This and That

A few random pictures of what we’ve been up to lately:

Our first BOY cousin was born a couple weeks ago, on March 14. We all headed down to Salem to meet baby Edmund. Here are some pictures I took of our cute and chubby new family member:

Look at those arm rolls!

Seth and Sam loved meeting him and cried when it was time to leave. It made Ben and I very excited to have a newborn again in the fall!

I’ve been progressively feeling less nauseous and having more energy—which means I can finally do fun things with the boys again! One Saturday morning we made gluten free brownies together. I sure miss baking with all this food allergy stuff!

While I was tired and sick during that first trimester, I would frequently zone out on pinterest. Now I am actually doing some of the pins around the house and with the boys. This particular pin I’ve been wanting to do with Sam and Seth for a long time; not only is it crafty, but also great for them to learn the days of creation. Now that they are on the wall, it is easy to review with the boys what God made on each day. (A word to any mom that’s thinking about doing this craft with 3.5 year olds: maybe split the activity into 2 different days. By days 6 and 7 we were all getting a bit antsy of doing the art project). (pin here: http://pinterest.com/pin/502573639636502143/) Seth still struggling with that picture smile Sammy

(Seth, Sam) This was such an easy and fun craft. I just put a color dab on the start of each line so the boys would know what color to paint. These look beautiful up on our wall! (found here: http://pinterest.com/pin/502573639636905909/)

Much to my joy (and I’m sure my neighbors too), I finally took down m Christmas wreath at the end of February. Last week I made this one to replace it. Inspired by this pin: http://pinterest.com/pin/502573639636886218/

Very springy indeed

And now for one final (and hilarious!) picture of Seth and Sam. It’s from this morning, and while you may think they are dressing up like old, blind people—nope. They are “soldiers.” As we’ve been reading books about Easter and the soldiers arresting Jesus, they’ve really picked up on the soldiers part. When I delicately tried to tell them that pretending to be the soldiers that killed Jesus might not be the best role to play, they very matter-of-factly told me that they were “good soldiers that were gonna cut the soldiers that were hurting Jesus.” Ok. Sounds good boys. Glad that you’re the good guys. Sam, Seth (this is their mean soldier look)