Loudness of the Lambs

Happy heart day!

2012-02-15T04:23:00.001-08:00

Appy Heart Day!

Yeah mom and dad, happy valentine's day!

Continuing adventures of SNOW MATH!

2012-02-15T04:21:00.000-08:00

It's really outdoor math. So mom has come up with a way for me to practice math that is even more fun that wandering around writing it on stuff with sidewalk chalk. Sledding math! the faster I give the correct math answer the faster mommy pulls me on a sled!

We also did a bunch of snowshoeing and sledding and playing... it was really nice getting some snow this winter.

The perfect bike

2012-02-09T11:20:00.000-08:00

Trip to cycletherapy yesterday with mommy, and she found something she wanted but I got a good deal out of it.

She said if I ride my bike everyday for a month then I get to pick the bike I want. And I FOUND IT! This is the bike I want, I only got to ride it two times around the store though which wasn't enough.

A story with a friend...

2012-02-06T23:29:00.000-08:00

Once upon a time, a princess and her unicorn came over to play with her friend the race car driver.

Together they played blocks and cars, they played dolls and games. They enjoyed ignoring the dinosaurs next door.

They played and played and had lots of fun, taking turns having fun!
Once done with the play a tea break was called for...

...a great way to end a playdate with a friend.

House Math!

2012-02-06T23:05:00.000-08:00

A few days of mom off line = house math!
I know sounds boring! But its very fun, mom, me and Evie get some chalk then we take turns writing on whatever. Garage, sidewalk, play area... one writes the problem and the other answers it. (Evie likes to come along and scribble over em.) So that's good too.

Bucket, car, slide... ooh dinosaur! Color color color!

Maybe we'll get some photos up!

Reveling desert!

2012-02-04T23:13:00.000-08:00

Honor and Henry and coming over to make deserts so I made cupcakes!

The Hutchlings were helping with both sampling and decorating! Marshmallows, pretzels, ice cream cones and cookies.

Yummy! They were tasty hee hee but we did have to leave some for the St. Valentine's Desert Massacre (friends of mommy's host a desert thingy and we got to help).

Ship of Hearts

2012-02-02T08:25:00.000-08:00

Make your own Ship of Hearts for Valentine's Day!

This is an easy fun project which should use products from around the house.

Empty boxes to cut out the ship base and heart shaped sails.

Tape and straws (for the mast) and whatever you've got around the house for painting (we used bingo dot pen for ours).

Evie had a great time cutting the sail and decorating the boat and sail. She even came up with a great story for its sailing.

Showing off the ship, heart cloud and flying piece of snickers bar (hey you never know what will float by on a cloudy day)/

Wild Wild Wild Sloan! (with dinosaurs)

2012-01-31T11:16:00.000-08:00

Badges, dinosaur gummi cupcakes, and wild kratts power suits and even custom Kratt gang sock puppets were the order of the day! And a really great excuse to hold a party!

Happy birthday to me! Mommy is still getting the video of everyone together.

7 I'm now 7 years old!
And to celebrate I had a cool Wild Kratts themed party where instead of getting creature (animal) powers we got DINOSAUR powers!

Potty potty potty!

2012-01-31T10:57:00.000-08:00

Shh... day something of mommy trying to potty train me. Only time I could talk, she's currently napping.
Send help or goldfish!
If she doesn't stop son I will be trained then my carefree life is over and I have to notice when to go.
Or send gold fish so I have snack for potty.

gotta go-Evie out

The Heart Project-a collaborative fundraiser for the American Heart Association

2012-01-30T20:09:00.000-08:00

With February (the month of hearts) coming up in just a day, here is a marvelous project you should totally check out! Evie and Sloan even have a contribution!

The Heart Project – In an effort to raise funds for a great cause, I have had the great privilege of collaborating with more than 70 fellow bloggers to create an e-book showcasing our craft ideas. This e-book is filled with over 100 gorgeous heart-shaped crafts, with e-links to the “how-to” on each crafter’s blog, and will be available for purchase through-out the entire month of February. The cost of the e-book is five ($5) dollars (U.S funds), withall proceeds going to the American Heart Association. Downloads to the e-books will be available on each of our blogs as of February 1, 2012.

I am thrilled to announce that a hard-copy of our book will also be available (in soft cover), through Amazon.com for twenty ($20) dollars (U.S. funds). Five dollars from every purchase of a the hard-copy books will go to the American Heart Association. I personally can’t wait to get a hard copy for myself!!!

Jamie at Hands on : as we grow has managed this project, and she has a very personal reason for wanting to support this charity. She’s done an outstanding job of creating a quality book to bring in donations.

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Wild Wild Wild Sloan! (with dinosaurs)

2012-01-27T20:43:00.000-08:00

7 I'm now 7 years old!
And to celebrate I had a cool Wild Kratts themed party where instead of getting creature (animal) powers we got DINOSAUR powers!

School was even a half day today! Yeah that's cool and so my friends got to come over really early in the day so we got to have lots of fun on my actual birthday. And there were games and dinosaur cupcakes with dinosaur sprinkles and games and gifts (yeah the gifts were cool!)

Presents? My turn presents?

Yeah Evie was really sad that she didn't get presents (she got some and she helped me open some) but she was still sad. But she liked the game so that made her forget presents.

Everyone got a cool Wild Kratts power vest! And lots of dino power badges-we had to do something to earn each of them. For the T-Rex carnivore badge we had to eat 3 dinosaur nuggets ROARRR yummy!

Oh if we ate goldfish we got the Spinosaurus or Pteranadon badge (both really like fish you know) and eating veggies got you the Triceratops (herbivore badge).

Then there was the ankylasaurus badge (I wore a laundry basket on my head and crawled to the dining room while daddy tried to hit me with a nerf gun! Hee hee so fun!

This is one of the power vests with the Martin Kratt sock puppet mommy made.

Here is all of the Wild Kratt characters: Aviva, Koki, Jimmy Z, Martin Kratt and Chris Kratt

We did have some angry birds too!

So mommy said she's putting stuff together as a video but... I'd wait and see if she does. So come back and see!

Cedar Point day! Or what's the point?

2011-08-24T05:19:00.000-07:00

Grandma watched Evie and myself today and gave us wild Kratts movies. She played dinosaurs and she builded a fort

Grandma? grandma, grandma! Hee hee

She played serpents with us and we colored and she made us a good lunch but then we asked her what was the lunch and...I don't know.

oh so mommy and daddy took Tio Chris and Juba to some point place and we got grandma all to ourselves... oops gotta go time for something else

1000 miles later

2011-08-22T19:03:00.000-07:00

So we rode with Grandma and Juba up to the camp site. I got to help Dad start the fire.

Cousin Aria came to visit (and she brought her little brother Aidric with her) and we chased each other around the campground.

One night of camping later and the park ranger told us to go get something to eat [Dad's Note: we were told to flee a storm with 60mph winds that generated at least one tornado], so we went to Aidric's birthday party.

CAKECAKECAKECAKECAKE!!!

PRESENTSPRESENTSPRESENTS!!!

DRUMDRUMDRUMDRUMDRUM!!!

BALLOOOOOOOOOOOONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Because of all the rains, we got to camp in a motel. The next morning saw us go back to Aria & Aidric's for more fun with the cousins.

TRAMPOLINE!!!!!

BOINGBOINGBOINGBOINGOING!!!

Way too soon, we were packed back into the car and off to Grandma and Grandpa Lamb's.

DOGGIEDOGGIEDOGGIEDOGGIEOGGIEDOGGIE!!!!!!!

