Call It What You Want...

Just in case you haven't seen my boys in a while, this is what you're missing. Apparently, just after getting home from watching them, Grandpa was asking Grandma when they would get to see boys again... :) Tee hee hee. Good thing he's retired!

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In this photo, Mark helps Daddy get the background set for an exciting photo session with our friends Anna, Noah, and Elijah and their parents.

This is Blankey Bear. It is Adam's favorite friend, and he got it from Uncle Brian and Aunt Tara. He likes to hold it and suck his fingers. It means it's bedtime. This is the day that Blankey Bear got washed in the washing machine because his nose was all brown (this is what happens when you suck on the nose and then rub it on the ground/floor/etc.), and then he almost got another bath in the bathtub.

This is most of the kids who went hiking a couple weeks ago with Pathfinders. Anna and Adam didn't make the picture because the swing was too full, and we don't trust anyone to hold someone on their lap. That's Dylan, Elijah, Noah, Mark, Ethan, and Ryan. Everyone was having a lot of fun that day at Cool Creek Park.

This is Adam with his horse on his birthday (when it was new). A few weeks ago, it quit working. It's been sitting on the kitchen counter waiting for new batteries, and every time Adam sees it, he wants it. So today I got new batteries. They cost more than the toy did! :( Oh well. Then I installed the new batteries. The horse didn't work!

Ugh. I got a tiny screwdriver and took the thing apart to see if there was a broken connection I could fix or something, only to discover, after I got it all apart, that the batteries were installed upside down. I turned them over. It worked. I put it back together, got the wheels back in place and all the screws in, to discover the red "C" circle fell a little wonky in the putting it back together and doesn't push in. I think I'm going to leave it. It still plays music and the other letters and shapes seem to work just fine. Hey! With a little pushing, I made it work, too!

Oh, and by the way, I had enough hair to donate, so I got a haircut the other day.