School Pictures

They don't do the cool pictures-on-cd here, where I can easily mail the original jpgs to people.  So I had to just scan them in.

Aidan & Zak

Over the weekend, Aidan went to his best friend Zak's birthday party.  They went to a gymnastics place on campus in Ames, jumped around and had a great time for an hour, and then had cake and presents in another room.  Aidan and Zak sure do like hanging out and playing together.  This is the only picture I took.

(P.S. They are both on the same soccer team this fall, and they are loving playing soccer.)

Blankie Bait and Switch (Sort Of)

We successfully switched out Kaitlyn's "favorite" blankie.  She has had the purple one since birth, and has loved it into a tattered mess.

One day, she asked for the brown blankie, and took it to bed.  I hid the purple blankie, and she asked about it once or twice, but would bring out her brown blankie when she would say anything about the purple blankie.  She hasn't asked about the purple blankie in over two weeks now.  Whew!

Kaitlyn LOVES to draw, color and paint.  She was doing this all by herself when I started recording.

E.B. White

On Friday, Ethan's class had a Living Wax Museum.  All of the students chose an important person from history, and they wrote a report about that person.  Then, they all spread out in the gym and were dressed up as their famous person.  They each had a green sticker on their right hand.  When you touched the hand, they would "come alive" and read (or have memorized) their report about that person.  Ethan chose E.B. White, the author of Charlotte's Web.  He did a fabulous job, if I do say so myself.

Since I didn't record him saying it at the museum, I just recorded him right now sitting on our couch:

A New Show to Kaitlyn

A few days ago, I turned on Netflix and had Kaitlyn watch one episode of Blue's Clues while I cleaned. She had never seen it before, but she was quite the entire 24 minutes.  Two days later, she spontaneously came up to me and asked me this:

Anniversary Gift

Woo hoo!  No more blue living room!

Our living room has been a baby blue color ever since we moved here, and I just hated it.  It clashed with the bricks in the fireplace. The color is also in the kitchen, up the stairs, and in Aidan's bedroom too, and it's not my type of color at all.  So, for our anniversary last weekend, Christian painted the living room.  We chose the color together, which is called Carrington Beige - it has just the slightest hint of green in it, in certain light.  It feels so much brighter, so much more open, and soooo much better in our living room now.