Jack's 4!

Blogspot has updated and improved and now I can upload more than 4 pictures at a time! Hang onto your swivel chair, folks. Here's a bunch of pictures from our week!

Here Patrick is savoring his orange snowcone between rides down the slide.

                                     

Sneaky sneak!

 "It's a tewascope!"

And here's our traditional "Lick the birthday cake batter" pictures:

Jack is VERY excited about being 4. Or maybe it's just the cake.

 Jack got his antlers he requested. 

 And a bike from Grandpa and Grandma Bakken!

I mentioned in my last post that Isaiah loves to pick my green tomatoes. Here's proof. Earlier this morning Patrick ran inside and tattled "Zayuh's in the matos." Sure enough.... this boy did not clean up the scene of the crime too well.

I found these tomatoes tossed through the fence into our neighbor's yard (how thoughtful.) And about 15 cherry tomatoes squashed into the dirt.

                                    

      

      

Thankfully we enjoyed this beefsteak before Isaiah got to it (though he did manage to poke it several times with a stick before it was rescued.)

Still alive... and quite well!

 He knows he's cute. But don't let that bashful grin fool you - he's a Trouble Maker (aka Toilet Splasher, green Tomato Picker, Mess Maker.) But he's forgiven due to his absurdly cute and squishable arm rolls.

 Here is our newest Potty User of the Bakken household. In place of his diaper he has donned his "Superman Cake." He is very good at somersaults and sitting still for 5 seconds at a time.

 We explored our local forest on Moscow Mountain last week. The boys, big and small, enjoyed climbing all the fallen trees. As the boys get bigger I'm sure we'll be doing more activities of this sort.

 And here's some flora a bit closer to home - just feet off my back porch. I measured one of my plants - it's taller than my tape measurer could handle so I estimate it between 7 and 8 feet tall. More importantly, it has yielded hundreds of sweet tomatoes that I just can't keep Jack from. While I'm looking forward to cooler weather I hope fall doesn't come too soon as I still have many tomatoes working on their color.

Doesn't this boy look older and wiser? He will be 4 next week! He has requested salad and chocolate cake. No doubt there will be his favorite cherry tomatoes in that salad. He has also requested antlers, a megaphone (hah yeah right), and various other boy things that I just can't recall (and unfortunately means he will likely not receive.) He started (home)preschool this week and loves sitting down every morning to read, sing, color and cut paper.