Happy Birthday Mom!

Hi Mom!

Happy Birthday!!

( Sorry I didn't get you anything. )

Ahem...

Today is your day, Happy Birthday to you!

You had three amazing kids- congrats on making it through.

It's no small feat to raise two girls and a boy

especially those younger ones, but your oldest was sure a joy!

Thanks for having me first, and giving me your looks

and for teaching me to read, and play nice, and sew, and cook.

I'm also glad you had me first- that makes me #1!

I know you love us "all the same" (wink wink) but secretly, I mean come on, look at me.I'm awesome.

You are short in height, but you have a big heart

you always encouraged us and made us feel smart.

You have lots of friends, you know everyone's name

all your friends are your best friends and you make strangers feel the same.

From that lady at McDonald's, to our old teachers and friends of friends,

you can't keep your own kids names straight, but you can remember all of them.

You make a mean cinnamon roll and yummy rolls from scratch

speaking of which, can you whip me up a batch? (They sure are good!)

You go by many names- Pam, Nomi, Mom

But all of them mean exactly the same---

You're the bomb!

hehehe.

I hope you have a great day!!

love, Jessie.

Wordless Wednesday...Kind of

All day yesterday I thought it was Tuesday. This morning I had to check my phone to see what day it was. That's messed up.

So here it is- Wordless THURSDAY. Not as catchy, but just as fun...

Big Joe

While playing outside today, we found this guy under a rock in the front yard.

His name is "Big Joe". He's a monster.

Here is is with "Skinny Joe." Just hanging out, as worms do.

"Whatcha got for lunch today?"

"Dirt again, you?"

"Dirt. Wanna trade?"

Last night we emptied out the jar of worms we've been collecting and measured them. Funny thing, I thought we had 12, but we could only find 9. Hmm..

Some of them were feisty little critters. Ethan and I just held them down and drew a line from head(foot?) to foot(head?). Kind of like they measure the babies at the doctor's.

Then I used the ruler to measure them.

We made this:

and I asked Ethan some simple questions like which were the longest ones ( the red worms) and which were the smallest ones( the white worms). Then we traced his hand and measured his fingers and found that 3 of the worms were as long as 3 of his fingers, which he thought was pretty cool.

We let all the worms go last night. Big Joe will not be setting foot inside my house. I don't mind normal sized worms, but he was as fat as my finger, and that is just weird.

Not that my fingers are fat.

They are perfectly proportionate, thank you very much.

Conversations With Ethan

Me: "Did you have fun at Queenie's while I was in Colorado?"

Ethan:"Yeah, I got a splintard when we were playing outside, on a piece of wood."

Me:"Oh no! Did you get it out?"

Ethan:"No I hid under the couch so they couldn't get it. Uncle Caleb got it out with TWIZZLERS and a NEEDLE!"

Caden

It seems I may have been neglecting Caden a little(on here, not in real life), so here are some pictures of my favorite baby boy...