09-05 Kyle's 5th Birthday

well, another milestone has occurred (seems like there's always one happening when you have 3 kids!) kyle's 5th birthday was on september 5th.


first he had to "help make" the cake!

kevin did a nice job on the finished product - a train. kyle asked for a train last year, too. guess he really likes them!





kyle has been begging for a scooter for months now, so he was very happy to open this present! (and test it out!)

this kid made out like a bandit! he got thomas the train movies, a butterfly habitat (i'm excited to get that going!), a remote control truck, clothes, a spinning monster truck arena (should i keep going?!)

yay more crayons! kyle yelled out: there's 64 - that's so many! (he loves coloring)

but the big hit of the party was the remote control race track - something about those little cars going round and round amuses children for lengthy periods of time.

09-02 Zachary's Project

this is zachary's first big school project! he had to read a book, do a book report, and then a project to go along with it. the book was about a tornado (or a "willy willy" as they are called in australia, which is where this book is from), and mingor the ant (the brown thing is the ant hill, and you can't see from this angle, but zachary actually cut a doorway in the ant hill). kevin helped guide zachary with what to do, but zachary actually did the work himself, so i am very impressed with the turnout!