chrafty kids
It is the most important dream we have, that you grow up to know the story is true, the whisper is real, there is a kingdom and there is a King... ~Sara Groves
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Monday, November 20, 2006
cherishing our little blessings

Landry at 18 months old...
eating broccoli! who would have thought?
running wildly around the house just for laughs
feeding himself yogurt with granola every morning
refusing to use a bib without a football or basketball printed on it somewhere
says, 'buht-ball' everytime he sees a football, player, helmet or anything at all related to sports
made up his own game of throwing whatever ball he has onto the countertop or tabletop with the goal of making it stay up there, even though he then doesn't know how to get it down so he can continue the game...
scared of the remote control truck that Nate recently pulled out of the closet for the kid's entertainment
wants to hold hands when we bless our meals together as a family
Bella at 3 1/2 years old...
still loves to 'read' her books, now she mostly tries to get Landry to sit beside her so she can read aloud to him...
most nights goes to bed in panties and wakes up dry! yeah!
writing her name, usually leaves out the 'e', and she writes anyone else's name I spell for her
loves to draw stick people. sometimes with hair, and extremely long one stick bodies
loves, loves, loves to ride her bike with training wheels on the rocky road...she even made it on the concrete sidewalk 3 blocks to the park in an adjoining neighborhood.
learning to make her own PB and honey sandwich
loves to climb trees as high as she can while we are outside playing
wanted to pray at dinner last night as we blessed our food, and she prayed and prayed and thanked God for everything/everyone she could think of... so very precious... eventually Landry decided it was just too long to wait and he started eating before she finished...
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Pumpkins
I know October is over and I am so "last month" with these pumpkin photos but I just have to post it anyway. I can hardly believe Thanksgiving is next week!
So here's a little about our October happenings...
Well, I carved pumpkins this Halloween for the first time ever! It was quite a mess, but Bella and I had a grand time. She wasn't too excited about helping me scrape out the insides, but she really liked the face we carved and painting it all was her favorite part. Later that afternoon she went to Awanas dressed as a cheetah for Halloween. She especially enjoyed having whiskers painted on her cheeks.
Bella painting her tiny pumpkin she picked out at the pumpkin patch with Benjamin

Cheetah showing her claws while curious little brother watches

Two silly kids pose beside two messy pumpkins lit up for the holiday

I thought I would try something different and carve their handprints in the larger pumpkin, but after my not too successful carving of Bella's handprint we just let Landry paint his hand and stamp the pumpkin blue. I think next year I will find some actual pumpkin carving tools to make the job much easier :)











