Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Grandpa's Birthday

We celebrated grandpa Dick's birthday this weekend up in Bellingham.  It was beautiful weather and the kids had a good time playing outdoors and with their cousins.  We are also very happy that grandpa loved his birthday gift...a new flag pole.  Happy Birthday grandpa!!

The other pictures of the kids were taken over the past few weeks.  I really need to do a toddler update before the kids start pre-school.  In 2 weeks Johnny and Shaine will be starting 2 days a week, 2 hours a day preschool.  We are in no hurry to push our children into full time preschool or other activities.  Since I have been taking classes for early childhood education I have learned that our society is in such a hurry to push children to grow up.  There are negative outcomes to pushing our children to do too much at a young age.  This includes placing them in school too early or getting them involved in too many activities including competition.  Children learn through play and that is exactly what we want for our kids...to be a child. 






Kiddos eating breakfast.  Cupcake the kitty is having cereal too.








Johnny and Shaine playing with the friends from next door.









Monday, August 12, 2013

Video of kids reading with us

Here's the kids reading an encyclopedia book...

http://youtu.be/hizO5cJryVw

Video of Johnny playing

This is a video of Johnny playing with his soldiers before bedtime.  You keep hearing Shaine talking about going to Halloween.  Both kiddos have been talking about Halloween for a while so it's pretty funny.
http://youtu.be/2sriByff8Jg

Sunday, August 11, 2013

Remlinger Farm 2013 and Mike's Birthday

     This was our 3rd visit to Remlinger Farm with the kids, but it's been a year since we've been.  As soon as we got there the kids remembered exactly where we were!!  They immediately started saying that they wanted to go on the roller-coaster ride, and the pumpkin ride. These two stinkers have incredible memories. We spent the entire day at the farm and rode on the roller-coaster 3 times.
    Tomorrow is Mike's birthday and unfortunately I have to work tomorrow evening, but we'll figure out something special for daddy.  We love you daddy!!  Sorry you have to work tomorrow as well, but try and have a wonderful Birthday!!!!






Shaine thought the train whistle was going to be loud so she covered her ears...so cute











We had to take this picture...hilarious.



It's been a long day and someone is getting tired.  The dark circles are starting to show, but she's still our beautiful girl.