Saturday, September 8, 2007
Videos
Trying a different video host - instead of youtube, it's putfile.
Like Jen said, the boys really like to ride on the ATV, or fwa-waa-waa. One night last week , made it a family outing and the four of us piled on, including a camera toting Mommy. That interest in the ATV explains Tommy's twitch in his right hand as he is revving up his "four wheeler..."
A few days in Plymoth, MA
We enjoyed a few days with extended family down in Plymoth, MA at my aunt's cottage. Mom and Dad came with Jackson and my sister Amy came with her family from Ontario. We had cool days but spent lots of time digging in the sand and throwing rocks into the ocean.Thomas has started drawing me pictures and informing me what they are. It used to be just scribble, scribble, but now it's scribble, "look Mom, Doodle!". I definitely need to be told what it is.
I've been doing some painting which the boys have wanted to join in on. So, we donned old clothes and went to work on the garage doors. It's fun to teach them how to. Like don't dip the entire brush in....of course I didn't think of that bit of advice until a moment too late. They really are good at trying to follow my directions. They seem to find it more difficult to go do something, like go upstairs and get a pair of shorts. I'm not sure if they get distracted just by walking out of the room or maybe they don't like to leave the scene of activity. Anyway, it's neat to teach them, like how to take their shirt off by themselves and then you see them trying to do it the way you said a few days later. You can tell they were listening.
The boys love the four wheeler. The routine is for them to ride with their dad when he gets home from work either when I'm getting dinner ready or when I'm cleaning up after. We have quite a wooded hill on our property. Whenever, the ATV is pointed downhill, they say "Whee, Daddy" which translates to, turn it off and lets coast. Even when I drive them, I get the Whee command....I haven't the guts to try it yet. For some reason lately, no matter how long Thomas has ridden, he cries when it's all over so we are working on "say thank you to Daddy for the ride you did have!" It's a new concept, but I think he's getting it.
It's been so neat to listen to them progress with their words and sentences. Thomas' words aren't as clear, but I would say I can get about 80% of it. He's a good boy about repeating for me until I do get it. Sometimes, I have to ask him to take me to it or point to what he's talking about. Nathan is so funny about repeating what I tell him. He repeats everything I say! Must be his way of learning and he's practicing new words. For the longest time, he referred to himself as Nathan not using I and me. Just the other day, I heard him carefully and slowly tell Annie "don't bite me" so he's picking up on the use of what are they possessive nouns?
They are so incredibly cute and I feel thankful for these two precious lives that I've been trusted with for a short time.
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
These pictures are from a day at state beach in Plymouth with Sara and Isabelle in early August. The boys decided to sit in the pails as tippy as they were on the sand. Nathan is playing with the tractor in the third picture. The last picture was a little walk we took up the beach for which most of the time was spent chasing sea gulls. Similar to the boys chicken war cry, they had a seagull war cry.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
The first two pictures are from a trip blueberry picking. I found that the boys were able for it if the picking lasted about a half hour....just long enough to enjoy the berries. Nathan especially got into the picking part of it. The third picture is a favorite activity--ice cream cones! The last picture is proof that indeed one can receive help from a 2 year old! This was Nathan's idea and he emptied the entire silverware bucket.
We've had lots of traveling the last bit, between conventions, beach trips and funerals, the boys have been carted around a lot. They've been excellent, but our first cold of the season hit about half way through all that just mentioned. A few days or hopefully weeks, of normal, routine days will do us all well. Todays nap has lasted about 3 hours now, if that tells you anything!
The boys are slowly changing from calling their grandpa, "Ba-ba" to "Bumpa". The other day, Thomas called me "Bummy". I think that is a combination between Mommy and Bumpa. I love it when they confuse my name and call me everything but Mommy, it makes me feel better when I call them the wrong name.
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Amanda MacDonald
Amanda on August 7th
In honor of a brave woman whose fight against cancer was long and merciless. Since her death, I look around at my house, my life, my children and think how come I'm so lucky? Yet, all through her illness, we never heard her speak of anger or even why me? She kept fighting for life to the last week of her life, and then just slipped away quietly. I met her in my teenage years and became good friends at that time. Our paths separated again after a couple of years, but we stayed in contact and always enjoyed seeing one another at conventions. Even though her life ended before she could enjoy many of the natural blessing that I first wrote of, she had her spiritual house in order and because of that, I know she had help through the door of eternity.
Pictures!
While I was rocking Thomas tonight, I was teaching him to say I love you. So as we worked on it word by word, Nathan pipes up in his bed and says "Mommy, I!" Encouraging Nathan, I asked him to then say "love" and he proceeded to say, "I'm sleeping!" Do they know just how funny they are?
The other day, I put Thomas in a time out at the bottom of our stairs. This was in response to whacking Nathan on the head with a truck. With time out being a new idea, Nathan walked around to the stairs to investigate. I called to Nathan to stay away as Thomas had been Bad! I could tell Nathan was still interested in keeping Thomas company, so I walked over to find Thomas spread eagle on the stair to prevent Nathan from joining him. I think they missed the point!
The top two pictures are the boys version of a tea party. The next picture is Thomas in a box of bubbles. Then, we see Thomas in his first and last time on a motorcycle. Some friends from my old place of work stopped by a Saturday in July. I was thrilled to show off my cute kids. The last picture is Nathan riding his Dad's exercise bike. Amazingly both boys can get the bike handle bars moving at a decent rate! Thomas has actually been able to do this since early this spring. This takes coordination and strength!
Friday, August 10, 2007
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