Playing

Who needs toys to play with when you've got feet?

Cutie pie.

We love to put Josh's iPod on shuffle. With 4600+ songs on there, it's endless entertainment for us to hear what comes on. He and I both love music so much, all different kinds, and it's fun to expose our kids to music that we've loved for years. And it provides for plenty of laughs too...like when Guns N Roses's Sweet Child O' Mine comes on, and this is how the kids react...air guitars all around...you can see the tip of Josh's on the left hand side of the picture.

Look at their faces! Can't you just feel the high note in that guitar solo? If you lived during the '80s, you know which one I'm talking about. I'm hearing it in my head just typing this!

I love Kate. She makes me laugh so much. Yesterday, she was playing school with the boys. She was "Mrs. Courtney" (who is one of Carter's teachers this year). This was the note she gave me at the end of the day along with a stack of work they had done. It reads: "Dear Mom, Carter was good today. I hope he will be good all the time. Hudson was a happy boy today and very good!"

*The scribbled out part under the pictures (which are of Carter and Mrs. Courtney, hence the 'C's above their heads) says "Hudson was bad today." I guess she changed her mind about that after she wrote it, and decided he was very good!

Here is the Bible story they worked on. She had them lined up on their ride-on toys out on the porch, reading the Jesus Storybook Bible to them. Hysterical. And awesome.

They had 'class' again today, and this was the note I got afterwards. This one reads: "Carter was very good today. Hudson can try again to try to be good." You can see where she crossed out 'was' after Hudson's name. I think she was searching for something to say that would build him up : ) Glad to see some of this training we're doing is bearing fruit!

Playing before dinner...Carter loves to try and make Mollie laugh. And he also loves puzzles.

This may be one of the last pictures of Kate's smile this way. She has three loose teeth right now (2 on top and 1 on the bottom). One of her top teeth is really loose, and I think it may come out soon!

I love how my boys lay down to play with their cars. I have pictures of Carter doing this at the same age.

Pausing to pose for me.

And relocate, then pose again.

And resume playing.