Happy Birthday, Nathan

We celebrated Nathan's 6th birthday recently. How can my firstborn be 6 already?!?

On his actual day, we had his chosen meal of Chinese dumplings, spinach, carrots, cucumbers, broccoli and veggie dip. He wanted Chocolate Caramel Cheesecake for dessert. He has very sophisticated tastes!

The next weekend, Grandma and Grandpa joined us for another celebration. He wanted a Lego cake. It was actually easier to do than I thought. He was impressed.



One of many Star Wars presents he received. He was so excited! Note, UM losing to OSU in the background...
He got an Optimus Prime costume, too.

Nathan's Thank You Note

Nathan composed the note. I helped him spell the words he didn't know.

Andrew on God's Weapons of Choice

We were listening to a lecture this morning in the car on the way to Bible Study. It was called "20 Battles That Changed the Course of History". It talks about the Providence of God throughout history.

We had only listened to a few minutes when Andrew said, "Mommy, God doesn't use weaponeds [his way of saying 'weapons'], guns, or lightsabers to kill anyone. He just uses his voice."

Evan's Sentence

Our Bright Beginnings Parent Educator came for a visit this morning. It's always something that the boys look forward to. She played a "game" with Andrew and Evan to see how many pictures they could name in a minute. She had one picture per card and timed them with a stopwatch.

Andrew was whizzing through them and got 32. Evan was hilarious. He didn't know some of them, so he started off by saying, "I don't know." Then, by the end, he was saying, "I don't know what that is." Nicole and I were both impressed with his sentence. He ended up getting 6 of them right and was very proud.

Dad is an Octopus

A very random conversation with Nathan this morning:

Nathan: "Who is the grabbiest in our family between you and Dad?"
Mom: "Grabbiest?"
Nathan: "Yeah, like an octopus grabbing people between his tentacles."
Mom: "I don't know. Who do you think?"
Nathan: "I'll say....Dad."

Wisdom from Nathan

On the way home from church tonight:

Andrew: "I'm not used to Nathan."
Mom: "What about him aren't you used to?"
Andrew: "Sometimes he hurts me."
Nathan: "This is a sinful world, Andrew. We all sin against God."

55 and 100

Apparently, 55 is the new 100. Scary.

Andrew: "Mom, when you are 55, you will be close to 100."

Pumpkins

Here are a few pictures of the boys with their pumpkins. Andrew designed his pumpkin, and Elbert carved it. Nathan designed and carved his pumpkin all by himself. He worked for almost 3 hours carving it. I told him in the middle that I was proud of his perseverance. He told me several times later, "I have a lot of perseverance!"


Andrew's pumpkin is on the left. Nathan's is on the right.

Before trick-or-treating

Heading out into the cold
Back to warm up...They were out for almost an hour and a half. I was happy to stay in our warm house and hand out candy.

Stay-at-Home Moms Don't Work

This morning as I was getting Evan up from bed:

Evan: "Where's Daddy?" [A question he asks almost every morning]
Mom: "Daddy went to work."
Evan: "Mommy don't work."
Mom: "Mommy stays home with you."
Evan: "Mommy don't work."