Our week

My most efficient way to push three kids on the swings at the same time-keep them close together.

AJ's new mower

Liam and AJ at the playground before the temperature dropped this week

Riding the pony

This pony is TIRED......

A little Mixing

And a lot of cooking going on in here

It is amazing to me how easy the boys can be entertained. And, it never fails, that they will play so well together right before nap time or bed time. Seriously, I can walk out of the room for an indefinite amount of time and never hear a fight break out. The boys love playing outside and will spend hours searching for "cool rocks" or mowing the yard with their pretend mowers (we recently added a third mower to our collection). They love to help with anything, especially cleaning. I let them clean the table off after breakfast the other day and then "dust" the furniture in the den and they were in heaven. They fight over who gets to "help" vacuum, plug in the vacuum cleaner, and turn it on or off. Who knew?

Here are a couple of random funny things from this week:

1. Luke and Liam have Spanish class at school one morning each week. We were a little late getting to school one day this week so I heard the beginning of Spanish class. The teacher began by asking the children to say "Hello" in Spanish and they all repeated "Hola" several times. So, after school, I asked Luke how to say "Hello" in Spanish and he looked at me and waved. We are in so much trouble because he thinks just like John.

2. We were on our way to a restaurant the other day for dinner and John and I were talking about getting a milkshake and giving some to the boys. When I turned and asked Liam what he would like to drink at dinner, he said he wanted some of that "shake milk."

3. Aiden is crazy about electronics. I have said this many times, but he is. He picked up a piece of bread at dinner the other day that was kind of in the shape of a telephone receiver and he put it up to his ear and said "Hello, its AJ."