Firemen to The Rescue!

This week Hannah found a cat stuck in the tree.  When she shared her concern with dad, he said “Have you ever seen a cat skeleton up in a tree?”  Hannah and the rest of us  kept watching the cat, and after two days of no movement, Daddy began to share our concern.  He tried to get the cat out of the tree by climbing the ladder.  He also tried to spray the cat out, which didn’t work either.  He decided to call the firemen. so they came.  First, they tried to shake the cat out of the tree by pushing a ladder up and down against the tree, but when they didn’t succeed, they sprayed it with their fire hose.  At first, they did a light spray, expecting the it to come down; but after it became obvious that that the cat was not going to budge, they decided to spray it with at 200 psi.  They succeeded!  You should’ve seen that cat! It tumbled out of the tree.  As soon as its paws hit the ground it took off like a bullet.

It was hilarious!

 

 

ALS

10/22/12

Joshua Having Fun!

We all love Joshua especially when he is curious.  This previous time his curiosity led him to the chicken bucket.  He was in the kitchen when he spied the big white bucket.  Then he peered inside and saw different delicacies.  One of the delicacies was oatmeal.  He smelled the warm custard milk, and then pushed the bucket and delightedly watched the milk flow in his direction.  He thought it was fun so he slapped the milk and took a slurp.  Boy did he enjoy his treat!

 

 

By A.B.S

 

Happy Birthday Vanilla!

Vanilla is alredy one years old, born on August 30 ,2011.  As a special treat, Vanilla got to go in the Labor Day Parade.  Why, might you ask. Because Dad took Vanilla to work on his bike, and on that day the road that Dad used was closed, so he had to ride in the middle of the parade.  She is a big puppy now, and I still remember when she was a baby. She sure loves a good game of ball.

                                      

 

By A.B.S

Joshy's First Food

Wow!  Joshua is a big boy to be eating food.  Joshua’s first food was Rice, and he is only 6.5 months old.  His first expression seemed like he didn’t like it, but now he does not mind.

 

By A.B.S

 

Sweet Joshua

Cute Joshua.

Today Hannah put her glasses on Joshua and he looks awesome.

He likes it when Aubrey, Amy, or Hannah plays the violin.

And he will stop crying if the vacuum is on because of its noise.

He also likes it when we play with him.

 

 

By A.B.S

 

A Little Food For Thought

Gracie is the subject again. We had pea soup for dinner, and some of her little peas got fell out of her plate. Like most families, we eat dinner before desert. Tonight we got ice cream.

While Gracie was happily licking her ice cream Dad came by and stuck a pea in it.  Gracie looked at the pea, took it out, licked the ice cream off the pea, and promptly spit the pea out. Unfortunately I didn’t get to see it, but just thinking about it makes me want to laugh out loud.

 

by ALS

 

 

 

Baseball

Every other week we participate in family sport's day, where we go to a park and play a certain sport.  One particular week we played baseball. Just look at the results:  Amy, Caleb, and Hannah climbed up the fence.  What fun! J

 

By ABS

 

Mischievous Grace

Grace decided that she was going to be mischievous today.  Mom has creams and sprays on her dresser. To Gracie these things are very appealing. Gracie uses the deodorant on her stomach, face and hands. In this case Gracie mistakenly began to use the lipstick as deodorant. Tip: during the video look closely at Grace’s stomach. J

 

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Stiches!

This is Kaileys second time getting stiches!!

The first time that she got stiches was on her finger and this time it was on her upper lip.

Kailey had a nice little hole, but the nurses at Med+Stop got that hole stitched up, but it took a little while. J

After about four to five days dad took the stiches out. And the wound healed very nice.

It was really funny because most of the time when people came over she would cover her Band Aid.

Well she’s better. That’s the good thing. J

 

How do the Bees Know What Flavor to Make

Our children enjoy a honey stick treat every now and then.  We have several different flavored sticks: cinnamon, apple, mint, and lemmon.  On one ocassion, the question popped up....how do the bees know which flavor to make? 

