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!

Climber

Carden loves to climb which often gets him in trouble! He especially loves to climb inside of things and has no problem dumping said things out to obtain his goal!

 

 

It's Official

We have a toddler!!!!

Carden's primary mode of transportation now is walking! This isn't the best video, and its shorter than I would have liked, but he was fussy and its all I could get. I will try to get another one soon, as its pretty cute, even if it breaks my heart he is growing up too fast!

School's Out For Summer!!

Cavin's last day of preschool was May 16th and Rance's was this past Friday the 24th. We celebrated with donuts for breakfast, a special treat at our house. Even Carden got one. When I was picking them up Cavin insisted Carden needed one of his own and that his favorite kind was chocolate! I would have preferred white icing, but it was too cute.

Rance had a half day and his school always puts on a picnic lunch the last day. Last year they had inflatables so we were disappointed this year. So we ate and then headed to one of our favorite parks. It was a beautiful day out!

Last but not least, we finished our afternoon off with ice cream.

Push Ups

I was wanting to get this posted a few weeks ago, but its been crazy. Anyways, the other morning Cavin walks into the kitchen and goes over to the cabinet Carden was playing in and pulls out my pastry mat. I began to ask him to put it back up, that I don't want him to play with it, when he says, "but mom, I need to do my push ups..."

Amused at his cuteness, I tell him he can play with it. So he continues to lay it out on the floor and begins doing push ups. Out of no where.I happened to catch a few on video for your enjoyment!

If you can't hear what he is saying, he says that he is doing push ups because he has to exercise!

Happy 9th Birthday Rance!!

Easter 2013

Easter was a long day as usual for us with church, but it was a beautiful Sunday so we decided to squeeze in the zoo! I managed to take a couple of pics in the parking lot before we changed the boys out of their nice clothes!

What's Your Favorite Animal?

My typically shy around strangers three year old just walked into Ihop and asked the hosted what her favorite animal was! Then he asked the cashier what her favorite animal was and later if our waitress likes bats! His boldness completely took us by surprise!