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“Stand as a Witness,” The Biography of Ardeth Green Kapp by Anita Thompson

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

January and February

This post has a TON of pictures!!  I am trying to play catch up because I have so many cute pictures that I need to share.  So here goes...

Our little cowboy.  I love when any of my kids wear this hat, I think they look so cute in it.
                                   
                                                   



 Snuggles with Kerstin ("tertin" to him, he loves to pretend 
call her on my phone and always says, "Hi terten")
 What can I say about this one?  He loved putting the kids boots on.  Pink or not.  
 This was one of the days we got to enjoy snow this winter (I'm really not complaining, I would prefer winter without snow).  Emilie was having fun posing with the umbrella and telling me to take pictures.  


 Emilie built a snowman with her friends Colson and Griff.  I only got a picture with these two though.  
                                    He had a verrrrryyy long nose.  We called him "pisnowcchio."
 Just a cute kid sitting in a box.
 Carter always lays on the floor like this playing with his toys.  Sometimes he even puts his favorite blanket under his head and just lays and plays.  Love it!
 I wanted to grind wheat one day and Emilie got super excited and asked if she could help.  She did all of it. I just had to sift the flour out of the bigger cracked wheat.  She did awesome!
 Nicholas reading to Carter.  He is a super reader now.  He is reading chapter books like crazy.  He has been reading the Spiderwick series and we got him one from the library and he had it read in two days.  I am loving that he loves reading.  He will often come out and say, "I'm tired and I know I should go to sleep, but I just want to ready one more chapter."  I can totally relate.  He is so much like his mother.  
 Sweet sleeping baby.  I can never get enough of watching them sleep.  They are so angelic.  
 Sneaky, sneaky!!
 Playing with oobleck.  He wasn't so sure at first, but then got into it. 



 Two is always better than one, right?  He calls his bink his "beets" and LOVES it.  We really need to get rid of them, but it is going to be hard.  

 Shaving cream play.  Apparently we do dirty activities with our shirts off (see oobleck pictures above).














 Carter is our monkey.  I tell Shay all the time that I just know he is going to be our first to break something. He LOVES to hang from the countertop.  



4 comments:

The Picketts said...

I've missed your posts! Your kiddos are getting SO big! They are adorable!

Carrie said...

you're brave, letting the kids play with shaving cream. i need to be more like that. i think i'd have a heart attack. too messy.

and that's awesome that nicholas is loving reading! colsie doesn't like it so much. i wish he did. griff is a lot more into reading books to me. he'll probably be more like nicholas. colsie gets too mad when he needs help, so he prefers me to read to him. oh, that boy!

Diane said...

A truly,
delightful vision of happy children - creates happy grandparent hearts!

Shannon said...

cannot BELIEVE how big they are getting! They are still so adorable. And BIG! Emilie, especially, has changed the most! She looks like such a little girl instead of a toddler now...it's tripping me out! They are so sweet! you throw some rockin' parties!