Heard in the living room tonight.

"Superman! Quit pulling off Buzz Lightyear's wings!"

abbie strikes back

matt and robin were in the middle of a fast and furious training session with abbie. we were trying to get her to obey when luke says to come here (for a diaper change, or something). we would instruct luke to give abbie the instruction, then abbie would scream, "no!" we would then administer some discipline to abbie and repeat the process. after several training sessions, we tried one more time. we said, "luke tell her to come here." luke said, "abbie, come here." and abbie pointed her finger at lukey and yelled "boom."

sayings

matt: "robin, i don't just love you for your money."

sayings

samuel in his underwear: "dad, can i turn up the heater? it says 65 and it is really cold in here."

SNOW!!!!

Last night we got our first snow of the season. The grass is a white carpet and all the bushes and trees have a thick dusty coating.

I took Abbey to the window and told her, "I have something to show you."

As I pulled back the curtains, her eyes got wide and she gasped with delight. "A pumpkin!!!" She said excitedly.

We have had pumpkins out for at least two months.

Art Time

Ok Gideon. Time to color.

Gideon, "Mom what should I make?"

Mom, "You could try a pumpkin."

Gideon, "I don't know how to draw squares. I am going to draw a square. I've never drawn a square. I'm going to draw a square."

A square it is then!

bible story review II

robin: "where did abram's father come from?"

elijah: "meso pot o mania"

bible story review

mom: "gideon, what was the first man made?"

gideon: "noah"

mom: "very close, it was adam. what was the name of the garden?"

gideon: "the garden of the lord."

mom: "very close. titus, what is the name of the garden?"

titus: "the garden of evil"

we are such successful parents :)

Updates

Matt is very aware of any new thing installed on our computer. Yesterday he came home to see a Bejeweled 3 icon on our task bar.

"What is this?!!" he questioned.

Gideon, who is 3, calmly explained, "I installed an update, dad."

dad, "hm."

Bible Study

Matt and I have a Bible study at our house every Wednesday night. The boys and I hustle around getting the house clean, making snacks, coffee, and pulling it all together in time for Awana and our Bible Study guests arriving.

Tonight I had the boys folding the last load of laundry right before Bible study started. Our friends arrived and brought an apple pie and whipped cream yum! We had a wonderful evening of study, conversation, laughing, eating, and smelling Abbey who was having really stinky gas all night.

When I left to pick up the boys from Awana I went into my room to get a sweatshirt. On the floor in front of my bedroom door, RIGHT BETWEEN MY BIBLE STUDY GUESTS! was a pile of my underwear that never got put away!

Lovely and going on my list of embarrassing moments.  But my guests are very kind and thought it was funny.