Ammon's Pictures & Funny Story

Ammon LOVES to take pictures. At softball he get restless so I let him take the camera. His favorite spot to take pictures was next to the bike path. There he could find flowers, butterflies, dandelions and birds to photograph. He also has gotten a lot of pictures of the bikers, runners, and skateboarders passing by on the path!

I was showing him how to get the main point of his picture focused. He stared figuring it out real quickly and got some great pictures of the seeded dandelions. I have been really impressed with his eye for taking pictures.

Funny Story about these next 2 pictures. There is a path leading down into a woody area between the softball park and the Iowa river. Ammon has asked every game if we could go down there. Today I felt super nice so I said we could. (Even though it looked icky down there to me). He quickly went down the hill to look around. Right away we saw some trash and there were some very worn paths down there. We walked on a path until it got into some really tall grass, so we went back and went on the path towards the river. When we got around a big tree we saw a campfire area with a cooking pot on it. I told him it was probably the "home" of a homeless person. Right away he asked to go back up the hill and away from the "bums house." He didn't want to spend another minute down there and quickly went back up the hill towards the softball park.

Since that he's never asked to go back down the hill in the forest are again!

I have such a fun time going along with him as he takes pictures and shows them to me. I wouldn't be surprised if he grows up to become a photographer!

Rebecca and the worm

Seriously this post is about a worm and our sweet curly haired Rebecca.

But before I get to the cute story of Rebecca and the worm I have to talk about this sweet girl and her totally lovable, happy personality. Today we sent Simeon and Corrine off on playdates since they're totally and completely bored of staying home with a sick brother on spring break when the weather is gorgeous, so it was just Ammon, Rebecca and myself today. We needed to get out so after dropping Corrine at her friends house we went through the drive thru at Taco Bell for lunch and Wendy's for a much deserved chocolate frosty.
After a picnic outside, Ammon was wiped out and ready to rest, so he layed on my bed and watched a movie.
Rebecca had knocked over the crib mattress (that had taken up residence in our hallway this week for some random reason-I think it was Corrine's mattress for her sleepover in the boys room, when they, for the 3rd night, didn't make it in the tent out back.) in the hallway and went about giving me the sweetest and brightest smiles that I had to take some pictures of our cutie.





Her hair is still getting curlier by the day! Any chance of it turning straight are pretty much gone by now. Her bangs reach her chin when they are soaking wet, the back goes halfway down her back soaking wet, but dry they are light bouncy ringlets that so beautifully frame her sweet face.

In taking these pictures her feet look different sizes-way different sizes and I think one really is bigger then the other. Funny how it took taking these pictures for me to see this.





I love her face in this picture. She LOVES peanuts, really nuts of any kind. We crack them open and leave them on the counter for her. She was stuffing her mouth full of peanuts right before I snapped this picture.


Okay back to the Rebecca and the worm story-

Since the weather has warmed up and we've been leaving the back door open to the screen door and Rebecca has discovered that she can go out back by herself whenever she wants. As long as the side gate is closed, she is contained and in heaven!
Today she was out playing in the sand box when she came to me with an urgent plea that there was a bug in the sandbox and I had to come see it! I went to check it out and I couldn't' find any bug. She kept telling me where it was, but it wasn't there anymore.
Then she spotted it moving. The bug she was so scared about was a small worm covered in sand. We took it inside and washed it off, then went back outside with it. We had it in a shovel on the picnic table. I asked Rebecca if she wanted to hold and she told me "NO!"

I took a video of her and the worm. The worm is crawling out of the shovel and Rebecca says "it's flying out".
Then when I ask her if she likes worms and if she wants to hold it, she gets scared and pulls back. She says that "Corrine, and Simeon, and Ammon and mom and dad like worms." When I ask if Rebecca does, she again tells me "NO!"

I'm pretty sure she liked and held them last year. Corrine and Ammon LOVE worms!! They ask me to give them to them whenever I come across one!
Oh well, maybe by midsummer she'll be back to holding them and asking me to give them to her when I find one in the yard.

MY NEW TOY

OK so what toy could I get that I would be so excited about-a Nikon D5000 SLR camera!!! That's what kind of toy.

I've been looking at these for years, and recently really stepped up looking so we could get one and learn how to use it before our trip this summer to Idaho for a family reunion and then Yellowstone. I was looking at the D3000, but Johann surprised me and got the D5000, which also takes HD videos-sweet!

So here are some of my 1st pictures. I've had it about 2 busy weeks and haven't had alot of time to figure it out, but I'm working on it.










Rebecca has become my subject alot of the time because she is so willing and always at my side. The day I took the pictures of Ammon & Corrine jumping off the couch, they were so excited that mom was letting them jump off the couch.