Sleep

This is one of my favorite parts of being a momma.

Nothing is better than a sweet little sleeping boy squished onto my side of the bed.

Sometimes I try to push them over to Ben, but really I love that they always suction to me.

Lesson Learned--well probably not

My boys love to rough house!

Even when it turns out badly, they still think it's great!

Thanksgiving

We went to Aunt Amy's house for Thanksgiving this year.

It was her first hosting and it was fabulous!

She was so organized, the food was delicious, the table looked awesome, and we all had a good time.

Lucas said the blessing before the meal. Henry interrupted him with his own prayer. I was proud of them both--not for Henry's manners, but for their prayers!

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays--4th of July is my other one!

We don't really have any big traditions for those days, but I think that's why I love them so much. They are low stress and there aren't any expectations. We just do fun stuff and enjoy the day!

Art Projects

We had an Art Day yesterday.

I thought the boys might want to make some Christmas decorations for their bedroom, and Ben and I needed to get the house cleaned, so I set out everything they could possibly need and turned them loose in the art room.

Lucas made a bunch of books. He cut out shapes (reindeer, Santa, Christmas tree, and a couple of others) of construction paper and then stapled them together. He hasn't written any stories in them yet, but he says he's going to.

Henry made Christmas trees. He was hanging them up as he made them. Unfortunately he was using rubber cement to stick it to the wall. He was sad when I took them down!

Josh Oliver passed on Art Day and instead just played with his trains.

The art room is a total mess of construction paper and glue, but the boys had fun and the house is semi clean, so I'd say it was a pretty good day!

Chef Henry

Lately Henry J has been very into making little snack sandwiches.

They are made up of two fritos, peanut butter, a marshmallow, and an apple jack or two. They are his own creation. He has tried to teach Josh Oliver how to make them, but all he really does is eat the peanut butter!

Today when he was making them he decided to try them out on bread.

Just before he was going to give me my own baggie full of deliciousness, I asked him why there was peanut butter and bread smeared on the stool beside him. He said, "Oh, I just had to get the green stuff off because you can't eat that part."

When I looked a little closer at the bread on the counter, it was almost totally green with mold! Yum!

He assured me that all the bread in my baggie had been picked clean of the mold, but I just didn't have the stomach to even take the bag from him.

He cried for so long because his heart was broken. I felt bad, but there was no way I could choke that down. Not even for a cute, freckle faced boy.

(Ben saved the day and brought home some fresh bread! Henry was happy after that and I even ate some of his creation--it wasn't too bad!)

Tomatoes

Henry was outside playing when he noticed that there were still some tomatoes on the vine.

He brought them all inside to me. He was so proud.

I'm especially anxious to eat the big, red, rotten one in the middle!

(He even washed, dried, and put them all in the fridge for me!)

Veteran's Day Parade--our version

The boys put on a parade for me today.

It involved two Army soldiers and one nearly naked drummer boy.

They marched through the living room a few times, and afterwards they had a question and answer time where kids--me--could come and look at all of their stuff and also get an up close look at their bullets, grenades, and bombs. (They've been watching a lot of military documentaries lately.)

It was informative!

I do wish they could have convinced that drummer boy to put some clothes on, though!