Grandma and Grandpa Lamb still have Winnie, but now they have Zippy and Tuffy the yorkies. We got to play with the doggies and run around on the beach.

Five days and 1000 miles since the start, we are finally home. Mommy and Daddy say that school will be starting soon. I'll go to first grade and Evie will start Preschool!

The many happy birthdays of today

2011-08-17T18:34:00.001-07:00

Appy birfday Juba!

Happy birthday cousin Aidric!

Just a quick yeah for our cousin and Juba!

Road tripping

2011-08-17T18:02:00.001-07:00

We are going to my cousins and it is great! and we can play at their house and sleep over and have a birthday party and the awesomest day ever!

Stay tuned!

In the giraffe! Hand in the giraffe!Hand in the giraffe!Hand in the giraffe!Hand in the giraffe!Hand in the giraffe!Hand in the giraffe!Hand in the giraffe!Hand in the giraffe!

Hand in the giraffe!

did I mention its the awesomest day ever! and we rented a cool car. Oh the end.

Pose, no this way, imagine your a dinosaur!

2011-08-16T20:33:00.001-07:00

So mom needed to get some reference shots of kids running around the woods and just generally hanging out near woods and having a picnic. Most are as movies (and as soon as mom figures out how to load those you might get to check em out.)

In the meantime, here are some just fun shots.

H and me kicking it old school.

The picnic gets going (okay this is mostly a break from photos but hey, it was a really good picnic)

Princess H, just checking out what's going on.

We are all working on posing the dinosaur of our choice.
Me and Carnie scoping out the layout and space.

Letter to a friends mom

2011-08-16T20:05:00.000-07:00

Wow!

What a busy day you've had today. What with closing on your new house and working, so we thought we'd share our fun kids day with you and maybe explain why your car looks like a sandbox threw up on it... I guess it sort of did.

Okay so we (the kids) were playing with the water soakers and decided to wash your car with it (which was cool) till it dried and we realized they had really just covered it in starry patterns made of sand. (So pretty cool huh?)

We had a busy day of car racing, angry birds, Wii, monster mask making, coloring, paper airplane creation, singing, there was the scream contest (pretty awesome), snack devouring, fort building, crown making and I'm sure lots more.

Cheers Tiff

paper airplane creation, singing, there was the scream contest (pretty awesome), snack devouring, fort building, crown making and lots more.

So thanks for letting us come over, it was lots of fun!

Just for mommy

2011-08-13T20:52:00.000-07:00

Shh, this is mommy taking over for this one post.

After a long night of sketching I woke up to find Sloan had added his own touches to make it even better.

Just like I did, he's drawing knights and dragons and even some pretty awesome dinosaurs.

Loudness is right

2011-08-12T20:23:00.001-07:00

So today Evie and me thought we would really liven the day up.

First there was fighting about breakfast. That's right we wouldn't eat anything but Honey Nut Cheerios!

Oh mommy has ham!

Um, right, right up till mommy brought out some ham. but then there were the pancakes. which were okay I guess but they needed more syrup.. and apples.

No appls! Am more am!

So after breakfasts fun, we though we would do a little 1-2 action. First trash the house, then randomly start screaming and yelling no. I know seems like its not much, but we needed to do something. Evie and me thought this would be good for boredom til my friend H got here.

Oh oh! Mommy Henry? Honor?

Oh but why not? How come? NOOOOOOOOOOO

Oh man, no Henry and no Honor cause of the screaming I guess.

Playdate and laundry

2011-08-11T12:23:00.000-07:00

Playdate! Playdate! Play- oh Pizza!

I think what Evie is trying to say is that we got to go over to our friends house and play with Reilee and Emerson. It was really cool.

I still don't know about dogs though. I mean Ike and Moshu are both really neat but I just am not too sure about doggies in general.

A really cool sunshade for doing some chalk sidewalk drawings.

Oh and mommy had to do a bunch of laundry... I don't know why thats in the title its just weird.

Kayaking and cooking!

2011-08-10T23:00:00.000-07:00

While really I just wanted to stay at home for the day. You know, watch Wild Kratts and eat cheerios, but mommy said we needed to go do something and my friend Genevieve and her mom wanted to go kayaking with us.

Kayak!

Okay so I finally decided we should do that...it was pretty fun.

Evie and I had to make sure mommy got everything we would need so we kept trying to take stuff back out of the car to check. Then we decided it would be best if Genevieve and me played in the backyard for a while.

I napped!

Finally we decided to go. We even got to help pump up the kayaks. though mommy didn't think the names me and Genevieve came up with were all that good.

Here you have me and Evie and Genevieve practicing paddling in Sea Monster Dragonor (okay mommy doesn't like that name but I'm gonna call it that anyway.

So Mommy, Evie and me had the gray kayak and Genevieve and her mom had the other one - Firebolt

Then we went back to our broken house and had a great picnic in the backyard.

On the way home mommy said we needed to shop for dinner and I said I would make dinner! So mommy let me and Evie pick the stuff for dinner.

I picked Donuts, potatoes, cucumber and multiple colored peppers.

Donuts, coocumber, donuts, milk and apples. Oh and I think we should get donuts.

(we didn't get donuts) I think mommy was ignoring our cooking genius!

Here is what I made for dinner: 2 cucumbers take off that dark green outer stuff (mommy got to help with that) and cut in discs -then have mommy cut in half.

Add a little salt

Then a quarter of red, orange and yellow pepper. Cut some into small pieces and some in strips and mix up.

Then make some pasta the twirly rotory stuff (Rotini)

take out the water and put in some butter. sprinkle some cheese and put the pepper/cucumber mix on the pasta and yum!

I make dinner tomorrow! beans and cheese and um...

Rain and our broken house

2011-08-09T22:16:00.000-07:00

Yawn!

Camping was really fun except for waking a bit wet. Not cause of any issue, but because it Rained SO hard that the rain flap hit the tent letting water in.

But Evie slept through it and I did too even when mommy moved me from my tent to her tent with Ms. Carol and Evie and Z. Apparently Eli went ahead and slept inside...which is good or where would I have slept?

Oh and we got to go check in on our broken house today.

and evie and I got to play lots with the new floorboards and see what the inside looks like and I am thinking I want a good sciency room... like Wild Kratts have!

AWESOME!

2011-08-09T22:04:00.000-07:00

There was camping and we were at Z and E's house and we got to camp in their backyard.

But then we got to play lots and there was Smore's and Evie and Ellie got to be in a story about to friends from the land of Nor and ...well okay.

Watermelon! Yeah tents and dinosaurs and Horsey liked playing but there were flyey thingies and um eck ants!

Okay so Evie was not sure about the mosquitos but I told her what mommy told me that there weren't enough mosquitos to carry us off so we would be okay.

Sweatheart!!!!!! Heeeheeheeheeheee Haha!

I should tell you that Sweatheart is our pet Giant Squid and Eli and Evie thought it was the best game to grab him and run to the end of the hallway giggling then run back again. Aw, they were so cute.

Oops sorry!

2011-08-07T07:42:00.000-07:00

Its been a crazy couple of months hence the break in blogging - working to get some new stories and photos up!

A snakey kind of day!

2011-08-07T06:43:00.000-07:00

S E R P A N T S!

We found a show on snakes and there is a tiger snake, king cobra snake, the horned snake, the lion snake and others. These snakes eat lizards and birds and chicks.

Some snakes eat BATS! and they snatch them out of the air with giant teeth!

I was martin (from the wild kratts) and I changed into a snake where I watched my temperature to be a water hunter.

