This Face

How can you not love this face?  Such a happy kid, love him to pieces!

Helping Hands

As an activity with our early childhood PTA group we had the opportunity to go to Helping Hands.  It is a local organization that sends care packages around the world.  Service has always been something that I love it is something that I want to teach my children to love.  When we got there they read the kids a story and gave them a small snack.  Then each kid got to decorate a box and fill it with items to send to a kid in a third world country.  I loved this because Soren got to do it all himself, they have everything separated into bins and so you just pick one thing out of each bin and put it in the box.  Love this and we will definitely be going back!

Wedding #2

Richard's coworker and great friend, Rachelle got married and we were able to attend.  It was a small ceremony in their backyard with close friends and family.  The company, ceremony and food were fabulous!

He is 4!

HOW DID THIS HAPPEN????????

We celebrated as much as we could, he got to enjoy his favorite meal of pancakes for breakfast.  We went and met Richard and Rachelle for lunch at Schlotsky's yum.  Soren was being a bit cranky and not eating much which was strange.  I soon found out why.  He took a long nap and woke up saying that he did not feel well.  We were planning to go bowling, but he was not up to it.  He was very upset that we didn't get to go so we went and got a movie and had a relaxing evening at home instead.  He opened his presents and loved them all, but we saved his cookie for another day. 

Soren brings so much joy into our lives.  He is funny, sweet, caring and energetic.  He keeps us on our toes and always has us laughing.  He is the best big brother and always helps take care of his brother.  He loves to play with Beckett and teach him new things.  He is always excited to learn new things and help people around him.

FAVORITES

Food: hot dogs, chick-fil-a, fruit snacks, peanut butter and jelly

Things to do:  play baseball, dance, go to the park, ride his bike

Shows:  Handy Manny, Little Einsteins, Daniel Tiger, Curious George

Movie:  Toy Story, Home, Big Hero 6, Cars, Monsters Inc

Primary Songs:  I Belong to the Church of Jesus Christ, I Love to see the Temple, A Child's Prayer 

Love you bug!

Wedding #1

Richard's coworker got married the first weekend of October.  We attended the formal reception that evening.  It was a traditional sitdown Viatnamese meal.  We were seated at a table with Richard's coworkers.  It was a great evening getting to know some of them better.

Pumpkin Patch

Each year we are able to go to a local pumpkin patch with our early childhood PTA group.  It is a lot of fun, they have a little maze the kids can do.  And we get to go on a hay ride where each kid gets to pick out their own pumpkin.  Soren always loves this event.

Soren's 4th Birthday Party

Tonight we had Soren's 4th birthday party, he chose a construction theme and it was a hit!  Each kid got their own tool apron and hard hat, they loved it.  Soren decided that he wanted to decorate cupcakes at his party so we had a "build a cupcake" zone.  Then we had a "work zone" with boxes for them to build and of course knock over.  :)

He had such a great time sharing his birthday with so many friends!