Talmage's 6th Birthday

Talmage was so incredibly excited to turn six. I think his favorite birthday present was six 1 dollar bills from Grandma Dazey. He thought he was rich having that many dollars. He wanted to go to the store and by a toy and Doritos (because his mean mom doesn't buy them because she has braces and can't eat them). When we got to the store he found a package of three mini click pens (yes like office supplies). He loves all things miniature (he gets it from HoneyGram) and he loves pens and small note books. These pens cost five dollars though, so he had to put the Doritos back. He was totally fine with that and very, very happy about the pens. He carries a pen around nearly every where. In the next picture you can see it clipped to the top of his shirt. He either has it there, in a shirt pocket, or clipped to his shorts pocket. The boy would love the idea of a pocket protector-- but I'm not telling him about it.

Talmage is so happy to have his cool pen.

Talmage and Anya with their cheesy smiles.

Talmage blowing out his candles. His cake had little Mario and Luigi figures on it. (Anya calls Luigi, "a weegee" it cracks me up, I love her funny words she also thinks apartments are called rupartments)
Talmage also loved his Lego sets. He got one from us and one from HoneyGram and Papa.

Something

It's been a while since I posted something. So here are two random pictures to get me going. I've been putting off uploading pictures from my camera. I finally did it today, so more should be coming in the near future.

Anya and Aaron were all worn out after helping clean the church building last Saturday. Anya is getting so long! Aaron is actually trying to rest and Anya's just faking it, you can see it in her little grin.


Talmage and Anya have been into building with blocks lately. They built this with Aaron one day when I was out. The point was to build a tower using every wooden block, but one. Then they threw that block at the tower to knock it down. Lately they've been building ziggurats because they learned about them in history.

Indian Song

Here Talmage is playing "Indian Song". He learned this one a few weeks ago but like to go back and play it from time to time.



Today when I was working with Talmage on math he was reviewing odd numbers. I asked him what's after five, he said seven, then I asked what was next, he said nine and then couldn't remember what came next so he said, "And so forth."

Magic Man

This is one of Talmage's piano songs for this week. It keeps getting stuck in my head. He really likes playing piano and learning new songs every week.

Anya's Vocabulary

Anya is still 3 years old, but uses such big words, sometimes correctly, sometimes not. Yesterday she ran up to me and told me she was "lava proof" when I looked surprised she said "I'll prove it!" She then acted like she was holding her breath and pretended to swim through the play room which I'm assuming was filled with lava in her mind. Just now she came to tell me that she "stabilized the book". I'm pretty sure she meant to say she had stapled the book. (The kids are creating books out of paper right now. Anya's is about The Creation and Talmage's is about outer space).

A few weeks ago Anya notified me that she was catching "intruders", then she asked what intruders were. I tried to explain it in a non threatening manner so she wouldn't be afraid of bad guys getting in our house at night or something. I asked her what kind of intruders she was catching and she told me "spiders".

The kids have been on a science kick and Anya felt so sad the other day because Talmage had created a science experiment with out her-- she came crying to me that she wanted to do a "speramint too". It's a good thing she drew my attention to Talmage's experiment because it was "discovering" if things were waterproof or not. That could have gone bad, luckily it didn't get out of hand.

Anya also told me that clearing dishes from the table was "harder than pie for Talmage, but it is easy as pie for me".

I sure like her words and phrases, they keep me smiling. I wish I could remember and share them all.