Braxton's first prayer in Primary

Last week after church, Braxton had a paper bracelet around his wrist. I thought that it was just something that he had made in Primary. A few hours after church was over I decided that it was probably itchy and that he'd want to take it off. After I got it off, I started to read it and found out that Braxton had been chosen to say the opening prayer in Primary for the this week.

I guess I am a corny Mom and like to try and get his first "everything" recorded somehow. So, I of course, I kept the slip of paper and we also were able to record his prayer with our camera. (I love technology)

Hmmm... I was trying to upload his prayer, and it won't work because it is a "wav" document. So, I guess I'll be sending out a mass email to everyone.

Here is a pic of Braxton holding the slip of paper right before Primary started.

Hope that you had a relaxing Sabbath Day. Let the countdown begin: 7 more days until we have to return to Nursery. (uggggh!)

Mother's Day 2007

Can you believe it ... this is my 5th Mother's day. (counting of course when I was prego, too) Time just flies by when you are raising kids. Especially Braxton. He is learning so many things so quickly. Now he is really into outerspace. We went over to a friends and learned about the planets and now he has them memorized - in order. I guess pluto isn't technically a planet anymore, they say it is too small and now they just consider it a star. So, he only knows Mercury through Neptune. Still, pretty impressive, I think.

He is still reading many things. The other day I had a can of evaporated milk on the cupboard and he walked up to Jeff and said, "is this milk, dad?" Then today while driving we stopped to get gas and they had one of those huge ice bins outside and he said, "look, Mom, there's ice." I'm really thinking he might have a photographic memory.

Anyway, I had a great day and I hope everyone else did, too.

Taking a few pictures right before church:

Atari anyone?

I've been meaning to get this posted on here for a while. Jeff and I ran onto a hilarious website. I didn't quite understand when he was trying to explain it to me - but as soon as I saw it, I laughed and laughed. Talk about having a lot of time on your hands. Sheesh. Anyway, the best ones to watch are Space Invaders and Pole Position. Have fun watching! (be sure to have your sound on :)

Let's draw

I remember the days when I would go to somebody's house and see their kids drawings on the fridge or wall and think ... do they really think that is adorable? I now know the answer. I have been working with Braxton on writing letters, numbers, shapes ... etc. Well, the other day I walked in and saw that Brax had written this on the dry erase board. You may think ... what does expo mean? Well, expo is the brand of marker and eraser that he is writing with. He figured out on his own and put the letters in the right order. I think that is pretty awesome!

A week or two ago when we were working on shapes he decided he wanted to draw the shapes. I told him to try and draw our family. When I walked back in he had done this (I of course did that writing):

He then said that he wanted to draw Grandma and Grandpa Fisher:

and Grandma and Grandpa Gregson:

Well this morning when he woke up, Jeff and I were still trying to wake ourselves up so we told him to go draw. When we got up a few minutes later, he had drawn these "space men" (I actually thought they were little bugs). They were adorable and he did it all by himself!:

Pretty darn cute, hu? So, I guess my question has been answered by myself. Parents actually do think that it is cute enough to share.

We love our zoo!

So, Jeff has this week off before summer school starts up. We decided that we needed to go do some things as a family. We told Braxton last night that we were going to go to the zoo tomorrow. This morning when he woke up he said he was so excited because he get's to go to the zoo tomorrow. I tried to explain that tomorrow was now today. Either way, he was excited. So, as we are getting ready to go, I hear, "Help, I'm stuck! I'm stuck!" I went to go help and this is what I saw:



Today is a Monday and we Lucas County residents know what that means. Free zoo day between 10:00 am and noon. It really is pretty cool. The Toledo Zoo is one of the top 10 in the nation so it is pretty nice to be able to get in free. Good thing, too. I'm not big on zoo's so if it wasn't for the free thing, we wouldn't go.

Daddy and Brax lookin' at the Rhinos:

The white lions were all napping and I couldn't get a good picture of them. But as we were walking out of the exhibit, I saw this display. I guess Siegfried and Roy came to the zoo and brought four white lions. The Toledo and Cincinnati zoo's are the only zoo's in the nation to display these. It is said that in the wild, there might be a chance of the white lion never being around again:

Other than the Rhino, this is the only other animal I could get a good picture of. I don't know what it is, all of the animals seem to take naps while I am there. They must feel the same way I do ... "boring!":

Stopping to take a picture by a cement elephant:

On our way back to the car we stopped by the park:
"Wheeeeeeee!"