Easter and 5th birthday party month

We got to go to Grandmas for Easter and two other birthday parties for our pals Santi and Maelle.  

We like parties and people and cake.

First baseball mitts!

Abe:  Wow, what a day.  Grandma brought us our first baseball mitts and then she and daddy played with us in the yard.   This is really cool.   We had baseballs but no mitts, and I just finished my first baseball "camp" so I was ready.  

This was a good day, even though it ended with dad hitting me in the mouth with a fast pitch.

THANKS GRANDMA!!!

Triple Haircut Day

Koh: We all got our hair cut today - another dining room special.  Can you tell who's who?   Can you tell which one is the professional cut?   Daddy paid us money and candy this time.   I like that.

Here's a magic trick I won't do again

Abe: I love magic and practice new tricks with my magic kit I got for Christmas.   This week I did my best trick ever: I made this marble disappear.

I mean POOF it was gone and it made me cry because it hurt a little bcause I never swallowed a marble before and it was an excellent trick because nobody could find the marble, not even the magician.

Better yet the TRICK LASTED FOR 3 DAYS!   Everybody was watching for when I made the marble reappear.    We waited and waited.    Then POOP, I mean POOF - I made it come back.  But it was dirty and wet and I'm not going to do that trick ever again, that was crappy.

We love our mom and our grandma and flowers

Today we shopped for pretty flowers for our mom and grandmom and had a project to put them in vases with decorations and water.   Ssssssssshhhhh! (don't tell 'em, it's a surprise)

We went to college early

Mommy took us to her college today, Pacific University, where we got to play in the gym, see her dorm, eat tasty yogurt in the student union, walk all over amid tall trees and even watch the girls varsity lacrosse team whip on the opposing team when we sat way up in the top row of the stadium.

We're gonna go to college too, that looks cool.

Mommy's note: I had just run a muddy 25K at Hagg Lake, that's why I'm walking around wrapped in the kids' blanket. Mark said I looked like a homeless person.

What's wrong with this picture?

Koh:  I lost my leg today, I know hard to believe.    And daddy saw it happen, so he took this picture.   Wow is that art museum sculpture garden cool.     Good thing I found my leg later and re-attached it.

"Daddy, can you pause Barack Obama?"

Koh: Last night we watched TV with Dad, the annual state of union address by our president.  Daddy seemed surprised that we knew Obama's name and even more-so when we actually sat quietly together on the sofa for 30+ minutes before adjourning to the floor to build a train track.  After another 30 mins, Abe apparently was ready for something new and went over to Dad to ask . . .  

"Daddy, can you pause Barack Obama?"

That one made Daddy laugh out loud and fall down on the floor, and neither of us could figure out why. 

Love Letter from Dad #11

I read every night to you in your bedroom from the rocker and watch you fade away to dream time.  You still both sit on my lap in that small chair, a pretty funny and crowded scene now that you're 5 and weigh 40+ pounds.

"Harold and the Purple Crayon" was our book tonight, a book I like as much as you do.   You cracked me up tonight, Abe, and I believe we laughed together louder and longer than ever before.   It just made me laugh the way you commented on Harold's one-tree forest: "THAT would be a bad place to play hide and seek."  It was just such a funny comment, and it cracked you up, too.  We just sat there laughing together, you on my lap, till tears came out.   Koh didn't mind, he just waited for us to finish our joy jam.   That was a really special moment for me.  Thanks for the laughs and the love.   -Dad

Sleep over #1

Abe: Our neighbor Jacob came over for the whole night and THAT was fun 'cause we stayed up late and all slept on the floor campout style.   We want to do that again.

Birthday #5

Koh: We had a really fun party for our fifth birthday at The Circuit bouldering gym. We got to run around, climb high, slide fast, eat cupcakes, open presents - all with our friends. Then we went to Grandma's house and had birthday cake and presents. Then we came home and Jacob came over and we had more birthday cake. That was a lot of cake. Check out the fun photos and videos.

My first Egg McMuffin

Abe:  Daddy took us to McDonalds today for breakfast and we ordered these egg sandwich things.   Koh wouldn't touch his, but I always try new foods.   See how I liked it:

Christmas Elf

Koh & Abe: There's a little elf in our house.  He usually sits in the tree and watches us so he can tell Santa that we were very good and not to put coal in our stockings.  The crazy thing is that he has started moving around the house at night. Every morning we get up and find him somewhere else. We found these pictures he left us that show he hung out for awhile on each of our pillows while we slept one night. Today he's in what is left of our gingerbread house.

Abraham

Koh

We love December

Koh: We love December because it means its Christmas.  And we get to do all kinds of fun Christmas-y things like making this gingerbread house, cutting paper snowflakes, and decorating the Christmas tree.

Meet our new chickens

Abe: I love our chickens.  Do you know they're very social animals?   We just got our second set of new ones, and they're really cute now since they're just 2 months old and it's just nice having some more girls in the family.

Our old chickens had to go 'cause they stopped laying eggs and Mom and Dad said they're not pets, they're egg producers.  

My favorite is "Lily", who is going to lay BLUE eggs - how exciting!   The white one is "Snowflake" and the red one is "Foxy Roxy."

Come on over and you can hold one, too.

Update: Foxy Roxy fed the neighborhood raccoon family.  But don't worry, we replaced her with "Dinah Blue"!