I a snake! Hisssssss

I played on my bike, it was a snake. And my scooter snake eated mice, rats, bats, birds and other snakes. And I got chased by a T-rex, but they can't eat snakes.

Draw feet! make monsters footprints

Evie means we trace our feet and make them like monster feet.

Oops snakes are back on, time to... CAMOFLOUGE! viper

OH and we had breakfast tacos! (though I made nachos instead)

Taco shell

yogurt with green sprinkles

Apples in cinnamon, then tastiness!

OOOOOH our own pool!

2011-06-03T08:07:00.000-07:00

We get to be in a hotel with a pool and breakfast and kitties and evie and I get our own beds and bathroom!

Bath Bath!

For some reason Evie wanted to take a bath in the sink. She's goofey some times

Mommy says we'll be here for a bit since our house is broken.

We also got to go play with my friend Henry and Evie's friend Honor. Here is Henry and mines lego guys.

Memorial Day to Remember!

2011-06-01T07:46:00.000-07:00

Yeah visit Grandma and Juba! We all got to travel up to visit and I even got to take my half day off school!

I got some new shoes and had to really run Juba around (to make sure he sleeps well you know)

We got to play lots of games and mommy practiced doing some face painting on Evie and Me and even grandma! Do you like my colorful tiger?

Swing swing! fight!

Then we got home and it was SOOOO cool! It was RAINING in our house!

Mommy and Daddy didn't really seem very happy about it though.

But we did get to go camping at Mr. Mike and Mrs. Shalla's house (backyard-it was really cool)I gardening momma!

It rains it poos! I mean pours

2011-05-27T16:56:00.000-07:00

Mommy and Daddy refuse to put pictures up on this post. Daddy spends his time staring at walls and shuddering.

I got to meet some very nice men with really big equipment to fix the potty.

And daddy said that Yes, I know the package says flushable. Yes, I know that's what they are for. NO you should NOT flush all of them at once! This new potty is brought to you by... Your lego fund.

Cycle or life or...

2011-05-10T16:47:00.000-07:00

...or as I like to say "Mommy whys that animal in the road?"

As some of you know mommy has been biking me to school now that the weather's nice. But the other day we passed this creature (mommy says its an Opossum) and its just laying there. Well she told me that what this was a part of death. (Which is actually a part of life) Okay I was confused too.

So we pulled into a 7-11 and she got us each a slurpee (Evie even got her own). And we sat on the curb to talk about life and death. I don't really get it. But I know that sometimes animals (and people) are done with this life and its time for them to move on. My friend H's dog had to do this too. But mommy said that the cycle is kind of like this:

Babies born. (new life)

grow and explore and eat (live)

Die and gradually become dirt

seed grows in the dirt, becomes food

New baby eats food...cycle starts again.

Now every day we pass by that opossum fellow and Evie and I are watching it become dirt (or part of the earth)

That's pretty cool! Icky but cool

Vroom, splash and MOM!

2011-05-08T16:36:00.000-07:00

Mother's day is here! And Daddy says that Mommy gets to tell us what to do.... um...I didn't know she got a special day for that.

Mommy decided she wanted to watch F1 racing, then put our boats on the bike and take them to the river to go kayaking. I'm good with that cause I suggested the play area and picnic after.

KAYAK! KAYAK! KAYAK! KAYAK!

Hehe that's Evie she likes the boats. It was a great time on the water. We got to chase ducks and swans and I saw fish and we raced daddy and we forgot the picnic at home but mommy had some snacks so we ate those and well... um... OH and then we went for ice cream and it was really fun!

Happy mommy's day mommy!

Mother's Day Tea!

2011-05-04T13:39:00.001-07:00

Today mommy got to come to my school to have a teaparty with my class.

Okay all my class um.. kids in my class moms got to come and there was even a dad... cause that girls mom couldn't stop work and so then and....

Oh right, so I got to show mom all the really cool things that I made for her this week in school and there was a poem and a bowl and then an alphabet booka nd a my mommy is cool because book and sing songs and my mom is special cause she plays velociraptor catch with me.

And other stuff... okay happy mothers day ...can I have your cookie?

Mommy: didn't you make it for me?

Sloan: yeah, this one too. Can I have it?

Mommy: (at this point he already has and is eating it) Can you share at least?

Sloan: (handing me a tiny crumb) sure. I love you

Mommy: I love you too Sloan (contain giggling)

March for Babies!

2011-05-01T13:39:00.000-07:00

A wonderful time was had by all. We did a different walk this year. In the past we have walked the Troy one, but this year walked with Sloan's friend Henry at Kensington Park. A very nice walk was had by alland I didn't need to worry about kids running to the streets.

Henry and Sloan even finished with a rock skipping contest.

Box Castles and Fly boats =Birthday!

2011-04-15T06:18:00.000-07:00

EVELYN is TWO!

We even had a party to prove it.

Baoons! Baoons! (Evie means Balloons of course)

Castles! Color!

Hm, okay Evie means that we had cool castles out of boxes and there were these balloons that had boats and the boats had little stuffed animals (everyone gotto take one home... I got the worm!) Andthen Honor and Henry's mom got these cool markers so everyone got to color on the boxes... it was pretty cool.

But there were some times when Zander and me and Henry needed to show the sisters and Sammie how to use some of the new toys. I didn't want Evie to play with the new castle till it gets a princess or queen forit. Oops gotta go show her how stickers work.... no really!

A rainy day in spring

2011-04-08T09:42:00.000-07:00

Though since its rainy, maybe people wanted some cheering up... so this is our day (Evie's and me) newest to oldest:
Flour cookie making (to distract mom so she could make the real dough).
Making a marker mural (again this was really to help mommy).
Evie is the Toothfairy, stopped by to watch an episode of Diego while...
I decided to watch Fraggle Rock... college style (my tongue was sticking out till mom took the photo)
And of course, Evelyn is giving my wings a good check to make sure they are ready to fly.

Sloan picked out my outfit today... the wings were a must and the tiara... everything else was optional apparently.
Vroooooooommmmmm

Vroom vroom

The Chaos! the fun!

2011-04-07T09:56:00.000-07:00

BEST DAY! (of an already pretty cool week)

Had my friends Zander AND Henry! Yes

And Evie hadher friend Elinor and Honor over...

Grrrr! Hee hee.

Cookie

Pretzel

MY DINOROAR!

Oh look naptime? Hey?

Yeah playdates!

2011-04-04T19:24:00.000-07:00

A long day had by all... but lots of fun.

there was Zander and Elinor and Jack and Lily and they were in from out of town. Hadn't gotten to see them in ages (the last two) and there was lots of legos... and bubbles and well Evelyn and Elinor had to get over some toy fighting... I don't know what that was about... but then well... it was lots of fun.

A great way to start spring break.

Shh, I'm hunting dragons

2011-04-04T19:23:00.001-07:00

Knight Sloan! to the rescue.

My squire Evelyn (not sure that's a good squire name... not

sure I think a squire should be named Evelyn... but...)

Sadly, no dragons to get... maybe tomorrow...

Spring has Sprung!

2011-03-25T18:33:00.000-07:00

Spring has sprung

the grass is riz

I wonder where the birdie is?

"Plop" ...oh there hie is.

This was the poem that mommy always repeats to us (something about Juba making it up)

Well its been snowy...wait, rainy... wait warm... wait...MOM! Are you sure its Spring?

So the weather isn't warm... but THE BiKE has been freed from the garage.

Now we ride!

Party time!

2011-03-18T18:56:00.000-07:00

Party party party

BALLOON!

Party.... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

And cake...

Ball!

