April news

Here's my munchkins! I am not sure what was happening here...ie. why the kids were being so rascally, but it's cute nonetheless.

Jonathan has been getting Winnie the Pooh read to him recently. He loves it. Really, he does! He was just tired this night!

Annisia got a new Pooh truck (because Jonathan wouldn't share his and we decided she needed one too.) It's such a fun truck!

We saw these sandhill cranes on the way into town. Jonathan said they had walky legs, whatever that meant.
We bought this biplane kit in Michael's for $1 when we went to Billings in March. Michael and Jonathan painted it and put it together one day. He loves it!

Jhhh! (noise of flying the plane)

My parents visited April 21-28. Jonathan cuddled up next to Grandpa and read his "Machines at Work" book until he fell asleep. Looks like Grandpa is tired too!

Gramma and Papa's horse, Mira, had her filly while my folks were here. So did their other mare, Beauty, but I haven't gotten a pic of him yet. This little filly has really long legs, and she was really wobbly, but so sweet.

Jonathan got a bike! How exciting! He loves it and is really good about wearing his helmet while he rides. He knows where on our driveway to turn around, and is learning about pushing back on the pedals to stop. Very cool. Watch the video and see how good he is at riding.




This video requires an explanation. Jonathan was supposed to get his jammies on. He came waddling out with both legs in one pants leg. It was so funny, probably lots funnier to us watching it firsthand than it'll be to you watching the video...sideways. Anyone know how to turn videos taken vertically to horizontal and make them load that way?

Smiling at the breakfast table!

Jonathan said, "C'mon, Annisia, I'll read to you." Isn't that sweet?!

At the Ranch

Michael came home one day and said, "We have a new baby." Wait just a minute! I am NOT pregnant, I thought. I ran through all of my family and friends and nobody was due to have a baby. Then I remembered...Gramma and Papa were expecting! Foals, that is. So we went out to the ranch to see.

Here is the first...a colt. He's about 10 hours old here, and what a sweetie! He has a gentle soul and is so soft. Jonathan got a kick out of him, not literally, of course!

Papa, Annisia, and Daddy. It was a lovely day, and good to get the kids out to the ranch. Now we're waiting for the second baby...

Papa giving Annisia a whisker rub. Hmmm...she's not so sure about that.

Kids and their toys

Here is Jonathan with his loader tractor he got from Aunty Janice and Uncle Paul. He loves it! He is so proud of Uno (the monkey...story in a minute), because he is able to sit on the loader. He says, "Good boy, Uno! You're sitting on the loader. Good job!"

OK, Uno is a character in a Graeme Base book called "Uno's Garden". Uno is a little man who goes to a rain forest and decides to live there and the result of that. Lame description, very neat book full of things like sneaky snagglebites, lumpybums, and snortlepigs. Graeme Base is a great author...any of his books are a must. Anyways, it's actually amazing the resemblance between this monkey and GB Uno character...Jonathan amazes me sometimes with his comparisons.

Annisia enjoying the Wall Street Journal personal journal. Ah yes, I do remember this stage with Jonathan. Finally mobile and into everything...

Jonathan with his "pull". A pretty neat horse trailer, if you know what I mean!

Here he has his manure spreader hooked up too. What an imagination! Can you tell he loves to be out to Gramma and Papa's?!

One day, he was playing on the deck. Daddy moved one of Jonathan's many vehicles so Jonathan could "maneuver better". I said, "Whoa! New word, Jonathan. Can you say "maneuver"?" He was quiet for a minute then said, "Mom! Teo pooped. And Thunder pooped too!" These are two of Gramma & Papa's horses. We laughed so hard, then had to tell him "maneuver", not "manure"!

Horses and Phones

Jonathan looks good on a horse. He's ridden a real one at Papa's. He enjoys that!

Annisia thinks her big brother is pretty cool. He thinks phones are pretty cool.

And here's Jonathan in his Bob the Builder overalls...such a big boy.