keyboard jam session

this afternoon we had an impromptu keyboard jam session. (if you listen closely miles says doggie after the doggie noise)

miles doing wheelies with this car

good book about prayer

this is a wonderful book on prayer and how to best pray for your kids. i love that fern nichols uses scripture to pray. i was not taught this way but i love it. you basically are using God's own words and God's words are powerful. for example: place your child's name in the blank, "Father, i praise you that you created _______. you made all the delicate, inner parts of his/her body and knit them together in my womb. thank you for making _______ so wonderfully complex! ..."
she also talks about the praying the four steps - starting with praise (you pick one of God's attributes and praise Him for it), then confession, then thankfulness and then intercession. i am using this more in my personal prayer life and i just love how it gets you really focusing on God from the very start and learning more about you from his attributes.
every mom should read this book. if you live near me let me know if you want to borrow it.

audrey reading to miles

 

 he was hamming it up for the camera.

 audrey wanted to hold his hand. not sure what miles is doing in the next picture.

 then the wrestling begins.

guess who's in a big boy bed??

about a week ago when my husband got up in the morning he heard a knocking coming from miles' room. when he opened the door it was toy/book/clothes (i hadnt gotten his laundry put away yet) chaos. miles had gotten out of his crib. i guess he didnt get hurt because i didnt hear anything on the monitor.
so the next day we converted his crib to a toddler bed, very reluctantly.
overall he is doing fantastic with the change. every once and awhile he has trouble staying in his bed but he's 2. what do we expect?!
heres some pictures:

 

 

what a cutie?! and heres a bonus with his sailor hat.

kids style

this is what my daughter came out dressed in for church. normally i guide her to pick things that go together alittle bit nicer but today i didnt have the time. and it doesnt really matter. she was dressed modestly and she loved what she was wearing. its not worth fighting the battle.

gotta love all those stripes.

not a skinny jeans girl

i went to target and was just going to try on some of the new denizen skinny jeans. i had to see what the deal was with skinny jeans. one of the workers was in the area and pointed out that there was some of the exact same jeans in my size that were returned from online, this apparently makes them 75% off. so instead of $27.99 they were $7.06.
i tried them on and figuring that they were such a great deal i bought them. now i know that you should never buy something just because its such a great deal but i did it anyway. they looked good on me and i was happy with them.
i was going to wear them that very night. after about 1 hour in them and some pictures taken i decided that skinny jeans are not for me. im just not a skinny jeans girl.

 pay no attention to the toy chaos in the background.

ahh bootcuts, much better!