The Paperbag Princess

Sometimes life has these little coincidences that just make a person smile, and we recently had one occur for us.  We recently received a children's book collection from Auntie Lorie by an author named Robert Munsch.  The very first story was about The Paperbag Princess - a story about a princess rescuing the prince in a paper bag - with the moral being that it doesn't matter what is on the outside, but rather on the inside of the person that matters.  After receiving the book and reading it from cover to cover for all of the stories, we then realized that one of the field trips for the school that Zachary attends - Champion Prep Academy was to the Paperbag Princess play!  We had a great time at the play, with even baby Addison attending.

Last weekend, we headed out to the park for a picnic supper with a group of friends.  The kids had a great time playing with the adults had a lovely visit.  During our time there, Amy ended up getting a precious picture of Kaleb and Kieran walking through the playground holding hands (so cute!) and then of their fathers having a bonding moment over sandwiches in the pavilion.

Such great little friends!

The great BIG friends! :)

It was an eventful weekend, because it was also the first weekend that baby Addison went to church.  We took the opportunity to take a group picture - it was the first one that we've done with all of the adults and kids.  Notice - if you count, there are SEVEN boys and only ONE little girl in this group!  She'll think that she is a little boy as she grows up! :)

Capturing her precious smile and the cute little citrus dress!

Another first for Addison was going out to a restaurant - Sweet Tomatoes, a family favorite.  We had our carpets cleaned, so with the carpets wet we decided it was probably wise to get everyone out of the house so that we didn't slip walking from wet carpet to tile.  She fell asleep halfway through, and with enough hands to hold her (not so happy just sitting in the carseat), we'd say it was quite successful.  Although, at one point, Zachary got a hold of the camera and his parents degraded into making ridiculous faces for amusement....

Yikes - what a face!



Hopefully not a face that we see very often!



Phrase of the week:  Amy had a funny conversation with Kaleb this week while putting him to bed that made her laugh out loud:

Kaleb:  When I'm big, I'm going to have a big house, and I am going to feed my baby a bottle.  I'm also going to have an oven and bake!  Will you be the grandma? 
Amy:  Yes. 
Kaleb:  Who will grandma be? 
Amy:  The great-grandma.  
Kaleb:  Who will the mommy be? 
Amy:  Ugh - do you mean who you will marry someday? 
Kaleb: Yes.
Amy:  I'm not sure - we'll have to see who God picks for you. 
Kaleb:  Well....maybe it will be Braelyn.......or maybe Calleigh.......we'll just have to see! 
(These are two of the few girls in our extended group of friends.  Kaleb has been very enamored lately with Braelyn, and of course Calleigh was the girl who he bestowed his very first kiss to as the entire group of kids played "marriage"!  The Z parents would be happy with either pairing - perhaps we should contact their parents and begin the process of an arranged marriage?!  Ha ha!
By now, Amy is laughing so hard she can't even come up with a reply - I guess we'll just have to see Kaleb!