Laughing

A couple of weeks ago Carden wad playing with a pen that has a Christmas light on the end that lights up. Carden was hitting with it so Matt told him no.

Carden typically always cries when you tell him no, but this time he laughed, as in am all out belly laugh. Of course Matt laughs and the game continued. Carden hitting with the pen, Matt saying no, Carden belly laughing, Matt laughing.

So now almost everytime I tell Carden no, he laughs. I am totally blaming this on Matt! Oy, this child is a mess!

Cavin's New House Wish List

So this weekend we are having a moving sale as well as an open house. We are trying to save some money and sell our home ourselves.

As we talk about selling our home and getting a new one the boys have had lots of questions.

Rance's biggest concern is if it will be a bigger house.

Cavin, on the other hands, said he wanted a basketball court in his basement.

I asked him what else he wanted at his new house and he said a swimming pool and toys.

Oh the life of a four year old. Although I have to say, a basketball court in the basement would make this mama pretty happy too!

Missing Wien

Vienna is never far from our thoughts or hearts, it will always be such a special place to us. I often find myself homesick for the city, but especially for our overseas family. Its bittersweet when fellow missionaries are back visiting Wien and posting tons of pictures, or past students post pics, and recently posts of graduation pics of our first sixth grade class.

So when I am especially homesick I am thankful for Aldi, Hofer in Vienna, and the few familiar Austrian things they carry. Lucky for me, these were (still are!) one of my favorites!

White Stuff

We are in the midst of VBS this week which makes for late nights for my boys. Two nights ago Cavin asked to rock and there is no way I could have said no! As we were rocking he kept saying something was cold, but I couldn't understand what he was saying. He was pointing to his hand so I guessed hand, fingers and names of individual fingers. Exasperated, Cavin again pointed to his hand and said, "no, this white stuff!" Ah, he was saying his skin was cold! Made my day!

Shark Boy

Cavin loves sharks and after searching high and low for cute -not scary- shark shirts, Gymboree finally came out with a line of shark clothing! I wish I could have went crazy and bought all of it, but just the few pieces I caught on sale made his eyes light up!

Since our VBS started yesterday we dressed the boys more casually for church since we wouldn't be home the rest of the day. -Graduation party, more VBS set up.-

Cavin was so excited to wear a new shark shirt and his shark flip flops to church! He got his flip flops for Easter and hasn't worn them yet. I am not a huge fan of flip flops so my boys mainly wear them to the pool, so this was a special treat. -Tennis shoes were taken for later.- To top of the look was his beloved shark spikes!

Fyi, according to Cavin this is his mean face!