Let the summing up begin …
Kevin’s birthday came. I had made a chocolate chip cookie in a skillet a few days before, so for his birthday, we tried brownies in a skillet. Can you say, yum?!
The boys all wrote their dad a love letter and gave their dad some love …
They are growing up, but they are still little enough to give the best hugs.
And I love seeing Kevin love on them!
Especially this little one that knows that Kevin is his Poppy, but insists on calling him “Dad.” Not a clue where he got that from! He also calls me “Mum.” I try to correct him to Momma and Poppy …. his brothers all still call us Momma and Poppy … we have no idea why or how he knows to call us Mum and Dad, but he does (and it is kind of cute!).
My husband and boys are the cutest!
The weather was perfect and the boys enjoyed some backyard baseball after school. I hated to call them in for dinner because they were so picturesque – like a Norman Rockwell print! Bobby didn’t really know what was going on, but he had a mitt and he chucked balls – sometimes at his brothers!
My PTA gig was just starting to get busy! We invited Hank Smith to come do an anti-bullying assembly with the students and he was fabulous! He is on the LDS speaking circuit, but also does assemblies. We learned to not let others “crush our chips” and about chickens and their pecking order. It has made it easier to talk to the boys about getting along with friends because I can pull things they learned from the assembly! Oh and it was really, really funny!
Many times a day I say to different children, “You are NOT a cat!” They know that means to stop laying on the back of my sofa. Bobby is probably the most guilty of this – the couch was just made perfect for him to lay on top of!
We put up our Halloween decorations and Rusty decorated the sidewalk in front of the front door. His jack-o-lantern was pretty awesome!
