A day in the life

Their father's sons.
The other night the boys were getting in trouble for causing a ruckus, after bedtime. River had gotten up on the top bunk with Ezra, and the end result was River "accidentally" kicking Ezra in the nose. So back to the punishment. They were both standing in front of us and Joe was giving them the lecture about doing what they are supposed to and he is sick of telling them over and over again, when River cracks a smile. Joe tries to bust him and tells him that it's not funny. But guess what? It was funny and all of us ended up cracking up.
We have been talking to Ezra about his behavior in Church. Specifically in primary. He is not very reverent. He makes funny comments to make everyone laugh. I know because, I teach the class just younger than his. He does stuff that isn't appropriate church behavior to make the girls sitting by him laugh.
It's hard for Joe to get mad at the boys when he was exactly the same way growing up.

Joe turned another year older. We had a little party. We were low on frosting so all he got was "HBD" -Happy Birthday, Dad. He didn't seem to mind.

Making a birthday wish.

Joe caught Ezra, who is in second grade, walking home from the bus stop with his arm around some fourth grade girl.
The girl told Joe, "This is my little man."
Joe was pretty proud.

We went to Ezra's music recital at school, it was very interesting. The xylophone was performance was fun, but the best part was the artwork on the walls.

I saw this gem and had to take a picture for Jodi and her cousin. It's a picture of Carol Johnston, the one-armed gymnast.

I guess some girl did a book report on her and made this poster.

River is still good for some laughs he hopped up on the table after dinner last night, unzipped the front of his feety pajamas and said “Oh yeah, who's attracted to me?” I guess it is a line from Madagascar 2 the movie, but try explaining that to company.

The other day when River was in his Superman costume he said to me, "Mom can you flap my cape while I do this?" He put his fists on his hips and stuck out his chest. We had to get a picture of it.

Cora is getting cuter with each new day :).
Here are some videos of Cora, mostly for the grandparents. It won't hurt my feelings if you don't watch them(unless you are the grandparents, then you have to watch them, you're the whole reason I put them on here).
This one is her showing me that she is done eating.

This second one is her crawling she is super cute.