Fun!

Elias tells us when he likes something by saying “Fun!” the entire time we are doing whatever it is we are doing. It makes us all smile. Some of his current favorite fun includes:

Reading his mower book while listening to Never Enough from The Greatest Showman. These things must be done together...if you are reading the book you must turn on the song, and if the song comes on then you must find your book! He requests the song every time we drive...”Mommy! Neber Neber Me!!!”

A trip to the $1 Tree was literally my only effort to be ready for summer. I’ve never had less motivation to be prepared for anything than summer 2018. We’re winging it, apparently. Elias made himself an office while we wandered aimlessly shopped. 

Dry beans can be expensive when you want a whole tub to play in, but thank you $1 Tree for being you. All three boys love this activity. 

We had a family movie afternoon and I spent 10 min picking apart the corn kernels for him. He was so excited to be included in the snack because it’s fun!

Chain saws are still his favorite. 

I recently realized the fireplace (that we will never use) is metal. He loves sticking the Magnatiles to it. 

He hates pirates. They scare him. This is how he tells me about pirates along with a growl “Ahrrrrrr”. It’s fun for me. :)

Finally!

We are SO glad winter is over and we can be together again!

Last Days at Home

Lewis and I have enjoyed our last few weeks of him being home after preschool. We had a great routine that worked well for us both. I’ll miss his company this fall in the afternoons. 

Every day we go home for lunch, then Elias lays down for a nap. Lewis and I sometimes have dessert together, and then he builds a nest for quiet time he fills it with 5 toys/books/things to do and spends 45 min to an hour happy as a clam. I have quiet time on the couch and drink my coffee with no one bumping it out of my hand. 

Some days instead of a nest he plays in the kitchen with dry rice, beans, kinetic sand, or playdoh. 

Some days he disappears into the playroom and pulls out all kinds of activities on his own. He’s really quite awesome at quiet time. 



The other day he had 15 minutes left so I told him to read some books in the easy chair. He decided my book about the preschool years was a good choice and “read” it for 15 minutes straight. It made me laugh!

Fire Fighter Fun Run

Another year full of fun at the run!

Worth It

Being the one who stays home, it’s easy to loose sight of why we say yes to being a missionary family. I don’t often get to see the fruit, although Logan is good about telling me stories. I don’t often get to see the faces of the students he mentors, but I know they are worth the sacrifice. 

I don’t often get to sit and listen to their hearts, but this last semester I was given the chance because our family is in a season that allowed it. And it was what Logan and I looked forward to the most on Mondays. 

Seven of Logan’s students hung out at our house every Monday evening after the boys were in bed. We watched a dvd series on Catholic saints. The videos were about an hour each, and then they would stay another three. The questions would start flowing. About the saint of the evening, life, families, love, dating, marriage, church teachings, hopes, dreams, wounds, healing. It was so beautiful. 

We get one more year with most of them, and I’m so looking forward to it! 

Mud

I think this is Lewis’ best mud pie to date. It’s just perfectly muddy. 

He spends so much time in the mud kitchen. He’s thinking so much that I can’t even understand him as he whispers because he’s talking too fast. 

Pretty Much Summer

We didn’t really have spring. It’s been in the 80s and 90s with humidity for a week and a half already. Weve already been pulling out our summer staples. 

Dino habitat...although we had to go to our old house and snatch a bunch of rocks. We returned them. :)

Mud mud mud! Luckily mud is still loads of fun whether is drizzly spring or sticky summer. 

Bikes! It’s a bit of a learning curve when you’ve had a giant asphalt track right across the street from your house your whole bike-riding life and then you move to a house with regular old sidewalks. Not as fun, and not as much energy burned. 

Augustine needed a new bike, so when we noticed a nice one for sale outside a thrift store we snatched it up. Augustine’s favorite thing about it? The kickstand. “I’ve ALWAYS wanted a bike with a kickstand, Mom!!!”

Backyard play dates. You’re looking at two of the easiest toddlers on earth here. They must have sat right there for 20-30 minutes straight. It was amazing. 

Some friends had a Pentecost Party and unfortunately it was drizzly all day long. That didn’t stop anyone from celebrating the Church’s birthday though! Everyone out on rain gear and the kids had a hay day. Muddy from head to toe and loving it. I don’t mind mud so it was really fun to watch the kids be so happy!

Parks! He can do so much by himself now. He just runs around trying everything out while saying”Fun mommy! Fun!”