Monday, May 11, 2009

Mother’s Day!

Well we survived another holiday. Hannah has been so excited for Mother's day that she has been almost bursting for a week now. Any holiday that includes making cards, drawing special pictures and singing songs is right up her ally! Of course during the church program she sang many of the songs with her head hanging upside down but she smiled the whole time! Adam did a great job singing and was very dignified the whole time. Jack abstained, I'm sure he knows the songs but singing them out loud would be unthinkable for him. Connor did his best to make sure I didn't forget he was there. And I am really proud of Aaron for actually taking notes during the talks.

Before I even woke up John was up and trying to help me out by doing dishes. As he started to take out the garbage he noticed a puddle under the sink. It was a small puddle so he decided to tighten the pipes to fix it. As he tried to tighten them he found that the top of the pipe was no longer attached to the sink! The metal part of the drain that attaches to the pipes hat corroded away until the pipe was just catching water that fell its way! So in addition to a cleaner house I now have a repaired sink and some new plumbing tools ;)

Monday, March 23, 2009

Aaron

I have decided I can't give up on my blog one kid short, think of all the comments to a future therapist!


I don't have quite as many pictures of Aaron because he has his own camera and takes most of the pictures now. But he has figured out how to do self portraits so I have those.

His favorite subject to photograph is his littlest brother (poor thing) and the picture I started the blog with was taken by Aaron.

Aaron plays the saxophone. He doesn't always stick with things but he worked really hard on playing the recorder and when he asked to be in band in fifth grade he went to band every week for three months before we were able to find him an instrument. Thanks to his grandfather who used to be a high school band teacher he has his own sax and does very well, (and even better than that when he practices every day!)

I promised him I wouldn't put this picture on facebook but he forgot about my blog, hee hee hee.