Now could all three of you look at the camera? Just once. And smile…or at least not look weird. Please?
Not gonna happen.
Archive for the ‘noah’ Category
Very Impressive, Elijah
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010Phoebe’s First Day of School
Monday, June 14th, 2010
Yes, school…let me explain. For the past couple of months Noah has had the privilege of attending a Christian Montessori preschool (for free!). There is a training centre right here on the college campus, and recently they invited children between the ages of 3-6 to attend. It’s a beautiful thing. The students in the training centre have real, live children to “train” on, and my kids are learning about everything from geography to prayer to sewing. (Yes…sewing!)
So…now that Phoebe is three and potty-trained she can go with Noah! How cool is that? She was so excited today, and it was so cute to watch them walk over together. It’s literally a stones throw away from our front door, too. Well… depends on who’s throwing the stone, I guess. 
“New-yeek”
Thursday, May 27th, 2010You know, Noah, Ellie looks a lot like you did when you were this age.
But Mummy…I’m…I’m new…I’m new…new-yeek. I learned that. That I’m new-yeek.
New-what?
Mummy!!! Don’t you know? NEW-YEEK! There’s no one else like me in the whole world. I’m NEW-YEEK! You never knew that before?
Noah’s Big Catch
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010The big fishing opener was this weekend and…well, we fished. Dave got a license, the kids fished for free, and I took pictures. It was really a lot of fun! Noah caught the first fish of the day… (Navinah Riley, to the left of Noah, and Tirzah Riley, to right of Noah, are pictured here…they’re the daughters of some of our BFFs from college days that have recently moved back to the Cities)
It was a Sunfish, I think. (?) Not much meat to them, so we threw it back in. Oh, and that fin on top? Razor sharp.
He was pretty proud of himself!
P.S. I like this pic of Dave and the girls…
P.P.S Elijah and Zeke wanted to make sure that you knew that they caught fish last night.
Five
Friday, April 30th, 2010A special little person in our house turned five this week! Noah had a whole day of celebration that started with breakfast in bed…
Continued with a lunchtime surprise party with lots of good friends…
And ended with opening and assembling his new Lego Toy Story set… (Maybe now he’ll keep his hands off of his brothers’ Lego? Heh, heh.)
Dandelions
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
There’s just something so precious about a child gathering a handful of dandelions and presenting them with shining eyes and a shy grin, isn’t there? Of course, it’s the pure motives and sincere desire to please me that melt my heart every time…not the yellow weeds. And with the first gift of dandelions every spring I am reminded of a simple, yet profound truth: that pretty much everything that I can offer to my Creator is like a dandelion – a weed – and not really of any worth at all to Him unless it is given with a sincere and loving heart.
Isn’t it incredible the lessons children can teach us? I’d love to hear a lesson you’ve learned from a child/ren in your life lately.
You’ve Got Mail
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Noah’s preschool class learned about mail for the month of February. In the January newsletter (which we never recieved because Noah wasn’t at school for January) family and friends were invited to send mail to the preschool for the students. I didn’t find out until a parent teacher meeting last week that all the other kids got lots of mail except Noah. Poor l’il guy! *sniff, sniff*
Hopefully this belated note from Elijah and Zeke will help him feel included and extra special today.