Lights, Camera and Lots of Action

While the big boys wear a head lamp on their heads, Ethan likes to use it as a belt.  The fact that it is lose on his little tummy makes it even funnier.  

Such a busy little guy tonight! In 10 minutes he had put on the flashlight, pulled out the ball basket, chucked them all at daddy nearby as he tried to play catch (aka bombard dad), dumped out all the trains, moved onto another basket and then stripped off the light while heading to the play food.  

Sleeping Like A Baby

Ethan is so sweet and so cute, especially when he looks like this!

I feel bad every school day when I have to wake him up.  The kids COULD ride the bus but I'd rather not have a first grader riding a bus with high school kids.  Plus, we are only 3 minutes away so it is easy to go get them - until I see this.  Then I get little jerks on the heart strings.

On the up side Ethan LOVES, LOVES his siblings so he doesn't complain about going to get them at all.  I mean, who wouldn't love big kids that totally dote on you, play with you constantly and think you are their own personal source of hilarious entertainment?!

Why We LOVE Amazon

The kids have had fun this week. All these fun things keep arriving in the mail! It's like Christmas for them as they have no idea what it is in the boxes! IT'S SHEER TORTURE... MUST... OPEN... BOXES..... Haha.

Well, why the kids love Amazon.com because it is fun to get boxes in the mail, we adults find it fun for other reasons. Plain and simple, it's a time saver and so much cheaper to just shop online in some cases! While I could have made an hour round trip to pick up Barry's birthday present, Dominion Prosperity, it was a lot faster to sit at Angela's computer and take less than 5 minutes to pick, checkout and have it shipped. Oh yeah, and did I mention it was way cheaper online than it is in the store? The kids think it is great because they got to help and decide. I love Amazon.com because they still got to pick and I don't have to drag them all to a store (and watch Ethan go crazy in the toy store). And, with Amazon Prime it is free shipping. No gas money and ships free to boot! Ah, it's a win all around. Especially for Barry, who creamed us all when we played.  He was so excited to play.  Just like a little kid getting his favorite toy at Christmas.  Yup, exactly like that!

And, I will point out that I'm not the only Amazon shopper around here.  The Hatch famiy sent Barry's birthday present via amazon, too.  Oh, and then Barry had ordered a few things we needed.  Four packages in total.  My kids are hilarious about boxes in the mail!

So, if you have no idea what we are talking about - here is our family's absolute FAVORITE game:.  Dominion. Thanks to the Hatch family for introducing it to us!  Although, we do highly recommend the Dominion Big Box rather than buying Dominion and then Dominion Prosperity separate.