Read to me

I have too many pictures! So you must excuse my film strip style once again, and click on the pictures to enlarge them.

We love reading "gooks". Especially ones that have "oh-jus" (oranges - see the one where his lips are all puckered up?) pictured.

Frigid Playground

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And oh what fun we can have when our fingers are frozen! This was my attempt to keep the after-nap grumpies away. It was SO FUN...until we had to leave.

Language Learning

Derek and I have begun learning German using Rosetta Stone. I am not very good at the pronunciation. My accent is TERRIBLE, and it can make learning German kind of depressing for me. But since we are doing it together I am encouraged to keep at it. Derek finds my pronunciation humorous, and compared me to the priest in Princess Bride the first time I did a lesson out loud.

But by all accounts, Luke's language learning is much more humorous than mine. These are his latest "words which are not words":

the word he's trying to say = what actually comes out
Frog = Cow
Book = Gook
Apple = Minnow
Truck = Cuck
Chair = Share
Sit = Shit
Block = Gawp
Cameryn = Camera
Roehn = Roro

Playing Dress Up

playing dress up with our saturday visitor (in the dirty laundry! :)

and dress up with Daddy. What a silly Daddy!

tool shirt

I just love this little shirt and wanted to show it to you close up. This picture is from after naptime yesterday, and you can still see the tear-drenched cheeks. I think he's actually teething again (he hasn't gotten a new tooth in months!), as you can see he's chomping on his fingers.

Workin'

Hint: click on the pictures to see them enlarged.

Luke and I went around this morning taking pictures of churches that WBS has built. We quickly discovered the nursery and Luke played (or visited with church secretaries) while I took photos. Here is Luke standing next to one of the most impressive entries: Winkler Mennonite Church. (You can't see it but he's wearing his construction shirt. It's got little tools sketched all over it.)
Oh, but don't be deceived by it's name! It is not the only Mennonite church in Winkler. The names of the other churches I photographed are: Winkler Evangelical Mennonite, and Winkler Sommerfeld Mennonite Church. And that is just the beginning. Winkler is just thick with the Mennos. The best way to uncover a Mennonite is to ask "anyone who's NOT a mennonite, raise your hand!"

Just for fun, here's the sanctuary of this rather large and beautiful church. And a brochure page I made for WBS from my photos.

Nobody knows the trouble I've seen

Luke has a very grumpy time right after naptime most days. Between nap and dinner is just the worst part of the day. There's often crying and recently the little "melting down" that most kids discover, when they are holding your hand and seem to mysteriously lose the use of their legs.

Yesterday I heard a bubbling in the kitchen and upon investigating discovered Luke blowing bubbles in the cat's water.

This morning we ate banana bread for breakfast and an hour or so after breakfast I looked up to see Luke spitting walnuts into a little pile at his feet which he had apparently been hoarding for his Winter stores.