Getting maweed

This little firecracker is almost as quotable as Dr. Seuss and although my tendency is to only blog when they are sleeping, I wish not to forget her sweet little proclamations this morning.  She made some of her first statements about her future betrothal, and I thought they should be recorded :)

(this all took place while playing with my "spawkly diamond")

*to be accurately read drop your Rs and Ls...I included them for easy reading!*

"momma, am I going to get married?  Who am I going to marry?  Will you and Daddy come with me?"

"I think he will be bigger, and maybe like razors, and have whiskers...yeah, momma, he will love Jesus, and me too, soo much.  And his hair will be the same color as daddys too and he will fix things and grill hamburgers sometimes."

"Momma, Do you think I can borrow your clothes when I get married?"

So...Somebody let him turn 5...

My sweet Benjamin Edward turned 5.  It is unbelievable that I should have a 5 year old!  He's quite the fantastic blend of  "all boy" with the most gentle of spirits.  I'm quite smitten with him :)

He loves anything with wheels, and although ships and airplanes take his breath away, he is most in love with trains!  He loves learning and is reading HOP books, and Sally Dick and Jane, and truly would be doing much more if his momma weren't side tracked by having too many pots in the fire.  

He LOVES to ask Why, and makes it very tricky for me to decipher if his attitude is one of curiosity or disobedience.  He wants to know how things work, why we do what we do, what would happen if we didn't and a myriad of other questions.  It makes me so tired :)

He's still tall (94th%) and average weight (62nd%).  He passed his vision test, AND hearing test (which momma was very nervous about after our temporary hearing loss that followed both ear infections this winter!

We haven't done a ton of math in our "pre-school" prep, but he seems to get the work we do.  His more obvious love is Art.  He loves to create, to imagine, colors and shapes.  Its fun to watch his little mind work!

Here's just a couple of my recent Benjamin conversations that have made me eat humble pie:

B-" momma!  look at all these numbers I made[play do]"

ME - oh! I love them. are you going to make alphabet soup?

B - "Mom, then I would need letters..."

B - "momma? do you think that butterfly is poisonous?" 

ME - I don't know of any poisonous butterflies buddy.

B - "mom! Dont you remember that beautiful bright caterpillar in our Dangerous Animals book?

ME - yup I do Benjamin!  He was pretty cool!

B - "So...if he was poisonous as a caterpillar wont he have poison as a butterfly?!"

B - "Look at that construction over there! I think they are making a railroad track!"

ME - I don't think so buddy.  They don't just make a brand new track in the middle of town.  The one a couple blocks over is working just fine I think.  They probably don't need a new one.

B - "Momma, haven't you ever heard of a switch track?!"

B- 3

M - 0

hello AMES!

We arrived!  "New" has lost any clear meaning to us and the word "home" is even muddier, but the Lewicki's have landed in Ames for three months and are in awe of how God is providing for not only our physical needs, but our emotional ones as well.  

Sunday, after we were able to reconnect with our church family at Ames EFREE (I'm not ready to use CCC yet!) I was talking to Benjamin about his Sunday School papers.  His lesson/verse were about God providing all that we NEED.  He asked me what that meant, and I said that we needed certain things to live...Food & Water, and Love, and that God was more than able to supply those needs.  I said it without thinking much, and although I don't think its solid enough to preach a sermon on it, it has blessed me greatly to remember that conversation throughout the week!  God is supplying Joel with a fantastic summer job opportunity this summer, gave us more than enough space to live for 3 months, and is giving us emotional strength in the midst of ever changing variables.  All of my needs and many of my wants are more than supplied for!

Here's some un-edited snap shots of our little nest this summer:

We are into transformers right now, so this is the BumbleBee house :)

our little living room/dining room

Soooooo the bathroom...Its not an outhouse, and it DOES have both a shower AND bathtub, and the shower has decent water pressure with a removable head....So its great :)

the Living room/dining room: I LOVE that we also have outside dining, so the small table works for us, and the wall on the left opens up into "the transformer room" so the kids have enough room to play on rainy/cold days:)

No, I have never used an electric stove before, but I'm now learning :)  with a new broom and a tooth pick with soapy water this retro kitchen excites me!...And a surprise to me was that I miss a garbage disposal even MORE than a dishwasher.  

This is the "transformer room", which is an IA State themed play room during the day, but then you pull the accordion wall shut and transform the couch into a bed, and ta-da! the kids bed room is born :)

Here are my sweet babes sleeping past 7:00 this morning!  They HATE not seeing Daddy off to work in the morning, but I LOVE my quiet house from 6:15 - 7:15!

I saved the best for last!  This is the screened in porch that sits beside an open deck, that backs up to this beautiful/quaint back yard.  I've scrubbed it down, and am waiting for a good power wash experience for the floor, but I'm hopeful to get that knocked out this weekend!  Its kid friendly. Its relaxing. Its perfect!