So Evie was really happy about her friend Elinor's bday and yeah it was really cool and lots of balloons. but I guess I will be happy once Elinor and Evie stop just running after each other screaming...

Its your birthday Tio Chris!

2011-03-12T19:14:00.000-08:00

We LOVE YOU TIO CHRIS....

so we had cake and got each other a present... Evie got a dinosaur

Tiecetops!

Oh and Evie got me a dinosaur too.

monster lego vs. dinosaur

2011-03-09T19:09:00.000-08:00

I Earned a new lego set and decided to fight my lego crocodile against a T-Rex... who would win?

Oh and the doll is Sloan... he's my doll and grandma Stanley made this for me when i was born... its the same length I was when born so really cool.

Star Student and Legos

2011-03-08T15:39:00.000-08:00

so I was the star student today!

I got a cool wrist band and everything.

Then I got home to find that mommy and daddy had ordered some legos for me from the money I got for helping out in a poop study.

So now its all lego allosaurus and dino puzzles!

Oh and Evie is climbing on a box... as she does.

Coloring.. and attack daddy! Busy day!

OH and dinner at Restaurant Sloan REstaurant Nice!

Notes from Mommy!

2011-03-07T17:29:00.000-08:00

I am working dilligently to update our posting (since the life of a 6 yr old and almost 2 yr old can be quite busy)

Sloan Restaurant Nice!

2011-03-07T16:33:00.001-08:00

Welcome to Sloan Restaurant Nice!

Here our current dinner /dessert special today is:

Tonu Kasarol

Thoklat Koke

Or you can order off of Daddy's Menu:

Don't want to eat in the box, eat on our boat. Anthony and Goldilocks loved it.

Then villains attacked and Chef Sloan turned into Ninja Chef Sloan hiya!

Big H is EVEN BIGGER!

2011-03-06T18:58:00.000-08:00

My buddy Henry had a great birthday and we got to celebrate with Bowling!

so bring out the bowling-flowery shirts and pizza and it was fun for all.

Oh and Sammi was having a shy day so I wanted to make sure she had fun.

And then I had to explain toEvieonce you throw the ball youhave to wait for it to comeback.

She didn't like that part.

I'm six!

2011-01-27T16:44:00.000-08:00

Mock sleepover and Campout! (with dinosaurs of course)

Here's daddy trying out his cool blanket tent he set up in the living room. And the totally dinoriffic cake that daddy made from cake and graham crackers and the cool gifts for my friends that mommy made. They are little sleeping bags with dinosaur finger puppets and their own lightsabers (glow sticks)

My rockin' friends playing at my party. Sadly most folks were sick but we still had a good time. Next year I hope we are old enough for an actual sleepover.

New years Day!

2011-01-01T17:16:00.000-08:00

Good Morning Sunshine!

Good Morning New Year!

Good Morning World!

We started out the new year with Me taking mommy and Evie for a walk. I wanted to see what this new year was all about. This is the millpond at the end of our street... we were looking for ducks!

Quack!

Right Evie, ducks.

quack!

oh and puddles... can't forget the fun puddles.

Quack!

Mommy and daddy let me make ice cream! I made it all myself... with the spinny thingy of course....

quack

yes evie, ducks

Family-a-go-go

2010-12-26T20:46:00.000-08:00

Yowza, but we've been traveling for days.

Up to Alpena for a far too brief tet-a-tet with Aunt Heathyr, Uncle Colin, Cousin Eleanore, and the Grandparents Lamb.

And Rigby! Don't forget Rigby!

We had great fun sledding and carrying about with Julian.

Rigby Rigby Rigby!

Oh, yeah, and Eleanore's corgi - What was his name?

RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGBYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!

There were great presents and gifts from everyone. We had a really good time.

From Alpena (I'll miss you, Rigby), it was off to Midland. Land of snow, toboggans, and sauerkraut balls (we don't know what they are, Dad told us to add that). We got to spend time with Aunt Julie, Uncle Nick, Cousins Aria & Aidric, Jubba, and Grandma Stanley. We attended a lovely evening service and then quickly to bed so that we were well rested for Christmas morning.

We were forced to wait until everyone had cinnamon rolls, then the gifts!

ohwowigotakitchenwoohoo!!!!!!

We got books (kitchen!), toys (kitchen!), and a robotic dinosaur (kitchen!). So many gifts - so much to be thankful for.

HAPPY YULE!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Huh - well who put that there?

2010-11-09T15:28:00.000-08:00

So leaving the museum after dinosaurs Mom spots this piece of artwork just sitting there.

Okay maybe not sitting there - she said it was part of the DIA's anniversary celebration.

Well... it was still pretty cool - now to hunt up some more!

This site will tell you more about it and give you some locations.

https://sites.google.com/site/diainsideout/

Oh and on the way home, we saw SOLAR FLARES! Okay so it was actually reflections from satellites.

Dinosaurs sweet dinosaurs...welcome back!

2010-11-09T14:49:00.000-08:00

Woohoo! So Evie and I finally got to go to the new dinosaur exhibit at the Cranbrook Museum of Science. Dinosaurs: Land, air and sea!

http://science.cranbrook.edu/

It was cool and spoooooky! So we went and saw the little play area first - till evie got comfortable with the noise. She's a baby so it takes her longer.

Mommy was impressed, I could immediately pick out the Dromaeosaurus, Protoceratops, Allosaurus and Elasmosaurus, velociraptor and some others. Then there were a bunch I hadn't heard off, like this one thats related to the dromaeosaurus but not its a bambi...saurus thingy.

Anyway it was really cool and we didn't have enough time (we went after school and only had an hour). We are harrassing mom to go back.

Dinosaurs!

We were all ROAR and they were all Roar and there were other ids and then BOOM ex- exc-all gone then more and they are really cool!

Not posting much lately

2010-10-22T08:07:00.000-07:00

Gosh, I just realized we haven't been going anywhere recently. Well, not physically anyway.Or even posting much.

But Evie and I have been traveling lots by book and little pirate ship.

Well we were just at our grandma and Juba Stanley and they gave us a globe. (Though daddy keeps pointing out that some of the places on it have changed names now). So the other day we traveled to Hawaii and to different places in Michigan. Though its lots harder to find a good playground on a globe than it is in real life.

vie and I have been traveling lots by book and little pirate ship.

Busy busy

2010-09-25T19:44:00.000-07:00

Well the weekend is off to a whirlwind start. With all of us going to a volunteer appreciation playdate at Oakland County parks. It was very cool, there were games, and food and caramel apples and then the puppets (which gave mom and dad lots of ideas for a puppet theatre in the basement. And of course I'm going to need more puppets).

Birds!

Right bird puppets of course (they had one that was a nest with little baby birds) they were so Cute. And of course mommy bird and the opossum was cool with her baby and the spider (it was the spider's birthday). The chipmunk kept going to sleep in the other animals nests so he wasn't as fun.

Kayak! Mommy took me kayaking and I got to steer and help paddle and scream when we got too far from shore. There isn't anything to see in the middle of the lake.

I got to toast marshmallows and so did Sloan. But I liked the kayaking and the caramel apples... yum!

Yawn... off to bed now.

Oh wait! The starlab.... we didn't talk about that. This dome where it gets dark and you sit in it and the stars come on and sometimes they have designs drawn (so like an eagle and bear) and it was really cool! Except when it was too dark and I couldn't see anything, I didn't like that very well. Okay Bye

Whistle, whistle I wish I knew how to whistle

2010-09-20T10:15:00.000-07:00

Two teeth!

I've lost two teeth!

Now I whistle when I say certain words and its fun to show the boys and girls.

