Let's Play House!

The kids have been practicing for the day they will have a dog of their own by pretending like they are dogs and taking each other on walks around the house with leashes made of scarves. Love their imaginations! They are also currently into playing house. Inevitably one of them with choose the name Justin Bieber and/or Martin and Chris (from The Wild Kratts). I love my kids! They make me smile!

Oh, Boy!

My little man is 3 1/2. This little boy is so much fun! He has changed so much these last 6 months. So here's the list of things that describe him.

He plays with his toys so well. He has such an amazing imagination. Since I stopped babysitting the Gorshe boys, and even when I was but on days off, he comes into my bathroom with I do my hair and makeup. He makes up the most inventive stories. And he gets lost in his own little world. I love watching him play.

He likes to be where I am. If I am doing dishes, he's rolling around on the floor in the kitchen with his cars or other toys.

He loves music and can recognize a favorite song in the first bars. He always sings along. I love that!

He loves to do his preschool games on the I-Pad. He figured out how to work the I-Pad faster than I did.

Favorite movies: Tangled, Rio

Favorite stuffed animals: His two Raccoons, his horse pillow pet, Hootie the Owl, Monster, and now Kuonibo (the puppy pillow pet pictured above). Funny story about Kuonibo. I bought him while I was in Vegas. When I brought him back my mom asked him what he was going to name his puppy. He looked at her with a serious face and said "Kuonibo." We looked at each other with confused faces and Mom asked him again. Same thing. I thought he would forget it when he went to bed. The next morning when he woke up, I asked Porter what the puppy's name was. "Kuonibo," he said with an annoyed voice and expression like he was thinking I never listen. So funny. It's stuck and he has become a favorite.

His favorite toys: trains, cars, and action figures more specifically the Tangled characters.

He is tender and gets his feelings hurt easily. He loves to snuggle and give kisses.

He makes me happy!

I love you little man and I am so glad you are in our family!

Getting To Know All About Brinnley

My Brinnley Beth will be 7 in 19 days. I cannot believe it! This girl is growing up so fast. She is becoming a little lady. This year I have really notice a difference in her maturity. She asks thoughtful questions about people, for example how Chant and I fell in love and how Grandma knows Kristy and Mike. She wants to understand things. She loves school so much and is doing really well. She loves to read and do math. This semester she has a student teacher and she is so excited about it. Brinnley has always been a social butterfly but lately she mostly talks about one good friend, Ellie. Her favorite things to do at home are draw and create things. She always amazes me. I cannot draw nearly as good as she can. She still loves comfortable clothes and doesn't want anything too frilly. It's all about tennis shoes! She continues to be my child who is hardest on clothes, constantly ripping the knees out. She is still attached to MooMoo and Howie and has to have them to sleep at night. She is a very picky eater but she loves my smoothies and fruit. For Christmas she got Legos and that has proved to be a perfect gift, she is able to use her imagination, build and create. And she loves to sing and is very good with lyrics! I love this beautiful, happy little girl so much!

Sledding Surprises

We spent the week between Christmas and New Year's at my parents' home. The cousins tied sleds to the back of 4-wheelers and took the kids for rides. That was the highlight of the week for the kids. They were outside several times a day playing in the snow. A couple things about this surprised me. First, Ainsley doesn't like to spin or go fast, which she did both on the sleds. Second, I thought for sure Porter would be afraid and be the first one inside every time. Not so. He was always one of the last. He loved the 4-wheeler! Shocked me! But I am so glad that they both tried something new and found they liked it.

Today was the first day of snow for 2012. We hit a big sledding hill over by our church. We were the only ones there, not surprising at 8:00 a.m. on a Saturday. We had so much fun! The girls were crazy on the sleds. We have little saucers and they got going really fast and would spin in circles. I thought for sure there was no way Ainsley would get on them: spinning. But she got on and went down over and over for 45 minutes. Porter went down one time but it was a little too fast for him. He entertained himself by pretending his sled was a horse named Gallop. He pulled Gallop down the hill and then back up, stopping to make sure the "horse" was okay every so often. We had so much fun! It was a beautiful morning with just us. I am so proud of my kids. Even though Porter didn't want to go down on the sled, he still had fun instead of sitting down and crying because he was scared. And Ainsley, seriously she amazed me. You have no idea, this girl even sees someone spinning in a circle and she flips out, like terrified shaking and screaming. But put a sled under her and she doesn't seem to mind anymore. In fact, just now Porter was dancing in the kitchen, spinning circles and Ainsley saw. She screeched, "Porter, stop! You know I don't like spinning." Maybe sledding will cure this fear? We'll test this theory again the next time it snow.

Hence the Title

At one point when my kids were little I did an awesome job at journaling about them. Each child had their calendar that I wrote special events or things I wanted to remember on. Then I wrote letters to each child every 6 months or so. As they have gotten older, I have not been as good at that. I still journal major events, but I want to remember the little details too. I hope to use this blog as a place to write little notes about what my children are doing, what their interests are, and funny things they say or do. So here's to a line a day so I can remember what my children were like when they are small.