Raising Godly Arrows...Only Slightly Bent(s)

Friday, February 4, 2011

Upward Basketball

This year Brody & Sage are both playing basketball again only this year they are on separate teams because the teams are divided up by grades. Next year they can be on the same team again. Sage is a tall guy on his team & he's really developing his abilities to block shots & guard his guy.

Cookie baking continued

Here are the rest of the pictures. Above you can see Brody carefully constructing his pizza which ended up being about 3 inches thick & took a LONG time to bake.

Celeste & her red dough that she chose.

Julia's flower smile was just as cute as her own smile!

Corbin's candle & Brody's "me, too" smile!

Cookie Baking Personalities

The personalities of your kids are never more evident than when you do something all at the same time. Sage (9) was done with his owl mosaic in less than 2 minutes. I barely had enough time to get the camera from my bedroom. Julia was methodical & focused. Brody actually touched cookie dough for the first time in his life & spent at least 20 minutes constructing a pizza. The dough we used was bought from a school fundraiser from one of the neighbor kids & was the most beautiful, bright colored dough I've ever seen! It also makes baby's tongues & diapers very bright (hehehehe). Celeste would only eat the red dough. Corbin just loved rolling it out over & over with the rolling pins, which apparently I need more of because 2 is just not enough when you have 5 children. We had to share or get creative. I seem to remember using glasses or jelly jars at my gma's house as a child.

Corbin's duck (above) & his train (below, upper right). In the middle of the pan below is Sage's owl mosaic.

Julia was very proud of her faces on her hearts & flowers!

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Outnumbered but not quieter!

While there are only 5 boy cousins, they will not be outnumbered in strength or noise! Donovan sat by his mama but was right in there when the guns popped out, the cars needed revving or girls needed chasing! We're gonna have to work on evening up that ratio! 5:9 will change to 5:10 when Daniel's daughter is born this spring!