Email

Tommy is growing up and starting to mimic his mom and dad in new ways. The past 3 days, when we have come inside after playing in the yard he makes his way over to the office and states, "I'm going to check my email." It is very cute and funny to hear him say the same phrase that Tom and I must have repeated to him a number of times. Today, while Tommy was checking his email he printed for me 17 pages of the Hunt's Recipes home page. Not a single recipe but a very colorful homepage with a lot of nice adds.

Parents put to shame by the 4 yr. old

So our kids will go into the office and play at the computer. They just keep clicking and sometimes they end up on PBS kids or Disney. Today Tommy called me into the office to see on the computer what he had pulled up. I had apparently left open a window with Walmart's web site. He pulled up and 48" plazma TV and said, "See now we can have a big TV too, not the little one." To fully understand this humor you would of had to been with us at the Stanley's house last week when Tommy got to see Mr. Mike's new big screen TV. He told the story about how Mr. Mike has the Big TV and we have the little TV at our home. Nice...., a 4 year old can notice the difference in a large TV vs our little 32" TV.

Grandpa's Birthday

Tommy and Sammie love Birthdays, they are already talking about their next birthday and we have months away before either of them. Grandpa Francis was with us just before his next birthday so we make him a cake. Tommy wanted to make a Batman cake, his new favorite super hero (Superman is running a close second and Sammie won't get her Ken doll back any time soon for he make a great superman.) Sammie wanted to make a Princess cake. I finally got the two to agree that we should make a cake of Grandpa's favorite animal, a Pig. So we did and her you can see Sammie trying to sneak more frosting to taste.

Shoulder Rides

Tommy and Sammie love making baby Allie laugh. The other day Tom unexpectedly placed Allie on top of Tommy's shoulders. Allie screemed in glee and Tommy laughed as I tried to grab a photo of the moving target. Sammie then wanted her try in the fun. See the fuzzy photos below

Grandma and Gordy's visit

Grandma Alman and Gordy came to visit us and play with the kids. Below are two photos of our time in the basement where Allie was introduced to the bouncing Zebra. We all got a kick out of her enjoyment.

Our next Mrs. Fix-it

For those of you who know us you have come to realize that a lot of the fix-it tasks performed around the house are done by me with help from my father and/or our friend Mr. Mike Stanley. The other day Allie was 'fixin' the dyson when we had a little flash of flesh. I think we have a future Ms. Fix It.

I caught a frog

We have an egress window in our basement. As I was checking the condition of our sod planted around the window I noticed a frog down in the window dwell. I scooped the frog into a container and showed it to the kids. Tommy and Sammie were very excited to walk the frog back to the pond across the street and set it free. Tommy named the frog, "Marlin." We talked about the frogs color, and how he used to be a tad-pole. Great imprompt-to science lesson.