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Yearly Archives: 2012
The music was thumpin, the kitchen was jumpin, the boys were bakin and bodies were shakin 🙂 That’s just how we do it in the McKeeman house! Oh and these peanut butter cookies from Smitten Kitchen are da bomb!!! There are no others in my opinion! U gotsa try em 12-19-11 . 24-70 . Jimmy Eat World “Last Christmas”
any questions? 12-17-12 . 85mm I think
Aaron started his career in life demolishing things, throwing, banging, ripping, etc…  Well meaning destruction was his favorite pastime. Then there was an age around four years old if I remember right where he switched gears from disassembly to assembly. First he began digging holes which was a transitional activity for him I. Then it was on to Legos, Legos, Legos! This soon became an outright obsession with our family full of boys and our home is now over run with the tiny building blocks. Legos turn up everywhere now, the laundry, the bathroom sink, the garden, the kitchen pantry, and ALL. OVER. their bedroom floor. I’m not complaining though. The much messier alternative  being his other building supplies which consist of pretty much whatever he can get his hands on… rubber bands, scraps of cloth, trash, cardboard, bits of wood and LOTS and LOTS of TAPE! So if asked what his least favorite activity is … Aaron would probably reply being in stores with reading as a close second. He is making pregress though and just today begged to keep doing his reading program! Miracles DO happen! Give that little man a Lego instruction manuel and he could probably build the Empire State building. For Christmas we got him this remote control motorized tractor with a recommended age fours years beyond him. He disappeared upstairs with it before all the gifts were even opened and emerged a couple days later with a complete and working vehicle – and a VERY  big smile on his face! So anyway what you see above is just a hardcore building session begun in the afternoon after church and stretching till past their bed time. We started with blocks, took a break for a fish dinner with our advent candles and then wrapped things up with a gingerbread train. An epic gingerbread train I must say. A few things I love about this moment in time : The baby wanting to hug the towers and not comprehending why they wouldn’t hug him back. The fact that I just noticed that the shirt the baby man wore for block tower demolition says “BOOM.” His smunchy little toes, toes, toes. How much their Daddy loves building with them. Complete engrossment of the baby man in his quite fabulous, all natural oyster cracker from our favorite fish market. Sticky feet on the table. The candy you don’t see piled on the train because it found its way into little boy mouths. The perfection that is that train. My builder man Aaron and his builderman apprentice David. (I do need to add that David is really following in his Lego maniac father and brother’s footsteps and really starting to hold his own in the building department. He does is with a bit of artistic flair that is all his own though. And he really digs mini figures, the more stylish the better!) 12-11-12 . 24-70 .
So this is part deux of the post where Santa flies in on a helicopter. After he landed we waited for the squadron to go through the line to see him. The kids played on the helicopter their Daddy flies while they waited and then we went in to see him as the crowd was thinning. It was quite a surprise that this Santa didn’t just want to hear what you would like on Christmas day. No this Santa had exactly what you wanted in the back of his helo! The boys made out pretty good. Aaron got this awesome kit for building all kinds of different things with electrical circuits. David got an awesome Lego set with a help that lands on a truck and Baby man got a box of 300 blocks! Awesome indeed. When Aaron came home he wanted a pic with his “piston cup trophy” and then sat straight down to build a working radio. It blew his mind when he got a Spanish station singing Feliz Navidad to come crackling in. David ran upstairs and promptly assembled his Lego set. Baby man, well you can see what he did . . . He had pretty well had it after the big day but once I broke out the blocks he was feelin it again. He was super excited to drag the box around and then set to work wreaking havoc with lots of little pieces of wood. All in all a pretty rad day. A side note – By the looks on the Elves faces I think they lost a bet to win their elfin job. 12-10-11 . 24-70
Today has been one of those days, one of those weeks rather. I have had a difficult time dragging myself back off of Christmas vacation. Not that it was much of a vacation. I went from the everyday of cooking and cleaning for my family to doing a whole lot more cooking and cleaning for a whole lot more family. It was a good Christmas but after working SO hard to achieve our little family, it definitely was not a time of rest and rejuvenation. And as always the world spins on so just as we were getting used to lazy mornings we are already back to school! (and um, some one has a bad attitude) Yep it’s the teacher and that’s not a good thing. So this post is looking back at one of those days a few weeks ago where everything flows effortless and all is joy. Our days are endless cycles of learn or accomplish something – refuel – clean up the mess – and back to trying to be productive until the next pit stop. This day Jeremiah found a big boy water bottle which he covered the living room with and also had a great time covering the kitchen with yogurt. The boys assembled and colored a cardboard rocket ship and then watched part of Apollo 13 from inside of it to tie in with our physics lesson. Then to top of the fun and festivities Aaron made Dad a homemade basketball goal for Christmas and wrapped it most spectacularly! Does it get any better than that? Sooooo I am going to try to get myself motivated and thank God for the LONG days filled with so many little treasures. 12-6-11 . 85mm? |
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