Enoch

Enoch. What can I say. I love this boy. He has such high highs and such low lows. Today Shadrach had preschool all day instead of his usual 3 hours. Days like that make Enoch a little sad and board because he loves playing with Shadrach. So I decided to do the unthinkable. I took Enoch to McDonald's for lunch. We never go to McDonald's for lunch for several reason but I thought it would be a nice treat for him. And it was. He loved it. We could have stayed all day. He was so excited about the chicken nuggets, french fries, and blue juice. He smiled and laughed the whole time. We sat by a window so he could see all the cars getting on 65 too. I know my boy. He loved to watch all those cars. We had several conversation about how those cars like to eat chicken nuggets too. I would have stayed longer but I wanted to get him down early for nap because I had to pick up Shadrach at 3:00.

After a nap, and waking up it was time to get Shadrach. Enoch did not want to go. And he let everyone know it. He screamed the whole way out the door, in the car, and up the steps to the preschool. I knew I couldn't carry him up the stairs to Shadrach's room while he was throwing a fit like that (I have already fallen down those stairs just walking normally). So I left him. Down in the foyer. By himself. That seemed to make him happy. Maybe he just didn't want to climb the stairs. I know I didn't. He is 2 1/2. And I am tired of his grumps. He has been so much better this last month, but I want more. Heres to hoping he gets better with age.

Family Home Evening 1/24/2011

Daddy taught the lesson on Honesty. The children enjoyed it.

Getting ready to play the game. ( Ali took this picture)

ZOMBIES!!!!
I got out voted on the game choice. They all wanted to play this Zombie game. Greg says it is ok to play because you aren't really killing the Zombies because Zombies are already dead. You just disabling them. hmmmmm. Ali won the game. We only played once. We were tired.

Prayer: Can't remember

Opening song: Love is Spoken Here

Lesson: Honesty

Activity: Zombie Game

Dessert: Vanilla pudding ( it was suppoed to be layered pudding but I didn't have chocolate)

Shaving Cream

Playing with shaving cream is one of my children's favorite things to do. Sometimes I wonder why I let them do it. And then there are moments like this. Ali, sweety, I love you.

Shadrach had just as much fun but decided not to go crazy.

Surprisingly it is really easy to clean up. Plus I always feel like I am cleaning the table, toys, and chairs that touched the shaving cream.

Playing with Friends

Enoch dancing with his friend Addy ( she is potty training- note the lack of clothing ). Crazy but I think of all the kids he hangs out with he likes her the best. He is such a rough and tumble guy, but Addy is just as rough and tumble if not more. It is a perfect match. You would never think she was tough because she looks and acts so sweet. But she doesn't let any one mess with her.

Enoch playing with trains with friends.

Ali and Autumn dancing. Ali always gets excited when we get to spend time with Autumn.

I watched my friend's daycare while she went to an appointment with her kids. My kids always think those days are so much fun!

Family Home Evening 1/17/2011

We changed plans for Family Home Evening. I was telling Greg what I had scheduled on Sunday, and he thought we should change it to a Martin Luther King Jr lesson instead. So we did. Then he called Monday morning, and said everyone else on his team had called in sick (sure they were sick - I bet their kids had it off) so it would be a long day for him. So we decided to do bowling another night. Greg gave a wonderful lesson on Martin Luther King Jr. and how we are all God's children and we are all the same. In this picture you can see Shadrach watching the "I have a dream speech" on the computer.

Dad teaching the lesson.

Ali enjoying the brownies. While eating the Brownie, Ali said this. "I have a hypothesis. ( can you tell we are doing Science Fair?) If Jesus was on the earth, I think everyone would be nice to everyone else." I told here I think she had a good hypothesis.

Enoch got a temperature late in the evening. So he was pretty slow moving during FHE. We decided to watch a movie together instead of a game because everyone was tired - Including mom!

Prayer: Shadrach

Song: I hope they call me on a mission

Lesson: Martin Luther King Jr. - We are all God's Children

Activity: Watched "Prince of Egypt"

Treat: Brownies

2 hour delay

Why can't every day be a two hour delay. Enoch loves being with Ali and Shad. When they are gone, he is sad. Here is the big city they built out of Lego's.

Ali and her little city before Enoch and Shad helped her.

Shad and his "super strong" creation.

I was planning on doing several fun things since it was a two hour delay day, but every one was having so much fun with Lego's and being so wonderful I couldn't stand to stop it. This was a good day.

Greg the Handy Man

Greg made me shelves. Oh how i love that man. I have wanted these for 5 years. We tried to put them in around 3 years ago, but since our closets don't have studs in them, they fell down.

:( Greg figured out a way to do it.

These are the shelves in the boys room. They were play with toys at the time this was taken, so it is a little messy.

Ali's shelves.