When You Were One...

Finally a post to break up the routine of the weekly alphabet post. Mr. Leroy turned two the end of February so here's to his first year.

The day you turned one!

We made you a Doggy cake cause you loved doggies.

And still do love most things to do with animals.

Big

Small

And wiggly.

You've always been our ham n a half.

You didn't walk until the day we welcomed your new baby brother.
(14 months)

You love dirt

of any kind.

And precarious perches.

Berries of any sort are a favorite.

You like to pick the petals off flowers or leaves off plants one itsy piece at a time.

You like boats and trucks and airplanes but have a worry over helicopters.

Surprisingly, you play very well alone.

But, you also love your big brother,

and try and do whatever he's doing,

good or bad.

You love coloring

and drawing.

But you DO NOT like swimming pools.

though water in general is great!

Your favorite people are your Daddy,

U. AJ

And Bumpa.

You love phones and helping in the kitchen.

And being out of doors.

You started talking at about 18 months and can talk as well as your older brother these days.

When you want to know what a color is you state, " color purple" until you are told what the color is.

Your favorite color is blue currently.

When your older brother does something you don't like you tell him off using his full name, first, middle and last. :)

It's hard to believe you are two and some days that you are only two, my little man.

Week O

Our Week O has been a bit random it seems. We caught up on our letter writing from the past two weeks.

O for this week

N for the week before.

And M which kept wanting to look like an N.

We caught up on tracing and cutting too which also assisted us with our numbers as we had to follow 1 first and then 2 up to 3.

A bit random I say as we got a head start on week P with some painting.

And were shown some gracious hospitality by the H family one evening where we got to play with the cutest little fur balls you've ever seen!

He looks just like one we had growing up that we called Rascal.

So fun, but only cause we were visiting and not taking care of them everyday!

Becca graciously entertained the little men all evening with stories and some tractors and trailers and popcorn seeds! Very creative and they loved it!

We wanted to go to the Ocean for a day by with everything going on in our lives right now it was too far. We ended up at our favorite spot along the Columbia (which flows to the Ocean) Overlooking a surprise of dump trucks, a digger, a bulldozer and boats, much to the little men's delight.

And the airport on the other side with planes taking off into the beautiful blue sky and Mt. Hood.

The dump trucks were coming and going quite quickly taking dirt away. It will be interesting to see what goes in there.

And you may wonder what Lukey has to do with Week O!? The sad part is nothing.
We had this conversation one morning about a week ago:

Mommy and Phi looking at our blue fishy floating in the bowl.

Mommy: "I think Lukey died Phi."
Phi: "Shall we feed him?"
Mommy: "No, he's not alive any more."
Phi: "Shall we flush him down the toilet?"
Daddy took care of that part.

So, meet Obadiah,

whom we hope will fair better than Lukey.

We had Oranges and Orange Juice and picked the Olives Off our combination pizza at Costco. :)
We read about 2 Othneils and also the Open tomb of Our LORD and the Open gates and doors for Peter in Acts 12 when the LORD brought him out of prison by HIS angel.

Our verse:
O give thanks, unto the LORD for HE is good, for HIS mercy endureth forever. PS. 136:1

We saw videos about Ostrich, Otter, and Owls. And watched for Osprey along the river.

So with much business we head into week P with Plenty of Packing and Painting to go along with it!

Week N

It's been a week that was hard to find inspiration for. We focused on Numbers a little just 1-10 and will continue those. We had some fun Bible stories Naaman the leper, Noah and the ark, and Nehamiah the cup-bearer. Our verse ended up being : Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none other name, under heaven, given among men, whereby we must be saved. Acts 4:12
We held up four fingers as we were saying the reference to help remember what the number was and Phi made it part of his routine when he said it in Sunday School much the other kids amusement.
We also had Noodles and Nuts (pistachios) but no pictures of them. We talked about Neighbors and Necks. We focused on Noses and Nostrils ...because all three boys had a cold all week. :P And one night while I was busy making supper Phi and Leroy began conducting scientific experiments of their own.
Phi's involved seeing what would happen if you took all the screws out of the door handle ...

and surrounding fixtures.

Leroy on the other hand decided to see at what ratio toilet paper would exceed the amount of water in a quart jar if the jar was half full. Brilliant! :) Sad to say his mother cut his experimenting short, since we need TP for more useful things... (we actually got some TP free this week thanks to Aunt Cornelia and her coupon sharing. Along with lots of diapers for only 2.99 per 30 down from $13.99-$9.99 the usual prices)

We worked on the New fence project.

Dug up some Night crawlers the only critter we could think of besides Newt.

And found these Nasty little spiders crawling out of the old fence boards. EEEW they still sorta give me the shudders, they're so creepy looking. Thankfully they were very slow crawlers and not the speedy ones that are places you don't want them before you can get away.

They acted and looked very much like crabs minus the pinchers so I call them crab spiders but have yet to look them up. That's a finger for size.

The little men enjoying the yard inspite of the weather.

Finding strange things to amuse themselves.

Very strange, he used to be afraid of heights but seems to be overcoming that one.

And for Sunday morning we dressed up Nicely.

And had our morning coffee to keep us feeling Normal. :)
Actually that's his berry breakfast smoothie in a coffee cup. I did it that way for them a while back to help keep it from being so messy and now they don't like it any other way of course.

So we're just passed half way there, still enjoying it and finding it a challenge to keep working it in. No breaks aloud or we may just not get started again. :) On to O and lots of packing and painting.