a whole lotta love over here

 ^^she was annoyed with me for wanting a photo with her...i'm not sorry^^

^^this boy is ridiculously in love with this girl.^^

we said 'good-bye' to our obnoxious and annoying pet rabbit last week. being that i was the only one who took care of him and clementine has priority, we decided to take it back to the pet store. roman was only a little broken up over it. not near as bad as i thought he'd be. i think suggesting a photo to preserve the memory softened the heartache a bit.  plus i hear scooter already has a wife with gorgeous beady red eyes. lucky rabbit. 

happy thursday!

one windy evening.

we had graduation open houses this weekend and at this particular one, out in the country, our hair was going all over the place.  thanks, husband, for such a great photo.

according to roman

While 'playing toys' with Jeff -

R: you go to jail and I'll go to Jesus!

*****

Sitting on the coffee table having some grapes

R: {farts}

Me: {makes a face}

R: that was just my fart, mom. Don't worry about it.

*****

J: remember that time I burped in your mouth?

R: yeah. that was so gross!!! (covering his mouth with his hands)

*****

Roman's been really into his Dada lately. he gets so sad when Jeff leaves to go anywhere. on this particular day Jeff was leaving our house from his lunch break.

R: NOOOOOO!!!!! I want you to hug me!!!!!! (half crying)

J: comes in and snuggles his boy

R: I want to keep you forever!

J: I want to keep you forever!

R: we want to keep each other forever. can you tell me a story?

*****

roman and jeff go back and forth several times a day telling each other pretend stories. it's adorable and is totally their bonding time. i love it so.

a few of our days last week

every other monday i get to watch the sweetest, bossiest two year old little love.  ella hangs with us for a few hours while her older brother and mama go to their CC class.  we love having her here.

we had roman's preschool co-op here last week. in addition to the normal four three year olds i also had viggo, my neice who is six weeks older than viggo, and a dog.  it was a little nuts, but fun!  

we talked about the letter 'G' and transportation. so for 'g' we planted some wheatgrass in a garden each of the kiddos took home...because i like to let them make messes and what's more messy than dirt?

 after preschool, chiara hung out with us and her little brother joined us while their mama had a lunch date with a friend.  roman helped feed valor for about .3 seconds.  valor is the squirmiest eater ever. :)

roman is really into showing me what he's capable of doing. the photo below show's off his amazing talent. 

after naps on friday, jeff and i took the boys for supper and then finished the night off with the park.  it's fun to get out at dusk and skip bedtime.  the boys really love playing outside. after romping around on the playground we let the boys swing for a bit.  jeff was pushing viggo fairly high and you could tell by his giggle and breath holding it was tickling his tummy big time. so stinking cute. his eyes were watering and everything.   yay nice weather!

Thank You!!

Roman wanted to say something. 

Thank you so much for your support in helping us take care of George. Roman and Viggo earned two months of sponsorship just since Sunday!  God is taking care of His children!

little bits

Well last week wasn't too eventful, so here's what the Barton's stayed busy with in photos.

Learning proper stretching techniques 

Walking around with hacky sack in your mouth

Crafing it up!  Saw this sweet Valentine's banner on Etsy and figured I could easily make it for zero dollars {I had everything on hand}, rather than spend $24.50 on it. I think it turned out pertty good! I didn't follow a tutorial. Just eyeballed everything. The most tedious part was hand stitching the paper hearts onto the burlap, but I got it done during nap time!

Roman helped me prepare some sugar cookie dough and we had fun with cookie cutters! He loves being the taste tester when it's all mixed together.

 These beauties are now in our freezer awaiting to be frosted and delivered. I'm debating on using them as a means for Roman and Viggo to help raise money for George. Thoughts?

This is how Viggo prays. It's.Adorable.

there's something dang cute about a three year old in his boxers...

....or naked in a Santa hat and Superhero cape. With a recorder. And a laser gun. 

Happy Monday!

snow play

If you are anything like me, {ahem, immature}, you probably did a double take on the post title.  After I wrote it out my first thought was not snow. Just sayin'. Hey, it's Friday.

Now to more of the family friendly stuff.

Earlier this week it was warm enough for me to get the boys up in their snow gear. Seriously. What an effort it takes to dress two little people in sixteen different layers to play in the snow for thirty minutes. As soon as I got Roman outfitted I sent him on his merry way. To say he was excited is an understatement. He ran out into the snow, dropped to the ground and made a snow angel right then and there. How did he know how to make one of those? NO CLUE!  Because I surely didn't teach him.

We also have this snow mound from where Jeff shoveled the snow from our driveway. Big Brother just climbed right on up it, no inhibitions...which is kind of saying something for him. It was so fun to see him purely enjoying himself as a three year old. 

Viggo, however, preferred the sidewalk. Each time I'd encourage him to go play with Roman his face turned all disgusted and he whined 'uh uh'.  I'd pick him up and walk in the snow, try to set him down and he would start crying-ish and lift his arms up for me to rescue him out of the sea of white fluff.

 this is about as far in as I could get him

mmm, rosy cheeks.

Toward the end of our fun, I encouraged Roman to eat some snow, making sure to emphasize only eating the white snow.  You should have seen the look in his eyes when I said that  He could hardly believe it. He was so wanting to share this new excitement and delicious fun with Little Brother, but that wasn't going to happen. Probably next year. 

I'm actually a little excited for the next snowfall with decent accumulation.  It's fun to be a kid with my kids.