Roscoe the Robot

I have started collecting/saving recyclable material over the past year and it came it handy today.  I save large oatmeal cylinders, boxes, yogurt containers, egg cartons, milk jugs, spice containers, lids, etc. and throw it into a big box and keep it out in the garage.  Many times the kids drag it out and just start creating.  They came up with this idea today to make a robot.  I had to help a little with covering him with foil.  I think he turned out great!

Little By Little

Here is a recent video of us in the car.  They are singing a song Caleb learned at preschool for his end of year program.  He taught it to Ella and Silas.  Then they do a silly saying for a while after the song...but after that, Jeremy asks them what they are thankful for.  Silas first answers "daddy's truck".  Ella answers "Jesus" and then changes it to "the cross".  Silas pipes in again to say "for Jesus dying on the cross".  So proud of our little 2yr old to put that together!  This is a long video, so if you want to hear the "thankful"part, skip to 2:10.

The Making of Flynn

Caleb and Ella got invited to a good friend of ours daughter's birthday party.  It was a Rapunzel birthday party.  I had something that Ella could wear, but I needed something for Caleb.  He had to go as Flynn!  I got half price fabric to make a vest and satchel.  These were only my third and fourth things to make on my machine, but it was fun and it turned out great...at least for a little guy!

Petting Zoo

We visited a mom's group this week that was hosting a traveling petting zoo.  The kids got to hold lots of fun animals.

Caleb though this bearded dragon was the coolest!

 

Silas was not happy holding any of them besides the bunnies.

No way!  Get this off me!

 

 

Finally a smile!

Finally got a smile from this little guy on camera.  He has clued into not smiling for pictures, but I caught him on this one.

Tower & Zipline

After soccer this week, the Y was having an event and were letting people climb the tower and ride the zipline for free.  Caleb had to try it!  There was no hesitation...

 

 

 

 

Here are videos of the action!
Climbing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhRGBDPCUW4&feature=youtu.be
Zipline:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDY1XNSvahI&feature=youtu.be

Thankful for His gift...

We are thankful for God's gift to us this past Easter weekend celebration!

For Christians, Easter weekend is really the most important holiday during the year we can celebrate. Without it, we have no faith! Each year we hope to make Easter weekend more important for the kids and balance out the egg hunts/candy with talking about what it really is about. We have found a few things we are starting to make a tradition, like resurrection eggs. This year though, my favorite memory was the Bible reading our church does leading up to resurrection Sunday. Our church has people sign-up (one at a time for 15min increments) that start reading the Bible in our sanctuary, starting in Genesis, 24 hours a day from Wed before Easter until the morning of Easter Sunday. I signed Ella and I up this year and we read on Good Friday morning. We started in Psalms 119 and in our 15min read through Psalms 130. Honestly, Ella did all the reading. I stood next to her and helped her with a few words. I was planning to read a little more, but she really loved it...it was hard to stop her. I did get to read Psalms 127, and found my section great. My verses included this -

"Sons are a heritage from the Lord, children a reward from him. Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are sons born in one's youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver if full of them."

I felt truly blessed standing up there with Ella as she read and how much I could tell she really loved the Word.

Here are some pictures from the rest of our weekend. We got to spend our day with Zach and Chelsi and their kids and had a nice time.

Silas stuffing his face with candy.Silas stuffing his face with candy AGAIN...