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Flower from David 11/27/2012.

Forty-first Passage

Remember how the six year old's got bb guns for their birthdays? Well, the love them. Here are some pics and video's of them shooting them in the backyard.
  I love this picture. And...the video's.

Fortieth Passage

Owen is 4! His birthday was in the middle of the week on a day he was at his Mom's house, so we didn't celebrate until Saturday. We did the now traditional things, like streamers with candy and balloons on the door.

He picked the meals. I even tried to use mommy-manipulation to get him to choose something more adventurous, but he would not be swayed. Breakfast was a bowl of cereal, lunch was ramen noodles, and dinner was hashbrowns and bacon.

We had a birthday party with family and friends, and our little Owen was very spoiled. Here are some pictures.

He loves this guitar that Grandma Martin got for him.

 David and I bought him a bike. After some coaxing, he decided he really likes it.

 The cool car from Nana Sugar, so now he can play with Morgan and William and their cool cars.

David and I made him a batman cake, which I thought was pretty cute, but I failed to get a picture of it.

Now we have a four year old.

Post-it #54

We finished reading through The Mouse and the Motorcycle on Friday.

Then I found the movie and let the kids watch it. It's an old movie, made in the 80's, and wasn't of very good quality. Within the first 10 seconds of the film, (which showed a station wagon driving up to an old hotel) William was complaining, "I don't like this movie, it's boring!" About a minute later he was non-stop giggling. The kids loved the movie. I think it was fun for them too, to see what we read about.
I remember watching the movie as a kid. I loved it. Especially the part where Ralph almost gets sucked up by a vacuum. I watched bits and pieces with the kids, and it was a little shocking how horrible the graphics were. Well, they weren't really graphics. The mouse looked so unreal. I didn't notice that at all as a child. I don't think my boys did either.

Thirty-Ninth Passage

Today in school we made Thanksgiving chains. On each link, the boys wrote something that they were thankful for. Morgan and William did a great job writing them, and coming up with creative spelling.
Of course, I wrote the things for Owen. It was a little difficult to get him to understand the concept of "thankful." I would say, "What is something you are thankful for?" and he would say, "I'm thankful help me to not be bad." Uh... Or, "I'm thankful that no one can die." But everyone can die, son. It worked a lot better when I finally started asking him "What is something you really like?" "I like that snakes don't go in anyone's houses."
But we eventually got a good list. 13 days till Thanksgiving, so 13 things they are thankful for.

Here are the lists. I'll write the words as he did, and offer my interpretation.
William
Brutrz - - brothers
backwards pensilz - - pencils
Spirit (Spelled right all by himself! He meant his own spirit.)
jakits - - jackets
Family (he asked me to write that one)
Skool teeshrs - - school teachers
God
Hlee Spirit - - Holy Spirit
State
tooklevrmomz - - two clever moms. Haha!
parins - - Parents
Book
Clothes (also spelled by me.)

Morgan
Dads
Candee bag - - candy bag
God
Jesis - - Jesus
USA
Dolrs - - Dollars
Muny - - Money (haha! I didn't know until right now that Morgan had two money type things!)
The anjels - - the angels
Mom
Nana and Papa
Toys
Zoo
Holy Speerit - - Holy Spirit

Owen
Racecar Toy
Toys
William
Papa
Prayer
Nana's House
Nana Sugar
Daddy
Jesus
Legos
Tasha Mommy
Food
Melanie Mommy

He buttoned his jacket himself. :)
Yay for Thanksgiving!

Post-it #53

It's come to my attention recently that Owen might benefit from regular naps. He's always saying he's tired, and falls asleep in his bed if he's doing anything on it.
Yesterday Owen was suddenly not around. I found him sleeping soundly in his bed.

Thirty-eighth Passage

Halloween night we only had Morgan and Lydia. As we ate dinner, Morgan informed me that he didn't want to be Mario with out his Luigi and Wario. He wanted to wear his old Superman costume that he got when he was just 4.

And also wore for a Halloween thing at age 5.

But we had the costume, and a Supergirl costume as well, so we went for it.
Lydia would not cooperate for a picture.

We went to a trunk-or-treat at the church, then headed to our neighborhood to trick-or-treat. The kids did great and had fun. And the weather was pretty fantastic!

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By the way, William also filled his sticker chart. He picked a bug case from the dollar store.