The Pookerpatch

Thursday, November 29

Roll over

No not a command to the dog...

Nate rolled over last night for the first, second and third time and has been showing off for the boys today. I think he loves his cheering section, the boys are great at oohing and ahhing! and Zack was excited to flip him back over so he could do it again! :-)

Wednesday, November 7

spouse taxi

Tim got to taxi me and go down the runway at full speed but was not allowed to take off! It was alot of fun and we had a good time. I got to feel how uncomfortable it is to have all those straps/cords/connectors etc. strapped onto your body-especially the oxygen mask. A funny that happened is that Tim gave me his gloves after I was all strapped in I decided to fianally put them on. As I did, my camera fell. Mind you, I'm strapped in,he is strapped in, the prop is turning, the canopy is down and we were ready to go. So, I let Tim know I dropped the camera. He tells me how I can unstrap the opposite side harness to lean over to get it... I couldn't reach it. Then I took the other latch off so my upper body is able to lean over..still I cannot reach it. I tried and tried, so He had to shut down, open the canopy and ask the crew chief- a large guy- to see if he could get it. He leaned over and tried to fish it out. He finally got it..after being mortified.. we were able to do our taxi and I was able to get some pictures.(There is a pict of our crew chief and one to show you how tight the cockpit is-not much room for "fishing" if you drop something.)

We had to go through seat training(in case of fire and we had to be use the ejection seat). Another reason that it takes so long to get strapped into the seat, is your sitting on a huge rocket. And need to make sure everything is secure.

Wednesday, October 31

Harvest party costumes

The boys went as Noah and the Ark. Nate was a dinosaur that was left behind!

Nate shows off his newly aquired skill of holding onto things!

Here are the costumes...

The boys picked out their paper and we "altered" some Oatmeal containers for their candy containers. We decorated them with our Noah and the Ark theme.

I guess homemade costumes have some glitches...Noah's beard turned out to be chest hair! Sorry Zack!

Sammy had to find a princess to hold hands with! He just loves Carolyn.

Here are the boys together, it's time to go home! but maybe one more stop...

We went to see Logan. He was a cowboy and was disgusted because everyone called him a sheriff!

The boys had fun! Sammy was eating lollipops the whole time we were there. It was a nice tome spending the evening with our friends at church and letting the kids enjoy themselves.

Saturday, October 27

updates from Nate

Nate is doing Great! He is about 15 lbs!!!! (and killing my back!) Just about 4 months and is so interactive. He goes to sleep at night without much intervention- put a pacifier and a white noise on and he's out! He's been sleeping really well in his car seat- so that's where I put him to bed- He just loves his brothers and is able to hold his head up pretty well. He's reaching for objects and has been batting at the toys he likes. Here are some pictures that have been taken over the last couple of days.

Sunday, October 21

Family Pictures

These were taken after Nate's Baptism on Sunday.

Saturday, October 20

Harvest party

We had a fun time rolling in the hay/grass, making caramel candied apples, going on a scavenger hunt, a bonfire, of course roasting marshmallows and making s'mores and eating chili and pigs in a blanket! The adults had a good time too!
Zack and Sammy had been counting the days down to their party and enjoyed their friends coming to enjoy a perfect fall evening!