Learnin' The Game

The other day there was a football game on TV. It wasn't an important game cuz it was just Winnepeg and Edmonton playing. Mesele wanted to learn a little bit about this game, so he sat close to Daddy and daddy tried to teach him some basic concepts of the game.After a few minutes of "teaching" the TV screen had MANY fingerprints all over it, but Mesele was slowly catching onto the game. He would get so excited when he could find the ball all by himself!
We can only hope that one day he will be as big a football fan as Mommy and Daddy are!
WE GOT RIDER PRIDE!

Riding Our "New" Bikes

I'm sure that everyone knows just how much Mesele and Abinet LOVE to ride their bikes. Well, for Mesele's birthday, we got him a knew bike. He was so excited!! The problem is that the tire doesn't hold any air. Brent has tried to fix it, but it's still broken. We already put the training wheels on Mesele's old bike, and there is NO WAY Abinet is going to let Mesele have that bike back. Oh dear......Daddy felt bad for Mesele yesterday and decided to give him a ride on his bike. Mesele just hung on for dear life and laughed like crazy! Thanks to Daddy, Mesele now thinks that he can ride that big bike all by himself!
Abinet just minds his own business and cruises around on his "new" bike. I think he's feeling quite grown up, now that he no longer has to ride a tricycle.

He even decided to show off a little bit for the picture and stand on the peddles! He really is growing up. What happened to my little baby?!?

Camera Shy? NO WAY!

For a while I started to think that I was taking too many pictures of the boys. So, I put my camera away and thought I would only pull it out for something really special. Well, one afternoon, the boys were out riding their bikes and Mesele came running in saying we needed to come to the garage and take a photo. There was nothing exciting, just 2 little boys sitting on chairs thinking they were too cute to resist. (It was too cute!)Another afternoon, Abinet was riding his "donkey", Mesele, and they wanted me to get my camera. They were disappointed when I didn't bring the video camera. I guess they wanted to watch themselves on TV afterwards. I took a few photos and then, to their delight, I got the video camera. What a bunch of actors! (Must get it from their daddy!!)

Mesele's 4th Birthday Party!

We had a wonderful day for Mesele's birthday party. We stayed outside and all the kids had fun taking swings at a Pinata, and jumping in our "Jump n' Slide." I think there were about 17 kids here in all, and when the adults came, there were about 40-45 people. I know.....what was I thinking?!?!? I hope everyone had a good time. I know Mesele REALLY enjoyed it and he and Abinet are having a blast playing with all there new toys. Thanks for coming everyone, you helped to make this a very special day!

I Finished the Cake!

After a long, tiring day I put the boys to bed and looked in my kitchen. Now the work was really going to begin. I had to decorate a cake for Mesele's birthday and I was a little bit nervous about doing it. I started decorating at 8:30 in the evening, and at 11:00 I was finally done!! I am fairly impressed with how the cake turned out. In fact....the cake looks MUCH better than I do! After taking a few pictures of the cake, I stuck it in the freezer, left my kitchen in a disasterous state, and went to bed! I needed lots of sleep in order to be ready for the party the next morning.

I will post some pictures of the party tomorrow. Stay tuned for more.......

Mesele's First Day of Preschool

Yesterday morning was Mesele's first day of Preschool. He was so excited! When he woke up, he thought he should be going to school right away. He didn't like it when I told him that he was going to have to wait a couple hours before we could leave!! He loaded up his back pack with shoes, snack and his stuffed animal. Then.....it was time to go.

We rode our bikes over to the school and Mesele met his teacher, Mrs. Wassenaar. He had no problem walking in and seeing the other kids. I think I was closer to tears then he was! The two hours that Mesele was gone were a little difficult for Abinet. He's never really been apart from his brother, so this was a new test! Mesele is anxious for another day at school and I'm sure that he will be lovin' school all year!

Learning to Write My Name

Daddy thought that it would be a good idea, if Mesele tried learning how to write his own name. He only starts pre-school tomorrow, but Daddy was very determined that this would be a very good thing. At first Mesele was a little bit frustrated that he couldn't make his letters just like Daddy, but with a little coaxing, he continued to try!

The end result isn't that bad! It's too bad there are so many "e's" is his name because that was the harderst letter for him to do. I think he was hoping that they would be a few more "l's" cuz that was one that he liked to write! What can I say....My boy can write his name and he's only 3!! (for two more days...)