bubble-hunting and other stuff

i had this brilliant idea to get a photo of all three of the kids, just their faces. a simple "from up above" shot. in my mind, it was glorious. in reality, not so much. but i tried, so i guess that's something anyway.

unfortunately, this is the best one i got, i think... you can't see their faces, but that also means you can't see the finger in cole's nose or whatever on earth madison was doing with her little face... and remington wasn't crying, amazingly.

then again, this one isn't bad either. but i didn't get what i had in mind, so when rem's a little older, we'll try again. ultimately, i'd like to get a black and white shot and get a gallery wrap made. not as cheap as regular prints but for the right shot, well worth it!!

grandma reading to two of her (soon to be) 5 boys!

playing on the couch with uncle chase. rather, chase watching the kamikaze kiddos. chase wasn't jumping off the couch. at least, not that i know of... ;)

auntie sarah and remington <3

sarah came over for a few hours today to spend some time with the kids and i, and we played with bubbles for a little bit. i didn't get the camera out, shame on me. but after supper, when daddy was home to enjoy it, we did more bubbles!!

round perfection

how do you catch a bubble? well, you kind of sneak up on it like... oh, never mind. we cheated. we were using "touchable bubbles". i found them awhile ago at world market (before remington was born) and got them because they sounded like fun for a rainy day. well, several rainy days came and went before i brought them out. then i put them in my purse and forgot about them. so today, i dug them out and the kids have never enjoyed bubbles quite so much!

daddy even caught a few...

cole and madi discovered they could make the bubbles move by blowing at them, so that developed into a whole new game.

remington caught a bubble too!!

these little bubbles landed on cole's forehead. what's super cute is when the bubbles land on their heads- they can't see them and destroy them and end up walking around oblivious to the bubbles on their heads.

bubbles for supper, anyone?

poor madi- cole is taller and a little quicker than she is, so he was catching bubbles more than she was; she was pretty disappointed, so with a little help from daddy (and a little luck that cole got a timeout mid-bubble-hunting), she got to catch a few. she was pretty proud!

when these bubbles pop, they leave behind a kind of shell, almost like a little piece of dried glue you peel off your hands. smush it between your fingers a little and it just disintegrates into nothing. no mess at all- that's the best part, right?

the littlest mighty bubble hunter.

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cole has been coming up with some pretty cute little comments... the other day, he was sitting on daddy's lap and had his legs tucked in. kelvin told him he looked like a ball and started teasing cole about rolling him across the floor. when cole got down, kelvin said, "oh, now you're not a ball anymore.", to which cole promptly replied, "no, i just popped!". then on saturday, we dropped kelvin off at marion at the convention grounds so he could help with the new sleeping quarters project... cole was pretty mad that we were going to grandma's house without daddy. i told him several times that daddy was helping at convention and he'd come to grandma's house when they were done; finally, after much arguing and protesting, cole was quiet for a few moments before saying, "daddy is at ca-vention helping those mans build God's garage." perfectly matter-of-fact, assured with the fact that that was indeed what his daddy was doing. melted my heart!! i love the way his little mind works and am a little afraid that he's on the verge of being able to outsmart me. what happened to my little baby boy? it seems like yesterday that he was only a few months old... my, how time flies.

as i work on this post, i'm listening to the williamette singers singing "hope for resolution" and remembering when sarah's choir performed it for their christmas concert several years ago. cole was only a few months old and so i missed a good deal of the concert but got to see them sing this... it was amazing. if you want to hear it, just search it on youtube. and if you know what the song's about, it'll make you tear up every time you hear it. i'm not sure why i felt like hearing it tonight- maybe it's because it's just a beautiful arrangement, or maybe because of the things that have happened in the world in the last few weeks, i just felt like hearing something hopeful. world peace seems unattainable, but even just hoping for something that's out of reach can do a lot for one's outlook. that's my sentiment for the day. :)