Erupting Five Year Old!

We celebrated Paul Thomas' Birthday a day early with Daddy.
(Philip is four months into a year long project, which takes him to Dallas Monday through Thursday every week. February 2013 cannot come soon enough!)

Paul Thomas helped decorate his cake. Any guesses?
(Use the context clues.)

Let's get this party started.

How cool is this cake?!

The eruption did most of the candle work for him, lucky duck!

Hot Lave, YIKES!

Mary Colette was little worried about the cake.

Right of passage. He had to wait til he was five to get this and he now has big plans to ride all over town.

Checking out the new ride.

With the new bike there was a shift up in pedal vehicles.

This is now hers according to Avery.

Maybe in a few months.

Happy Birthday Paul Thomas, you make my heart grow!

Brillant

Mary Colette, all by herself, has figured out how to navigate the only step in our house.

She has had the "going up" part figured out since crawling. It was the dreaded down that had her preplexed for a while. She put it all together Thursday night and now spends everyday practicing her new skill.

And since just one angle of our angel is never enough...

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Cousin Loven!

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A timeline of Sunday's events.

 Before:

Two hard core partiers.

During:

Finding Friends

And fish.

A handshake never meant so much!

Whew, now to navigate the steps and toss the hat!

Right After:

The happy and finished couple!

After After:

Stick a fork in him, he's done!

Singing Praise with Daddy!

Okay Daddy, it's your turn to sing with me or I'll...

(giggle) bite your nose off.

 

Alleluia

 

Alleluia

 

ALLE-

 

LUI-

 

AAAAAAA!

What can I say, the girl likes to sing!

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Sing Praise

I know, Uncle Stephen, let's sing alleluia since it is Easter!

Alleluiaaaaaaa!

Oh my that was glorious!

Canyon Expedition

With Spring in the air, we decided to spend a Saturday in Palo Duro Canyon. We had such a blast that we decided that we need to make regular trips to the second largest canyon in North America and that we needed to share some fun pictures with you. The boys were as excited to be in the canyon themselves as they were to wish Papa was there with them.



The first thing PT did on the trail was to grab some rocks to take to Papa so he could have some.

PT and his rocks.

Avery was the only one who wanted to climb the embankment.

Colette traveled in luxury for the just under 1 mile round trip.

Very green...compared to last year, anyway.

Gypsum deposits for Papa!

 

 

 

 

Notice PT's dusty, red shoe? Earlier on the hike, he tried to kick a rock into the flowing stream at the bottom of the canyon. His shoe flew much farther than the rock into the fast-flowing stream and Daddy had to chase it about 50 yards to fish it out. One wet shoe won't stop him, though.

Can't wait to return, maybe for a camping trip!

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We have been blessed with some refreshing rains this spring enableing us to dust off our puddle jumping skills: they laid dormant all last spring summer and fall due to a terrible draught. We also have been blessed with a wonderful backyard complete with a enclosed driveway which is transformed into a canvas for chalk, a highway for trikes, a construction site for worker men or, as in the other day, puddle land.

The art of puddle jumping!

Mary Colette studying her brothers' exceptional puddle jumping form.

Looks like fun!

Also ample opportunity for a little mud.

Just like this Mary Colette.

Like this?

That will work.

Ohh, my pretty girl.

Can you guess which brother solicits this kind of reaction?!

Good Job!

We enjoyed a good splash right before diner the other night, unfortantly my two big splashers were too splashy for me to get any good pictures of them. If I ever find their slow motion button, I promise to capture them on flim.