 "but Jesus said, "let the children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."” (Mt 19:14)

Bible Bee Bonfire

Wow! I can’t believe we reached the finish line.

 

For the summer Amy & I have been doing the Bible Bee. For twelve weeks we study passages of scripture and memorize 108 scripture verses (we memorized about 1/2 of them). Every summer the Bible Bee picks a book of the bible to study - and this summer was Second Timothy.

This picture is of Amy eating a marshmallow smore. Amy enjoyed smearing the marshmallow on her face, it was funny.J

 

My favorite lessons this summer were: 

1.  Being able to study more of God’s word with my family,

2.  Being able to memorize scripture,  

3.  Learning how to keep going even when the task gets tiring,

4.  Being able to work with my sister during the summer, 

5.  And finishing the Sword Study with joy and more of God’s word then when I started.

Of all the scripture that we covered over the summer, my favorite was Deuteronomy 31:6:

“Do not fear or be afraid of them. For the Lord is one who goes with you He will not leave you nor forsake you.”

 

Amy’s favorite lesson this summer was:  

1.  Memorizing scripture.

2.  Studying God’s word.

3.  Learning  new things with my family.

4.  Waking up at 4:00 AM.

5.  Doing my sword study with my sister.

6.  Doing a challenge very hard and completing it.

 

Amy’s favorite verse of the summer was 2Timothy3:16-17

“All scripture is given by the inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for  instruction in  Righteousness so that the man of God may be complete thoroughly equipped for every good work.”

 

Our Mating Frogs

We had mating frogs last year but this time we got two pairs of mating frogs this year.

But besides having mating frogs we have six individual frogs, so in total we have eight frogs.

We don’t really get the eggs because the fish in the pond probably eat them.

They also keep the bugs down around the pond to. J

Memorial Cake!

Yesterday was Memorial Day and mom maid this cake. J

Amy and I made brownies, and it was mom who came up with the idea.

She made the white frosting out of milk, sugar and cream cheese.

She also came up with the idea of putting on red licorice sticks as the red stripes.

And the stars are raisins. Even if the background is supposed to be blue and the stars white,

I think it was a pretty good idea. Don’t you think so?

Maybe you should try it sometime.

It was really good though! J

Gift Day!

We got gifts from mom and dad,

My brother got cars,

And all the girls got dolls.

But instead of a doll I got a very small violin.

We were going to open them after dinner, but dad said that we should open

Before dinner, so we did. J

Joshua Obed Shick

This is Joshua Obed.

We would sometimes call him Joshua O.

Because he would pretend to fall asleep and

Would start to cry when we put him in his crib.

(mom said that when he would pretend to fall asleep

He would be playing opossum. J)

Now we got him a small baby chair that can rock by itself.

(it needs to have batteries, and it also plays music!)

The first time we got it he slept for a long time.

He still falls asleep in it, but it’s a lot less. J

"A little Vanilla to Flavor the Day!"

 

I was taking pictures of our farmyard, when I caught vanillas face.

I sure was glad that I had my camera. J

She looked away for a second, so I had to call her name softly,

And when she heard me she made that very cute face.

I’m glad that trick worked!!!

Our Baby Brother

Joshua Obed is 19 days old.

He is beautiful and we all love him.

A New Member Of Our Family

 

Joshua Obed was born March 1, 2012.  He weighed 9lb. 10oz. and was 21 inches long.  He was born healthy and strong.

Girl's Tea Party

The girls were getting ready to have a tea party.  Meanwhile, Leanna Grace is playing with the nicely set table.  Then Amy comes along and catches Grace messing around with the glass dishes,  and she says “Grace what are you doing with those dishes?”   And Grace puts the dishes back on the table (the table is our coffee table) and runs away.  Amy chased her and catches her and says “ Grace what are you doing with those dishes?”  and grace just smiles. But you may wonder why she actually was so attracted to those dishes. Grace had seen some orange pieces on the one of the plates, and she had eaten every one of those oranges.  And that is the story of the girls tea party. 

This year's persimmons