Thursday, September 23, 2010

A Favorite Pastime

This is an old picture I just came across but shows a great rainy day activity or just a good way to cheer everyone up if anyone's fussy. They all three love the music. I'm very thankful to have a husband who is so musically inclined to teach them these things because I'm basically tone-deaf. Notice little Irby flipping through a Fisher-Price catalogue. They reel them in early, don't they?! He looked at it every day (even wanted to read it instead of books at naptime) until I finally put it in the outside trash without him seeing (he had already fished it out of the kitchen trash a few times). There was a purple plastic minivan toy, and he kept telling me "Mommy, I'm going to get you this mini-ban, OK?" If I haven't mentioned, he's in love with our minivan (which is silver, not purple - I imagine the only thing worse than a silver minivan would be a purple minivan), I told him he could have the 2002 Honda Odyssey in 2023 when he turned 16! Needless to say, he's pretty excited about that. Hilarious.

Friday, September 10, 2010

Playing Cowboy

Sorry for the long absence, we've been out in Colorado. We were so thankful to get to go for almost 5 weeks and had a blast, good family time and lots of fun visitors. I hope to get some pictures posted next week, but here's the first one as proof that I haven't been around to update (thanks for the pic, Mom!). This picture was taken at Maroon Bells, one of our favorite places. From there, we hiked up to Crater Lake about an hour each way, steep and rocky, and little Irby hiked (actually he ran!) pretty much the whole way. He was a real trooper. He also completed a 5 mile hike (Government Trail across Buttermilk to Aspen) and a 7 mile hike (both sections of the Rim Trail) before we came home. Charlie and Griffin also win awards for just chilling on our backs for these long hikes. My mom also should get a trophy for carrying our stuff (food, diapers, wipes, you name it, it was in her backpack), since we each had a baby on our backs. I am very thankful to have some pretty laid back babies who will put up with these long hikes and bike rides, and a family who just jump in to help us wherever they can. We had a GREAT time!