Friday, January 21, 2011

Baby Brother

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Cutie Matthew is getting bigger.  We all want him to be a baby forever.  He’ll always be the little boy.

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so cute,

Matthew follows Luke around the house all day.

Matthew always copies what people say, I taught him to say please: Matt has an A+, he says please nicely whenever I ask him to.  Luke is getting there.

He grunts all the time trying to get food. I also help him say eat, drink, yes, no, apple, popcorn, mood-vie, and some other words.

Every Saturday, Sunday, and any day off school I am the 3rd one to wake up.  I turn on a movie for the boys, feed them breakfast, get them dressed, and play with them. (plus the clearing and wiping the table)

The little boys like to play trains, cars, animals, legos, anything that has to do with toy story, and they like watching Diego.  I’ve been showing Luke the friend.org.  He does little puzzles and matching games with me.                     I love my little boys!

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Telephone

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We had the funniest time playing telephone after dinner.  Telephone is a game where you sit in a circle with a few people and tell the person next to you a sentence. The last person in the circle says the saying out loud. Find out if everyone heard it correctly or they completely changed it.  Everyone thought of such funny things to say.

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Once my mom passed on, “Cowboy Shmucamuk likes to dance in his underwear.”  It was so funny that I could not tell it to Megan.  We played that for a long time.  It was so funny! 

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Saturday, January 15, 2011

Rome, Italy; The Colosseum

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I loved going to the Colosseum!  There was a big stage that people used to fight on.  Half of the stage was broken off to show the secret underground passage ways that they kept the animals in.  Tons of people could fit in the stadium to watch the “battle to the death”.  There used to be more seats, but apparently they were broken off.

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Lukey and Matt.

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The kids.

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Megan’s Sasha.

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Lots of cool stuff in Rome

Arch of Constantine

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In November we went on a family vacation to Rome, Italy.  It was so fun.

This is the Arch of Constantine.  It is very big.  It’s right beside the Colosseum.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Roman Forum

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We walked through the Roman Forum.  There were a lot of columns.

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St. Peters Basilica

St. Peters is the world’s biggest church.  The atrium (front part) of the church is bigger than most churches.

st. peters - frontst. peters - kids2 We walked on the roof.  It was so awesome!

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There were guards for the Vatican City.  They were dressed in something that according to my dad looked like pajamas.  They wouldn’t move, they just stood still while15 people took pictures of them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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