Observant Andrew

We drove by a red-colored barn-shaped building last week.

Andrew: "That's a beer-barn!"
Me: "Is that the one you went to with Pop-pop?"
Andrew: "No, that one had green and white letters."

I'm not sure if I should be amazed he knew that minute difference between the two...or worried that my 4-year-old knows what a 'beer barn' is...

Family Day at the Office

Every year, Jim's employer has a 'family day'. There are bounce houses, train rides and games for the kids; a free dinner (complete with ice cream for dessert) and vendors and other people giving things away (like pens, highlighers, yo-yos and bouncy balls!). Here are a few pics from last Friday's family day.


Andrew on an inflatable slide.



Andrew coming down...Jim and Peter going up.



Peter and Jim at the top.



Jim and the boys on the 'train ride'.

Andrew played the 'QB challenge' - he actually did pretty well getting the ball into the tiny holes.

Our little railroaders...
before playing with the 'snort' (which Peter kept yelling over and over again to the man behind us. Fortunately, said man also had kids and knew exactly what Peter was talking about! If you don't know, read Are You my Mother?)

The goal: to knock over the cone using the orange hook attached to the crane attached to the 'snort' truck...using a remote control.

The VERY patient volunteer who explained to Andrew how to do it. I think all Andrew really wanted to do was the trigger that made the horn honk!

Andrew, in his safety gear, manipulating the triggers. He DID eventually get the cones knocked over...but I think it took him 3x as long as the other kids! God bless his patient instructor!

Spectacular Sunsets

(This is not the same sunset described below, but another one earlier that week)

While driving westward one evening, the boys and I were treated to a spectacular sunset. The kind you see in movies or on postcards...or the really annoying supposed-to-be-uplifting e-mails.

The sun was sending out beautiful orange & yellow rays of sunshine through lines of puffy white clouds and the sky was starting to change from blue to the oranges and pinks and yellows of late summer. It was really just fantastic.

I said something to Andrew about how pretty the sky looked and how beautiful God had made it.
Then I said something along the lines of, "didn't God do a good job painting the sky and sun and clouds with all the pretty colors?"

Andrew laughed like that idea of God painting the sky was the most ridiculous thing he'd ever heard.

I asked him if that was funny. He said, "yeah"...still chuckling.
I then asked him how it got to be so pretty if God hadn't painted it.

He replied, "He just asks the sky to do that stuff, and they do it".

Well, there you have it.

what goes on a pizza?

Andrew: "pepperoni. I like pepperonis, they're, like, my favorite."

Peter - with much enthusiasm: "Pepper-bonies! Pepper-ponies!"

cookie sheep

Peter's (new) name for cookie sheets.