Christmas 2009

Our Fireplace Mantle decorated for Christmas

Edward infront of our tree Christmas Morning
(the gate is to prevent Lollipop from destroying the presents)

Our Mantle Christmas Morning...stockings for all.

Edwards stockings (yep 2)

Edward opening his gift from Grandma Bev, trust me he needed this.

A Great gift for him, he had been eyeing them everytime we went to the store.

Edward opening his gift from Nana.

A homemade blanket. He loves it, it's one of his favorite snuggle blankets.

Opening his big gift from Mommy and Daddy

A Flat Screen with DVD player....lucky duck he got the first flat screen in the house.

So Sweet!

Took these last night. Two very tuckered out little people! Need I say more?

Gingerbread House

So excited about building our first Gingerbread House together

Chef Edward

All the components laid out.

laying the "glue" for the walls

Four Walls Up!

Look Mom red hands!

Finalized House (didn't stand for long)

Enjoying the fallen house!

Hangin' With Grandma Bev

Playing with the Playmobil Egyptian Playset with Grandma Bev

Playing with Grandma Bev and the Egyptian Playset

Building a birdhouse with Daddy

hammering the the nails into the birdhouse

Daddy making sure that the nails are set nice and tight

Painting the birdhouse with Grandma Bev

Grandma Bev doing some painting

Edward directing the painting Grandma Bev is doing

Autumn

This is the tree out front of our house. I just love when it is in is full fall coat. This year (maybe because we are all home sick with the H1N1 Flu) I remembered to get a picture of it before all it's slender was gone and on the ground. God is just so great and this is a wonderful way for him to remind us of how much He loves us and is in control.

Look Mom, A Mustache

Edward got this "mustache" from a vending machine, you know the kind that you get plastic rings and tatoos from. Just had to take a picture of him wearing it. To cute!

The 2009 Kansas State Fair

Edward had so much fun at the fair this year. He was able to do a lot of hands on activities which just thrilled him to pieces.

There was a barn where you could do some hands on activities and Edward decided to shovel up some hay into a wheelbarrow.
There was a construction site set up for children to do hands on construction related activies. It was the neatest and most educational thing that I have seen at the fair in a long time for children of about all ages. Edward is checking out the drill and learning how to use it (little did the man know that Edward already knew how to use it...LOL!)

Screwing screws...this is cool, must go home and try it (and trust me, he did).

Learning to get the aim just right.

Driving a remote control front loader.

Driving a Simulator and learning how to work a back hoe.

Helping to build a play house for a children's center. He even got to sign a plague that will be hung by it there.

Handy Manny

Edward won a prize at the construction site that was set up for the children to learn about construction. He won the jackpot, he got to build his very own tool box...the downside is that I had to drag it through the fair and trying not to take anyone or anything out with it (and it was heavy) for almost 3 hours.

Tapping down the bottom
Tapping in a side (he got to use the drill too)

One very proud little boy, with his newly built (by him) tool box.

Bungee Jumping

This is one of Edwards most favorite things to do at the fair. I don't mind paying the $5 for him to do it, at least it is a lot safer than doing it from a bridge or something else. The only thing I fear is that he will be an adrenaline junky and do dare devilish stunts when he gets older. He really doesn't seem to have many fears and the ones he does show, he seems to get over with quickly.

Mini Barber

Took Edward to get his hair cut yesterday, but he decided he did not like the hair cut he recieved. He decided to take it upon himself (with the help of some scissors) to give himself a new (more likable, in his mind) hair do. Below are the results of what he did to himself.

Needless to say we had to have it cut very short, almost had to have him bald.

Swimming Lessons

Edward took private swimming lessons this summer...it was the best money we ever spent....talk about doing a 360...he did when it came to swimming. We were completely in awe at how in 2 weeks he went from not being able to swimming really to swimming the whole length of the pool and diving too!

Raduation!!!

Yesterday Lollipop Raduated from Puppy Class (through PetSmart).

5 O'Clock Shadow

This morning when Edward crawled into our bed to cuddle before getting up; he looked at me, rubbed his chin and said "Mommy I can feel my beard growing". I about fell out of the bed laughing. A little bit later, I wanted to check his teeth that are coming in and he thought I was feeling his chin to feel his beard that is coming in.

What?!!??!?!?!

Last night Edward was taking 2 girls (from our Homeschoool Co-op) to Vacation Bible School with him as guests. I told him, you have 10 minutes before we leave to go get the girls for VBS. He goes into the bathroom and comes out with Kirk's Deoderant, and is applying it to his armpits. I ask him, "What are you doing that for?" He says "I want to smell good, not like a bad boy." Then he says "My breath stinks, I need to go brush my teeth." He goes into the bathroom brushes his teeth and his hair. He comes out to the living room where Kirk and I are talking and he is doing a Breath Check (where you cup your hand infront of your mouth and breath out so you can smell your breath to make sure it smells okay). We about died laughing. I told Kirk "You would think he was going on a D-A-T-E! Can you just imagine what he will be like when he really gets to go on a D-A-T-E?" Edward says "A Date?" We laughed again. I told Edward "Honey, you aren't taking the girls (one of them is going to be in 6th grade...the other in 2nd) on a Date, you are just taking them to VBS." He says "I still want to look good for them".

Gold Bricks Please

Edward says to me this afternoon around 4pm, Mommy can you paint me 2 bricks gold....so I can take them to VBS with me tonight? Well, it was 4pm and I was in the middle of mopping the floors. I told him I didn't have the time tonight before we left but I would do it tomorrow for him and I would check 1st with Mrs. Kliewer (I hadn't seen anything about needing bricks painted gold and was unsure what they would need them for). So when I dropped him off at VBS, we went to change his money into pennies (they were seeing if the boys or the girls could raise more pennies to feed 1000+ children overseas). They had a gold brick and Edward said "that is what I need." So I ask about it, they tell me for $5 you can get a gold brick (the bricks are to help make either the girls side or the boys side of the scale weigh more)...so we purchase it....which makes Edward really happy. They go into to the sanctuary to start for the night. I turn to Mrs. Kliewer and mention the earlier conversation with Edward about wanting me to paint 2 bricks gold, she and another homeschool mom I know, started to laugh. They said that they could picture me bringing in 2 gold painted bricks....because I am the type of mom who would drop everything to do whatever it was that Edward said he needed. I had to laugh because they are right....I would have done exactly that earlier in the day if he had asked me around noon or 1pm.

Crazy Week

This week is going to be a super crazy week for us. Edward will be attending 2 Vacation Bible Schools. He will be going to one in the morning at our church from 9 AM to Noon and then going to one at the church where our Co-op Classes are held (and where he attended AWANA's last year) from 630PM to 830PM. Plus we will still be doing our abridge program for school. He is going to be one tired little boy. He starts the evening VBS tonight and the other tomorrow morning.
I am helping with the VBS at our church, I am helping to teach the motions to the songs. It was the last position that was available. Not exactly my strong suit, I was hoping to help with crafts. Oh well, God truly must have a sense of humor....I was never a cheerleader or took dance, so I am a little out of rhythm and uncoordinated needless to say.

Chisholm Trail Festival and 4th of July

Gearing up to do the Stick Pony Race (they ran it like they would run a barrel race in a rodeo)

2nd place Winner in the Stick Pony Race

Bop Em!

Riding in the 4th of July Parade on the Meridian Baptist Church VBS float (their theme was a Knight to Remember)

Participating in the Hot Dog Eating Contest (he was able to eat only 1 of the 2 hot dogs he was given but boy did he try!)