This is one of our favorite books. It’s about a child who gets in trouble for painting everywhere. His mama takes the paints away and puts them in the top of the closet but he climbs up and gets them and paints his whole body. So….when I got the finger paints out the other day I noticed William started painting his hands…
Then his feet and legs….
and pretty soon Sister caught on to what he was doing…
Eventually they got some paint on the paper.
And in the end they looked like this!
One of my mom’s sisters, Anja, came to visit in July. We didn’t get to spend much time with her because we had bible school while she was here and went to Atlanta for the weekend. I did manage to get a few pictures the day before she left. While she was here she bought my mom the cutest windmill for her garden!
Our sweet friends, the Hadens, invited us to come to Atlanta to run walk in a 5k to benefit brain tumor research. We decided to head over early on Friday and stay in a hotel in Downtown Atlanta and then after the race go out to their house and spend Saturday with the Hadens. It was the kids first stay in a hotel and they both LOVED it. William would have been happy to ride in the glass elevator all weekend. Lucky for him we stayed on the top floor. Our room also had an awesome window seat that overlooked Centennial Park. If the elevator had been broken they would have been happy to stay and play in the window. In fact, William even tried to sleep there.
we I wouldn’t let him take his nap in the window and made invited everyone to come with me to for our first trip to Ikea, he decided to find a cozy spot for a nap there….
After a very full afternoon and very little sleep we gave the kids baths, put on their pajamas and went down to the park for a carriage ride.
We had a great tour of downtown. While our driver entertained Ryan and I with stories about the historical buildings, William was busy pointing out every kind of car or truck he could find and Virginia was just squirmy and ready to get home and go to bed. I failed to get a picture of the horse. She was big and both kiddos were a little overwhelmed with her. Earlier in the day, while walking through Centennial Park, we noticed that at the World of Coca Cola they were setting up a very large stage and doing sound checks. We were very curious as to what was going on. Our tour guide/buggy driver told us that Maroon Five and Bon Jovi were doing a private concert for the Microsoft convention. It was already well past the kids’ bedtime but we wanted to sit on the pool deck for a bit and listen to the concert. William and Virginia were enjoying it as much as we were!
We could hear but not see the concert from the pool and the kids really needed to go to bed. We had an early morning ahead of us so we went back up to our room to find we had the best seat in the house and could hear the concert pretty well from our room!
5:45 came very early the next morning, especially considering it was 4:45 central time 
Here’s our group, The Tumor Terminators!
After resting up some in the hotel and packing up the car we headed out to the Haden’s house.
The Haden’s recently had their den and playroom made over for a show on the DIY network called MegaDens. My kids instantly fell in love with the firetruck playhouse they built.
After hugs good-bye we were back on the road to Birmingham. William asks at least three times a week if we can go on a trip to the hotel.
