Friday, December 23, 2011

Captain America shields

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Adam has been wanting a Captain America shield the past few weeks. We still have lots of thick cardboard from the stable building project, so on Monday I got the idea to try and make a shield out of cardboard for Adam. This started out as a project I was doing with the kids…but soon I realized it was too hard to cut the thick cardboard with a knife or scissors, so we needed Alex’s help. When Alex got home he mostly took over the project, but I am glad he did because the shields turned out great, and I was getting a bit frustrated with the project by then anyways.

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Amazingly Alex had silver, sparkly blue, red, and white paint left over from other things. Plus the shiny clear top coat to cover it all.  I was just going to use the kids’ red and blue tempera paints on a white poster board background, glued to the cardboard – but clearly this project got kicked up to a much more “polished” level by Daddy. We could have used these for Christmas presents if we had kept them a secret, but that’s okay. I didn’t plan ahead enough for that idea. I love how they turned out and so do the boys! Thank you Daddy :) Adam hardly ever put his shield down yesterday!

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And Tyler has a little shield made from a paper plate too! I made this one all by myself, thank you very much - impressive I know ;)

In other news, here’s what the boys were doing this afternoon:

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Happy day before Christmas Eve!

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Gotta love red and green sweater vests!

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Christmas is coming…

Adam loves to sing this song:

Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat
Please put a penny in the old man's hat
If you haven't got a penny, a half penny will do.
If you haven't got a half penny, then God bless you!

Sometimes Adam and Erik will substitute different words into the song in the place of penny. For example “chicken”. This was Erik’s idea I believe. Try singing the song with chicken in it instead of penny. It is pretty funny!

Another of their variations goes like this:

Christmas is coming, and Santa’s getting fat
Please put a cookie in the old man's hat
If you haven't got a cookie, a half cookie will do.
If you haven't got a half cookie, then God bless you!

Now some pictures from December…

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Adam’s pilgrim hat from preschool.

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And the gingerbread house we made…also from a preschool activity.

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Getting costumes ready for our church Nativity play. Don’t you know shepherds had cell phones:)

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Tyler the shepherd. This is really Erik’s costume, but Tyler wanted to wear it too.

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Adam is a sheep…baaaaa!

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On the night of the Christmas party and play. Two shepherds and a sheep.

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Here is the stable for the play…Alex made it out of cardboard from piano boxes. It was pretty awesome!

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Erik with all the other shepherds.

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The shepherds listening to the angel.

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You can see Erik on the far left, and Adam’s pretty easy to spot in his sheep ears and white fluffy outfit :)

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Singing Silent Night.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Old Tucson

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Last week Adam had a field trip to Old Tucson Studios.

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His favorite thing was to ride the carousel over and over. Or the “merry–go-round” as he calls it.

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Dad took Adam to the “Can-Can Review” in the hotel on Main Street.  The music was more than Adam could take and he went submarine on the whole affair. I guess it was too loud for him.

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He liked the lake and watching the big water falls and the little baby water falls.  He liked it so long as he forgot the carousel.

Saturday, December 10, 2011

The BOOK!
Below is a preview of the book we made from the blog. You can view the entire book. Enjoy.

Monday, December 5, 2011

Ready for church!

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Horsey-back rides

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It’s always fun to sit on your brother!

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Tyler looks like a little monkey holding onto Erik’s back.

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Smile

Thanksgiving

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What do you do when grandparents and uncles come to visit? Play with their electronic devices of course!

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And beg for shoulder rides…better known in our house as “dinosaur rides.”

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According to Adam, the whole reason for Thanksgiving was the pumpkin pie!

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Tasty :)

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The boys loved playing with everyone…

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They had a fun time playing Uno with Grandma Beth, Jeremy, and David.

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Taking pictures with Papa Dave.

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Tyler showing his upset face…

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And happy face ;)