Just Life

I actually got them to take a nap in the same bed!

Nolan likes taking things apart!!

 

 

Papi's Birthday!

Here are a couple of videos from Andre's birthday!  In the one of the videos, Nolan said his name for the first time!!!  Happy Birthday to my wonderful husband!

 

 

Crazy Weather!

I forgot to post this at the end of Oct!!

 

Singing!

Nolan is starting to sing!  And that makes my heart sing!  The video is only a very short version of his singing, but he can really get into it!  In Bible class, walking to kindergarten, etc.

Here is a picture from this past week on a seesaw.  The boys are almost balanced out....that means they are almost the same weight.  Crazy.

 

Chestnuts

We love collecting chestnuts!  Most of the time we just bring them home and they sit on the balcony.  This year, I did find a pretty chestnut craft.    The chestnut season is already done, but we will look forward to next year!  Ha!  Don't really want to think so far ahead....

 

First chestnuts of the season!

 

 

A chestnut flower!

Nolan Started Kindergarten!

 

Here are some shots from Nolan's first day of kindergarten.  :)

 

On the first day, he hid his face from the teacher 27 of the 30 minutes we were there.  The last three minutes, he decided he could play.  The second day he walked in there and started playing--no problem!  And today he played with the other children in the garden--no problem!  He got to play with Elliot and his buddies--that was fun to watch.

 

Kite Festival

We took the boys to a kite festival on Sunday afternoon--the weather was almost perfect--there was no wind!!  We did get to see model airplanes and boats though.

 

Watching the model speed boats and model airplanes.

Elliot loves his camera, Mom!

The boys got to ride the carousel.

 

 

And a random one of Nolan...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Five Years Old!

Elliot is FIVE!!!  It is so hard to believe!  We started the day off with presents before Elliot went to Kindergarten.

 

So excited!  At 7 in the morning!

His presents with his new stuffed leopard.

 





My loves!

 

 

 

 

In Kindergarten, they gave him a crown and I had made fruit kebobs for the children to eat during their snack time.  THEN came the birthday party!  He had invited his good friends from Kindergarten--five bundles of energy came to the park plus Elliot and Nolan.  One of the moms stayed the whole time--boy, I was so thankful!  We had fun doing a nature treasure hunt--our treasures were snail houses, chestnuts, pinecones, etc.  Then we made ping pong ball shooters--such fun!



 

 

 And here is his cake!

 

 I think my five year old had a fun day!



Playground!

We took a Saturday morning and took the boys to a playground.  It was a much needed fun morning!  We were there before 9 o'clock and guess what?  We were the only ones!!!  Ha!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nolan likes to get in on the hide and seek games--he likes to count too!  Eins, eins, eins, eins, eins, eins.....Really cute!

 

Rain Gear!

 

We have been using our rain gear a lot lately!!

Even if it has stopped raining, the boys have on their rain gear--they love puddles!!!

 

 

 

 

Elliot is gone....I get to play with his stuff!!!!

 

Nolan is such fun now--learning more words and talking more.  He sure is a fruit cake!!

 

 

 

 

Hospital Helicopter

 

When we went to the hospital to visit my father-in-law, we knew the boys could not visit him due to his infectious condition--the doctors did not know what he had.  Actually they still don't but the blood work is looking better.  Anyways, there is a helicopter pad right next to the hospital.  We were hoping that boys could see it.  Sure enough, we got to see it land!  The boys were super excited about that!

 

 

 

 

 

Digging Again

 We went to the mall where the sand and diggers were....again!  This time it was with Papi. :)

 

 

Glad I have two laundry baskets...

 

Dump....until Mommy took everything away.