Dang, Mom!

My camera is acting wacky, so not all the pictures are turning out, but I thought I would share a funny story.
Jake, in working on number recognition loves to call out the numbers he sees while we are driving: house numbers, highway signs, and especially speed limit signs. We were driving home from school and he said "Mom, did you see that one?" I said, "yes, a three and a five, thirty-five." He said, "no, the other one . . . " Since we had passed it and I had thrown out another number he couldn't remember the one he saw and got flustered trying to think of what it was. Finally he said, "Dang, mom, you need to pay attention to the signs!"
Laughing, I looked back at him and said, "did you just say 'dang'?" He thought a moment, smiled and said, "yes, I learned it from James (his cousin, to whom he credits all his learning). He says 'dang it', I just say 'dang'." Then he told me all the other things James taught him, including how to burp . . . and burped the rest of the way home! :)

Fried Eggs

Robert brought some quail eggs home from work last week. He was going to tell the kids they were chocolate Easter eggs. The kids thought they were so cute they wanted to keep them, but we fried them up with some bacon and toast for lunch today.
Alyssa said they taste better than normal eggs (the kind that come from chickens).

Mud Bath

Last Saturday, with Robert being gone most of the day, my day ended in this: Robert came inside and said, "there is no good way to put this, but have you seen the kids outside?" I was on the couch feeding Logan his bottle and waiting for a chance to run to the store. Without even looking I knew it was just the topper for the day I had been having with the kids. I put Logan down for a nap, took Alyssa with me to the store, and left the rest to Robert. It is nice to know that Natalie and Jake enjoyed the digging I had been doing the past week to soften the dirt. All they needed was to add water and enjoy!

Megaphone

As if he isn't loud enough, this is one of Logan's favorite things, ever since Robert brought it home from work - he had ordered too many funnels. I guess being the fourth child you feel a need to be heard. It gets even better when Jake thinks he needs to imitate Logan's volume level to drown him out. It's a good thing he is so cute :) and I'm glad Jake hasn't found the other one, then they would be in stereo.

LOGAN'S FIRST BIRTHDAY

Yesterday was Logan's 1st Birthday. We had his favorites for dinner: restaurant style macaroni and cheese, watermelon and a good artisan bread. We opened up gifts first - we shouldn't have. Logan needed the help of the whole family to get his present open fast enough, he was shaking with excitement as soon as he saw the riding toy. He had his siblings open his other gifts while he rode around the living room. He cried when we tried to take him off it for cake . . . He stayed on the toy. Robert had to blow the candle out for him as he was reaching to touch the flame. He didn't have cake and ice cream, he was too excited to play with his new toy and realize the other presents were fun to play with also.

Hi -
We made it to Georgia and have now created a blog so you can keep up (as much as I keep up the blog) with the on-goings of our family.
Here we are at Elder Mill covered bridge. It is one of the few all wooden bridges, even the pegs, that is still a working bridge. Yes, we have moved to the country in the south :)