The "Finnster, et al."

Your children learn to use the camera. I have an obnoxious "Facebooker" in the making.

Today is Mother's Day and I got the best wake up call in the world.  Finn, Sam and Nana brought me breakfast in bed.   (Yes, I love my kids enough to post this picture of me). Finn told me "Happy Mother's Day" and gave me a hug. He then showed me the spread that he helped to create.  Sam had no interest in saying what he and Nana had rehearsed (Happy, Happy, Happy).  Instead, he focused in on my doughnuts! It was the sweetest gesture . . thank you Mom and Finn and I guess Sam too :)   After getting ready, which was no easy feat in itself, we went to Sparta for church.  Finn and Sam both started out in service.  Sam made it approximately seven minutes before he went to the nursery.  Finn was very wiggly, but ultimately gave up, laid in my lap and took a nap.  Next we went to Brian's house for lunch.  It was really great; it turned to be the PERFECT place for kids.  Finn had a wonderful place to roll his t...

After leaving the petting zoo, the boys and I headed to Manchester for Mother's Day Eve sleepover.  Finn was feel really cruddy so he slept soundly the whole way.  I should have know something was up when Finn hopped in bed with Michael and 7:00 and slept soundly until 9:00.  When he finally woke up he had the worst, most rumbly cough.  He told us that his stomach hurt.  We bought him a Sprite and packed extra clothes - just in case he yacked all over the dinosaur.  Luckily no yacking! The first thing we did when we got to Nana and Papa's was too play in the playroom.  Nana and Finn crashed monster trucks for a while. They were terrible at first, but after a while they got the hang of it.  Next we went down the road to feed the burrows.  Papa picked up Sam and put him on her shoulders.  Finn immediately asked to get my shoulders.  Seeing our shadows in the pictures reminds of Finn's new game - he loves stomping on the heads of ou...

On Saturday we all met Gran at the happiest place on earth - TPAC!  Gran got the boys tickets to see ERTH's Dinosaur Petting Zoo.  It was a funny, interactive show featuring enormous and state of the art dinosaur puppets.  We sat on the second row - really close to the action.  Finn was very nervous.  He liked the show but he didn't want to participate.  The first set of dinosaurs that they brought out were babies.  Sam and I went on stage to pet them. Next they brought out an enormous bug followed by a two mid-size dinosaurs.  The best part was the T-Rex; it was HUGE and pretty scary for a puppet.  Sam was going nuts.  He wanted to get on stage and touch that dinosaur so badly that he couldn't stand it.  He stood on my knees and reached both hands out and stretched as far as he could toward the stage while saying "whoa" or Wowee!"   I so pleasant surprise how much Sam loved and paid attention to the show. During the T-R...

Gran picks  Finn up every Tuesday from school and brings him home.  On the way home they drive by Lebanon's own Monster Truck.  A couple of weeks ago they stopped to check it out.