School Photos

Why can we never get them to smile like this when we take their photos?

Findley Loves Spaghetti Night

Believe it or not, most of the spaghetti eventually ended up in her belly. Unfortunately, most of it touched her face before it got there.

A Visit with Santa

Walker and Findley had the opportunity to sit on Santa's lap last weekend. Somewhat surprisingly, they both freaked out and wanted to have nothing to do with him. Even though Walker has been talking constantly about Santa Claus over the past couple of weeks, he was absolutely not interested in going anywhere near the big guy.

Marmee wasn't scared of Santa, though. She sat in his lap and told him what she wanted for Christmas. She remarked that she felt like she had known Santa for a long time....

We were able to get a photo of all of us by making sure the kids couldn't see Santa.

Playing Football

When Walker plays football outside, he likes to pull down his hat like it's a facemask. The problem is that he can't see, so he runs around like a chicken with its head cut off. Here he is showing Pawpaw his football moves.

Swinging with Pawpaw

Findley loves swinging with Pawpaw!

More Funny

Spencer: "Walker, what are you eating?"
Walker: "Nothing."
Spencer: "Looks like something to me.  Is it a booger?"
Walker: "No, itsnot."
Spencer: "Wait, did you say It's not, or It's snot?"
Walker: "I said itsnot."  (Walker doubles over in laughter.)

Photos with Cousins

At Thanksgiving, we tried to get a good photo of all four cousins. We failed to get any photos of all four of them smiling or looking at the camera, but it was fun to try, and some of the resulting photos are still great.

Funny Kid

Leann: "Walker, please don't eat your boogers. That's really yucky."
Walker: "Mama, it's not a booger. It's a piece of egg."
Leann: "Walker, you haven't had eggs in three days."
Walker: "Oh."

Cooler Weather!

It's finally gotten a little cooler outside, and the kids love getting bundled up and running around in the backyard. Here are a couple of photos from this past weekend.

Scraped Nose

Last week, Findley fell and scraped her nose. It didn't seem to bother her much, but she got lots of sympathy from everyone who saw her.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Walker learned a new Thanksgiving song at school. It took a couple of tries for him to do the whole thing for us, but eventually he got it.

Flying a Kite

We decided to take advantage of the strong winds last weekend by going to fly a kite. We have an awesome airplane kite (Walker insists that it is not a kite; it is an airplane). He was really good at holding on to it, and he was sad - or to be more accurate, extremely angry and upset - when we finally wound it in and headed home. The next day, he was still talking about how much fun he had flying his airplane.

Sick Findley

Findley recently got another ear infection. While Mama was driving to the pharmacy to pick up the antibiotic, Findley fell asleep. Even though she was feeling so bad, she looked really cute and peaceful in her car seat.

Drumming with the Band

As anyone who has recently hung out with Walker can attest, one of his favorite activities is drumming. He drums with sticks, straws, forks, spoons, pieces of chalk, pencils, pens, and sometimes even footballs. A couple of weeks ago, our family went to a high school football game. A couple of students from Leann's school are in the band, and they invited Walker over to try out their drums. He had a great time making noise!