My Faith and Joy… and Boys!

Enjoying the outdoors is MUCH more fun when Aunt Angie comes along!

Jimmy: “I like Jesus.  I like God.  I like Kate.  I like cookies.  I like raw meat.”

Gone are the days I worried about my kids making messes. 

It’s taken me four children to figure it out, but I’ve finally realized that kids – and kitchens – are washable!

Below are pictures of the boys playing with the paste I let them make with flour and water and paint.  It definitely wasn’t our cleanest activity, but it was one of their favorites! 

After my girls saw some pictures of construction paper costumes created by my cousins’ daughters, they have been begging me to let them follow suit.  Who am I to stand in the way of the creative process?  So I got them supplies and left them to their own devices.  In the last two days, armed with a pad of colored construction paper, scissors and oodles of scotch tape, they have…

…turned a horse into a unicorn:

Made functional masks (in addition to fairy wings, which were taped to their backs):

Decorated their window:

And recreated the characters from Eric Carle’s “Brown Bear, Brown Bear” (you’ll see a red bird, green frog, brown-ish bear, purple cat, black dog, gold fish, blue horse, yellow duck, and white sheep):

I can’t wait to see what they come up with next!

Even though he’s been walking for five months now (since 11 months old), Danny has recently re-discovered his love for baby walkers.  And I re-discovered my love for putting funny glasses and hats on my kids.