Squirrel!

If you have seen the movie UP, you know that the dogs in that movie say, "SQUIRREL" mid sentence when they think they hear something. Well Rowdy did the same thing the other day when I was trying to get some pictures of him. He was busy telling me something...

and I was able to gab this shot, which I love, and then...

"TRAIN!"

He told me it was busy shunting. A term he got from Thomas the Tank Engine. I honestly didn't know that Rowdy would still be so interested in trains. He knows more about them than you would think. He still watches all the train documentaries on the History Channel and he has learned how to drive a real locomotive on a Train Simulator that Santa brought him.

Hardy Coat...

So Bodie got this cute little carhartt coat as a hand me down from a good friend of ours. The boy who used to wear it, is a friend of Rowdy's, his name is Hardy. Therefore, this is his "Hardy Coat". He tells everyone he meets it is his Hardy coat...even strangers in Wal-mart! Love you Bo-man!

She takes after me!

Avery has become quite the gymnast. She is super flexible and as you can see she can do a pretty mean cartwheel. She is constantly in motion and does random cartwheels all over the place. One day we were in a store and she had to stop herself from cartwheeling right there in the middle of the store. One day she was heating up her lunch in the microwave and I told her it would take about a minute and a half and she said, "That's ok Mom, I'll go do 100 cartwheels in the living room!" And she did. If only adults did that with their spare time they would all be fit and trim!

I love the last one above!

That's my girl!

Mish Mosh!!!

One of the fun snacks I offer the kids is a bag of Mish Mosh. I take a zip lock and throw a bunch of random stuff in it. For example, pretzels, fishy crackers and marshmallows. Sometimes I put some sort of cereal in it. Marshmallows are almost always one of the items. I took these last spring. I love Bodie's "chubby bunny" face! And Avery is being her creative self making Marshmallow kabobs.