The Houston's Home: November 2010

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Our Tree of Thanks!

I know I said I would post family home evenings up on my blog, but I haven't for a gazillion months. We do have FHE, but I just haven't been blogging about it. I haven't been blogging very much at all. Anyway, we did have our family home evening last Monday, and it was so much fun I thought I would put it up so I can remember it. I made a Thanksgiving tree and then I made a whole bunch of fall leaves to put on the tree. That night we all took turns writing what we are thankful for on the leaf and then putting it on the tree. Here is a picture of our tree. The kids loved it! They kept coming up with great things to be thankful for. I am so glad they are thankful and hope they continue to see all of the blessings in their lives. If we all stop and see all of the blessings we have we will be much happier people! Happy Thanksgiving!

Super Halloween

Our family dressed up like super heroes this Halloween! Sorry that the pictures are sort of horrible. Apparently cameras do not like to be dropped. Who would've thought? So, Santa, if you read my blog, we need a new camera please!!! Anyway, here are some photos. By the way we had an extra fun time with our family that came over! We loved having you guys! I wanted to post a picuture of all of us together, but the photo I have is so blury. Send me one of yours if it turned out....

Our Super Family: Shawn was Clark Kent, I am Super Mom (my shirt reads 'It's hard to be humble when you're Super Mom', Claire is Captain America Girl, Will is Batman, Vivi is Super Girl!

Our pumpkins all lit up!

Our pumpkins!

Vivi was Bat Girl for about a minute, but it was too cold to keep her in this costume. Isn't she cute though. Will thought she was extra awesome for that minute, and now one of Will's friends keeps saying that he's going to make his baby sister dress up at Bat Girl next Halloween 'cause it's so cool!

Apparently you have too many costumes in your home if your kids can dress up like something different for a week before Halloween. Here is take two for Halloween Sunday when we visited Shawn's Grandma. Will is Iron Man, Claire is a Witch and Vivi is a bunny!

Out Of The Mouth of My Kids

On Easter this year Will had his easter basket full of the little plastic eggs when he accidentally tripped and dropped his basket. When he dropped his basket the plastic egss broke open to reveal the candy inside. Will, in the most excited voice I've ever heard him use said "The eggs open!!!!!!" He couldn't believe there was candy inside- it was the coolest thing to him!
(Easter 2009)

I asked Will one day where the new baby was going to sleep. He said: " in a cage". I guess we now know what he thought of his crib.
(Winter 2009)

I was playing with Will one day. He was pretending to be a robot, so I decided to be a robot too, but he said:
"no you can't be a robot you are a princess"
I said:
"what do princesses do?"
He said:
"they just dance"
(Winter 2009)

We drove by a horse pasture the other day and Claire said:
"I really want a horse. If you don't get me a horse mom I will fire you... ... I mean I will fire Daddy!"
(Winter 2009)

We were talking about where we should go out for dinner one night and Shawn mentioned a new Terriakyi Sushi place. Claire got very excited and said, "Yes! Sushi! Shushi! Please! Please! Please! I love Sushi!" We soon found out she meant a Slushee (like a fruit drink) not Sushi. She does not like Sushi.

Claire: "Mom, I can't make my bed. Will is making me have too much fun." (July 2008)

Will's newest fixation is robots. Yes, we saw WALLE, and that's about when it started. Will can't quite say ROBOT though, so he says "Beebot" instead. It took us awhile to figure out what he meant, but now it's very cute - beebot! (Summer 2008)

William at age 2 still doesn't say too much, but some times he gets on a kick and repeats things over and over, and recently he has found bird poo very interesting. I don't know why, but when we go on walks lately he stops at every white spot on the side walk and says "bird poo- ewwww yuck" this happens over and over and over and over on our walks. I never realized there was so much bird poo in the world! (Summer 2008)

I recently walked in on Claire singing a song she made up to her brother. This is a rare occurance, so I thought I'd better write it here to remember that even though they fight they still love each other. Here is the gist of the song imagine in a very high drawn out soprano:
"I love youuuuuuuuu. You are my frieeeeend because you love to play with meeeeeee and you love to go outside with meeee. I love YOUUUUUU!"
She repeated this over and over and Will just sat there listening seeming to know the song was just for him. I will have to show her this when she is mad at her brother for playing with her "stuff". (Summer 2008)

Claire: "Mom, when I stretch my nose up my nostrils look like bunny ears." (Spring 2008)

Claire had a cough one morning. When she woke up she said:
"My voice is crooked" (Winter 2008)

Claire toes aren't just toes. They are "Weeny Toes" because they are so small compared to everything else. (Winter 2008)

Claire: "Mom, don't step on the cracks or you will get boy slime." (Spring 2008)

Claire (in disgust after we had a carpenter ant problem): "Why did Heavenly Father have to make ants on the Earth?" (Summer 2008)

Claire: "I want to be a cowgirl and a mama when I grow up, and I will have 6 babies and they will all be girls." (2008)

Claire (smiling): "Mom, I can't stand it, I'm so NERVOUS for Christmas" I asked why she was "nervous" and she explains how she can't wait to see what Santa brings for her. I finally figured out that she meant excited not nervous and couldn't wait for Chritmas . (Winter 2007)