Dad's FHE Talent

For Family Home Evening, it was Ezra's turn to share a talent. His talent was that he can carry all 5 kids all at once. I didn't get the camera in time to catch it. Here Annabelle and Jonah are falling off his back.

Ezra is in the ICU (intensive care unit) this month. He does a 24 hour shift every 4 days. That 24 hour shift is hard on the body!

Lizz and David asked us to record our kids singing "Call Me Maybe" so they can put it with their kids and others to make a music video for Emmeline's birthday. So we turned the CD on and sang while washing the car and van. The kids liked that.

Check out some video's on facebook! Go to Heidi Slaugh Hallam's page, look for Aug 18, 2012 for the "Call Me Maybe", Sept 6 for "Little Piggies", Sept 16 for dancing girls in costume.

August 10, 2012: We've had a few ants here and there this past week trying to get to the cat food. This morning we discovered a full colony line of ants going in and out. So I researched some ways to get rid of ants. I got the kids involved to help clean the area, then mix vinegar and water to wash the area 3 times a day. We also made a mixture of borax and jelly, and placed it near their ant home but in the opposite direction to intice the ants that way. If they take it, it should kill them. 

Anyway, going through all this this morning, Jonah kept saying, "No, don't put so much there! We don't want to kill ALL of the ants! I LIKE that ant colony!"
Apparently he's been developing a friendship with the ants, you know, leaving bits of chips and cookies and watching them eat... teasing them by blocking their path or putting things down the ant hole... Poor kid pretty much ran off crying at our lack of sympathy and our injustice.

Susan's comment: Oh poor Jonah always had such a tender heart. Remember the time when he was three and I called tell him how I watched a fox catch a rabbit. ( thinking he would find it so fascinating) and he started to cry and said " well that wasn't very nice! Did you make the fox spit it out? Did you take the rabbit back to it's mother?"

Sunday, Aug 12, 2012: The kids played for a very long time. They pretended they were caught in a hurricane and took out foil packs of cheerios and coconut cups with water to make the experience realistic. It was raining lightly at that point. They also pretended they were all birds; sparrows. The mom and dad sparrow (Annabelle and Jonah) taught the 3 baby birds how to fly. We had read a book yesterday on how birds fly. They face the wind, get a running start, flap hard, etc. I love watching the kids play so creatively together.