Hamming it up for the camera!

October 8, 2010

  

 

 Aren't these two adorably sweet?  The older kids get school portraits done so the other day when Mr. Sunshine was out on a whim I took the younger two outside in our neighborhood and snapped a few photos of them so I can choose one to blow up to frame next to the other kids school pics. I was cracking up at some of Josh's facial expressions that he was hamming up for me, it was priceless!

The Creepy Crawly Candy Spidey Family

 For family night Monday night we did our annual "Spooking" our friends and neighbors FHE.  We added a fun craft to the goodie bags this year, a cute spider treat that I saw on display at church (I actually think it was something that they are doing for Super Saturday) it looked easy enough so I picked up the supplies after Matt and I's date night a few weeks back to put it into the plan.  I may have posted the poem we wrote in the years past but here it is: (We wanted a poem where the neighbors didn't feel obligated to reciprocate the "spooking" to others since many require you to do so.)  

YOU’VE BEEN SPOOKED

The Air is Crisp

The Season is Fall

Soon Halloween will come to All

The Ghosts are Out

The Gobblins Too

With many scary tricks to play on You

But don’t be frightened

Over this little Spook

For it’s not a cast or a Spell

It’s only to wish you All

A Happy Halloween and Well

Now take the Treats

Gobble them up Everyone

And remember on Halloween night

To be ever so safe and have so much Fun!!!!

As always the kids had a fun thrill with ringing the doorbells and running or hiding until the bags were picked up from the front porches and brought into the homes.  We finished the night off with a fun Halloween colored refreshment to set the tone for the month.  On a side note: notice Spencer with his gun he made from extra pipe cleaners...he's all boy and that's so him, anywhere we go he seems to make or find some sort of gun or weapon like thing to play with. He's not mean or destructive in any way with his toy weapons, he's a very well behaved little boy he loves to play with his action figures and army guys ect.  When we went to the Ocean notice the first thing he picked up...a piece of beach wood in the form of a gun, no wonder he has wanted to be a Cop (with a mustache) when he grows up since he was three years old, that's our Spencer!   

Josh and The Gospel

October 6, 2010

As Josh says his nightly prayers before he goes to bed, he consistently thanks his Heavenly Father for the "Gospital," the irony of it is that the Gospel kind of is like a "Hospital" for our spirits.   "Hospitals" aid in saving, rescuing, or making our bodies better or healthy and the "Gospital" or rather The Gospel of Jesus Christ does the same for our Spirits, right? Very sweet Mr. Joshua Glen!

It's Amazing what our Babies actually TAKE IN & LEARN from our everyday EXAMPLES!

Wed. October 6, 2010 

  Brooke has been growing and progressing leaps and bounds within what seems to be just the past week or so - seriously since she has been detached from nursing she is so content and has seemed to have found a new sense of independence!  Today as I was planning sharing time for primary this Sunday in the dining room area, Josh was watching Sesame Street in the other room and Brooke had helped herself to playing in the little drawers of a secretary that's in our dining room next to the table where I was working.  She had found some random little keys (I think they actually lock the secretary now that I think about it.) When I walked across the entry to the den to get some poster board this is what I found Brooke up to, she was trying to unlock the front door with her keys she had found. This is just one of the many new things that Brooke has apparently learned from just watching her family members, to name a few off the top of my head the other day she found one of the girls earings on the floor and she was trying to stick it in her ear, as she was playing in my bathroom drawers as I got ready yesterday she was acting like she was putting on my deodorant under her arms, she combs her hair (or lack of) when she finds a brush, she has folded her arms as we pray before eating for awhile but she now kneels to pray as we say family prayer- the funny thing is that we can't take credit for any of these things- these little things are all on her own, it's so fun as a mother to see your little baby playing out what she has learned (not so much from what we are teaching her but what she observes and takes in, it's fun!) Although she doesn't really say much besides ma ma, da da, ba ba and jibberish baby babbles- she understands so much and knows what we are saying quite often, when you tell her to go get the blankie and little things like that.  A month or so back, a cute story: before she knew the concept of "no" one day she thought it was funny to unplug the lamp in my room to turn it off, after a few times of me plugging it back in and her crawling back over to unplug it, I realized that she just wasn't understanding what "no" meant and she thought it was just a big fun game because I got down to her level and looked her in the eyes and said "no, no" and shook my head back and fourth in the "no" motion as I pointed to the plug- she proceeded to point to her "nose."  A game we play with her in the mornings when we get her ready as we ask her where her body parts are and she points to them, she just thought I was saying "nose" when I was telling her "no."  I just laughed, she now knows (not sure to what extent she understands and maybe it's just the tone of the voice) but for the most part she actually does minds us when we tell her "no, no." Another funny, the other day after we dropped Josh off at preschool, Brooke and I went to run errands for the 2 1/2 hours and as I was talking to Brooke and possibly asking her questions (I honestly don't recall our conversation) as I pushed her in the cart around Walmart and a guy looked at me funny like I was talking to myself and asked "um does she answer you?" I just chuckled, maybe it's because Brookie is a baldie baby and looks too young to have me talking to her, she is a year old...come on I can have a conversation with her right? Ha,ha.

Not to mention that Brooke has now became the BIGGEST CUDDLE BUG!  She loves to be held and cuddled and she will just walk or crawl up to her family members and randomly give them and hug and a kiss, seriously it is THE CUTEST THING!  I don't remember the others being so lovable and hugable at this age (now 13 mo.) we are all enjoying a bit of her cuddle-bug fever. Also, not sure if I've ever mentioned but she is one of Justin Bieber's biggest fans- she loves to dance to Bre's I-pod to his music, when ever she hears his music she gets so excited, it's kinda funny!

Swinging Soccer Season

October 2, 2010

Soccer isn't our life but to say that soccer is consuming our Fall season would be right on. Between the two boys practices Mon, Tue, Wed and Thur are covered then games on Saturday (I am so thankful that Bre opted not to play soccer this year for the simple fact that swinging practices and games get a bit tricky with multiple players, especially keeping the younger ones happy and content in the process, we would have made it work if she had wanted to play though- no doubt Josh will be joining the soccer saga here soon) the girls do however have Fridays covered with their dance classes (three hours worth) so no dull moments. This year both of the boys are playing through AYSA and Jarom is really having a GREAT time with his coach and team. He is loving stepping the whole soccer thing up and playing teams from different surrounding cities on away games.  His first game was at May Wood Middle School, (Matt's old Middle School that he went to as a kid over in Renton/Issaquah.) Then the second game was at Kent Highlands High right next to Brodie and Stephanie's (Matt's sisters) house, so it's been nice that we've been a bit familiar with some of the areas and fields. Today, they had a home game at Mt. View High in Auburn, the field and bleachers were nice and the boys did a great job, it's fun to see them progress in their abilities and technique over the years!  I was able to go to the first half to catch a few action pics of the game before I had to take off to Spencer's soccer pics. and game.    

Spencer is having a fun time as well.  It's so cute, he just loves it when his coach will tell him he's doing a good job or he's being aggressive, or he's a fast runner- he just thrives on those compliments and I'm pretty sure it only makes Spencer want to try harder to do his best...it reminds me just how far a compliment can go and the power of positive words.  The weather has been FABULOUS this fall season thus far (knock on wood) we have really lucked out in the no rain department on game days...I'm sure it'll come but we are certainly enjoying the lack of so far.  For some reason no matter how beautiful the weather is, the main field that Spencer's games are held at El Lako El. is always a muddy mess (it must be from bad drainage or something, rain boots are our best bet.)