January 22, 2010

We were at the Southard's tonight and Desmond stop by between work and hanging out with a bunch of girls. (Thanks for making time for us Des) He mentioned the other day that he needed someone to teach him how to tie a tie and we told him Steve would show him how. He wears one at work and is a self taught tie tier. So tonight was his night to learn how to tie a tie the "correct" way. It was pretty funny. We were so all confused, I am so glad us girls don't have to wear ties. Joyce recorded Steve's lesson on Desmond's iphone and Steve told him to go home and practice.

So Desmond, I expect to see a perfectly tied tie next time I see you. Although I think you are doing just a fine job on your own!

January 20, 2011

Cael wanted to Skype so bad with someone tonight. Here he is waiting when I told him Aunt Bethy was about to call him. Too bad she lied and ended up ditching us. So he just continued to wait. Poor little fella.

(I had his mouse and the baby wipes in the back ground cropped out but I ended up changing it back for several reasons. First, I wanted you to see his mouse again. He loves it and always wants it in the same room with him. And if I had cropped the wipes out you would have missed out on seeing his BFF right by his side!)

January 19, 2011

Lot's of pictures for today. I had to include this picture because of my friend Emily and the picture she posted yesterday. With out us knowing it we each started doing a letter of the week with our kiddo's. Cael can recognize, say the name and for the most part tell you the sound of each letter up to M. So I started last week with the letter M. When Tara's brother died we put things on hold so yesterday we finished up with our letter M and made our mouse. We would make a craft each day and had an M book that we made and read each day. I am sure you will be seeing more about our letter of the week.

Okay on to our real picture(s) of the day. As much as I could be done with our dogs, I do love that Cael loves Gertie so much. So she remains a part of our family.

She is pretty cute!

Today Cael asked me to take his picture with Gertie while he was "putting her to sleep". He calls her his Baby Gertie and is constantly trying to hand feed her her food and put her to bed. It is mighty precious.

This last picture cracks me up.....Gertie has this look on her face a lot. It's like she is begging me to rescue her.

January 18, 2011

Today is Benjamin's Gotcha Day! I can't believe it has only been a year that he has been part of our family. We celebrated by going our for hamburgers, a Gotcha Day tradition for both kiddo's. WE LOVE YOU BENJAMIN!!

January 17, 2011

Alyssa gave Cael this dog for Christmas. It was one of hers that she has had for a while. Cael LOVES it! He named it "Baby Woow" (he says woow instead of woof). His Baby Woow is right beside him during his nap and at night. Mr. Bear is still in the picture but for most nights he is off to the side while Baby Woow is wrapped up in Cael's arm. Other nights Cael has his arms wrapped around both Mr. Bear and Baby Woow. I will have to try and get a picture of that.

I'm telling you, my child is beyond blessed to be so love by all four of the Southards!

January 16, 2011

Small group started tonight after a few weeks off during Christmas. This is our group minus, get ready for it: Jon & Heather; Adam, Katie, Wesley and Owen; Braden; and Justin. We have a big small group, but it's wonderful. I've said it before and I'll say it again..I love these people. (and all of you who use to be in our small group but moved away and left us)

Here is a bonus picture. Cael and Joel spent some time playing the piano tonight. Cael would play and sing while flipping the pages in Emily's piano book. He was taking it all very serious and it was super cute!

January 15,2011

After Justin's memorial service we, along with the Southards, went to the Noggle's house to hang out and talk. As always we had a nice time, it's wonderful being someplace and with people where you can 100% be your self. I think we all needed that tonight!

Cael was a bit on the grumpy side, but I guess he does have an excuse. (btw my little man has croup..did I mention that last night? I don't think I did, I will give you more details later)

I needed a picture before we left so I asked the kiddo's to head to the stairs. Can you guess which of the four was not to happy about what we were doing??