Johnston's Journey's: February 2009

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Micaias

Micaias thinks that he is big and can do anything his brothers can! Here are some shots of him doing fun things!

He discovered that he can drink things from his bowl! And even better can do it without making a mess!!

Being a hero (with a binky)

Just straight hero! (binky underneath)

This is near our house, he loves to ride them!

"OK mom whatever you say!"

My little Caesar. These are foam leaves we cut out for fall decor., they work like balloons you rub them and they stick! So funny!

"What there's something on my head?"

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Boys will be boys!!

This is one of the boys good friends and when they get together they usually end up playing something to do with getting the bad guys or just acting like super hero's!

Yup there a mean bunch!!

Dangerous guys on the loose!

Check out these muscles!!

Micaias wants to show off his muscles too!! (yup Robs having fun with the boys too)

Well Isaias turned 3 December 17th! Its crazy to think that he is already 3!! He decided that he wanted to have a lion king birthday this year. A friend of mine here found me food coloring for the cake and my mom and sister send out all the decorations.

The "Lion King" cake.

"Happy Birthday!"

All the friends! We had so much fun having all our friends over and making pizza, eating cake and ice cream and doing crafts! Elias is wearing one of the animal masks that we made.

Elias wanted to get Isaias a sweat shirt for his birthday, so this is the one he choose.

Animals one of his favorite things.....

Race cars.....

And Dinosaurs! He had a wonderful birthday!

This was one of the easiest birthday for me to prepare for as my mom sent out most of the birthday supplies from the states and as we did different things during the day my bao mu and a friend of our bao mu cleaned everything up behind me. We had about 30 people at our house and by the time I said goodbye to the last guest and turned around the house was clean and the dishes done and the wrapping paper put away! It was amazing and I was very grateful for the extra help! These ladies have truly been a blessing to our lives and they prove it every day!

Christmas

So it is Christmas!! Here's an over view of what we did for Christmas with exception of a few things that would have made it over 50 pictures plus!!

Let the decorating begin!

"Hey mom there's a bell in here"

The finished product at night

And during the day, the fan looking thing on the floor is really a space heater.

Rob being a sport for our music teachers Christmas party for the students.

Elias with a can of silly string....

Never underestimate the power of 30 kids with bottles of silly string!! It was a mess!
Here they are playing a game similar to musical chairs but with someone playing a drum as music, if you lose (don't get a chair) you get silly stringed till your white, just about!

Rob playing the drum for the game and Micaias trying to help out with his job.

Isaias concentrating on Christmas cookies

Micaias helping his big brother. Elias rolled it flat, Micaias put the chocolate in and Elias rolled it into a ball. These were cookies for friends of ours.

Cookies the boys made at school.

The boys showing a Chinese friend how to make Christmas cookies. It was his first time making them and the three of them made a mess as you can see! They had a good time doing it though.

Frosting painting the finished product!

Following in the age old tradition of our parents. The "stay up late wrapping presents while we watch a Christmas movie" (This is Rob being a good sport about it!)

This is really how he felt about wrapping at 10:30 at night instead of being in bed especially since he had been at school all day because he didn't have Christmas off.

Christmas Morning 7:30 am. The boys brought there stockings into our room. (notice Micaias with his morning cup of juice. Its like coffee the day doesn't start well without it!)