Saturday, August 23, 2014

March 2014

Ellie's "meal." She gets out toys and says they are crackers. She does put them in her mouth, so that's a good thing.



Ian is a Boy Scout! All ready for his first meeting! This month he went to his last Cub Scout meeting and was awarded his last Cub Scout awards. He earned his Webelos badge and his Arrow of Light. It was a lot of work, and he did it!

Funny story from the end of that pack meeting, it was the Blue and Gold Banquet and they had decorated with some helium balloons. One of the little brothers of a scout lost his balloon as we were cleaning up. And of course, it went to the peak of the vaulted gym ceiling. So, like a true scout (okay, he actually got volunteered to do it since he was the tallest, yet lightest boy there) he sat on our bishop's shoulders (he's something like 6.5' tall), who was standing on a table, and Ian used a broom to catch the balloon. And he did it! The boy was so happy. Then we were walking out, and Levi let go of his balloon.....we didn't save it. Sorry, Levi!


Ellie's first block building!


Happy St. Patrick's Day.


Ellie was a little tired one day....she hasn't taken naps for months, but I guess some days you can spin yourself to sleep.


Ellie is starting to like helping in the kitchen.


Caleb's volcano eruption!


March was the science fair. Caleb did research on volcanoes, Levi found how how plants grow best, and Ian did a project with batteries. Ian's last science fair!

Friday, August 22, 2014

Ellie August 23, 2014

Ellie has made some wonderful progress!


Saturday, August 16, 2014

February 2014

Ellie is really starting to play. She spent a long time building this.


We had plenty of snow!


I just love this picture.


Ian turned 11!! He wanted to bring treats to school, he had them during his math class. So I made these brownies.


He wanted a math cake. He's so excited to be starting Boy Scouts, and excited to be heading toward middle school soon. He's excited about growing up!


Saturday, August 9, 2014

January 2014

Ellie's first day as a Sunbeam! Her nursery teacher moved up to be her Sunbeam teacher, which was wonderful - it took Ellie until she was 2.5 before she would go to nursery without crying. So this made the transition into Sunbeams go so smoothly. No tears at all!


A silly blanket-wrestling game. Levi is under there somewhere.


Caleb looks so grown up :).


Ian watching his top his grandpa made him.


Grandpa made Caleb and Levi stick horses, so Ellie made her own.


Ian's last pinewood derby. He won third place!! And did most all of the work himself.


This is the first time Ellie has sat down to play at the science center. This occupied her for a good 30 minutes! She's growing up!


Ian's carbon structure at the science center.


Saturday, August 2, 2014

December 2013

Lots of Lego playing going on here!



Ellie wants so badly to play with her brothers' Legos, so we got out the 3 year old friendly ones.


This is about how Ellie felt about Christmas. She doesn't like anything to do with gift opening and all the confusion.


But, she did like the kitty Levi gave to her!


Ellie and her matching doll. Too bad she doesn't like it.....