Tuesday, February 28, 2017

conrad jay - week 42


The weather was gorgeous this past week so we spent a lot of time outside.  Below, the boys were drawing in the nature journals.  I sent them out to find something "cool".  And boy did they.  Thing after thing!


Ivan is becoming quite the problem solver.  Part of school time, he wants to sit with us and do everything we are doing, but sometimes, he'll go off and do his own thing. He wants to do everything himself these days, and most of the time he can figure it out.  We had friends over on Thursday and decided to eat in our sunroom.  Here comes Ivan bringing me the gallon of milk, with the lid off because he needed more!!

We try to write stories on Fridays.  You can tell they are working hard.  Silas has his tongue out.  
After a date night on Friday, we headed to Chanute to celebrate Clara's 3rd birthday with her!  What a sweetie!

It had been too long since we had been there, so it was fun to get to spend most of the day just hanging out and eating food.

SISTERS!  


Whenever we get together, Gramps looks like this most of the time.  One in each arm!

This is our version of calendar time this year.  We try to keep track of the things going on in our week.  We say the date and Silas gets to count how many days we've completed so far.  I can't believe it's already time for March's calendar.  As you can see, our February calendar was dearly loved.


Monday's are turning in our day to go on a hike as a family.  We just keep having really nice weather.  And this Monday, we decided to finally hike up to the praying hands.  We're constantly driving by them and Ivan let's us know they are there, so it was time!


Amos said, "That was our first adventure today."


Our next adventure was running around the pavilion!  That thought the echo was awesome.  And they were even willing to recite their poems for Dad on the stage!!  It sure made all our time memorizing them worth it!




Tuesday, February 21, 2017

conrad jay - week 41


With a sick baby on Monday, our Valentine's Day didn't go quite as we planned. But by that evening, everyone was feeling better and had Valentine's money burning a hole in their pockets.  We headed to the toy store.  It was a hard choice, but the two older boys settled on some new weapons.  A lazer gun and a light saber.  Ivan couldn't make up his mind, and walked out with his money still intact.

Nana wrote special notes in everyone's cards and Amos read them to everyone.

We celebrated with steaks and dessert. 

A Valentine's Day fight, for your viewing pleasure.

And here are the boys re-watching their fight.




I wish you could hear Ivan's "Jesus Loves you" song to Conrad.  He was rocking and patting his head, but stood up when I came in.  He sure loves his brother...most of the time.

Lots and lots of food for this guy.  Cheerios and yogurt are still our go-to breakfast.  He also likes pancakes, muffins, and eggs.


This boy was going to town on an apple slice.  He still has no teeth, but he was using that apple like a teether.  Don't worry, I was right there and pulled out any peel he got broken off.  

Jason had to late nights with parent teacher conferences, but then had Friday off.  His whole family came for a visit.  

This was one of the older two boys' favorite spots.  They had fun creating all kinds of lego vehicles.

 Emma was getting out some energy while waiting for it to warm up enough to go outside.



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And warm up it did!  We headed to our favorite, Wildcat Glades!

Once again, the boys showed off all their favorite spots.






We sat down for a group picture and realized everyone was staring into the sun!  WHoops!  Lots of smiles anyway!










 Can you believe the weather we were having?  The falls were beautiful.

We were sad to see them go, but in a month we will see them again when we drop off the younger two boys while the rest of us go skiing.

The Corcoran kids brought fun to our Saturday evening!  The kids all played so well together and Mr. Jason was obviously entertaining! These kids LOVE books!


My mom had school off on Monday and my sister was coming to visit so we tagged along too!  Gramps sure got his work-out in pushing this wheelbarrow around.