The box

Yikes! Has it really been over two months since I last posted?? Whoops sorry about that. Life has been busy and it never slows down. But I promise to try harder to blog about life here in the crazy house... I mean um, our house.

Even though these pictures are from a while ago, I thought they were so fun, I would go ahead and post them anyway. At the end of June, I went MI for a weekend and while I was gone this huge box arrived. As anyone can guess... the boys loved the box! We left it in our living room for about a week, until it just got to be too much. Want to know what was in the box??? You'll have to wait until the last picture in this post.

Inside the box were the taxidermied heads of the animals David got when he went hunting out in west Texas last December.

Good morning momma

Sing it!

So Aaron has always liked singing, but lately he's been singing a lot more. His current favorites are:
*The ABC song (which he sang about 800 times yesterday... sounds like an exaggeration, but it's not.... I know I might come across as annoyed, in actuality I'm really just brain-deadened by it. What? you say that's not a word? Well, I think I've made my point).
*Zaccheaus
*Micah 6:8

If you've never heard Micah 6:8, it really is fun to hear Aaron sing it. The words are:
He has shown thee, O man
What is good and what the Lord requires of thee
But to do justly, and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with thy God

If Jonas is in the room with him while he's singing, he'll usually sing a little bit of the chosen song then say: "Sing it Jonas, sing it!" hilarious!

And while we're on the topic of Jonas, he is saying a few things now. "uh-oh" is definitely his favorite thing to say, but he also says: "momma", "dadda," "ni-ni" (aka night-night) and most recently he's started to say "amen." : )

We got ourselves a convoy

The boys just started this today... they'll grab their dump trucks and drive around following each other : )

Sad baby... silly daddy

Summer days

Yellow vs. Wellow

A recent conversation overheard at our house : )

Aaron: this is wellow.

David: Yellow.

Aaron: Wellow

David: Say 'Yellow'

Aaron: Wellow!

David: Say "Yes"

Aaron: Yes!

David: Say "Yes, yellow"

Aaron: Yes, Yellow!

David: Yellow

Aaron: Wellow

Sunday funnies

Now that Aaron is 3, he sits with us for part of the evening service at church. This has led to some.... interesting incidents. A few weeks ago, a couple played a guitar and a mandolin during the offertory. All was well, until the mandolin player began to do some trills. Every time he would do a trill... Aaron would giggle. In the middle part of the song, he started to do a lot of trills... which resulted in lots of giggling... which started to make David and I giggle. It's really hard to shush your 3 year old while you're giggling. He couldn't stop giggling. We couldn't start giggling. We started getting funny looks. Finally I decided to take him out of the service until the song was over. I had tears in my eyes as I left the service.

Tonight wasn't quite as memorable, but it was still funny. When the songleader of our church started the service, Aaron said (loud enough for a lot of people to hear):
"it's time to sing now!"
When the pastor was doing the announcements he said:
"It's Mr. Blakey!"
We had just had the pastor and his wife over for dinner two weeks ago, so I guess it made an impression on him.
In the beginning of the service, he and one of his little friends caught sight of each other and started to smile at each other... and giggle, of course!
Needless to say, we're still working on sitting quietly in church.

This picture is from awhile ago, but I thought it was pretty cute. He's helping!
The next 2 pictures are also from awhile ago (it's before Jonas' haircut), but they remind me that if nothing else... our house is usually full of laughter : )