by David

The terminology my kids use today is so much different than things I would have said at that age. Take Sam's comment for instance: when he noticed the birds were unusually quiet, he declared,  "The birds need recharged!"

David's pets really like him.  

Molly seems to have the touch with the birds too.

(you can see by the hair and pajama's this was taken in the morning with before Molly was ready for the day)

I Don't Worry

This is one of Molly's favorite songs to sing.

Kid Logic Friday

Mom (to Peter):  Will you put the draft guard in front of the door to keep the draft out?

Molly (playing happily):  What!  There's a giraffe out there?!

We don't have any giraffes outside, but we do have a lot of snow!  We'll will post pictures soon hopefully.

Kid Logic Friday

~Molly Rose comments~

"If you get too much sun, you get a sunburn -  if you get too much moon you get a moonburn!"

*~~~~~~*

"Are you cooking Hermit Crabs for dinner?!"

Little Daily Ponderings

Note to self:
Give Molly a smaller sugar bowl when she is having a tea party with herself (since she will use all of it.)

Communication breakdown:  John has a license now and likes to do his own errands.  While he was out tonight, I had Amy call him and have him pick up a few tomatoes for our dinner.  He came home with two bags of bagels.

Kid Logic -

This weeks kid logic includes..........

Molly had hurt her leg when she fell while playing outside.  It took awhile to comfort her and she continued to complain about her injury off and on through out the day.  At some point she discovered mom's candy corn and candy pumpkin stash in her school bag and replied to mom, "I know what will make my leg stop hurting - one of those pumpkin candies!"

David's really wanted another pet again (as if a fish tank and two turtles for pets aren't enough!)  So for his birthday we got him a parakeet.  The bird is already adapting well to our loud family and will even sit on his finger already.  But what took the cake, was when I came home from shopping today. David had Mozart playing fairly loud in the livingroom.  When I asked him why he was listening to that he replied, "Because Mozart makes birdies smarter!"

Seth's Smallest Fan

This is one of my favorite pictures!  I seem to have a lot of pictures of Molly and Seth lately.  Molly thinks so highly of Seth and Seth just loves his little sister. By the time Seth is back home Molly will be quite a bit older, so it's fun to capture these two on camera now.

Seth is in Hawaii right now and will be deployed to Afghanistan in May.