Pumpkin Time!

This is the best picture of all of them... I am still not sure how 3 boys 

end up going in so many different directions!

Mr. Muscles

Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil.

Happy Birthday DJ!

I think it was yesterday that I found out that we were expecting... 

Somehow he's 7 and I am wondering where the time has gone.  DJ had an "Imagination Movers" party... Disney has got his number for sure!

He is full of ideas for all sorts of new inventions and is convinced that he is the first one to make whatever it is.  I love watching the gears turn in his mind! 

So, we had the family over, the ones we were born into and the ones we have chosen, and made a day of it.

Let's see what's in this bag...

I am not sure why it is a good idea to give small children a large stick and tell them to whack at a box full of candy... 

Birthday bumps are a lost tradition in the Haley family... we have brought them back!

Can you see the gears turning?

Happy Birthday DJ!

Communication

Every Monday afternoon I gather with a bunch of women from our neighborhood for what we call "coffee & chocolate".  It is a time for us women to chat it up and let our kids connect with each other too. One afternoon I was hosting and had made a batch of brownies that DJ had been sampling earlier in the day. When it came time for the ladies to partake, DJ was bugging me constantly to have more brownies.  I told him that I didn't want to hear from him again and that he should go play with the kids. 

A little while later I was silently presented with an envelope containing this note... he didn't say anything, but the picture is worth a thousand words.  I especially like the smoke billowing from the ears!