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Happy Birthday to Zeke!

Wow…can you believe he’s nine?

 
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Posted by on January 13, 2011 in zeke

 

Fits Right In

I’m sure this will be the scene at our home on Sunday afternoons for many years to come…

I love that Phoebe feels right at home between her brothers and their friends.  So cute!

 
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Posted by on December 1, 2010 in elijah, phoebe, zeke

 

An Offer He Could Refuse

 
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Posted by on October 24, 2010 in zeke

 

Seven Thirty AM Wake Up Call

Both Elijah and Zeke are doing piano lessons this year, which, ironically, is much easier than it was to have only Elijah in piano lessons.  For the time being, Zeke actually likes to practice, and even [insert the "Hallelujah" chorus here] remembers to practice on his own!  And this is where having competitive boys becomes a good thing. You see, Elijah ends up being provoked to practice when Zeke practices regularly …cause there’s no way Zeke’s gonna be better than him at piano!  Humph!  For the past coule of mornings, Zeke has decided to practice as soon as he gets up, which works out well, and makes my life easier still.  Elijah’s a difficult one to rouse come morning time and since the piano is under his bed…well, the photo says it all!  He he!                                                                                                                                                                                                   P.S.  Zeke just scored this rare Packers jersey at Marshall’s for $7.99. Sweet deal!

 
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Posted by on October 14, 2010 in elijah, zeke

 

Music to My Ears


“Mom, can I feed Ellie some applesauce?”

Except when his only reason for wanting to feed Ellie some applesauce is to get out of doing his Literature unit assessment.

And somebody – I wouldn’t want to name anyone, per se – may have actually forgotten that Zeke was supposed to be doing school work when he asked, with great enthusiasm, to feed Ellie some applesauce.  Not that this person is absent minded or anything… she – oops! I mean, this person – just appreciates all the help she can get. ;-)

 
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Posted by on October 1, 2010 in zeke

 

Orange!

 
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Posted by on August 20, 2010 in zeke

 

Favorite Photo of the Day

In 20 years they’re gonna love this photo.  And they’ll forget all about how they were so ticked off with me for making them take they’re shirts off. Or…maybe they won’t forget.

 
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Posted by on August 18, 2010 in elijah, noah, zeke

 

The Rip-Van-Horsmans

Have you heard of/seen the new-fangled skateboard called a RIPSTIK?  Oui?  Non?  (I need to brush up on my French.  We begin a French foreign language course this fall.  Exciting!  Elijah and Zeke think that they’ll finally have a language to have secret conversations in the same way that the Portuguese speakers on campus do.)   A RIPSTIK was all Zeke wanted for Christmas this past year and a RIPSTIK he did get.

As soon as the snow cleared this spring Zeke started practicing the wiggling maneuver used to propel himself on his RIPSTIK.  He soon found out that it wasn’t as easy as it looked.  He fell…a lot.  But he kept at it.  And fell a lot more.  His elbows took the brunt of most of his collisions with the sidewalk.  Ouch.  Me?  I would have given up.

But finally – like overnight – Zeke figured it out!  Now he’s cruising all over campus.  I love this picture of him doing a U-turn and the concentration evident in the tongue curl.

Of course, it simply would not do for Zeke to have a skill that Elijah didn’t have, so now Elijah is determined to figure out the RIPSTIK too…

Boys…everything’s a competition.

 
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Posted by on June 28, 2010 in elijah, zeke

 

Very Impressive, Elijah

Now could all three of you look at the camera?  Just once.  And smile…or at least not look weird.  Please?

Not gonna happen.

 
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Posted by on June 22, 2010 in elijah, noah, zeke

 

Last Spelling Test of the School Year

Yippity Skippity!  Tomorrow is our last day of school!  We’re planning on doing a bit of summer school in July and August - just a half hour to an hour each day of math and language arts review – but for the month of June we will be free spirits.  :-)   So happy and proud of us all.   We did it!

 
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Posted by on June 2, 2010 in elijah, School, zeke

 
 
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