Walkin' with my brother

Saying Grace

Gabriel is SEVEN

Gabriel had a great birthday this year. I know that eventually he is going to be insisting on having big birthday bashes but I will always remember these more intimate family parties. We spent the day celebrating at the Convergence Zone which is a new indoor recreation area on base. Daddy took them in the batting cages for the first time. They didn't use the machine just a teeball post but they had a blast anyway. We had pizza and then came home. He had a transformers birthday cake that was just for him (aka not gluten-free :) Noah didn't get left out though he had a gluten free chocolate brownie. Mamaw sent some cool presents an electric pencil sharpener (requested by mommy because he draws with his colored pencils constantly) and lots of paper. He was especially excited about the graph paper... just look at that face, haha! Daddy got him two bionicles. It was his first time doing a bionicle so Daddy helped him with the first one. After that he had it figured out and did the second one on his own. It has since become his favorite thing and he used his birthday gift card from grandmother to buy two more.

Feeding the baby

Just love this picture!! I know my facebook friends have seen it already but I couldn't NOT post it on my blog. It is just too cute!

NG-E

A while back I saw on a blog that someone had used recycled "junk" to make their own wall-e. I showed the boys and they were begging me to do the same. Well it took a while but we finally pulled out the "invention box" and made our OWN version of WALL-E. At first they tried to do everything the same as the movie but by the time we got to painting the wanted to make it their own. Of course he had to have his own unique name. Gabriel, clever boy, came up with NG-E (Noah Gabriel Ehlenberger) pronounced "en-jeeeeeeee", haha!