This is so cool I lost the first tooth the thursday before school started and on saturday I lost the second one. Daddy said yesterday that I'm beginning to develop the two teeth missin whistlin... so I say ttttthhhhhwwweeet!

Camping!

2010-09-19T19:57:00.000-07:00

1. cool campsite in Addison Oaks (a very cool campground at Oakland County Parks)

2. Friends to camp with

3. Fresh apples, cheese, marshmallows and fire

4. one lost tooth (my second in a few weeks)

5. Ghost stories and games of tag (with and without flashlights)

6. Rain rain and lots of rain

7. Having fun with nature

8. Finding lots of treasure! (Or Schatz in german) oh and by treasure - I mean we found geocache's

9. Setting our own geocache up

10. Best weekend!

Pole A goes into Pocket C?

2010-09-15T19:50:00.000-07:00

Yep, setting up camp in the backyard. We see we were practicing for our weekend camping trip. I even got a new sleeping bag for the occasion. I gave my little one to Evie. She was very excited.

We had a great time helping daddy put up the tents.. I don't know if daddy liked it but we had lots of fun. We thought it would be cool to sleep outside (well at least until it got dark that is... I mean the house is right there). So we played around outside and then took the sleeping bags inside and slept in them in the room... This was a good idea until my sleeping bag slipped off my bed. Then I decided to just sleep beside it... much better idea.

First Day!

2010-09-15T06:24:00.001-07:00

First day of School.

Got my favorite Lizard shirt and racing pants.

My lunch is packed and my backpack is ready.

Breakfast was good and I'm really excited!

Got both my parents ready to go and... here we go!

I have decided I will be the alarm clock for everyone today. I happily woke everyone up at 6:30

(a good thing too or they would have been rushing around trying to get Sloan ready for school).

Um and I got tasty pancakes for my help.

I'm not sure what its all about, with the pictures and the rushing ad the crazy.

I wonder who is in my class? Will Mrs. G remember me?

Find my locker and find my seat, get my nametag on. Start coloring my pirate ship -

Oh hey, there's Joey, gotta go say hi.

Now its time for the parents to leave - have a good day Mom and Dad and Evie (no you can't stay with me, school is just for big kids but I'll tell you about it at home).

Gosh I hope they do alright without me - sometimes I worry about them so much. Evie said she'd watch em, but parents can be trouble.

I'm rich!

2010-09-03T20:15:00.000-07:00

1 whole penny! (mom tells me its a quarter) but I like calling it a penny.

I woke up to find the tooth fairy has visited and liked my note so I got a whole quarter!

Sadly no party though.... well maybe next time.

Oh and mommy asked if the toothfairy was a dinosaur with wings and I pointed out that its a very short man with wings... pretty silly if it was a dinosaur. Tee hee

Tooth fairy oh tooth fairy...!

2010-09-02T20:11:00.000-07:00

I am a BIG boy now! I lost my first tooth!

(In fact I lost it so well that, I still haven't found it.)

But daddy says that if we write a note to the tooth fairy explaining then he will understand.

Since mommy hasn't gotten around to making me a tooth pillow I got to use her peacock box (with secret back compartment). I hope I get something good.

Sadly after loosing the tooth, mom told me that my behaviour um... was... um...well yeah. I hope the toothfairy still comes. Maybe if I do a nice deed that will be okay? (Oh sorry, that's santa claus)

Tea for....LOTS!

2010-07-25T19:09:00.000-07:00

Tea, tea we're going to have fun with tea. Mommy is having a tealicious tea tasting party.

We got to have some great friends over to play. So there was lots of running around and tea and tasty tea treats.

So Paul, Sophia and Henry and I were having a great time building trains, stealing treats and playing downstairs. It was really cool...okay, gotta go steal some more teacup cookies.

Oh and here is the website of Evelin (who we call the tea lady-cause she sells lots of good teas)

http://tealicious-tea.com/

The reunion!

2010-07-24T18:34:00.000-07:00

Wow, I didn't know we had such fun relatives.

So we booggied out to Howell to see our Wines family. It was great the adults did (whatever it is adults do) but Evie and I got to play with our youngest cousins (well almost youngest).

Well there was the running up and down stairs and then there was the rock game. But Evie was really enjoying the box of colorful balls and having a great time with everyone.

Sadly the rest of folks couldn't get out to visit, but we had a great time seeing those we could. Besides, its always nice meeting some more local cousins.

IN search of...

2010-07-12T10:59:00.001-07:00

Ah the illustrious basement. Long have I been asking mommy to let me play down there. Long has mommy said... "Um...I really need to clean that first". But today she promised that we could clean the basement.

Yes I said we could clean the basement. I asked her this morning if we could clean it out and I think she may have been so shocked that I offered to help. Since I kind of wasn't helping earlier today.

Well here I am, 1 potty stop away from getting to play down there and I woke up Evie. Sigh, now I have to wait till mommy feeds, changes and finds her pants to go down... Some times its really tough being a big brother!

The pic? Well that's me in a laundry basket...

Playdate and laundry

2010-07-08T11:03:00.000-07:00

Wash the clothes

hang the clothes

Now I have to fold the clothes?

How is this fun again?

Luckily we got to have some friends over this morning and that helped me avoid some of the chores for a bit. Though that still means I have to clean my room... sigh.

Playing at the Peninsula

2010-07-08T10:24:00.000-07:00

Hot, hot hot! The perfect day for a party.

And a great party we went too!

It was Waterford Oaks grand opening of their new playground, the Paradise Peninsula Playground. There was lots of stuff going on, food, puppets, bouncy houses, but it was getting to run around the cool playscape. I'm not sure if I liked climbing on the rocks of climbing up the tree stump better.

Evie seems to have liked the cattails best.

Actually I liked the lemonade icy treats best, but the cattails were really cool! One was bouncy and one was a spinning thing.

Oh and mom bicycled us there and back so we got to go right in and not have to worry about about parking. I think it was naptime for all of us once we got back home.

Fest of the Austrians

2010-06-29T06:49:00.000-07:00

Imagine a polka band, sausages a kids parade and lots of bouncing houses and what do you have?

The Austrian Festival!

My friends Paul and Sophia invited me to go with them to the Austrian Festival and it was lots of fun. There was food and the bouncy houses were really cool (even better once it rained and they were these big pools of bouncy water (sadly we couldn't go on them at that point.) But I had slipped on before realizing we weren't supposed to be there.

Daddy had lots of fun to with Mr. Dieter. Ooh and there was a really cool kids parade and we even got a prize! I got a Diego wipe book. Pretty cool.

Well, Tschub (close as I can get to the correct german spelling)

Bouncing and hiking and Oakie! (Oh my)

2010-06-26T15:38:00.000-07:00

Today me and Evie went to the Wint Nature center for its anniversary party.

I've gotten to go there before but never with such cool stuff.

This time they had cool projects to make (I made a caterpillar) there were animal skins and skulls to investigate.

Oakie the squirrel was there too! I got a pretty good picture with him, though when I tried to get one with Evelyn and mom and dad... it didn't work out so well. Evelyn saw him and started screaming. I guess she just wasn't too sure about a giant squirrel right beside her.

So no one told me there was going to be a giant fuzzy thingy right beside me? But that's okay cause later there were these ice juice things that were yummy. Sloan even shared his strawberry one with me.

Yeah, I did share a bit, but it was cause I wasn't allowed to have mine (and steal mom's and dad's and evie's too. What? I was quality control and they were tasty).

Oh and I forgot to tell you about the bouncy house and there was music and a contest to win a walking stick (which I got!) So then we had to go hiking with it - it would have been bad to not test it out.

