Lots of Smiles

Such happy boys!

Funny Kids...

Last week we read the Bible story about Peter being in jail, and an angel helped him get out. A few days later, he and Darren were playing in their room. Evan left, and closed the door, leaving Darren in the room. When Darren complained, Evan said, "Don't worry, Darren. An angel will come and help you out!"

Darren's new phrase: "I'm so exciting!" He'll say, "Yay! Go to Grandma's house. I'm so exciting!"

Liam is just pretty cute...learning how to play peek-a-boo, and trying it on his own, covering his face with a blanket or toy. He also got his first tooth today! Growing so quickly!

Lots of Animals!

Job, David, Darren, Liam and Evan all went Trick-Or-Treating together...we had a great time. Eric was dressed as a Dog Catcher!

Blue Man Group

Eric got us tickets to the Blue Man Group for our 8th anniversary. The show was on Thursday, and it was really neat. I took some very short video clips, but if you want to get the full effect, go to You Tube. This first one they are wearing this pipe-percussion contraption, and to the left, the guy is drumming on an open grand piano. Pretty cool!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN-MUx6dg6w

This video was in complete darkness, and they were wearing light suits. They had poles that they whipped up and down to create the rhythm. Again, check out YouTube for a better video.

Light suits http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fbbMksLnVw

This next one is the water drums - they did this a number of times throughout the show - really impressive, especially with the lighting!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAZPHEOZqS4 water drum

While we were waiting for the show to begin, a message started to flash across the screens. It just said little things like, "Hey....if you are reading this, then yell..." and people were surprised when half the audience yelled at the same time! Then it said "Let's play a trick on people who are not here right now...everytime during the show when you see a question mark on the screen... hold up your cell phone like during a rock ballad...people will think it is a strange cultural thing that they have never heard of..." There was lots of fun stuff like that. It made the waiting more bearable.

The opening act was a guy named David Garabaldi. He did art to rock music. While it was playing, he was swishing paint onto a giant canvas, and it didn't look like anything. All of a sudden, we realized it was a picture of John Lennon, Michael Jackson, or someone else. This one was kind of neat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEaj57UT_2Q. It's about 6 minutes long so skip through some of it if you want.

All in all, a great evening!

Visiting with Baby Ayden (and Tante Brenda)

We had a great visit to Tante Brenda & Uncle Michael's place last week. The boys enjoyed getting to know their little cousin, and Ayden just got right into the action with the older boys!

Pictures

Happy boys!

We had a great visit at Oma and Opa's place last weekend. The boys loved the tractors, trampoline, the computer....and of course their grandparents!

Great Oma DeJong

We had the chance to stop in to visit Eric's grandmother on Friday. The boys enjoyed meeting her, and especially enjoyed the gummy worm candies she had!

"Please"

Liam has learned how to sign please. We were quite impressed that he learned this at (not quite) eight months! He did this several times before I recorded it, and several times the next day too. The other boys were very encouraging and love showing him how to do it!