Aidan's Songs

Aidan likes to sing his songs that he learns in school and "teach" me how to do them. He's really cute. Here is one he's been doing a lot lately.

Looking for beauty...

Sometimes, in the dead of winter in Iowa, it can get a little hum-drum. All I really want right now is spring...and I think that I am probably not alone. We have had snow storm after snow storm, with a few blizzards sprinkled here and there for fun this year. Every day, as I wade to the front door between piles of snow up to my mid-section (literally), I wish once again for spring to hurry up and get here! Today, however, I noticed something stunning (in my opinion) near our front door. I actually noticed it the other night, but thought it was a figment of my imagination. It's a huge ice sculpture in one of our front bushes. It's caused by all the somewhat "warm" (20 degrees) temps in between all the below zero freezes and the water that falls off the porch roof onto that bush. It is pretty, though, and right now, that's what I need.

WAY Behind

Our computer crashed, so I am finally getting around to updating (some) on here now. I have back-dated some posts, so if you want, you can check them out.

Our Little Climber

Ethan has been quite the little climber lately. The other day, I was out of the room for two seconds while they were eating breakfast. All of the sudden, I heard a terrible crash! I came running, and discovered Ethan on the floor...in front of Nathanial's high chair. Hmmmm.....that's odd. How did he launch himself way down there???

I was feeding them breakfast this morning, when I discovered the answer to my question. Ethan did not launch himself way down that way. No, not at all. He crawled on top of Noah's highchair, then Nathanial's, to get himself more food. Not that he didn't already have some on his tray...but hey, I guess that wasn't quite good enough. Then, he cautiously turns himself around, on top of the tray, to lower himself to the ground. Yeah, like there's a graceful way to go about that. Thankfully, I was standing there to witness this second attempt, so he did not fall.

He's also been gathering everyone's sippys, especially Noah's, but often times Nathanial's, also, on his tray, to leave his brothers without any. I have managed to get a couple of pictures of him in the act of stealing food. We have tried tightening the tray as far as it will go, tightening the little belt...nothing helps. He wiggles right out. Help!

Birthday Party!

The boys had a great time at their birthday! They were so fun to watch dig into their cakes. Noah dove head-first into it and ate his way out. He ate almost half of his little cake! Ethan started by trying to be neat, but quickly caught on to how Noah was eating and joined him! Nathanial was still ever the neat eater, daintily picking each piece off bit by bit, but was still filthy by the time he was finished! We have videos on the dropshots page, if you want to see them.

Nathanial picking:Ethan diving in:
Noah diving in: