During a trip to the playground one day the boys (Samuel, Josiah and Cameron) decided that they were going to have a secret password that had to be said to enter their little fort under this big turtle at the park. Since that day, Samuel has been going around chanting 'cheese and apples, cheese and apples'. It's the cutest thing. An hour after he was put down to bed one night we heard him in there quietly whispering 'cheese and apples.' I have caught myself numerous times as well chanting the little jingle.
I told you two weeks ago I promised I would do better with pictures. So here goes :)
Tractor stickers from Nana and Poppy for Valentine's day!
Chocolate chips and trucks from Gigi and GranRan!
A new backpack for Bushu from Nana and Poppy too. It's a penguin. Too cute. He wears it around and says he's going to Christian Aid for work. (Andy rides his bike to work and wears a backpack).
On a hike one day we came upon the area where UVa puts all of the leaves it collects from grounds. This mount was enormous. It's hard to tell by the pictures, but it was huge. They played on this pile of leaves forever.
Joseph of course had to get in on the action!
Joseph working on his standing up skills.
The book worms reading their books after we got back from the library.
They all have crocs. Sam thought that was the coolest thing ever.
Playing Animalopoly
Our tree monkeys
There was an enormous hill on our hike and the boys were having a blast running up and running down the hill. Sam was not as brave as they were so he stayed closer to the bottom. Then instead of running down he decided to slide down on his tummy. They were so kind to jump in and join him.
He absolutely loved his time with the Finley boys and simply cannot wait until they come back for a sleep over. Thanks Bill and Cindy for the opportunity to spend time with your kids and for raising such Godly boys. What awesome examples those boys are for our sons to want to become. Such incredible kids.And for our thankful Thursday tradition we are thankful for awesome friends, a fabulous church family, extremely loving grandparents, and a Lord that meets ALL of our needs! We are so blessed.
3 comments:
The boys and I just checked out your post. They feel so honored to have made your blog! They did inform me that "cheese and apples" originally began as "I'm an apple. You're an apple. He's an apple. She's an apple!" Which quickly morped to "Cheese and apples!" :) Very cute! Thanks again, Amy!
Haha, that's too cute. I didn't even hear that part of the story.
So glad your time with the boys went well. It's so nice to have great friends and mentors for our children (and us as parents, too)!
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