Check out this funny video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxT5NwQUtVM

So, about three weeks ago we had a church picnic on Sunday evening. Monday morning an e-mail gets sent out - someone's kid left their shoes at church - Sketchers (I'm thinking tennis shoes.) I read it out loud to my family and started laughing. Who's dumb kid could leave their SHOES at church? Can you see where this is leading?

Tonight I was getting the boys clothes ready for the morning. As I ironed I thought about the fact that Jarrett's church shoes were missing for the second week in a row. All of a sudden I realized - they were Sketchers brand! Ahhh, the dumb kid is mine!

Anyway, I'll redeem his reputation with a Cute Kid Quote. The middle boys have been studying botany in their enrichment classes. Everywhere we go, they've been collecting seeds to plant in their light hut we built. Today, Jarrett found a sesame seed on his bagel.

"I found a bagel seed! I'm going to grow bagels!"

I opened the bathroom door at about 8:30 last night and this is what I found......................



























(must take after his dad!)

First Day of School

Monday was our first day of school. I can't figure out how to get these pictures into order, but here they are!
Note - For planning purposes I divide the kids into the following categories:
Biggers (Devin and Kayla)
Middles (Josiah, Jarrett, and Matt while he's here *also known as the Three Stooges*) and Littles (Dayne, Elias, and Mary and Cora when they're here.)

Preschool Time.........


Watching the Leap Frog Letter Factory..........


The first day of school probably wouldn't have been official without someone throwing up, so here's the little sick fellow...............


I even had time to fix a pan of "agrola" as Matt would say...........


"Middles" doing school.............



Two of the three members of the "Dishwasher Crew" unloading..........





I got up at 5:30, but within half an hour, the house was crawling with little boys excited about starting school. Jarrett started sharpening all his new pencils...............


Breakfast Casserole for a special treat.............


Devin hard at work...............



The schoolroom after I got it back in order. I should have taken a before-clean-up pic so you could see what it looked like by the end of the day!


Kayla fixin' drinks at lunch............


Devin deep in thought, or something...........


Kayla hard at work............


Matt, unpacking his books his mom sent.......

Today we made one of Casey's dreams come true! He's always wanted a pontoon boat to take the kids out fishing on, so today we rented one to see what it would be like. I'll redeem my lack of posting lately with LOTS of pictures!!