Family Matters

Family Matters hosts toddler play on Tuesdays. Each week is a different activity: roll & tumble, messy play, mix and measure and out and about. This last week for out and about it was raining pretty steadily so Tessa had some activities set up inside. One was painting fully equipped with paint shirts and berets. George obviously has no French heritage as the beret just didn't do on him but Lily wore it well! Tessa also had them painting with forks and as Henry is learning to eat with forks the first thing he did was...... - you guessed it!





These next two pictures were from a couple of weeks ago. Lily came over to play and it was so pretty outside. Henry LOVES to swing!

Family Matters

Halloween Carnival

We went to the Halloween carnival tonight and the kids had so much fun. George dressed again as 'Bob the Builder' but lost (mom carried) the hard hat and shoes after the first 5 minutes. It is such a great event that the New Life Church puts on. They have ball pits for the littlest kids and toddler games including golf, ring toss, fishing, bowling, basketball, face painting and football toss. In the gym they have food and drinks and games for the older kids. Emily volunteered and worked one of the booths for the older kids. Here are a few pictures.


Henry trying to decide which ball pit is better.

Emily 'manning' her station - looks like one is getting away!

George getting his face painted - he liked it so much that he asked her to do one on the other side.

Beautiful Emily!

George's 3rd Birthday Party

We had George's birthday party today. He had a bunch of friends over and they all had a blast. We did a scavenger hunt to find shovels and pails and then the kids all went to the garage where we had the trailer full of dirt with dinosaurs and treasures for the kids to dig up and keep. George was so excited to have everyone sing happy birthday to him and he blew each one of his candles out. He got so many great presents and we even held some (sent from family) back for his actual birthday - seriously contemplating saving those for Christmas :-).

Henry on our slide - oh my!

A few days ago it came to my attention that Henry could climb the ladder of our playset. He would wait at the top of the slide for me to come over and then he would slide and let me catch him. He has now figured out how to do it himself - so independent, yikes!

Piano man/men/boys

The boys were entertaining us this evening, it is a bit long but George breaks out in a solo towards the end. He is doing a remix of "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" and the "ABC" song. Henry is just happy doing backup - for now :-).

Fun at the park

It was a beautiful day today and we hear it is one of only a few left so the boys and I decided to head to the park. Surprisingly we were the only people there but we had fun anyway. Henry, who loves to climb, was enjoying the jungle gym a lot. It is a pretty difficult gym for a parent to maneuver around from the outside so I was grateful that he has such great balance. I believe George was off discovering mud holes during most of this but he does make an appearance.