Controlled Chaos: 2009

Dec 31, 2009

Dec 26, 2009

Many moods of claras nap

Clara took a nap on the living room floor the other day. She cracked me up with all of the ways she was sleeping.

Clara and her babies

Clara got several new "babies" for Christmas. Here she is watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse with a few of them.

Dec 18, 2009

Dec 16, 2009

We (finally) decorated the Christmas tree tonight. We continue the tradition of finishing off the tree with monkeys... yes, monkeys. Instead of tinsel, we use barrels of monkeys to decorate.

Here is some video of the kids monkeying around as the finish it up.

Decorating the tree

All the kids, plus Nachite, helped decorate the Christmas tree tonight. Clara helped and "branched" out from her usual one or two branches. She figured out that the ornaments can go all around the tree. When she wanted something to go up higher she would take it to Devlin and say "high".

Dec 10, 2009

Football!

Brandon is signed up for football. The season starts in January.... everybody stock up on stadium blankets and seat cushions!

Earrings

Clara finally let us take her earrings out tonight! Woo Hoo! She's had her original earrings in for over a year and a half now. We've replaced them with a pair from Disney World for now. Let's see how she handles switching those out in a day or two.

Dec 3, 2009

Ninja doing homework.

Note the sword....

Clara in her winter coat!

Clara loves her winter coat. She didn't want to take it off to get in the car or when we got to daycare. She dozed off in the car with it on, who wouldn't when you're this warm and cozy!?

Nov 30, 2009

Thanksgiving @ Dad & Jenny's

Thanksgiving Day was full of food and family. We spent the first part of the day with Dad & Jenny where we got these pictures of the kiddos..

Decorating the tree at mom's

Sunday night we decorated ONE of the trees at Mom's house - the Santa Tree - with the kids plus Charlie, Susan, Victoria and Sophia. Lots of fun was had all around. The kids 'specially enjoyed the ladder for putting the ornaments on the top.

Clara's new haircut

Me and Clara

Aidan making sure the tree had total coverage, top to bottom.

Devlin and Clara goofing

Nana + Kids

Brandon working on his branch

Clara inspecting....

Aidan..love those dimples!

Aidan and Brandon double-checking the coverage from the bottom-up!

Nov 24, 2009

Clara loves to jump!

Nov 19, 2009

T-rex Video from Walking with Dinosaurs

Some video from Walking with Dinosuars. It was dark inside so the video quality is not the best but you get the general idea. This show was amazing. The dinosaurs movements were so fluid that they seemed very life like.

This video is of Momma T-Rex & Baby-T-rex. Baby is about 7-8 feet tall to give you some perspective of how big Momma was.

Disney Xmas lights - video

Here is a video of the lights @ Disney Hollywood Studios synchronized to music

Dinosaurs and Jesus

Last night we saw Walking with Dinosaurs – the Arena Spectacular. Very cool. I’ll post some videos later today.

While at the show, I had some interesting conversations with Aidan. While watching a pteradon fly, Aidan told me that he would stay on Dinosaur Island.

A: Wait – it’s all dinosaur island.

[pauses for a minute]

A: Mom- am I correct that the entire planet was dinosaurs? (yes, he really said “am I correct?”)

Me: Yes, there were only dinosaurs at that time.

A: So there were dinosaurs… and then they died…. And then God made humans?

Me: Um….. Yes.

Decided to save the discussion of creationism vs evolution for another day J

During the show they also portrayed “the End” as a big asteroid hitting the Earth. Aidan said, “So an asteroid killed the dinosaurs?” I told him that it was one of the theories that people had about what happened to the dinosaurs.

A: Well, do you know what happened?

Me: No, nobody knows for sure what happened

A: Uh-huh, Jesus knows. He knows everything. He knows everybody’s names and when babies will be born.

Apparently watching Dinosaurs was a religious experience for Aidan. We had several more of these conversations throughout the show.