February Pictures

 Theodore loves bread:

This is how we put boots on. Probably:

Drawing pictures together:

The boys playing with a car mat, waiting for an oil change:

Gretchen and her guitar:

Snow!

He says he likes butter:

Only one of these fingers is hurt:

The boys:

Theodore got himself breakfast:

Building trains:

When you have a cape but your brother needs a blanket:

Superheroes:

Theodore naps in inconvenient places sometimes. Pictured here: In front of the door.

It's a baby in a box!

Keshia asked me to check out this table and I used Theodore for scale:

Which boy is in this dinosaur? (No, really. I think it's Theodore.)

Basement pictures for those who haven't been able to see it in person:

Theodore helps clean the shower:

Visiting Rudy and August:

My pink streak:

This might be as far as I make it without using the letters on the back:

Bonus Post: Sound Bites 63

Me: What don't you like about the oranges?
Matthias: They hurt my mouth. And my feelings.

Kaitlyn: How many Jesus's are there? He keeps getting born.

Matthias: Daddy, when I'm a grown up I'm going to be much nicer than you are.

Matthias, listening to a song in Spanish: Mom, what Spanish do we speak?

Me: ...We speak English.

Matthias: What do they speak?

Me: Spanish.

Olivia: Can I have mac and cheese for lunch?

Bryan: No, Kaitlyn's eating it.

Kaitlyn: Sorry, Olivia. I'm just trying to be fat like Dad.

Me: Are you my baby?

Theo: No, I elephant!

Me: You're my elephant?

Theo: No! I triceratops. Roar!

Matthias asked about the wires along the side of the road. I told him about land lines and then Kaitlyn was explaining more things to him. I could only kind of hear since they sit in the backseat of the van, but here's what came through:

Kaitlyn: You know how me and you can do wifi? Well mom can't.

Kaitlyn: Every house has wifi. Like that house right there, one wifi. Just one.

Kaitlyn: I think you can go through it, but technically mom said we'll bonk into it.

Matthias: Unless we have goggles.

Kaitlyn: Right. If you have goggles then you can try to grab it.

And then there was something about God putting protection around houses so no one could steal their one wifi.

January 23-February 13

Theodore has figured out that Kaitlyn can read and now asks her to read him books frequently. This works out perfectly because Kaitlyn needs to practice reading for school and she's more likely to read to Theodore than she is to read to me.

Matthias has moved into the green phonics books (the third set).

Theo is not a baby. If you call him a baby, he will say, "I not a baby, I a Theo." He also likes to identify as a triceratops on occasion, especially in church. We have frequent conversations about how he can't be a dinosaur in church. This does not dissuade him from trying.

We had two snow/ice days in a row at the end of January. The girls were sad to miss school but happy to sleep in.

Yesterday we attended a wedding. It was very small and child friendly and we had a good time.

Jacob and Rachel's baby, Michael, was baptized yesterday. Due to the distance and the aforementioned wedding, this marks the first Fenton grandchild whose baptism I have not attended. I did play around with trying to make it work, but it was not to be. It was a good run.

The girls and I finished up Tuck Everlasting and have moved on to A History of Helpless Harry. I have instituted a new rule: They are not allowed to read ahead.

Our new favorite movie is Encanto. And because we have an Alexa, our new favorite soundtrack is also Encanto. We're so busy not talking about Bruno over here, it's amazing we have time for anything else.