Shiner

This happened last night...we'll see what kind of shiner it turns into! Not the best picture, but he doesn't stop moving long enough to get a good one! He was running in his room, tripped and fell and hit the frame of Matthew's bed (which has now been removed from the room!)

While Left Unattended

After our housekeeper being sick for two weeks (me....), I am starting to dig out from under the mess. I was downstairs cleaning up and the boys disappeared for a bit, and were quiet. This is what I found. They were going swimming and fishing.

Guess I'm heading to do their room  next....

Quotes to Remember

Some funny things heard around our house.....
1. Matthew: "Daddy, are all 21 pieces there?"
David, while still counting: "I don't know yet"
Matthew: "You're a math teacher! You should know that!"

2. The other morning while I was on Matthew case to get his shoes on and stop doing what he was doing.
Matthew: "Whatever you say, Mom" (with a tone like he was rolling his eyes, which I'm sure he would have been doing if he knew how.)

3. I put this one on facebook, so if you're on facebook, you already saw it.
After having a conversation about his less than awesome behavior:
Matthew: Well, my head is telling me to be good, but my body is telling me to be bad.
Me: Maybe you should listen to your head instead of your body.
Matthew: But my body is bigger and my head is smaller, so my body is winning

4. Matthew: Where is the tape?
Me: It's on the counter.
Matthew: Which counter? The messy one or the not so messy one?
(I was able to tell him "the messy one" and he found it :)

5. Jacob, after peeing in the potty and having bubbles form as he does it: "Oooo! Pop in the potty!"

Meeting Drew

Here is the most recent Koesters/Rudolph kid clan picture (and some others in whaterver order they upload). We used to call them "TiSamMarPhew" for Titus, Sam, Mara and Matthew (Andy's nickname for Matthew is "the phew" - not sure if it is "few" or "phew" Any opinions?) Now what do we call them?

Do not leave this one unattended with a little one...it would be a for sure disaster.

 Beautiful.

 Buddies.

 Does this just not make you smile? So adorable!

 The clan. Everyone is looking. Impressive.

 This one wants a baby. Now he just has to get mom and dad on board.



We enjoyed our short but wonderful trip to visit our good friends. Now we're just praying that Lord brings them back closer after seminary!

This morning

This just summarizes the morning.

But a bin of old happy meal toys provided relief to all. Thank you, God, for providing sanity in simple ways.