How To Get to Heaven

It seems that when ever we are driving around Ayden talks a lot about Jesus. I love how his mind works and what his his mind thinks about.

Today on our way home from Grandma Williams house this was our conversation:
A: Mom how do u stand on the clouds?
Me: I don't know how to stand on clouds buddy.
A: oh well Jesus just makes them into land then we can stand on them.
Me: oh good thinking.
A few minutes later...
A: Hey Mom,you know how I get to heaven? I have a big ladder that's bigger than me!
Me: wow that's pretty cool!
A: yeah it is.
A: I know how Jesus gets us to heaven! He uses a fishing pole, maybe I should give him dads fishing pole!
Me: how does he use fishing poles to get us to heaven?
A: he puts some sticky stuff on the end. Then when we are laying in the big dirt hole he sends down his big fishing pole and sticks it to us and pulls us up! Jesus doesn't want all those bugs crawling on us.

I don't know where he learned that people get buried in big dirt holes but I do think its pretty cool that he knows its up to Jesus to bring us to heaven. I love my little boy! I can't wait to see how these questions change through the years but I continue to pray that we will be able to keep talking about our faith together!

Our 18 Month Big Girl!!

I can't believe Ahnie will be 18 months old tomorrow! I was reading a friends blog this morning about her little guy that is a year younger than Ahnie...it reminded me and made me miss baby Ahnie and all the milestones she was reaching at such a fast rate a year ago. With our first move fast approaching I should be using this nap time to pack but I wanted to pause for a minute and capture the stage that Ahnie is in right now!

Our big girl is growing up right in front of our eyes! She is feisty, throws tantrums, no is her favorite word some days but those things never last too long. :). She loves to play with her babies, read books, sing, dance, climb, tackle, play hide and seek, talk and talk and talk even if we don't know what she is saying. She loves to color! And she is usually trying to do anything her brother is doing :).

Ahnie has just started to think its funny to make us laugh. If she gets us laughing once she will quickly sign and say 'more' and do it again.

Ayden and Ahnie are really starting to become good buddies! Often AJ will try to get her to play with him or be trying to get her to say things. They do go back and forth somedays like all sibblings but at the end of the day they love each other!

My favorite thing Ahnie does these days is stand at one end of the living room with her arms stretched out and runs over to you for the biggest hug a one year old could give.

Enjoy a few of our latest pictures :)

Finger Painting

Nature Hike on a BEAUTIFUL day!

Cheese!  At the pumpkin patch!

Driving the school bus at Touch a Truck fair in Waterloo

Going to church with her Daddy :)

Prayers

At dinner every night Ayden loves to pray which usually consists of "dear Jesus thank you for dying on the cross for our sins AMEN! LETS EAT". We have been getting him to say what he is thankful for as well.

Ayden started when he was little just by saying Amen! So we started asking Ahnie to say Amen and when we do all she says is "let's eat!" (Her first 2 letter sentence ). I had to u capture this picture last night...oh how I love this beautiful little girl and prays that she will grow to know Jesus someday!!

Picture Day

Tomorrow is AJ's picture day at school.  We have been busy so this afternoon we needed to go get him something to wear and the only place we had time to go was Target.  They had very few options and everything I asked Ayden about he yelled "No, that's BAD!!!"  When did my son have such an opinion about his clothes...  Every thing had to many buttons or two pockets.  We found one cute plaid button up shirt with only one pocket.  I put it on him and told him he was a stud muffin and he was happy with that! 

He asked when he was getting his pictures taken so I told him Betsy was coming to school to take his pictures.  He said "But, Mom!  I have to learn at school there is no time to take pictures!!!  We can't take pictures at school!  Its learning time!"  Haha who knew he was all business and no play...  I never would have guessed that to be his reaction.  I am excited to see how his pictures go...

First Day of School!!!

On thursday AJ had his first day of preschool! He has been very excited and has been asking about going since I told him I signed him up last spring!

The night before we went out to eat to celebrate then came home and it was time to pick out his outfit. I laid out three choices for shirts not including his jersey. Ayden had a shirt then Brett yelled "AJ u want to wear your Hawk jersey right?" of course he wore the jersey!

The next morning AJ was pumped and ready for school! I woke him up by saying "who has two thumbs and wants to go to school?". He sat up and said "this guy!".

We got ready had breakfast the headed outside for pictures and off to school. Ahnie was fussy this morning and did not want her brother to leave!!

On Tuesday's I get to take AJ to school so I did and when we got there he went straight to the sand table and didn't even say bye... This got me a little choked up but No real tears :).

After school I picked him and his friend Cadia up and they were both excited to tell me about their days! Ayden loved the play ground and playing with dinosaurs! At the lunch table he even sang 5 little ducks!

My little guy is growing up right before our eyes!!! I love it but it's all going to fast these days! I wish time could slow down a little bit :).