More. Please. Thank-You!

Just a quick video to show Will's signing skills! OK, so maybe they aren't perfect, but it's fun to try! I did this video at breakfast this morning. First he shows the sign for more. Then he asks please, and finally he says thank you! He is a little confused with the sign for thank you. He starts on the side of his head instead of his mouth, but we are getting there! Enjoy!

Check out Beckett's blog, "The Slam"! I finally got around to letting him post an update this morning! It's been a while!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Diggin' Elmo

Within the last couple of weeks, Will has become interested in Elmo! He gets all excited when he sees Elmo and points and says all kinds of stuff that we can't understand! Beckett used to love Elmo as well, so we have quite a few books and Elmo stuffed animals around the house. I caught this sweet moment the other day and had to take a picture. Will loves to get a book, hand it to you and then turn around and back up into your lap so you will read it to him. He was excited to be looking at this Elmo book with his bro! (Please excuse Beckett's "holy" sleep pants!) These are his favorite soft sleep pants and he does not care one bit that the knees are totally worn out of them!

Looking at the cover!

Tickling Elmo's tummy!
Had to share this cute one too! I took this a few days ago when Will fell asleep in his high chair. Poor guy. He had not had much of a nap that day and I got a phone call that went extra long. It looks like he was going for a peach, and just gave up!

Mountain Cabin Weekend

So, this was "home" for the weekend! Rough, huh? We had a great time these last four days with Sean's side of the family in the mountains. Nana and Papa rented a cabin for their three children and their families so that we could spend some good family time together! It was a great weekend for it because we had SNOW! It was so beautiful and the kids had a great time playing together!

Here is a picture of all seven grandkids in the snow!
If we weren't outside playing in snow, we were eating or doing a lot of this.......

Or this! How fun to be in the hot tub while it was snowing!

I'm not sure this very loaded down sled went very far!

This was the view from the back porch yesterday afternoon!

Beautiful!

Oh Lord, how many are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your possesions! Psalm 104:24

Cheap Entertainment

Just a quick post with some fun pics of Will's new favorite thing to do. We re-arranged our living room before Christmas so we could place our Christmas tree in front of the big window. Now that the tree is gone, I kind of like this space with nothing in it. So does Will! This is his new game........

1. Go hide behind the curtains.

2. Wait for someone to ask, "Where is Will?"

3. Then come bursting out from behind the curtains with squeals of delight.

4. Enjoy all of the laughter from your audience.

Repeat.

MANY times.

This can seriously go on for a LONG time and provides tons of laughter for everyone!

Will T. brings SO much joy to our family! What fun!

Helen's Big Birthday Post

So this is going to be a big post with lots of pictures, but turning 5 is a big deal, so we wanted to remember Helen's special celebrations! Her birthday was last Thursday and she was fortunate enough to have both sets of her grandparents join us that night for birthday dinner! Nana, Papa, Grankaki and Granbob all came over for pizza and brownie sundaes! Nana brought a bunch of clothes for Helen from her older cousin Lillie and she had fun trying them all on and giving us a fashion show. She spent most of the evening in Lillie's old gymnastics leotards! Here she is with her birthday gifts!

Posing in her birthday crown that she got at school that day!
Helen wanted brownie sundaes instead of a birthday cake! Here she is with the pan of brownies! (Notice the leotard change!)

We don't do big birthday parties each year, but #5 is a biggie around here, so we let the kids pick a special place to have a friend party for their fifth birthday! Helen chose The Cupcakery and it was a great party. We were able to do the party on the Monday morning after her birthday. The ONLY problem with her party was that space was limited and she could only invite 12 friends! She wanted EVERYONE to come! It was so hard for her to pick which friends to invite! She told everyone that she saw to please come to her party! :) Here is a picture of Helen with her balloons before her guests arrived! Check out all of those yummy cupcakes behind her! Oh their cupcakes are delicious!

Helen's cousin Lillie had the perfect shirt for the party!

Here is the table with all of the kiddos getting ready to decorate their aprons!

Lots of beautiful aprons were designed!

Helen getting some help putting on her apron!

After Helen opened her gifts, the ladies at the Cupcakery gave the kids some instructions about putting the icing on their cupcakes.

Helen's cousin Connor getting ready to load up his cupcake with chocolate icing!

The birthday girl with her cupcake creation!

We added five candles to Helen's cupcake and sang the happy birthday song to her!

Some of the girls were trying to sneak a peek at the lady in the kitchen who was decorating cupcakes! They were having so much fun! I don't think they realized that the window was there so that you could look in if you wanted to!

Well, Helen has sufficiently celebrated her fifth birthday! We successfully spread the celebrating out over several days and I think she fully enjoyed herself! We are so blessed by her precious life and love this little girl so much! I love being Helen's mommy!

Five.

Happy Birthday to my sweet little girl! Helen turns five years old today! She is at Mother's Day Out right now, but this is a picture of her before she left for school. They have been working on the letter "P" this week and today is Pajama day. That is why she still has on her nightgown! They are also having Pizza for lunch! She thinks it is pretty cool that she gets to wear pajamas and have pizza on her birthday! Here she is with our birthday flag this morning!
Helen's friend Sophie turned five yesterday, so we got them a cookie with their names on it to share with their friends at school today! Here is a picture that I took of the girls before I left. I'm sure they are having a very fun day!

Just a couple of pictures of Will after his bath! I've been meaning to take some pics of him with his little hoodie towels for some time now, and I finally did it yesterday! I just think babies looks so cute when they are all wrapped up in their bath towels!

Serious cuteness!

And here is Beckett last Saturday morning before his first basketball game. He is playing basketball for the third year and they started their season last week! He had a fun time playing and scored two or three baskets! He is getting so big! Love him!