And then there were 6

Okay, we were going to start this in the summer time but now seems as good a time as any.  This seems like a time we might want to look back on to know what we were thinking.

All of us in the Nield Family (kids and parents) are going to start posting to this blog.  The kids love going back to look through all the photos and videos on here; it makes me wish I would have kept up with it.

I love being a mom right now.  My kids are awesome, I love who they are becoming and I want to remember the journey.  This is one way we hope to capture who they are, and we are, and remember these times.

Singin' in the rain

Oh happy day

Life is good:)

Veggies

Xela loves her vegetables.  First she stole the avocado, then she came and took my carrot too. She loves tomatoes, cucumbers, and bell peppers too. 

Spelling lessons

Yesterday I overheard this conversation.  

chio: "d" "a" "m"

alex: no, that's what holds back water.  It's "d" "a" "m" "b" . The b is silent.

...

they go along in this vein for awhile. 

(I'm not surprised I wasn't asked into this conversation, they looked very worried when I walked in)

Me: what are you guys talking about?

chio and alex in unison:  nothing 

Me: You spell that word "d" "a" "m" "n"

(they are both very skeptical because I'm the worst speller ever and they have already stopped asking  me how to spell words; alex especially took a while to convince.  Then we had a whole talk about bad words.  Over all it was quite funny)

Ryan and the fire department

Alex And I took the two little ones to Bonham fire department today. Ryan looked like these two pictures for the entire time, all frowny and serious. Then when we got in the car to come home he was excited in talking about how he had driven the firetruck. It was very funny, we thought he was traumatized but I guess not.  

Sharing an orange with Xela

This morning Ryan and I were sitting on the couch eating an orange and watching a show. Xela was crawling around on the floor and watching us. I gave her a little piece of orange and she liked it a lot. She started crawling over and trying to get up to us on the couch, because she's not very mobile I was just letting her try to pull up to the couch.  In preparation for her actually getting up, I told Ryan that he should share a piece of orange with Xela because she really liked it.  He looked down at her on the floor and thought about it for a second and then pushed all the peelings down to her.  How Sweet he is, and very generous.