(Then there was hiking. Lots of hiking. I think we hiked till daddy and I said it was too hot and we were too tired).

Then Sloan found one of the many playgrounds in the park and we got to have a lot of fun exploring those. Totally cool day! Evie and me are trying to get mom and dad to take us back again... I know there were lots of playgrounds that we only looked at.

Eins, zwei... oh a kitty!

2010-06-26T06:42:00.000-07:00

So Serena and her brother go to visit their cousin Max...

This is how my new learn German tape starts. Mom found it for me its got stories and illustrations and its really cool! I already know Hallo! (which is like Hello... but different) and I sort of know good morning (Guten Morgen) and I know ball (which is ball but said different) oh and suppe (which is soup).

Though its kind of tough to get the tape to continue playing when Evie keeps trying to turn off the player. Sisters, they just don't understand...

Gravity tests with Tape thingy

Oh, cheerios, yum.

more gravity tests with tape thingy!

While Sloan has been practicing his german I figured out how to climb into my walker/plaything all by myself!

Oops, I ended up backwards... how to... if I can... Waah!

Okay so mom put things right and I got to play in there for a bit, then back to randomly pulling things off the table and trying to run over cat's tails... ah, nap time.

Friends, music and whining!

2010-06-26T05:13:00.000-07:00

Man I know mom and dad talk about looking forward to Friday's, but I didn't know they were so much fun!

First I got to have my friends Paul and Sophia over and we played some cars.

But mostly we rocked out in the treehouse and backyard. Complete with taking a drum down a slide... it was very cool! (Till mom made us put the instruments away - something about not sliding with a drum).

But the best was Paul and Sophia brought some chocolate to share! Yum!

Oh and then we went to visit these people that mom knows (where other people were coming and we were...) whatever, anyway there were lots of fun kids to play with and we got pizza and to play with different toys and it was really cool! Even got to stay up REALLY late (which I don't get very much).

Okay good night!

Kaaaaaaaaaaaaa zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzooooooooooooo oooooooooooo.

This is what a kazoo played continuously first thing in the morning sounds like to my daddy. Then he said something about a mini vu-va-vuvuzzzzz-something (parent note: a vuvuzula).

Its not my fault Sloan gave me a noise maker first thing in the morning, is it? At least we were having fun... if not quiet.

Ooh, NOISEY DAY!

Drum, drum, piano drum, Kazoo! Whistle?!

I didn't know we had these cool instruments! I think daddy is hiding them again.

I did get to play with sloan's friends a bit (mostly I was napping). But we did get to go meet some need friends of mom and dad. There weren't any kids quite my age, but I had lots of fun with Zach, Margaret and Alex.

School's out for Summer!

2010-05-30T18:27:00.000-07:00

Yeah! Preschool is done, bring on the summer!

A great time of play, singing and presenting cool painted aprons to our cool teachers and it was off to a beach for an end of school party. Swimming in the lake, pizza and the COOLEST Spindry merry-go-round EVER!

Evelyn even had fun. I am pretty sure mom's got some photos -which I'll try to get her to post soon.

Have a great summer its time to start channelling Phineas and Ferb and see what we can build this summer. Good prep for Kindergarten.

Welcome to the Lamb Bam Club!

2010-05-18T08:13:00.000-07:00

Well for Mother's day weekend we went up to visit Jubba and Grandma Stanley.

Yeah I know it was mom's day and that they get the good stuff, but Jubba had found me this totally rockin' drum set at a Salvation Army. (Daddy actually tried to say it would stay at Jubba's - he's so funny).

Here are some shots of Evelyn and I rockin' out. We don't sound that great yet - but we are having lots of fun!

Boom Boom ratta tat! Sloan is protective of his drum set but he let's me play it sometimes when I'm cute (and when he wants to play the piano of course.)

This is just a pic that Sloan and Mommy took of Daddy, Jubba and I walking up to the local Coffee shop. We were giving Grandma some much needed naptime.

Its a birthday kind of day

2010-05-17T07:06:00.000-07:00

My friend Honor is 1 year old! And what a wonderful party her family threw her. Why there were bubbles and balloons and cupcakes and presents!

Sloan got to play with his friend Henry and have lots of fun.

We even got to have lots of fun enjoying the weather by biking over to the party. Though dad did say things like... I didn't know there were hills...and ugh where did those muscles come from?

Wow, a fun ride and a REALLY LARGE Cupcake! The best part was the chocolate cupcake and playing Uno with Henry.

Oh and seeing Daddy collapse after our bike ride. Though it was very bumpy and that wasn't so good.

My friend Zander also had a birthday party that day but sadly I had to miss it. So Happy Birthday Zander!

Mother's Day

2010-05-09T00:00:00.000-07:00

Taking a break from Sloan and Evelyn's posts, I figured it was time for their Father to post something.

Sloan and Evelyn, while rambunctious at times, are great children. I look at them and see the hope, wonder, and earnestness of a new generation. I love them and know that they love me. More than that, I know we all love Mommy.

For well over a decade, I have known and loved Tiffany. Nine and a half years ago, she consented to be my wife. I cannot imagine a life without her - she so defines everything I love about the world. She fills my days with love, joy, and inspiration.

Twice now, we have spent time in hospitals. Each time has brought a little more love into the world. While she cannot compete with the other mothers as to how hard her labor was (three hours of labor for two children), it was a harrowing thing both times. For all of that, I would not change a thing.

While our children may not be old enough to understand the world, I do know that they see many things for what they are - cake is delicious, snow is cold, thunder is loud, and Mommy is amazing. I have to agree.

For all of these reasons and more, I wish you a happy Mother's Day.

I love you Tiffany.

Geoffrey Lamb

With bells on.

2010-05-02T18:58:00.000-07:00

So we all went to a farm for a fairy party. Evelyn was dressed in very pretty fairy wings and I was a pteranodon. Rar!

We met up with our friends Genevieve, Alex, and Zack (and their parents, of course). There were all kinds of plants and flowers to see and smell [it was an herb farm - Dad]. I got to meet some other kids and we all played with the fountain.

What my brother left out was the Maypole Dance...

Oh, yeah - the maypole! It was all green and purple and we ran about and went in circles and stuff!

While my brother was off chasing faries about the maypole, I must add that Daddy was a great sport. Since my "wee legs" cannot yet keep up with the other maypole dancers, Daddy carried me. I can say that he hops well and is champion at skipping.

Yes yes, Daddy can skip. He wasn't wearing bells, however. There were these people, called Morris Dancers, and they danced about with bells and sticks and scarves. It was all totally cool.

As disjointed as that sounds, Sloan is correct on all counts. There were people dancing about in white, red, and black. There were bells on their legs and they danced with white scarves and sticks. It was amazing.

We haven't posted in HOW LONG?!

2010-04-23T07:56:00.000-07:00

Sorry we haven't posted in ages. Mom has been busy first with getting Evelyn's birthday party up and going and then with various entertainments for us youngins.

However, I have convinced her to post one of our projects. You see, I have been creating stories and she has been working on illustrating and editing them. Here is the title page for one of my favorites.

The Picnic.

The truth about dinosaurs

2010-03-11T20:04:00.000-08:00

Many days ago dino's were created. Well they were lined up for parade. Their maker adjusting their lines.

He set then on to parade and let em help clean up his room.

Then they caught their Sloan and dragged him off to play with em with the matchbox cars and bakugon....

Um, the end.

Photos

2010-03-11T20:01:00.000-08:00

So Mom was going through some photos and found this one from my friend Henry's birthday party.

