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Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas 2011

Hanukkah Book List for Boys

6 Year Old Boy:

Henry and Mudge

Nate The Great and The Snowy Trail

Nate The Great Goes Undercover

 

Pokemon Silver and Gold Pokedex

 

8 Year Old Boy:

 

Magic Tree House:

Lions at Lunchtime

Polar Bears Past Bedtime

Attack of the Prehistoric Pokemon

 

BOTH:

 

How To Draw Pokemon

The Lego Idea Book

 

Happy Halloween 2011

We're just back from Trick or Treating.  This year Ben is a SWAT team member and Adam is a Ninja.

 

Pumpkin Patch 2011

We hit a local church's pumpkin patch today to pick up some pumpkins to decorate.  It was cute, with some photo opportunities so I got a couple of shots of the kids. They are wearing their Auburn Tiger stuff - no hoodies for kids or cute fall stuff, but at least it's orange for Halloween!

Note Ben's missing front tooth!

First Day of School

The kids are safely off on the school bus for their first day of 1st grade and 3rd grade!  They picked out their T-shirts.  Adam has a Ninjago Lego shirt and Ben has a Diary of a Wimpy Kid shirt.

Happy Birthday to My Firstborn Son!

Yesterday was Ben's 8th birthday.  Here are some pics for you.  He is really growing up on me.  He has a silly dry sense of humor, a lot like me and his dad.  It's really nice to see him taking on a lot more responsibility around the house.  I am really proud of him.  :-)

 

Ben's Second Grade School Picture

It's just not enough for me to have one handsome son, no, I get to have two handsome sons.  :-)  Here's Ben looking fine in his second grade school picture.  I love the cute leaning against the tree shot. 

Again, Mom and Dad can click on the picture to open Flickr where you can get a full resolution version of the picture.  Internet stalkers can please look at sensa reviews instead.

Adam's Kindergarten School Picture

The boys school pictures came out SO GOOD this year!  I bought the whole package in order to get the CD digital versions too.  (Great marketing on their part - I always fall for it to get the full resolution digital files)

Here is Adam:  (Full res version on Flickr if you click it.  This is for you Mom and Dad)  Creepy Internet stalkers this does not apply to you - go check out epiduo reviews instead.

Bubbles and Plants

The kids got bubble guns in their bunny baskets this morning, so here are two obligatory bubble blowing pictures.

I also did some gardening today.  James brought me tomato plants and also zukes and yellow squash plants that he started in his greenhouse.  Hubster dug up part of the raised bed that we made last year to protect the Air Conditioner unit from water erosion to plant them in.  I hope they grow!

Craft Alert - Yarn Baskets

yarn baskets kids craft

I realized in the middle of the night last night that I have something I have to get in for work before Monday morning. So in a fit of procrastination, I decided that we needed to do YARN CRAFTS.

This one was easy - cut lengths of yarn, soak in watery glue, and lay over a yogurt container an a chinese soup container until they look sort of like birds nests. They are drying out on the front steps, I will post pics after they dry.

The kids know I am making them little knitted amigarumi birds - Chubby Chirps by Rebecca Danger. http://www.rebeccadanger.typepad.com/ so these are going to be nests for their birds.