Grace's Texting

Grace REALLY loves to text.  But the only people I let her text are Haley and Daddy.  Haley is in Red Lodge this weekend, and Grace has been having lots of fun communicating with her older sister.  Here is their converstaion from this morning:

Grace: Wat are you dooing
Haley: Watching a movie. What are you doing?
Grace: playing
Haley: What are you playing?
Grace: dro
Haley: What is dro?
(Grace comes into my room to ask me how to spell "draw")
Grace: you draw
Haley: Oh that sounds like fun
Grace: it is fan
Haley: Good
Grace: in the
Haley: What?
Grace: In the afternoon do you wontoo play with me?
Haley: I'm not going to be home until tomorrow
Grace: tomorrow can you?
Haley: Yes
Grace: wat tim?
Haley: Around lunch
Grace: 12 25
Haley: Yes
Grace: wat tim are you cuming home?
Haley: After breakfast
Grace: so at 9 47
Haley: close to that, yes
Grace: so 9 50
Haley: Yes
Grace: ok. it is giting funr
Haley: Yep we're gonna go walk around soon
Grace: yep fun fun fun
Haley: Yes very fun
Grace: ya?
Haley: Yes

Haley = The Most Patient Big Sister Ever

Joey's Birthday Party

Joey's 7th birthday was a hit!  We had the Grandparents, cousin Lita, and Great Grandma Bertha come over to celebrate.  Joey had lots of presents, including Star Wars guys and a lego ship, Heeley's, a sweatshirt with a hood, DS games, and a "Number Twelve Tom Brady" jersey.  (He never says "Number 12" without adding "Tom Brady".)

Matthew had fun trying to tell Grandma Bertha a story. 

And when he couldn't get her attention, he tried Grandma Nan.  That worked. 

Grace found something useful to do. 

Joey even got a mug for hot cocoa -- with a picture of him drinking hot cocoa on it! 

And this was the very first time that Joey was able to order a cake from the store. He's always been allergic, but now he can have things with egg cooked into them.  He chose the army cake, mostly because it came with a free transformer on top. 

(A Few) Snow Days

You'd think by looking at a few of my posts that we actually had a normal winter around here, but it's really been warm, thank goodness. We haven't had much snow, but when it did fall, it was usually warm enough to go play in it!  That's the best kind of all.

Joey, Grace, and Matthew decided to try and put together a couple of snowmen before we had to go back to school and pick up Andrew.  They worked very hard to build their "friends".  Grace's even had a little hat, but Joey ran out of time before he finished.  But I guess that's what tomorrow's for!

Joey's Tooth

Joey lost a tooth a few weeks ago.  He's lost teeth before, but this is the first one that we gasped at.  He had been working on pulling that thing out of his head for longer than usual, and when it finally was expelled we found out why:

That thing was huge.  I guess he inherited his father's roots.  Poor guy.