Rock Hunting with Papaw

Daffodils and Daddies

We were hoping the Tulips would be in bloom while my daddy was visiting but it was a bit early for those. We did get to see the daffodils in bloom. It is really amazing to see a field full of flowers. After taking lots of pictures of all the flowers we headed to LaConner to see the shops. We ended up stopping in the ice cream shop and getting a little treat.





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MMMMMMmmmmm!! that is good stuff!

More Please Daddy!! He can't resist when I bat my eyes at him like this.

A New Bike

Last summer we discovered the most ingenious way of teaching a kid to ride a bike. We took the pedals off of Gabriel's bike and had him run with it and learn how to balance that way. Within a few days he was riding like a pro. We wanted to do the same thing with Noah but Noah's bike was just a little too high he couldn't touch the ground with his whole foot just his tippie toes. I did some searching on the internet and found this run bike called strider. It is for kids between 2 (and even a little younger) and 5 and it doesn't have any pedals. It is just for running with. Go do a youtube search on strider bikes you would be amazed at all these teetiny kids riding bikes. I mean really riding. They run for a stretch and then they pull their feet up and balance. The idea is to learn balance first and pedaling after. So I got one for Noah and he loves it. It took him awhile, he doesn't have the best balance, but he is really getting it now. He is totally enjoying being able to ride bikes with his brother. I think in a few more weeks I may try to get him on his regular bike. After that the run bike will be Abby's.

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!

Christmas Morning 2009

Christmas Pj's

My sweet Momma sent us a box to be opened christmas eve that was filled with Christmas Pj's for the whole family. We thought it would be perfect to take a family picture in our pj's all ready for santa to come. It was a lot of work!! If you have seen my facebook post about this then you know ;) but we did finally get one good picture!!