Mom is still giggling about this one.

MRRRRRR RRRRRRRRRRR! I'm an airplane!

11 months today!

2010-03-10T05:10:00.000-08:00

So baby girl is 11 months old today. Wow, hard to believe she's that old and that I was ever that young.

Mom and Dad said I can help plan her birthday party. Hm... where will I get the pink dinosaurs?

Eveyn's Word of the day

2010-03-10T05:07:00.001-08:00

BIKE

When mommy asked how she should take Sloan to school today I agreed with sloan that they should bike.

Yeah the first bike ride of the year! I've been trying to get mommy to bike for the last few days. Some tires parents can be SO resistent. Finding excuses like "its not ready yet" "we need to put the seats on". Well no more.

Today we ride!

An odd day and another tooth

2010-03-09T18:00:00.000-08:00

So its been a really fun day. After a rousing game of zombie catch at school I got to help mommy set up for a playdate.

Okay, I see some of you are intriqued by the 'zombie catch', well at school a few of the boys and I would be zombies and we would catch another player then they would be a zombie and the kid who caught them would not be any more. It was fun and there wasn't much pushing so pretty good there too.

Then this afternoon Damon and Lancer and his bro came over to paint planters and plant some seeds. It was really cool and we got to welcome spring and there were muffins and I helped mommy test some cookies she was making and.... well it was cool!

I have a new tooth, I think I actually got it yesterday, but it just really finished coming in today. I think it brought friends. My friend Shaun seems to be going through that too, so when he came over with his big brother we mostly sat on the floor and complained to each other. When we weren't following some parent around and convincing them it was in their interest to hold us.

One step, two step, boogalooga loo step!

2010-03-09T17:35:00.000-08:00

In other words, I can walk. Mostly I still am walking by holding mommy's hands. Or one hand and a dolly.

Up until today its just been one or maybe two steps. Today I got ANGRY! I wanted to be held and mommy was doing something with pots and when she put me down and walked off, I had to chase her. This was an issue later when it became a party game.

When daddy got home and picked me up. Mommy told him that if he put me down and stepped away I'd walk to him.

Drat my weak will! But I have evaded having it on video so I count that a win.

Thank you game

2010-03-02T10:38:00.000-08:00

Yesterday daddy created a game for Evie and I to play.

You sit in a circle (there were 3 of us so I guess it was a triangle). Take a ball and hand it to someone saying 'Here you go'. That person says 'thank you', then turns to 3rd person with 'Here you go', repeat.

Evie started trying to say thank you and managed it at least once. Very cool.

I got to play lots of games with daddy and Sloan before dinner last night.

Today I started playing the: Your feet don't belong on the table. Game.

I put my foot on the table and mommy says 'No feet on the table' as she pushes it down. this is lots of fun and when playing the advanced version - both feet come into play.

Yoga is not so peaceful, Dinosaur hurdling and a timeout.

2010-03-02T10:21:00.000-08:00

In honor of the olympics I designed a special race. Dinosaur hurdling!

Take two yoga mats and put them side by side.

Now, on my yoga mat, put one dinosaur about 1/3 of the way from the end.

On the other put three near the end, but just far enough apart to put a foot.

Now race. Who gets to the end first and doesn't step on a dino wins.

For extra challenge, add Evelyn. Participants must evade her as she tried to steal the hurdles.

I think mommy was trying to calm Sloan down when she suggested trying some yoga. I don't think anyone will be surprised when I explain that it didn't work.

But some new yoga moves were invented. I've listed them below.

1. Horsey: This move starts with you in the table position. Then second person (Sloan) leaps on your back when you are not prepared and starts chanting "Giddyup". Ends when either rider falls off or horse goes into child pose and they slip off.

2. Squishy hero: 1st person starts in child pose. 2nd person leaps on back. 1st person moves from child pose into hero pose - squishing 2nd person against couch. Repeat until giggling makes it too difficult to continue.

3. Death from above: This seems to be based on cats and 5 yr olds. 1st person is Fire Log pose. 2nd person leaps at you and 1st person must catch before collision can occur.

4. Rest in Peace: 1st person starts in Corpse pose. As serenity asserts itself and you feel the worries sliding away... 2nd person will have leapt onto your core as hard as they can. (Recommend only once per session)

Happy Valentine's Day!

2010-02-14T08:58:00.000-08:00

We are having a fabulous family valentine's day.

I finally got to try out my birthday potter's wheel with daddy. There was painting and music too.

Yeah, I love playing mommy's bodhran thingy and of course I sometimes need to test the quality of the sticks by taste. You know... its a musician thing. I even got to do some art too.

Best friend

2010-02-13T13:56:00.001-08:00

This remote is the best friend I have. Holding it to my face seems to make everything better.

Please don't take my remote.

MOM'S note: for some reason yesterday Evelyn decided that this remote was the only thing in the world that would make her happy. If she had it craddled against her cheek... she was happy. You took it and ... well it was NOT pretty. Or quiet.

Bakugon, Snow forts and an unknown number of spots.

2010-02-13T13:39:00.000-08:00

Starting with the 'spots' I keep trying to count the ones on Evelyn... but I get distracted after the first ten. Mommy says she has around 30 now, but lots of them have already done the juicy stage and are starting to go away.

Mommy and I have been having lots of fun the last few days while Evelyn is sleeping. Yesterday we started a snow fort. (yeah I don't have a coat on but it war really warm. We started rescuing some of my other dinosaurs then worked on the fort. And Carni the carnatourus is helping. Cani is a good digger).

Today we played Bakugon with our homemade arena. Yeah Mega blocks.

Well these spot things are definately cutting into my play time. And they are starting to REALLY bug me, they kind of itch and that's okay cause if I just scream that seems to help.

You can't see us!

2010-02-11T17:27:00.000-08:00

I started out just sitting in the box, then Sloan and I decided to have a private conversation. No one will see us here.

Once we hatched out plans - we decided to go to the corner and have a camp out.

The Snow Dayr

2010-02-11T10:01:00.000-08:00

Well, it was a snow day here (about 5" of snow all told) not too much, but apparently enough to not have school around here.

After having a large breakfast (ummm Bacon - I love bacon) I went outside to help mommy shovel the drive and clean off the cars.

Here are some pics of my helping. Mom handled the lower stuff while I shovelled from the top down.

Crazy week

2010-02-10T14:18:00.001-08:00

Well its been a crazy few weeks, Evie and I have been fighting colds. Though I started it last wed with the sniffles and then the whole thing on thursday and friday (you know, fever, ear and eye pain, chills just laying on the couch and randomly fallng asleep). Yep, the whole thing.

While I was good and managed to hang on to good health til sunday (you know once Sloan was pretty much over his cold). Freaked daddy out by waking up screaming from sleep. So Mommy and Sloan got to take me to the doc's. I thought I'd up the ante though, and tuesday woke with red spots... that's right CHICKENPOX! So back to the doc's to confirm. Apparently on your 3rd visit in 3 days you get your own room.. and rent. Mommy decided that we wouldn't develop anything else.

So to recap: Sloan still has the sniffles, I have chickenpox, a cold and I'm teething. Mommy would like sleep. And I think daddy is glad to get to go to work some days.

Climbing climbing climbing!

2010-02-01T08:14:00.000-08:00

The evening starts with my newest discovery: I can climb stairs. Apparently I can get up at least 3 before Sloan tells Mommy and she can get to me. She followed me all the way up the stairs.

Yep, made it all the way up, jockeying from side to side as I decided which way was the easiest up the stairs.

Gotta say, Evie can definately move well on those stairs! I am very impressed.

