My Dad

Last night I was thinking about how my dad used to ride the bus to work when me and my siblings were kids. His office was downtown and so he had a short bus ride from our house into work. He could take one of two buses. They each let off at a different end of our street. My parents' home is 4 houses from a corner. The other end was over another street and down quite a ways.

We would stand in the front yard some evenings and watch for him to come home. As I remember my dad usually took the bus that let of at the close corner. But I always loved when he came home on the bus that let off on the farther corner. Because then I could see him walking down the road from a long ways off and the anticipation of his arrival would last longer as he got closer and closer. Then I could run down the street even farther to meet him and walk the last bit together.

Playing Scientist

My kids were playing scientist with James being the scientist and Matthias and Hannah being the assistants. I love watching them play and come up with new ideas.

The Prophet Said To Plant A Garden

So that's what we'll do...





And hopefully this year it won't die like every other year we've tried. You can't say we aren't persistent. We just have black thumbs.

Hannah Jabber

Walking down the aisles at Walmart...through the doll aisle she gets really excited and signs "baby", she loved seeing all the babies on the shelf last week. Then we went through the sippy cup aisle to pick up some new pink princess cups and she started signing "drink".

Reading her a book about opposites I read "heavy, light" She made the sign for light (like bright thing on the ceiling).

My favorite thing she says right now is when I am calling the boys then she copies me and starts shouting "boys, boys!"

Taylor: How is my girl?
Hannah: Big!

While reading a book she pointed at a man wearing a hat and signed "hat".

She loves to say "Jesus" now and it's so cute. The other day we saw a picture of his birth and I said it was Jesus as a baby. She said "Jesus" and signed "baby".

At the end of every prayer Hannah proudly announces "Amen!"

Saturday morning she picked up a dress I had just got out now that it's finally warm and insisted I put it on her. She got impatient through the diaper change and kept handing me the dress. Once it was finally on she said "pretty".



All Hannah's verbal words (that I can think of right now)...boys, hi, bye, Jesus, dad, mom, baby, pretty, big, ball, dog, duck, fish, shoes, amen, no, hot, teeth, down, Hannah, banana, book, hat, boo, eyes, ow, bath, James, love you, that one

Taylor's New Favorite Song

(actually posted by Kristi)



from They Might Be Giants Podcast for kids. This will teach your kids the days of the week. And great work ethic...

More Shoes

These shoes came from my SIL Mindy and they are so perfect with this shirt. Same flowers, same colors. Love it! Hannah and I could really go crazy in the shoe department if we don't watch out...

Let's Go Fly A Kite

Was really windy yesterday so we headed to the park! So much fun!