Sunday, September 26, 2010

Personality in a Picture

I wanted to take a picture of each of the kids to help capture their personality. I thought it might be fun to do every once in awhile.
Titus was the most difficult since he is the youngest. Titus is an explorer. Much like Grace was as a baby he loves to check out everything. He will ignore a huge pile of fancy toys and crawl off behind the couch, under the table, or even down the hall. He puts anything he can find in his mouth. Like this marker he found under our dishwasher. His favorite snack stop is our shoe basket where he loves a good flip flopcicle. One of our scarier moments was recently when I was driving down the road. I heard him making a gagging noise. I pulled over and upon investigation fished a huge piece of cardboard out of his mouth. I am guessing he found it on the floor before we left home. He had probably been chewing on it for 20 minutes! Oh, the fun of a little boy who loves to explore.

Grace is my organizer. Here she has sorted her Poly Pocket accessories. When she plays she is often planning something like a pretend birthday party or organizing something like her doll house. Recently we totally reorganized the playroom into bins. She loved this project and was a very enthusiastic helper. Each day she would beg me to go sort stuff! She is definitely like me. She also loves to organize people. (I think some people called that being bossy when I was growing up) If you are willing to go along with her plans you will most likely be her new best friend. Which her sister is often willing to do so they have a lot of fun together.

Faith is my quite collector. Its not uncommon for me to find her quietly playing, content to entertain herself. (often with her pink right next to her) When she plays she often gets attached to an object or set of objects. She carries them around everywhere. To the dinner table, the bathroom, her bed, etc. She will cart them around sometimes even for a few days. She is perfectly happy unless someone else decides they would like to play with, touch, or even look at said toys. Then you will hear the most horrible screeching!

If there is a meltdown at our house it is probably one of three things:
1. Titus is eating something that belongs to the girls (puzzle pieces beware!)
2. Faith had decided she is tired of her sister making the plan.
3. Grace has decided she wants to play with one of her sister's current favorite objects.

Oh, how I am loving watching their personalities develop and I am excited to see how God will use their uniqueness for His kingdom.

Grandpa's Birthday

In September we had a great time celebrating Grandpa Rick's birthday with him. We spent the entire Saturday doing fun things. During the morning Grandma Leeanne, me, & the kiddos went to do a little garage sale shopping. We found a few bargains and enjoyed being outside. While we were bargain hunting the boys went to shoot guns. Doesn't sound all that exciting to me, but they had fun.

After lunch the girls enjoyed playing in the sand along the creek. The flooding earlier in the summer had left a great sandy spot. Grace found some more geodes and Grandpa opened one for her to see. The weather was perfect for spending time outdoors swinging, eating, and playing in the yard.

Fun in the Sand
Swinging on the Porch Swing

Sand Pie, yum!


Birthday pecan pie, with relighting candles!

Our brave explorer.

Geode fun.
Happy Birthday Grandpa Rick!