Anyway, things have been pretty quiet around here since Christmas. The boys just had a week off of school ..which was soooo nice. Sleeping in, no homework, no lunches. What a nice break. I was even able to spend a day painting while Seth looked after Jude....couldn't have done THAT on a normal day. So my bathroom is finally painted and looks so much nicer. Plus, last weekend we re-painted most of the basement walls..finally! They were COVERED with pencil, crayon, and marker...thanks to 'you-know-who' ;). I think he's finally through the "drawing on the walls" phase so we should be ok now. Although this afternoon he was slamming an upstairs wall with a mini-stick and yes...the wall is now full of dents. Sigh...
He's such a little roughneck. I'm almost scared when the boys have friends over because he's so used to being rough with any boy who's older than him. Jonah and Sam both had friends over today and Jude was punching them, headbutting them...etc etc. That's what he's used to with his brothers so I'm not quite sure how to "un-teach" this.
I'll post a bunch of pictures to show you some of the things the boys have been up to since Christmas. Since I haven't posted any since then I'll include a few of my favourites from our time in Manitoba as well.
I always love pictures of Jonah with his best friend Troy. They had a great fun spending time together at Christmas.
Jude giving Santa a hug at the Moser Christmas.
The boys and their Grandma and Grandpa
Jude and Preston had a hard time getting along at first but eventually they started playing together and not just fighting.
Keith and Sheree had the great idea to get Dad a personalized license plate. "Boppy" is what Seth called Grandpa when he started to talk and now all the grandkids call him Boppy.
Me and my hubby (and my Sethy's head ;) )
These pictures are from Camp Arnes with my family. These are my beautiful sisters. ( I miss you Lucy)
These are all the grandchildren (and great-grandchild)
And, of course, my awesome siblings!!
The boys have been enjoying the Wii we got earlier this year. Jonah loves playing "Guitar Hero"...and he's pretty good at it too.
We bought Jude his own guitar for Christmas so he could play along.
In January, the boys were busy building their rockets for the Boys Brigade "Rocket Launch"
Jude is still loving "Cars". Although it is starting to abate...his favourite movie has now switched to "Hotwheels". LOL... different movie but still about cars and racing.
The boys have had lots of fun school activities in February. I was able to help out in Seth's class when they did a project on "Kitchen Chemisty". They made "Jewish Pastries" which involved seeing how yeast works. They were really yummy. Seth and I actually made a batch today! :)
Sam and Jonah both celebrated "100th day of school".
In Jonah's class, the kids were supposed to dress up like they were 100 years old.
Sam's class has been studying "Communities" so they've formed about 7 different clubs to join and be a part of. Sam joined the "gardening club".
I also popped in on the last day before their holidays when they were all having Valentine's Day parties.
I hope that wasn't TOO many pictures but that's what we've been up to. I also have had a birthday in there...I'm now.....39!!!! Yikes! I had a really nice birthday this year. It happened to be on a Friday night and Trev and I went out to the "Bistro Provence"...an authentic French Restaurant right here in town. It was absolutely wonderful....amazing food!! After dinner we came back home and I opened my birthday gifts. I got an iPod....yeah!!!! I LOVE it!! And the boys got my Madagascar 2....LOL. So we stayed up and watched the movie and this is how the evening ended...me and 2 sleeping boys. It was pretty sweet.
