Turkey Day!

Here we are celebrating Thanksgiving with the Medendorp side..Look at the cute Indians! Dand made the feather hats for the kids!

Hanging with Great Papa!

on to bowling with the Clarks!

Obviously Isaac didn't want to take this picture...but not bad for all of them!

Big Boy Bed!

My baby is no longer a baby! We decided to take down the crib when Elliot decided to climb out of it! One morning I heard this big thud...yup...he climbed out only to land on this face....so it was time! Since we had a long Thanksgiving weekend we thought, no time like the present! The first night was great. We got the room all set up...took apart the bunks and gave elliot the top bunk with the rails on the floor...and Isaac got the other bed across the room. In 15 mins both boys were asleep. Crazy...definitely not how it went with the other two.

Here he is sleeping...yes I'm that mom that went in at 11 pm and used my flash for a picture!

He has done pretty well since that night. The night times are great...he does get up a little early some days(5:30 twice, but who's counting)...its naps that are the hardest. I know I had it so good because he was still taking 4 hr naps in the day (2 morn, 2 afternoon) and then 11 at night...and now he's getting maybe 1 hr a day. Eventually I think he'll figure it out and get back on schedule. The hardest part is realizing how fast all this went. I know..everyone says it goes so fast...but I don't know that I was ready for it. My babies are getting way too big!

Lego Mania!!!

The post you have all been waiting for!!! My dear son Isaac absolutely lives, and breathes Legos...Here he is posing for a picture he wants me to send into his lego magazine to see if they'll publish it and his creations! Too precious!



So when we found out the Henry Ford Museum was having a Lego exhibit in Detroit...I called Christin to set up a visit! What I didn't know was she had a way to get us all in for free! Love it! So we headed on over for the weekend and took the kids to see Legos! Here are some pictures from the trip!






The adults helping to build a wall...architects can't leave it be!


Sneaking a smooch!

Building his Castle!

More building...

Elliot all dressed up like a dragon!

One of the models you could see

The group shot!

The kids...yes there were a lot of them! But they loved it!

Life size soldier out of legos.

Checking out the rest of the museum

more building...

King Isaac - look at that mind go!

King & Queen...the dragon was off defending the castle! :)
A happy boy leaving! He loved it!

Overall it was a great trip! So much fun doing this for the kids and getting to spend the weekend with great friends too!!! Loved it all!

Friends....and crazy hair day!

Isaac was so excited he go invited to his buddy Mason's birthday party! He was playing outside before the party and I called him in to leave...usually he never responds right away..especially when outside on a georgous day in November...but I find him in the car holding the gift with shoes and coat on! Wow...we're talking less than 3 mins from me calling him to the car. And I was prob delayed in finding him! Guess he was excited!

Isaac is in Cubbies right now and one of the nights was crazy hair/hat night! Here are the boys! Too cute!


Madi had fun helping me with his hair....its what he wanted!

Hanging with the Grands

The kids are really into map making these days...Madi thinks its cool she can say Cartographer. I love it they make these maps and when we're driving they tell us what direction we are going! Too cute!

Papa & Grandma even got to help out!

Here Madi is at Isaac's soccer game....combing Papa's Hair..What grandparents don't do for the Grandkids!

Halloween!

We started out the Halloween Festivities with a trip to our Church for their Harvest Festival!

The kids loved it that Brianne was there serving! Always fun to see her! If you can't tell...Madi is Gabriella from High School Musical and Isaac is a Transformer - Bumblebee! Thought some of you may need help with that!

Here we are at Isaac's class party! Listening to a story while the moms setup!

Waiting for the parade to start.

At Madi's school...two of her good friends!

Showing off her craft!

Carving Pumpkins...El was asleep...oops!

ooey gooey hands

October 31 we had the Peuler side over for Trick or Treating, Birthdays, & the U of M/ illini game all at once...nothing like a catch all party~! So we made I & M cookies for the occasion...we don't need to mention who won....I'm sure you've all heard my illini fans gloat by now! :)

Ready to head out Trick or Treating

Here are all the kids & their cousins heading through the neighborhood!

Around the house...

So one day I headed in to wake up El to go to the bus stop and found him like this...too funny!


Then I woke him up and this is what I got! Guess he wanted to sleep more!

Science Experiment day....so a mom can only play legos so much! I had to switch it up one day...we looked online for some fun/easy science experiments and found these.

The colors aren't the best..but he had fun! Not a great picture but this is suppose to be teaching him how different liquids have different densities...you can read up on it here.

This one he LOVED and so easy! We did it a couple of different times to show everyone as they got home that day!

Couple of drops of food coloring in milk...

then add 1 drop of dishsoap! Watch the molecules disperse...

A warm day...had to get out!

wearing dads shoes!