Could it be??

Now Cam and I have thought for a while that Andrew was quite artistic. I mean check out his Pirate Ship....

Well last night we went to a basketball game and my dad was there (yeah, practically free babysitting since they sat with Papa all night:). We took Andrew's magna doodle because we knew he'd get bored. We were right, he drew and drew and drew. Last night after we put the boys to bed I looked in the floor and there was the Magna Doodle. I was amazed, I said, "Cameron, come here... did you draw that?" Cam said, "no, I didn't". I said, "don't you think that is really good for a 4 year old??" He said, "Yeah, that's super good for a 4 year old". I got my camera out started taking pictures and thought could it be that Andrew is a prodigy? I mean our son, a prodigy:)? About that time Andrew came out and saw us taking pictures of the masterpiece and I said, "Andrew, did you draw that?" He said, "No, Papa did". We didn't know what was funnier that we thought Andrew drew it or that Papa's drawing could've passed for a 4 year olds:)

Sweet sayings...

I thought I'd jot down a few cute and insightful things the boys have said over the past few days. 

We've been using the Naughty Towel technique with Parker (which has worked superbly with both boys as they go through their tantrum stages). We just introduced it to him the other day and he is not fond of it so after I put him on it and walked out of sight he started saying, "This isn't my seat, what.... I don't sit on a towel, I sit in my chair *as he pointed to his chair* why am I sitting on a towel in the floor?? It was so cute. Later that day he asked, "mommy, why did you go out and buy the naughty towel?"

Andrew and Parker had some pretty deep questions after church on Sunday. Andrew heard the story of Adam and Eve in class and was asking about Jesus being our savior and he asked, "Does Jesus live in everyone's heart?" I said, "no, not everyone accepts Christ as their Savior"... He said, "mommy, why doesn't God put Jesus in everyone's heart?" I thought what a simple, yet profound question. We talked about how there are a lot of things we won't fully understand until we get to Heaven. Parker in the meantime was piping in with his questions and he said, "Why did God be mean to Jesus on the cross?" I explained that God gave us Jesus as a Savior, which meant Jesus had to die on the cross for our sins but then He rose and is no longer dead. They then had questions about the devil and Parker wanted to know why he doesn't live in Heaven. I told him that the devil is constantly trying to battle against God, even in our own lives, how he tries to get us to disobey God and so on. Parker, with an angry face, said I'm going to get the policeman to go arrest that devil and throw him in jail!!! 

On a more crude note (and we have a lot of them since they are boys:)... Parker was in the tub the other day and we heard him flush the toilet and when we went in and asked what he flushed he told daddy, "a poot" Cam said, "did you poopoo?" Park said, "NOOOO... I didn't poopoo, it was just a poot". About 5 minutes later he hollers for daddy to come back to the tub and help him find and put another poot in the toilet. Cam had to explain to him how we can't find them because they're invisible (most of the time) ** Cam doesn't think the story is as funny as the fact that I'm writing about this on our blog:)

What a busy day...

Cam and I bought a new King bed and mattress because we figured a family of five is going to need it:) So we started putting it all together last night around 8:00 and finished in time for the news. This morning we took our old bed to Cam's moms house for her guest room. After that we went grocery shopping. As I was putting away some of the groceries, Andrew opened up the paper towels and when I turned around I saw his gun tower that he had built:)Then I decided to clean, clean, clean.... thanks to Anna and her FlyLady post. First thing I did, which FlyLady recommends is "shine your sinks" I spent forever shining my sinks in the kitchen!! Then I cooked lunch, dusted, cleaned out all of the old tapes and rearranged the entertainment center, did laundry, hmmmmm... I know I've done more than that. I mean honestly I can barely walk my back hurts so bad... surely I've accomplished more. 

Well anyway.... Cam took a pic of me with the boys to show how big my tummy is getting:) Parker was kissing my belly (the baby). I am 22.5 weeks along and honestly have had the hardest time walking all weekend. I'm worried my back is going to totally give out on me... but hopefully not:)

Great Giveaway...

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The Wonder Place

This morning I took Andrew and Parker to the Wonder Place. They had the best time. It really is a cool place for kids to use their imaginations. Parker over the past few weeks has been making a lot of angry faces, mostly kidding and they are quite funny but he's been using them some on strangers. Today some bigger boys were throwing balls really hard into the water table and they kept splashing Parker in the face and he was NOT happy and gave them the worst mean look he could make (btw... he's not making a mean face in this water table pic, he was making a "burrr it's CoLd!" face). Andrew loves the River Market and kitchen area. Who knew you could do so many fun things with dairy products?:) As soon as we got home they said, can we go back now??

O my darling...

Parker learned a song from their play laptop and started singing it tonight:) It's not great quality because I used my cell phone but it's still extra cute. He also said his memory verse Romans 3:23 All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. This verse has been so handy when I lose my cool with the boys and have to apologize for raising my voice. What an invaluable lesson for them to know that mommy and daddy sin, too, and that we would be nothing without God's grace and forgiveness. 

Flash Back....

Today Andrew and Parker were sitting on my lap looking at some old baby pictures of them:) Every time I would say "look Parker/Andrew there you are when you were a baby", they would both take turns making fun of each other saying, "hahaha, you wore a diaper". They were so funny. Their pics are so sweet and make me sad to think of how fast they are growing. I wish I could just bottle them up and keep them this way forever. **The first two pics are of Andrew (one with our Precious Theo:) and the next ones are of Parker, one was of him eating his first graham cracker:)