Lincoln Carver Turns 2!

On St.Patrick's Day Lincoln turned 2 years old. My parents and Brad and I went together and bought him a miniature drum set. This child loves music of all kinds. He plays the piano often during the day. He plays the harmonica. He makes just about anything into a set of drum sticks. He loves singing for us and to himself as he goes about his day.So on March 17th, his actual birthday, before Brad left for work, we brought Lincoln down and let him find it.

And that evening we had a birthday dinner for him with chicken fingers, applesauce, and chips. (All treats!)

And singing with a cookie cake...

But he wouldn't eat the cookie and only wanted a safety pop -- you know, those super cheap suckers on a paper loop handle. Silly boy!

Then my parents came Friday at nap-time and my sister came for dinner (because she couldn't make it on his birthday or for his party). So we had another birthday dinner for Lincoln (-:

Atticus' Sentence

Atticus wrote this last night in the middle of the boys dancing to super hero music, each of them dressed up as different characters. He stopped, got paper and a marker and figured this out on his own. Can you read what it says?

We Love the Millers!!!

 

 

Atticus, Calvin, Dietrich, Isaac!

Thea Belle & Rose!

(Pictures by Leah (-:)

Pineapple Upside Down * Whoa! * Cake

Ha! Ha! So I need to work on my cake skills! This was my epic-fail of a birthday cake experiment (for myself). I used my new layer cake pans from my mom, and made two upside down pineapple cake layers. Then I whipped up some cream-cheese frosting to layer lightly in-between and swirl on the top. As I assembled it, I was so excited because it looked beautiful -- just like I had envisioned it. Brad walked into the kitchen as I was about to finish the top. He was holding Thea Belle. The three boys whirled in like a dervish. Then in crazy, cinematic slow motion the pineapple rings looked as if they were sliding off the top. Brad says casually, "Use some toothpicks to hold them down" I look at him skeptically as we both realize it isn't just the rings, each section of the cake is falling away from the center like monkey bread...and the cake is quickly sliding off onto the counter and floor. I grab a big mixing bowl off the dish drainer and grab each section throwing it into the bowl before it hits the ground. Wow. What a mess. It was horrible. And so funny. Good thing it was only our little family and the Bergets for dinner. It still tasted good. All the same, Pathetic Birthday Cake #2 for the Johannsen year. Lincoln's is up next. (p.s. the title of this post is Brad's brain child (-:)

Wookie Love

The boys have never seen the Star Wars movies but they have a Star Wars ABC book and so they know some of the characters. One Saturday morning Brad was reading the book to them and they began asking about Chewbacca and if he was a good guy or a bad guy. Brad told them he was a good guy and that he was a Wookie. Then he found a funny video on You Tube that had a bunch of clips of Chewie doing his yell thing. Then he found a tutorial on how to make the sound. Brad was practicing with the boys and didn't know I had the video playing on the camera. He's actually quite good, right?

Friends...

 

Saved Kids!

 

 

 

So Dietrich had a drawing break-through last week. He is such a perfectionist that he is very unsure of himself with drawing and won't try to do anything representational, especially people. But last Thursday he drew his first people -- though, if you talk with him about it, please refer to them as "kids" because he is very, very specific about what he was trying to draw. Despite how excited I was for him about how they turned out, I ended up narrowly saving them from destruction as they were deemed unacceptable by the artist. Ah well, maybe he will be less scared to try it next time. Poor Dietrich and his unattainable Picture in His Head. I totally understand.

 

 

 

 

Thea Belle's First Cereal

Thea Belle has been pretty frustrated with nursing lately and sleeping poorly at night. And she is 6 months old. And she started sitting up un-assisted. And she's interested in our food at the table. So...we tried cereal for the first time. She didn't protest but was fairly uninterested. So after three days of trying we decided to wait a week or two and try again. Lincoln had a similar reaction -- Thea will get ready when she's ready. Still a first is a first, so here it is (-: