Crafts

Ok, so I keep being told to make sure I take pictures of the things I have made, SO i'll make one big post of it so I dont have to worry about it in the future! I really dont have much time to do these fun things any more, so there shouldn't be much more to add later =)
Here I made the headboard (with two mirrors and bamboo), the 3 canvas's and lamps

Here my friend and I attempted our first sewing project, back in edmond. I bought the chair for 12 bucks at a garage sale. We sewed slip covers for the chair and staple gunned the foot rest.
The curtain in the back was a shower curtain I cut in half and sew up and stuck on the window. I dont like the purple in our room anymore, I was going for more of a plum color, now Im tired of it.

This was my specialty for awhile. I have made about 10 of these, in all colors, patterns and letterings. I'll find more pictures later! Love these!

I just made this barn wood sign, I couldn't decided on a scripture so I just combined some!

Painted blue dots on crib, collage of people and the circle patterns.

So I got this old shutter from Karen, painted it blue and stuck my black lids with letters on it! Sewed the pillow....not so happy with it

Carseat redue! This took forever to sew. I will never do it again but so please with the result!

Found these old chairs, painted and covered!

Sewn pillows, curtains, and spray painted almost everything in our house...including our refridgerator handles. (note:dont spray the stuff inside. Acually just dont spray yours fridge at all) But my favorite spray painted object was our chandelier. It was gold and old, with the open bulbs showing like candles. So i painted it an oil bronze and put some caramel stone like glass fixtures on the top to hide the bulbs. LOVE IT! 20 bucks too-pictures to come!

boys updates

Enoch has finally conquered some words we have been working on along time. "Bed, Head, Said" he wouldn't put the D at the end. And then added one when he was saying other words, for instance the letter C: "ssssdee"
Also getting the "th" "cr" and L sounds are difficult for him but can say them after a few times of repeating correctly. Improvement is exciting!

Josiah was crying while I was trying to get the boys out of the tub, dried off and pjs on. I finished with Noah and as I turned to help Enoch he held out his hand to stop me, and said in such a big boy voice "I get it, you go take care of Josiah"
The boys were wanting to hold the baby, and I was giving Noah a quick turn of a few seconds, before I let Enoch hold him on the pillow, but in those few seconds Enoch says "Oh boy, im tired of Noah holding him all the time."

Noah is so cute when he talks, he adds H to a lot of his words. Like "Henoch" "Hundies" "Halright" and "Hoatmeal." Or when you call him he answers "I'm right there!" But I believe I started the habit of the double/triple wording by him. When we would see something far away, I would say "look way way way over there!" and now he says "wa wa wa hands" "bo bo teeth" and "thats otay-tay." lol whoops

Josiah is just over 3 months. He is rolling side to side, which spins his position laying on the floor. He rolled over when he was on his stomach, and sat up for 5 seconds! haha

The boys have been looking forward to watching Batman the animated series with Caleb every evening. "Batman MEAN!" "Batman NICE!" you'll hear Noah yelling at the TV. "Batman HIT!"

tractors & trees

The boys were glued to our window today watching the men cut down a tree, pull dead branches down, dig up dirt to lay pipes, and set our new heater in! I was sad we lost yet another tree, but it had to come down before it fell by itself on the heater. BUT I became excited after I saw it. As it layed flat out before me, I thought how great it was to have our very own jungle gym for the boys!!!

Then I looked closer....this is the before....


And this is the after! This one is for you Sheldon! lol this is what Andrea's little mind was thinking when I was trying to explain it haha (i dont know why this line is blue and underlined)

A SWING SET!!! All we have to do is support the sides and remove the underbrush, Attach the hooks and swings! And of course I couldnt stop there, so I added a slide with ladder nand a fort. Thats all we have to do......=)

Long overdue

Since my last post we lost the Internet, so I'm WAY behind. Well, we had a sweet little baby boy named Josiah! He is 3 months old now. Enoch and Noah just adore him, and give him a little tooooo much love sometimes ;) He is SUCH a happy baby: giving us great big smiles when we enter the room, sticks his little hands in his mouth and ducks his head in a shy smirk, coo's at the boys, clings on to Enochs shirts and try's to gnaw on our fingers. Despite coming down with thrush, being on medication for a month, being constipated for 4 weeks because of that, being fed a bottle with Karo in it to help cure it, throwing him off of his nursing game, and gagging himself at night because of his snuffy nose, he has been so content!

Enoch has been working hard on our first go around at homeschooling! Its a little difficult finding time between a newborn, a mischievous 2 year old brother, and mommy cooking and cleaning. But we are working with him on his letters: sounds, writing them, and recognition. We only have Q and V to go! He's doing so well! We have to work a little extra on his speech too. He gets jabbering a little too fast and everything blends together. So we are in the process of slowing him down and working on each word.

Little Noah has surprised us with what he picks up listening to us teach Enoch. He'll point to our shirt and say "W mommy!" or in while reading a book "dats Y" Noah definitely makes us smile with his funny faces and remarks. Like when Enoch gets on to him for making a mess, Noah will scrunch his face and make his mean face and say "shhhh, baby siah sweeping" or "I'm toming!" when you call for him, or as he's laying next to Josiah with his leg wrapped around him he'll say "gotchuuu." He's very independent, wanting to do everything himself.

(Yes, the beard is gone now =)

Enoch has been pretending to be a new animal everyday. From a lion or tiger, kitten or dog to pretending to be baby Josiah. He does not break his character for anything. He even crawled like a gorilla on his fists into the doctor the other day. Answering the nurse with "WO WO" lol, it was too cute to interfere.

I have been kindly pushing the boys out the door to soak up any bity of outside time before the coldness comes blowing in and we are stuck to 3 months of running around the house. I love my two little independent boys. Its nice to have time to get things done without having to turn the TV on for them. Enoch is in love with his "Big boy bike" and is such a good brother by offering to push Noah around on it since his little legs still wont reach. Then Noah returns the favor (pictured) They are best of friends, from playing in the dirt together, doing chalk, racing cars, playing with their digger, or tackling the dogs. I'm so glad we had them so close.

We are awfully excited about our big trip to Oklahoma coming up here mid November. We have our official countdown and that is all Enoch talks about. "Mommy, I'm going to eat a banana when we get to Mimi's house" "Does Mama Luci have cows or sheep in their backyard?" "I want to show Papa that" or my favorite, we were working on our letters and going over the sounds. We got to letter D and Enoch says "D says DAH and is for papa DDDDDDD!!! And jumps at me and knocks me over as he yells D. He's a little excited.

We went to Sarah's house with three dressed up little boys for Halloween. The businesses around the square in town were giving out treats before it got dark, so we hit that up to make sure we got something in before the night time fussiness arrived. My little tigger (Jo) wanted to be held the whole time while my pumpkin walked and my giraffe held little snow whites hand (Addi) all this while pushing a double stroller with no kids in it haha. But they had so much fun, Sarah's husband was there to help guide the kids in and out of the stores. I went as a "sleepy mommy" in my pj's pants, robe and sleeping mask =) After the first stop, Noah sat in the stroller and wanted to eat his one bag of M&Ms, and did not care to get out to get more candy, he was content with that. Even though I made him (mommy wants candy too :) Caleb joined us later for some amazing chilli after hunting.