A day at my Grandparents' house

Looking at a scrapbook with my Grandma. Adaya tells her Great Grandma Bethune about all the pictures, naming the people that Grandma doesn't know as well as herself, 'Siah, Daddy, Mommy, etc.

Adaya smelt all the roses, roses on every bush.

Josiah makes a rose petal pattern.

This is when Adaya exclaimed about how beautiful Great Grandma's rose garden is. "Oh, it so beautiful. Roses so pretty. So amazing."

Adaya asks Great Grandma to pick her up. It's about all Great Grandma can do to keep her up. But she wanted to because Adaya wanted her too.

Josiah gets to work on clipping the dead rose buds off Great Grandma's roses while Adaya picks a clover boquet.

So beautiful...

Where does she get all that cuteness?

Great Grandma points out a missed dead rosebud.

Young and old...

Grandma brings water out for everyone.

My Dad does a third run over the garden.

Adaya with her Great Grandparents.

The roses Josiah accidently picked for Adaya.

The kids enjoy rides from Great Grandma in her wheelborrow.

Helping Great Grandma water the tomatoes before they go in the newly tilled garden.

Helping Grandpa push the tomatoes to the garden.

Playing peek-a-boo.

Adaya says good-bye to everyone. It's time to head home before everyone shows up for community group and the hostess isn't home.

Adaya fell asleep just after we hit 26, on the way home. I didn't really want her sleeping at 5:45 in the evening. So I got her out of the car but she didn't want to wake up.

art party

This morning we had over three of Josiah's classmates, a classmate sibling, and two mothers over for the first of four Monday morning Art Parties of the summer. Yes, it is summer. No, it was not nice enough to paint on the deck this morning. That was the plan, but it rained yesterday. The deck was wet and it was a bit too chilly out. So we painted at the table. I did not take any pictures, how lame is that. We had a great time. After the kids were done painting, the moms even spent some time getting artistic.

In three weeks we will be building with miniture bricks and mortar. They are left over from when I designed a model for my first Grace Academy design, about three and a half years ago. We will probably pull out some other craft options as well. From the sounds of it, we will have a completely different crowd joining us. If you are free, join us. July 12, 9:30-11:30

I'll teach Stephen for giving me crap about not posting...

Playing napping with Daddy 6-14-2010

PlayDoh Train 6-7-2010

Mommy and Josiah made new shelves for Josiah's train set- May 2010

Josiah did Adaya's hair, May 25, 2010

Always crafting 5-16-2010

Was put into time out (at top of stairs). Threw and fit about it. Kept getting up and getting books to read. Got books taken away and books went into toy/book time out. Continued to throw a fit. Got up and got blankies and dollies, laid down at the top of the stair, quit crying, and fell asleep. 5-11-2010

Stickers go everywhere, 4-24-10

Walking on the ceiling with Daddy's help. 4-19-10

Summer reading and writing

Today, on the first day of summer vacation, Josiah was overly eager to do his summer homework. I thought it was a bit odd for the first day of summer. I wonder how long it will last.

We made a deal. For every 5 minutes that he reads aloud to me, I will read one chapter to him. He read twice today for 15 minutes each, reading two whole books. I got to read 6 chapters. I cheated, they are short chapters and only took me 20 minutes total.

He also wrote today. He drew a picture of himself, Wes, and Adaya at a reptile zoo. He wrote 4 sentences about it. Then declared himself done. Then he went on to tell me this amazing tale. I suggested he write that down too. He didn't want to. So I wrote it down for him. The story ended with Josiah and Wes flying to Africa...

Something tells me he misses Ashby.