Hello. Do you like my hat?

My title is best explained to those who are familiar with the book, Go Dog, Go.  Periodically, two dogs appear in the story and have a dialogue about a hat.  It is kind of random and arbitrary.  That is how my posting has been recently.

So.  Now I am resolving to post something or other every Friday.  I will try to make it different than what you might find on facebook, to make sure I don't bore you.  And I will include pictures, because that's what grandparents want to see anyway.

Last weekend, we spent time in Washington, NC, with my family.  Emily had an early birthday party, since we will not be seeing Granny and Pa-pa in April.

While there, Ben acquired some banana trees for planting- which we are using as part of our home school experience.  He is charge of their care, and we will be measuring and recording their growth.  Ben also has his first loose tooth.

Anna is having orthopedic surgery at 8am on March 30th.  They will be removing the cuboid and tailus bones from her feet, to help flatten them out.  They are also cutting through her tibia, rotating her feet out, and putting them back together with plates.  We will be in the hospital for several days, and she will be in casts for quite a while.

Caleb is just doing his own thing.  Running to catch up with his siblings, cutting more teeth, learning new words, etc.  He is very. very. busy.

Happy Saturday!

If every moment could be like this...

Fun on the Playground

I just posted about 40 pictures to a facebook album, so I would recommend you go there to see all the cuteness....

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=190154&id=777599055&l=9cd4289cd2

Organized Chaos

It seems Ben has inherited some of my genes. He was quite proud of his arrangement of mini-tacos...

Despite the apparent organization, these guys are actually crazies....  Ask them to smile for the camera, and you get a variety of interesting looks.

 

Is There A Baby Gate Around Your Christmas Tree?

What the child sees:
A barricade
A hindrance to the acquisition of good things
A beautiful vision- just out of reach

What the parent sees:
A door that will be opened when the time is right
A help during a time when self-control may be lacking
A beautiful vision, protected until the day it can be experienced in full

Has God put a baby gate around your Christmas tree?

Blog? What blog?

Hey... ummmm... yeah....

I DO actually think about my blog. However, it's usually at a very inconvenient time. Like when I'm brushing my teeth at 11:00pm, getting ready for bed. I'm going to catch you all up to what we're doing with a few pictures from the past ummm *several* months.

First, some pictures from when we went to visit my parents for the "July Birthdays Party." For those of you who were following Colin's fight with the flu- he's the little boy with the blond hair. There is also a picture of me, Caleb, Laura, and my cousins Denise and Heather (with her son, Walt.





Here are some pictures of Anna. She and Ashleigh can both turn their tongue sideways.




Emily has been pretty crazy recently...






The boys are around here too...




And here are a few pictures of everyone having a good time together. We spent Halloween with our friend, Molly Hines (the bumble bee).

Cat's in the Cradle and a silver spoon...

I'm going to skip on by the fact that we've spent the last three weeks in and out of the hospital with Caleb and Anna. They both seem to be on the mend. We're all still sleeping kind of poorly at night, and I haven't recovered the sleep lost to the midnight ER runs. However, we've also had fun stuff going on over here between all the yuck.

1. Emily moved into a big girl bed.
2. Emily got her first haircut ever (at Doolittle's).
3. Anna turned 4 July the 8th. Ben turned 5 July 18th. Caleb turned 1 July 30th.