Halle Thoughts!

Halle and I were having a discussion on why we can't touch our eyeballs. She said she really wanted to touch her eyeball and then decided she would try to touch it with a comb. I proceeded to tell her about why we should never stick objects in our eyes and how our eyes are very sensitive. I told her a story about a lady. Her brother had shot an arrow and it hit her in the eye, and now she can't see. She then asked, "well did Jesus come and help her?" I said, "No" and she said, "So did they drive to go see Jesus?" I said, "No I think they just drove to the hospital, you can't drive to see Jesus." Then Halle proceeded to pull a map out of the drawer and said, "Mom show me here on this map where Jesus lives." I then told her I couldn't show her on the map because heaven is not on the map." I then asked, "have you ever seen Jesus?" She said, "No, have you seen Jesus?" I said, "No, most people only see Jesus after they die." She looked at me and said, "I don't want to die" she then continued and said, "mom's don't die, right!" I said, "well everyone dies Halle, but most people won't die until they get old. You know Nanny she is getting older.... Halle piped in with "and great grandma is getting older too." I said, "yes, so we want to spend as much time with them as we can because they won't always be with us." She then said, "That will be so sad mom, we are going to be so sad with out Great Grandma and Nanny."
I love these little conversations I have with my sweet little girl.

I looked at her today and said, "I 'm sure going to miss you when you go to school all day!" She said, "I don't want to go to school all day. I think I just want to stay here with you." I hope she always stays so innocent and sweet. I'm sure she'll change her mind about being home with me all day. She loves to play with friends and would stay all day at someone elses house if I would leave her. Every time she has a playdate and I come to pick her up she says, "I didn't stay too long, mom!"

STRONG GUY!!

This is what Kelton likes to do! If there is a door way or something to climb there is Kelton!

Kelton does pull-ups in the doorways for fun! It looks easy, but try doing pull-ups with just your finger tips! Hayden and Kara thought it looked easy so they climbed up to give it a try, not as easy as it looks!

Nice muscles Kelt!

Love that smile!

He even does the body pull-up!

Kelton said "Mom you know my teacher she can tell if your writing your letters wrong even when she is not looking! You know she said, Max that is not how you write your G's and she was not even looking at him! And you know what mom I believe her!!"

Kelton was complaining about some new shoes he had just gotten and Brent was saying "I can't believe you did not tell us these hurt in the store!" Kelton replied, "they're comfortable, but they hurt sooo bad!"

Reading!

Big brother Hayden has been reading "Peter and the Star Catchers" to Kara and Kelton before they go to bed. Hayden loves to read. He want's to share all his favorite books with Kara and Kelton. Sometimes they are not as excited as he is about reading, but they try to be enthused.


Hayden has really grown up, but he's still just a little boy. He likes to come in and snuggle in bed with us and read his books. He also is always begging one of us to lay by him. When I give him hugs he tends to linger and just stands there and hugs me back for as long as possible. I don't know if he feels like he is growing up and trying to hang on to that last little bit of childhood, but I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts (Hayden's never been my big snuggler, he's always been to busy for that kind of stuff). I'm sure one day I'll wake up and he really will be all grown up or maybe he'll always just be that little boy who can't get enough play time in.

Halle reading a Goodnight Story to her baby!

I came up the stairs to find Halle reading to her babies and then tucking them all into bed. She is going to be a good mommy someday!

Halle's Preschool!

I decided to teach preschool this year! My emphasis is reading, but boy do we have lots of fun! Every Thursday after reading we go to Grandma's house for a cooking class! We have learned to make all sorts of things.

Halle pouring her ingredients.

I love this picture! I was pretending to be the big bad wolf and they were the 4 little pigs! They loved it!

Halle writing her name!

Halle writing her name again!

Playtime!

Painting apple trees! Their arms were the trunk and the side of their hands were the leaves! Then we used cork for the apples and different shaped sponges for the people picking the apples. They turned out really cute!

Play dough.

Teddy Bear Picnic!

Cooking Class! We went in disguise!

Greasing our pans!

What a great cook!

Stirring with Grandma!

All about me week! Halle with her baby picture!

Taking advantage of the beautiful weather! Snack time outside!!

Halle cutting and pasting!

I made me books for the kids! The last page was a picture of each kid that said "To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world!" I thought they turned out really cute!!

Painting!

Tea time!

The kids made these aprons for our cooking classes! It says "Don't BUG Me I'm Cooking." Then the kids used their fingerprints to make little bugs on their apron. Grandma came up with the great slogan all on her own.

Halle loves preschool and so do I! I have a preschool blog but it is private so I'll just try to keep updated with some of Halle at preschool!

Kelton with his ME!

Kelton made this at school for back to school night!
He decided to put it on and pretend to be himself!

A few days ago Kelton went to Reggie's house to play. Reggie's mom had instructed him not to open the door for anyone. When Kelton came home he told me, "Aunt Natalie said, Reggie can't open the door for anyone not even me!" I said, "Oh really why?" He said, "because it might be a bad guy dressed up like me!" Now that would be one scary bad guy!!(: