The best of 2011...

...Kids Comedy Comments! To wrap up this year we will be posting some of our "best" things of this last year. It might be a several things, it might be two. We'll see.

SquiRe: Dad, do men wear tights?
Dad: No, that's mostly girls.
SquiRe: Yeah. I've seen men wear tights before, but only when they ride bikes.

SquiRe: *sighs* I wish I was a honey badger!
Goldilocks: Yeah...I wish I was a princess...but wait! I am a princess!

Momo: *after finding Jack eating his new toy* Jack, are you eating your horse?!
Jack: *licks lips* Neigh.

So those are the little comedians of our house!

-RMS

Promised video

The Sound of Music

Music is such a sweet gift from God, wouldn't you agree? Unfortunately God has not seen fit to gift our home with that particular gift. I am not the only one in the family who can't even clap to the beat correctly all the time! Yeah, it's that bad.
Well we may not be especially gifted with the skill of making beautiful music but we can still try.
"Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all you lands!" I love that verse. Note it says noise, not song. Well there can be a lot of noise coming from within our house. As some of you may have already heard SquiRe has recently picked up the clarinet. He has not only picked it up, he has started playing as well. I also started an instrument, the guitar.
Recently our music classes hosted a Christmas party/concert that was a lot of fun!

Videos to come later.

Momo

The wonders of Fall

Okay, so it's winter. But this is when the leaves start falling  (on some trees) so we all went and played in the leaves.

It was great to be able to have some fun. And the weather has been awesomely cold too.

Our Nana passed away mid-November. The holiday season will be hard without her, but we will try to remember to keep this blog somewhat updated.

Sam

Sad but true

Sam

Pictures and Jack

SquiRe was dressing up like Lewis from Meet the Robinsons.

Okay so tell us. Is she ugly or cute? I think cute, Momo disagrees.

Goldilocks locking very pretty in her new cowgirl boots.

Poor Jack. He's had a really high fever the last few days and hasn't been happy. But that doesn't stop him from being cute. A few days ago when we were getting him up from naptime his lullaby CD was playing the 23rd Psalm and he actually knew some of the words. It went like this.

CD: ♪You lead me beside still--

Jack: ♫Water....

CD: ♪You restore my--

Jack: ♫Cold, cold!

So he sort of knew the words anyway, lol.

So that's a quick, brief update on us. I have to go finish school though, so the post has to be short.

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Canadian Thanksgiving

SquiRe calls Canadian Thanksgiving "fake Thanksgiving". [To any Canadians reading this: We told him that it is not fake! =) ]

This is the third (I think) year we have celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving. I recently had a friend ask us why we did. My response: "We really like food." I love baking and cooking so I'm just as happy to make the food as I am to eat it.

I would have more pictures to share, but when our mouths are full of food we smile less. And when we do smile it isn't as photogenic. =]

Yep, that is burned. Very burned. (To which, when he saw it, my dad gasped and said, "We don't ever burn things here, baby!") Other than burnt stuffing everything turned out well, and I am so thankful for Fake Canadian Thanksgiving!

More vacation

Okay, I've been informed that the pictures I posted last time did not seem happy at all so maybe these will set a different tone :D.

A very good picture of Momo, imho

Tracks of some large bird

Geese

The boys of the family

Credit for the close ups of the bison goes to Dad. He got closer than all of us.

Ducks on the lake

We got really close to this cow...she's obviously very used to people

A rare photo of Risa

Momo doing what she does best, making us laugh

Impolite

All kids who can talk

And, on another note, tomorrow we're going to go see Courageous! Which will probably be the best movie of the year. Can't wait.

Sam