Random pictures & happenings

Jay loves kindergarten and is very interested in writing letters & sounding out words. This is Jay working on "his book," which contains a made up song, people he loves and various thoughts & illustrations. I'll have to take some pictures of it.

Asher's preschool today had of a visit from a real fireman, in complete uniform and firetruck. He loved it! His teacher Miss Angela says Ash is very good at coloring, especially for a 3 year old.

For FHE this week we went fishing with our friends the Whitney's. I love the look on Jay's face smiling at the fish. The boys fished for maybe 20 minutes, caught tadpoles and then threw rocks in the pond the rest of the time. They were in heaven. I loved watching them laugh and conspire together. These brothers are good friends.

This is a shot of Ash handing off a tadpole to Jay, so they could both hold it.

Sweet Matthew Ridge. If you look close you can see his chipped front tooth. A few weeks ago he gave us a scare by biting through his tongue. He had bent down to pick up a ball and bonked his mouth on our tub. The scar is pretty bad. Ridge gives the best hello hugs any time he hasn't seen you for a few minutes. We love the sounds of his enthusiastic running toward us and little arms clinging to our legs. He is good at making others feel loved.

And of course hardly a day goes by without major fort building and made up games. This game consisted of seeing which stuffed animal would collapse Thomas train the most. They were catapulting all kinds of animals. I think the alligator won.