some things never change

january 2010.......last night......
i wonder how often they sleep like this...i don't check on them very often, but did tonight for some reason. i hope they look back at these pics some day and smile. or maybe they will just look back and say 'look how skinny our legs were!'

School

The first couple weeks are done with homeschooling Adam. And while it's going ok, i don't think it's something he or I need to do in the future. So unless my feelings change (which is very possible!), we will be sending him to Kindergarten next year. Now the big decision is.... where?? I called the public school today and they do K every day for about 2 1/2 hours and you pick either morning or afternoon. I was kinda excited about that. 2 1/2 hours is not very long and we'd still have him home for a good portion of the day. Its funny, recently i had all 4 of them with me at Mcdonalds and a random person says to me "i bet you can't wait till their in school and you can have freedom!" That's not the case, i'm not ready to send them off. i like having them here! But if we are meant to send them to school v/s homeschool then i know God will give me the peace i need.
i enjoy the crafts involved with the school work and Adam does a nice job with it.

Clay & Kitty

"get out of my bumbo kitty!"....he's starting to sit for longer stretches. Enough where i was comfortable to let go and take his picture! He's been changing so much lately, (he's 5 1/2 months now).

alpacas

I love these animals!! A nearby farm had an open house yesterday and we went and checked out their alpacas.

Warming up to each other....

Alpacas are a lot like llamas, but much smaller. Other differences are their ears (llamas ears are taller, and curved like a banana), and the texture of their coat is a bit different.

They are generally pretty tame, these ones weren't as friendly as other ones we've seen in the past. But once they got used to us they were pretty calm. My camera died, so no cute ones of them feeding the alpacas.

They get shaved once a year, in the spring. Rod and I have talked many times about getting a few of these. But they are rather expensive. If we do, it'll be a long ways off. I think we'll start with a bunny :)

Clay's new thing

we found our voice!

He does this anytime of day, including 3:00am, 5:00am. doesn't matter to him!

quiet

i'm enjoying a quiet evening tonight. rod is doing some research on the computer at the moment, and i'm just sitting here, taking in the quietness. i need that sometimes!! this morning at breakfast i gave the boys some watermelon and adam asks:: "Mom were you just kidding when you said one time that watermelon tastes better if you eat it without talking?" haha! i don't even remember saying that but i'm sure i did! i'm not complaining about the constant chatter around the house. just saying it's nice to have the quiet times, and makes me appreciate the time i get to myself.

A visit to the Library to see Frog and Toad:

They had a jumping contest, of course those pics were blurry. Here's Adam before his jump. Ben and Brad figured out on the way to the library who was going to hug Frog and who was going to hug Toad. I think this is Ben hugging Toad.