Happy Halloween!

More helping

Goofing off is always part of the helping!

Micah helping Jonah with Math

Micah is happy to help Jonah with his Math today!

Poor Noah!

We've started a tradition that each of the kids get to stay up an extra 30 minutes one night a week to get some extra one-on-one time with us. Last night was Noah's turn, and he wanted to play Uno. As I was finishing somethings Bryan told Noah they were going to play a round just the two of them...and this was Bryan's hand. Poor Noah had no idea what was going on until Bryan won on the 7th round. It was pretty funny. Then they played a trick and stacked the deck against me when I went up to check on Selah. I think Noah thought the "tricks" were better than the game itself!

Time to catch up??

Soccer has finally ended for the Fall here, and boy am I relieved. We figured out that a minimum of 11 hours every week was soccer. Do you know what I could get done in 11 hours?!? Especially 11 hours with Bryan home to either help me or help with the kids! So I am hoping to catch up a little- or at least keep up better.

I've been trying to post a video of Selah for 2 hours. Ccouldn't do video last time I tried, either. I'll try to work on that, but I did get it on Facebook if you are on there.

Otherwise, the recap is she was caught climbing on the counter and after a long interrogation, she said she climbed up there to get a knife and a banana. And she asked herself and told herself yes...so I guess that makes it okay.

Notes: YES, the stove is on.

NO, the knives are no longer on the counter.

YES, she is always impossible to have a conversation with.

And, when praying that night, after thanking God for God (cracks me up everytime) she also thanked him for her family followed by being thankful for banas (bananas) and knifes (pronounced knife-es). Her seriousness is both hilarious and frightening.

We've had a few other incidents with knives and/or bananas lately...

Not sure if she was hungry or just wanted to chop stuff.

Someone forgot to feed the monkey, she had to feed herself.

Chair and banana peel...which means I willl likely find Selah...

 Hiding behind the table eating the stolen banana.

Chopping a banana on my kitchen rug.

A rare occasion of "real" (gluten-filled) bread...and a reminder why it just can't be.

She used the knife to open the graham crackers.

And, of course, then helped herself to some!

Soccer!

Jonah bought FIFA Soccer 12 with his birthday money last night. And by some miracle, the schoolwork that regularly takes until 5 pm was done at 10 til 9 this morning! Wow. Had I known all it took to eliminate virtually all of our school stress was a $50 game, we would have bought that the day it came out!!
The picture is of Micah, watching the boys play. Micah has a soccer desire like I've never seen before. Two nights ago he refused to go to bed because he was sitting with Daddy watching the US soccer game. Now he's just watching the boys play and if he sees you he points to the tv and babbles about something soccer related. All I can seem to catch is BALL. It's virtually impossible to keep him off the soccer field at the boys' and Bryan's games. He has his own ball and goal. And he just LOVES to play. What's more, he's good! I've never seen a 1 yo dribble the ball like he can. And he takes better penalty kicks than his brothers. It will be interesting to see if he continues with this and it really is a talent of his or just a passing fad.

Liquid sunshine!

Out enjoying the liquid sunshine on this glorious fall day!

hide and seek!

Selah's hiding. I love this phase. If they can't see you, they think you can't see them. It's so cute!

Poor Jonah

So tonight I jokingly tried to convince Jonah to let us just make a square cake that said Happy Birthday Jonah...and he looked at me like I had 2 heads. Then I tried to sweeten the deal with the bribe of adding sprinkles. He just stared at me. Well, Bryan can't leave well enough alone and thought we needed to prank Jonah.

So we made the star destroyer...and then hid it in the garage. And we made the little one to leave out for Jonah to see.

Hey, there's a star destroyer, tie fighter AND a jedi! Along with his name and sprinkles!!

Kind of hoping to catch it on video tomorrow...