From Eli's Viewpoint

The following pictures were taken by Eli.  Some of them are actually pretty good.

Mommy!

Doing school with Silas in the sitting room.

A pasta necklace on the floor.

Silas doing school.

Gloves!

A tractor (and some cute little toes).

Sunlight on Silas while coloring his Bible page.

An upside catapult on a chair.

His cup.

Apples!

Silas' cup of water.

A purple alligator that Eli calls a frog.

Silas' pencil on the desk.

Mommy's feet while she clears up.

Today on The Knoll

This is what's been going on today:

We started the day off with Silas and Eli playing together well.  Yea!

I made redneck greenhouses.

Broccoli seedlings.

Christian started building the master closet!! 

I have daffodils blooming on the hill behind the house.

Colin luxuriated indoors next to the fire.

I made cinnamon pull-apart bread.

It suddenly hailed.

Here are my daffodils just a couple of hours later than the other photo, surrounded by hail.

It hailed and thundered all the way through nap time.

Colin did not appreciate the hail storm.

Then the sun came and the clouds were swept away.

Eli got to splash in some puddles...

...and throw some rocks.

We headed home as the sun set on a busy, wild, wonderful day.

Now we're going to eat some of that bread for dinner!

Auntie Birthday

Auntie Char's birthday is in February.  Silas helped me make the cake for her birthday celebration that evening. 

Dancing must be an ingredient in a Charlotte cake.

A little shimmying while spreading the flour in the pan.

At Grandma and Grandpa's - Eli disobediently playing with the pots while Zac looks on.

Party animal.

We got a good picture with the birthday girl.

"Mmmm...cake...Can I lick it?"

No, he did not manage to lick the cake.  But he wanted to.

The crowd singing happy birthday.

We got her some goofy glasses.  Just her style.

And some goofy finger eyes while Silas has a balloon in his belly.

Lasers in the Hallway

I saw this on Pinterest and thought Silas would love it.  He did!

We even made Auntie Char go through all of it.  Eli liked a lot, but I think he mostly enjoyed bulldozing through the string and tape rather than actually getting through it without tearing it down.  Silas said it made him feel like a spy and spent the next couple of days sneaking through the house.