Maybe a little weird?

I tried to get Mac to pick up stuff quickly last night so that we could have time to play a game. He went to put away a set of board books and he just couldn't do it quickly. He had to do it according to the "instructions."

I tried to explain that this was just a picture of all the books, but he insisted that this was the directions for how to put the books away. We spent 10 minutes, at least, with him flipping the box back and forth checking the diagram and putting them in the right place. I finally just gave in to his way and tried not to laugh.

First day of "school"

The schools around here don't start for a few more days but Monday we had our first day for Maggie.
Mac was VERY excited about taking Maggie to school for the first time.

I'm glad to report that this first week went great.  We're still trying to adjust and figure out how to get everything done, but we're off to a good start.  Thankfully Mac is pretty helpful when only one of us can be there to take them or pick them up from school.

Bedtime prayers

Tonight Mac prayed "Thank you for Mommy and please help her work tomorrow and make lots of money so we can go out to eat sometime"

We have a few things saved up that we need to post so look for some stuff soon.

Dinner

This afternoon Mac was helping me start supper. When I told him we were making a marinade he said I like that...I've had it before.

New plan

So I know we haven't been fantastic about doing posts, especially lately, so I have a new plan.  While we will still do regular posts when able I'm thinking of also doing some that are just short comments probably without pictures.  Somewhat akin to a twitter feed, but I don't tweet and I know most of our "readers" don't either.  Hopefully this will encourage us to post more frequently and also do a better job of documenting some of the hilarious things that our children do and say.  (Hopefully you will also think they are funny even though I'm sure something will be lost when taken out of context)

Here are some examples of what I'm thinking...feel free to voice any comments or suggestions.

True to form, Mac didn't tell us anything about what he learned at church today.  However, 

during lunch he was listing his cousins and included Paul and Barnabas so that might be a clue.

Mac had a sandwich shaped like bear for lunch today.  He usually prefers his 

sandwiches cut dragonal, which is very similar to diagonal.

My goal is that we can share more of everyday life with our family that can't be here every day.  Mac is constantly cracking us up with something, or alternately driving us crazy.  We wouldn't want yall to miss any of that.

Daddy's big helper

If you've ever been to our house and out on our deck, I'm sorry.
I knew it wasn't in the best condition, but I had no idea how bad it was.

Back in April I bought some Trex decking that was on a huge sale at work.
I just got around to removing the old deck. There's still a little more to do before I can install the new stuff, but we're making progress (finally).

This was one of the times I'm glad I have a truck and glad Mac has one.
I cut pieces small enough to fit his truck and it cut down on how much I had to carry around to my truck.
It also went faster because we took the "governor" off the truck and it is a lot faster now.

All loaded up.

 

The kid has an arm.

Staying hydrated...with Daddy's water.

All done

 Mac even rode with me to the landfill and helped unload all of the lumber. 

As requested

Maggie is smiling!!! And Mac wanted his picture taken too