Some More Janu-adventures

Mothers all over the world love the few minutes of peace that some dough and some toys can create for them. Here's Ezra's funny play dough pal.
Aurelia lovingly constructed a friend out of the temporary stuff.
On another day Aurelia helped the boys dress up like sisters. Wasn't she thrilled?! I had a lovely bunch of girls for a few hours, tatoos and all.
Daddy helped Ezra construct his name in blocks - wasn't I impressed?
Ezra has his own block-building skills of course.
In an attempt to make hotdogs and noodles more "FUN" we followed a recipe from a FAMILY FUN magazine to make these Octo-Dogs. They WERE fun to make, but lacked a little something when it came time to eat them (note Aurelia's face in the photo. . . .) Needless to say, the recipe has not been repeated.
Oli ate the noodles, sort of.
Ezra, my passionate boy, was by far the most impressed and excited about the Octo-dogs, but even he didn't finish eating them . . . I think we ended up having PB and J for a snack later because we were all still hungry.
Last - I thought it would be fun to include a picture of yours truly and her BIG son, Chris (from college group.)

Tool Time

I love it when people clean out their garages and toy boxes and share with others. I love to do it and I love to be on the receiving end of other people's generosity. A good friend of mine from MOPS (Kellie!) shared with us her son's old tool chest packed full to the brim with great tools and building supplies. The best part was that there were enough screw drivers, hammers and drills to satisfy each child's cravings for "more power!! Ar-ar-ar!"

Here they are checking out the drills!
Oli taking a much-needed sippy break!

Ezra so proud, posing with his VERY full tool belt.

Nothing like tools to make a boy feel like a MAN! (Veerrry impressive!)

2010 is a New Year

As we watched the Christmas candles burning brightly we were reminded to put Christ first in our home this year, just as we were allowing any sorrows from the last year to burn away.