Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: November 2014

A quick update on the big kids.

Joshua:

*We read our first chapter book with Joshua and have started a second one. He loves it!

*He is really into numbers, counting and is starting to pick up on the concept of addition.

*When he gets up in the morning he goes downstairs and does his Christmas count down, turns on all the Christmas lights and then plays until his light on his clock turns on which means it is okay to come into my room. He even got one of his DVDs going on time. I am thinking about teaching him how to make breakfast so he can have it ready for me when I get up, LOL!

*When we walk Joshua to timeout he tells us, "No sir! No Sir!" He uses his manners even as he is being disciplined...except he doesn't say it very nicely at all.

Kayla:

*Her new phrase that she says that I just think is hilarious is, "____ are you?!" It's so funny how she says it.

* One day Kayla was trying to tell us that she was hungry and that she wanted to eat so she said, "Eat! Me!" Joshua thought that was hilarious!

*She copies everything her big brother does and I mean everything.

* She counts to two and often gets stuck on two. "1, 2, 2, 2...."

*She will randomly get Joshua's water bottle and bring it to him. Also, when I am getting them a snack and I hand her hers she will walk it over and give it to Joshua and then come back for hers.

*She really likes sitting on her potty chair. She pees on most nights before bed. Recently she was fussing at me that she needed to go potty. I actually didn't know what she was trying to tell me but Joshua knew. So I put her on the potty and she went.

*A couple times she has gone over to the spot where J gets time-out and started fake crying. Hilarious!

*When you give her something she says, "you're welcome" (elcome) instead of thank you.

We celebrated Joshua's buddy's b-day at Jump Street.

Helping Mama do the dishes.

We celebrated Daniel's 33rd b-day.
On Sunday we celebrated with Daniel's favorite 3 F's: family, football, and food.

Then on the day of his actual b-day the kids and I made him one of his favorite dinners, which is meatloaf, and a chocolate chip cookie cake.

Joshua thought the cookie cake was the neatest thing.

His face when he saw the cookie come out of the oven was priceless.

Joshua and I joked about eating the whole cookie by ourselves and Joshua said Daddy would be sad and say, "I am 33 and no cake."

They loved singing to him.

Notice the two bites gone at the bottom? I would blame

J but it wasn't all his fault. HEE-HEE! Joshua worked

hard decorating one of the 3's with chocolate chips.

Joshua has become quite the expert air plane builder.

He calls them "fly-its" and he whips them up in no

time complete with front wings and tail wings. It is quite impressive.

Joshua has gotten into being a superhero and loves flying around his his "cape."

The kids each packed a shoe box for Operation Christmas Child.

We had the neighbor boys over to make ornaments. Afterwards they played with the leftover dough. It was brown and what do you know they all made poop. BOYS!