Its my birthday!

2010-01-27T19:04:00.000-08:00

FIVE!

5 year old

1 +4

No matter how you say it I am finally 5! I have been telling people I'm 5 for weeks now. Seemed fair, everyone else in class seemed to be having a birthday.

It was great! Daddy made me some chocolate chip cookies to take into class. Then at class we learned about DETECTORS (smoke alarms for you not in the know) and firetrucks. It was so cool. Then we got crayons and coloring books and I've been taking them everywhere lately. Not that I've colored much in them, but that's not the point.

Then I got to have lunch at the bagel shop with just mommy and I. Then daddy made me a stegosaurus cake. Look at the photo isn't that awesome?!

And thanks to everyone who gave me birthday wishes and of course stuff.... loved the stuff. More on that in later posts

yeah let the birthday festivities begin!

2010-01-24T19:55:00.000-08:00

Today I got to open my first birthday present. (Huh, it seems like I just stopped getting christmas presents like a week ago...i love this time of year).

Today's present was two part, I got a new pair of inline skates (Roller skates!). Then daddy took me to go roller skating with Batman and Spiderman!

So Sloan got this really fun pair of shoe thingies and then he was zooming around the house. I don't get the attraction - sounds like a good time for a nap.

Okay so I got to go hang out with mommy at her book club meeting. That was fun, lots of people to pay attention to me... oh yeah and some book about wine.

Okay, so the skating thing could have gone better. I wasn't prepared for how loud it was going to be. So after getting startled by Batman appearing behind me (that guy is freaky!) Daddy took me to McDonald's for some playtime. I somehow it didn't seem like the day went quite like Daddy had planned. He was a good sport.

Winter Zoo!

2010-01-15T19:28:00.000-08:00

Field trip day today! We went to the zoo with class today and wow did we have a great time. There were lots of animals out and the reptile house was really popular.

I got to have a good walk today with mom and Sloan. We went to the zoo and there was this really cool lumpy animal...then food and I got to see the cool tunnel where the animals are floating over you. That is soo very cool!

SLEDDING!

2010-01-12T19:44:00.000-08:00

Okay I do not understand why anyone wants to stuff me into this fuzzy blue suit thingy. And then I have to go into the snow? Why? I'll nap, I'll be good...I'll... oh well, this isn't so bad. I guess.

Wohooo snow! YES!

I've got my awesome snow shoes from Tio Chris and I am off to try them out. I have already managed to figure out stairs and sneaking up on mommy. Though she did tell me I'm not allowed to attack while wearing the snowshoes. Though I did have fun pretending to chase after Evie, as mom pulled her around on the sled.

The Lion and the Lamb

2010-01-10T16:43:00.000-08:00

When it occured to mom that there was a Lamb costume for Evie and that I had my lion costume from last halloween, she thought of a fun winters day game.

We built a tent using all of the living room, there were pillows and toys and story time and of course, a photo shoot.

Enjoy the photos!

School!

2010-01-04T19:21:00.000-08:00

Well the holiday was wonderful, with lots of gifts and visiting lots of relatives and friends. But it was nice to get back to school. I got to compare christmas stories with the otehr kids and I am still having problems deciding what my favorite gift is.

Though Evie doesn't seem to be having a problem with it.

Present! One of my first words, Sloan said it and I thought that sounded really nice, so I said it too.

Crap its what year?! part 2

2010-01-03T16:28:00.000-08:00

Well, that was november and I figured I'd make it easy and do a seperate post for December.

So this month Evie turns 8 months.

Present

And says a word. Now I should add that she's been saying 'Dada" but I think mom already posted that. Now every once in a while she will repeat something that I say. Like present.

Present

Yes, well so December was the month that Mom and I created the Earth. (For those who didn't know, it consists of Icing, Chocolate and Cheese). We made 3 versions. We've gotten some ideas for other versions, but the current ones were very tasty.

We also had lots of fun over christmas. I think by the New Years Evie and I had had 3 or 4 holiday parties. Its hard to decide what is the best gift though in the end I think the leap frog books win. (the large riding dinosaur is definately a close second). And I even got to see Santa in the Santa house. Then I got to do some puzzles and lots of sledding and tobogganing.

So then we had a friend of mom's staying with us. There was music, games and all sorts of fun things.

Oh and Evie had her very first Blueberry muffin.

The weekend culminated in Evie having a new word:

Mama

Crap its what year?!

2010-01-03T16:13:00.000-08:00

Okay so much as Evie and I have done lots of cute things recently it has taken mom a while to get back to updating this blog. Yell at her, she just sends me to bed.

Shame she cares so little about Evie and I's adoring public.

Tee hee, AAAAHHH!

Ah, Evie says I we should do a synopsis.

November:

Evie turned 7 months, works on furniture walking. I wrote my first novel for national novel writing month (they loved it at the TGIO party).

We got to hang out and party at the zoo with Big H and little H. I taught Evie how much fun it is to play in laundry baskets. And of course thanksgiving where I shared a cold I got at school with the whole family (and grandma and jubba). Decided not to share with grandma and grandpa Lamb.

Evie discovers how much she loves bagels! and how much she HATES flu shots.

Best was a field trip with school to the Turtle farm - which had LOTS more to look at than just turtles.

Happy New Year everyone!

2010-01-01T19:51:00.000-08:00

Well mom and dad had some friends over and played games and had lots of snacks. Something about starting the new year by finishing all those things started in the old. Like chips and cookies and... well you get the idea.

Mom's friend Mary was in and tons of fun, I got to play lots of loud music and dance around. Awesome.

Mom and Dad even woke Evie and I up to help cheer on this sparkly ball thing. I don't get it but apparently its tradition.

So hope this finds everyone having a happy new year.

Its your 7 month birthday! What are you going to do?

2009-11-10T12:43:00.000-08:00

Happy birthday to me! la la la la wee hee!

Well I am 7 months old today and and trying to think of new ways to scare the parents. I decided I would really work on my furniture walking. It seems to really scare mommy. Something about not being ready yet... Parents.

We also went over to a new friends house. It was lots of fun and I'm not just talking about hte new toys to play with.

Oh yeah, and this is me with the new baby gate. Mom keeps muttering something about copyright infridgement with a photo from Henry... but I don't know what that is so... well.. mopthing else really.

Rattlesnake hunting!

2009-11-06T10:24:00.001-08:00

Well not really. My class went to Miss Lucy's Turtle Farm (I think its actually just called the Turtle Farm!).

This place was so cool! There were all these animals, Llamas and Emus and goats and deer. Then there was the area where we got to hold some and I got to hold a baby duck and see one just hatching from an egg. There was Rose the tarantula and the milk snake and dragon and baby alligator and then we got to feed the animals and there was funning around and the tee-pee (where you don't pee) but there was a map turtle named roscoe and a bunny and ... well you get the idea.

Awesomeness thy name is Sloan!...

2009-11-05T19:45:00.000-08:00

Awesomeness thy name is Sloan!... and Evie is training to be chok full of the awesome as well. (the management)

Yeah so I thought I'd give the folks a break and be really great. I have created at least two new versions of parcheesi (okay most involve the animals doing roller skating and cage fighting... but its fun.

Had a good day, helped mom with morning pancakes and feeding Evie and it was lots of fun.

I was coasting on the cuteness. I think my teeth are acting up! So I chewed on a bagel... and the cat. But I got to hang out with my buddy Zach today while mom chatted with his dad. We had fun. I learned to roll a ball back and forth. Well, zach would roll the ball to me and I'd cleverly deflect it so he had to run. Fun game.