Sunday School...with a twist.

Eric taught Sunday School this last week and ended the lesson with a game of Hot Potato- where if you had the "potato" when the music stopped you were out unless you answered a question from the lesson correctly.  My kids are currently attempting their own version.  It goes a little something like this:

A singing "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" ornament is the music.
The potato is an IKEA soccer ball.
The questions I've heard so far include:
     - When does Mommy light candles in the house?  at Halloween, Thanksgiving, or Christmas?
     - When did Miles get his red hair?
     - When does the farmer end the sheep?  (I think this means slaughter...we recently went to a REAL butcher shop to pick up some beef we bought from a friend's farmer-dad.  Animals, meat, and how-the-animal-becomes-meat is on their little minds right now)
     - When did baby Jesus come?
     - When does the farmer mow the sheep's hair?

Acceptable answers so far have included:
     - Halloween and Christmas
     - at zero
     - ?? (this one ended in laughter...not an answer)
     - Christmas (phew, glad they got this one right.)
     - 16. (huh??)
    

When you give your kids a camera.

We got a new camera...almost a year ago.  Since then the kids have taken over our old one.  It's been great, it entertains them for HOURS.  I thought that the simple fact that it kept them busy was a good enough reason to continue to change the batteries on it.  BUT, as it turns out the pictures are pretty fun too.  We took all their pictures off it a few weeks ago and handed the camera over to cousin Ashlynn for a bit so her mom can enjoy the wonders of the camera too.  Here are some of the pictures our budding photographers have taken:

 Daddy.  Needing a shave.

Sam.  Needing eye surgery.
Just kidding.

Mi laughing it up.

Squishy-face Sam tying some Polly Pocket to the bunk bed.  Knots are his specialty.

Sleeping Daddy and Sam...

Cute pic of crooked eye Miles.

Squishy-face Mommy.  Now we know where Sam gets it from.  (must have been a humid day, that's some special hair I'm sporting...)

Daddy-O.

Sam, in the car.  Apparently the camera went on a ride with us one day.

Sam and his stuffed pals during a rest time.  They must have been pretty proud of their bed making skills that day...

Sam's green tongue.

Debby Harding.
What?!?  When did they snap this one?  It's a mystery I tell you, a mystery.

And lastly, a series of self-portraits by Maggie.  There were probably 20+ of these...too funny!