"Mom! What are you doing?"

So…..a few days after being home from the hospital I was sitting on the couch nursing Harper.

Chad came up and started to ask me something. He said, “Hey mom, can I go to---(he stopped) Mom! What are YOU doing??”
Me- “Uhhh, I’m nursing or feeding Harper.” I thought he had seen me do this before when I had Hadley. Guess he doesn’t remember.
Chad- “That is weird…..What are you feeding her?”
Me- “Um, milk.”
Chad- “That. Is. Weird….And she just eats it like that?”
Me- “Yep.”
Chad- As he walks away “That is weird.”
Then Chad walks back around to me and says… “Mom, YOU are like a cow!”

The Week Before Christmas.....

So.....I think a lot of our Christmas traditions revolve around yummy food. After church we made Christmas sugar cookies. The kids really got into the rolling out of the dough and cutting them out. Then they really got into the frosting--of course.We had Christmas parties at school. These are some pictures of Hadley and Colten. Their nickname at school is "The Mr. & Mrs." They are inseparable.

Vandergriff school parties started in the morning with a big Christmas sing-a-long. Then there were classroom parties later in the afternoon. Chad is with his friend Lauren. And Braden is giving the magnum look?

Chad's Kindergarten Play

Chad made his acting debut in the Kindergarten play. He got to be the snowman and actually wore the same snowman costume Austin wore when he was in 1st grade.

This was one of the few "down" days we had this summer. We woke up and it was raining so we spent the morning inside playing with Play-doh. By mid-morning the rain had cleared and the boys were busy making a robot out of a box that a kitchen set had come in for hadley. After completing the robot the boys walked around to some neighbors houses trying to play a prank on some friends or something.

Safari in Arkansas

we had too much fun on our trip to the safari out in gentry this last week. the best part was getting to play with our new monkey friend, kiwi. she was the cutest thing ever! hadley loved seeing all of the "cows" that is what she called everything on four legs.

go comets!

braden had a soccer tournament this weekend. we all went out to the fields to watch the games and enjoy the beautiful weather.
later tonight we were getting dressed in out church clothes (a little out of the ordinary since it was saturday) to go to the Springdale Stake dedication.
chad- "what are we going to do after we go to church?"
mark-"if you're good maybe we'll go get something to eat."
chad-"but....we're going to come home and change our clothes right??? because we don't want to look like church people."

"mom i can't hold on!" chad

so....we had so much flying kites on saturday i decided to do it again. a bunch of us moms met at the park ready for another perfect day of kite flying. it really was quite crazy all of the tangled string and kite tails and a bunch of 3 and 4 year olds wanting it to be "their turn".
chad got his kite in the air--he had all of the string let out and the kite was f-lying so high! but....if the kite was a little bigger or chad was a little smaller, chad would have flown away. chad started yelling, "mom i can't hold on!!!" he let go and we both chased after the kite only to have the spool get caught in the tree. the kite however kept on flying high for the rest of the day.