Happy Birthday, Benjamin!

Sunday was Ben's 7th birthday! We didn't end up celebrating until late in the evening due to setbacks. The main one was the cake. It was in the oven for over an hour and still hadn't baked. We couldn't figure it out and kept checking the recipe and wondering what could have gone wrong. Finally Mommy realized the oven wasn't even on! She had intended to turn it back on after making supper in it, but had forgotten.
So Ben opened presents while the cake baked. His favorite presents are a Narnia castle and some Playmobil knights. He and Hannah have been playing with them nonstop. Their game sounds pretty funny. These are some of the bits I overheard:
"My guy is remote controlling the castle."
"There's two Aslans. Both Aslans are bad. This Aslan is over here. He's reading."
"This guy was really rich and everybody liked him. But he died and then everybody didn't like the guys who killed him."

I may post some pictures later, once Daddy transfers them to the computer.

~Megan~

World Record!

Something amazing has happened!

Nathan refrained from speaking for

over three hours!
At supper, Amanda said something about him not being able to stop talking, so to prove her wrong, he stayed silent for the rest of the evening. :0

Sleeping Beauty

Hannah refused to go to bed or to lay down on the couch, so when Daddy came home just after midnight, he found her sound asleep on the kitchen counter and snapped this picture.

Spring Fever

The beautiful warm weather today had us all in a springy mood. Mommy was sorting through Hannah's summer clothing and made Hannah try on a shirt. Hannah wasn't too happy about having to try on clothes. So I told her to model in front of the mirror and see what she thought.
"Is it cute, sorta cute, or ugly?" I asked.
"Ugly," she whimpered.
So much for that!

Kitty Kidnappers

Today someone came to take our 3 remaining kittens to a new home. Nathan calls anyone who takes our kittens 'kitty-kidnappers', though never to their face. So when the lady gets here, Hannah walks right up to her and says, "The kitty kidnappers came and took the other kitty."

At that point we had to explain to the poor lady what a kitty kidnapper was and that she was, in fact, also a kitty kidnapper!

Don't you love it when little kids say things like that?

The Great Shootout!

Today our house was the sight of the greatest shootout since cowboys rode the Wild West. It was boys against girls, with each side holed up in their bedroom. The boys were armed with Nerf guns, the girls with a marshmallow shooter. From windows and doorways they shot at each other, pausing only to shout insults and reload.

The girls were thrilled to find that the marshmallow gun is so easy to use that Hannah can shoot it. They took great pleasure in teaching her to load, fire, and reload. Hannah was begging to be allowed to "have more shooting practice." She's shaping up to be quite a little gunslinger.

~Megan~

Dominoes!

Hello! Life has been pretty normal around here lately. We have started a weekly newspaper for our family, but I can't find a way to link to it here.

Nathan spent quite awhile painstakingly setting up over a hundred dominoes, then knocking the whole row down. Here's the video:

Also a few pictures from the last couple weeks:

Ben and Hannah painting

Nathan painting

Hannah after painting and before washing

~Megan~