Porter's Hero

On friday I was going through the kids paper work, sorting out what we needed to keep and what could be thrown out and I came upon this sweetly, some what incorrect paper written by Porter.  It says," My Hero By Porer Bishop,

My hero is my Dad. Csue he help peple from dieing. he also is a foot dater he puts nails in peoples foot."

I'm not going to lie when I read this I got a little teary eyed.  It was so funny and so sweet.  I was so excited for him to give it to Brandon.  Brandon loved it! It's moments like this that make parenting SO much fun. Love that boy!

 

Talk like a Pirate Day = Free Doughnuts:)

 Aargh Mateys! We talked like pirates and the kids dressed up and we got free Krispy Kreme Doughnuts for it.  What a great reward!

Soccer is in the air!!!

We've been at the soccer field every saturday since Mid-August in one my favorite time of the year, Soccer season!! Logan is on the Green Lightning or as one of the other coaches called them, "the highlighters" :)

Porter's team started playing a few weeks after Logan.  His team is called the Red Dragons.  They both ended up on really good teams, and with coaches that match their personalitys.  Logan's coach is VERY patient and good at teaching skills.  Porter's coach is a LITTLE intense, but he's good at feeding Porter's aggressive side.  We're having a lot of fun this season.

Romney Rally

 Friday night we decided on a whim that we were going to take our kids down to Cincinnati to see Mitt Romney.  It sounded like a great idea, the event would be inside and it was hot outside.  So we got ready to go and when we pulled up there were people everywhere.  We had to park a couple of blocks away and walked up to the building.  It was hot! When we got closer to the building we saw the line to get in went all the way through the parking lot.  It was hot! We figured we had driven down there so let's see what we can see.  The line moved pretty fast.  Once we got up to the front of the building they told us that the fire marshall was doing a capacity check.  If they could they would let us in.  After a few more minutes of sweating, crying children, almost loosing crying children, and going through security,  we got in.  They escorted us to the basement of the building, the rally was on the main floor, and had us wait in this dark crowded room.  We were still hot! At this point Brandon and I were wondering if this was really worth it.  As we started to debate if we should stay or go the speaker that we were listening to cut out and like a breath of fresh air, in walked Mitt Romney and Ann Romney.  I'm not going to lie I was star struck! The room was screaming "Mitt! Mitt!"  My kids were freaking out with excitement, Henry with fear! And it was so exciting.

 Logan got up on Brandon's shoulders and took some pictures for me, that's why the quality is so great, but you get the point!

Like I said we were in the far back of the room and they were just quickly speaking and making an appearance to us in the overflow before going upstairs to the main rally.  Mitt started to go around and shake hands and I thought there was no way we were going to get up that close.  So I took the boys and started to head back upstairs and outside.  Brandon stayed with Olivia and actually got to shake his hand. It was definitely worth the heat and the cramped spaces to see him.  My kids loved it to.  Porter now will talk smack to anyone who won't vote for Mitt.  According to him though all of the kids in his school are Mitt Romney fans! ;)

Pictures I found

 This is Henry on one of his first times eating peas.  He liked them!

 Olivia spent the day playing over at our neighbors house when I took Henry to the doctors.  She had so much fun.  So much that when she came home I found her like this.  She was out cold! She slept like this for about an hour.  Such a funny girl!

 Some friends from church decided to do a Mud Run.  It was about a 5k distance with opsticles all over.  It was tough! I realized very quickly how out of shape I was:) But I had so much fun! I had mud all over me, it was ridiculous.  There were some Young Men from our ward that did it.  One of the boys came in 2nd overall he finished the course in 27 minutes, and hardly had any mud on him.  Such a fun group of people!

Dance Class!!!

I don't think there has ever been a more excited little girl to start her first dance class.  She talked about it for weeks before she went and she is still talking about it. She just doesn't want us to forget the she goes:)  She said her favorite things about it are, walking like a bear and jumping like a frog, (It's a creative movement class).  It's been fun, she has 2 other friends from church to go with her and they are ADORABLE to watch.  I'm so glad I have a daughter!

7 Months

Our sweet little "Henny".  We just love him. He's a happy boy who even through tears tries to smile at you.  He loves to kick his legs and watches intently as his brothers and sister run around him, waiting to be able to join them.  He's getting so close to crawling.  At this point I'm not super excited for this new mobility, or curiousity, for selfish reasons.  He can get around to where he wants to go and we've had to be careful about what we leave out.

 He loves to eat food and as much as he watches his brothers and sisters running around, he does the same for food.  He absolutely loves banana's. I can't get them into his mouth fast enough.  He also likes sweet potatos, apples, pears, and carrots.  He absolutely hates green beans, like mouth is sealed tight and nothing is getting in kind of hate.

He's getting more fussy with his naps and isn't able to sleep as good in his car seat when I run errands.  He loves his bed!

We've noticed his eyes are a little off, not nearly to the point that Porters where, but Porter was older.  So we are taking him in to get his eyes checked out.  Hopefully it's being paranoid, but we'll see.