Sam

Why is it whenever I run and get the camera she stops talking?

Catching Water

Sam taking hold of the water.

The Best Friend gets a face lift

Gabriels favored best friend got a hole where his nose should be. Enough thumb rubbing and it will soon resemble the previous best friend.

One day a heart broken Gabriel came to me asking me to fix his best friends nose. I asked him if he wanted a rudolph nose which he replied yes. And so I give you..

Rudolph the red nosed best friend:

A Boy and His Small Victory

An idea begins to form.....

He must think on it a bit more..........

Making some observations............

Hmmm....can he do it? Should he?








He goes for it!

Ahhhh victory!

A Girl Stands and Out For A Walk

This morning before the weather turned all Wizard of Oz on us we ventured out for a walk in the neighborhood. The boys found 'magic wands' and decided to wave them around. Gabriel then decided that he wanted to be the leader and so he led us around for a bit his wand now a leaders staff.

Samantha is standing! Well okay, she stands up against things, like windows and couches and chairs. Soon enough though she will be walking. The gates are up and we are ready. Have four kids and preparedness is second nature.

Look! She has front teeth. She looks a lot like Spencer here.

Ice Skating we will go...

The family decided to go ice skating. HA! That was a crazy hour. Seriously, if you plan on taking 4 kids to an ice rink, be prepared! I stayed off of the ice due to Samantha not being able to skate. Really, she can't skate. :)

The boys were anxious to get on the ice, but we forgot to bring hats, gloves and knee pads. Some people had their kids in helmets. At one point Spencer crawled off the rink in tears because his hands were so cold. I guess if you spend more time crawling on your bare hands than on the provided skates your hands will get bitterly cold. I gave him a pair of socks to put on his hands.

Elijah finally scored a walker to help him along, but Michael sure had his hands full out there. Let's just say next time we will be more prepared.

Elijah heading out onto the ice

Gabriel taking a break

Michael with Gabe and Spencer

Spencer doing his best to say afoot

Elijah doing a great job on the ice

Ice rink now, winter olympics next!

The Christmas blog with pics

Oh the joy of Christmas. It has passed on and with much happiness and fun times. The artificial tree is packed away with all of the ornaments safely stowed in plastic bins. The presents have long been opened and discarded for the boxes they came in.

It is now a new year. I don't know what 2009 will bring, but I hope that it goes smoothly and without too many broken plastic bins. Here are some of the highlights of the season:

Samantha and the traditional slinky

Sam and her new toy


Samantha plays with her doll

How cute is she?

Dinosaurs!!

A Wii!

Star Wars comes to the Hauswirth house

A kid and his new scooter.

The two Santas




Samantha claps

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!