the allen family

I was in Teegan's room this morning when Cooper came into the room and announced that there was a fox in our back yard!  I had had a brief glimpse of a fox when we were eating dinner the other night, so it was believable, although I thought Cooper was just referring to that other night.  However, upon going downstairs, THIS is what was in our back yard!!  (Please ignore the overgrown grass and weeds- we are waiting on a lawnmower we ordered to get here!)  There was a "baby and mommy fox!"  Cooper had to call Danny at work to tell him all about it, and he told Danny that he saw the "Daddy fox" too, but he jumped over the fence...who knows?!

In other news...

Teegan is losing his dark hair (the dark AND the hair!).  It is thinning out and lightening up, with the bulk of his hair being on the top, back, center...so he has this long "Alfalfa" look.  So, I decided to give him a little trim.  I was happy with the AFTER but I'm not sure what he was thinking.  He seems pretty happy in the BEFORE picture...but not so sure in the AFTER!!!  Either way, what a handsome dude!

Lastly, I have been wanting to post a couple of the boys' projects...

This first one is a story Jadan wrote on the drive to Ohio.  He kept asking us how to spell things, but after a while, I encouraged him to try and sound out the words himself.  He did a great job!

TRANSLATION:

"Butterfly's Friends"

Butterfly was feeling kind of sad but a friend came over.  It was Ant.  Ant told Butterfly to take some deep breaths. So she took some deep breaths.

After she took some deep breaths she felt good.  Butterfly flew out of her hole. The End.

And here is a letter jadan wrote to his cousin Taylor just yesterday (we'll have to send this one!)

TRANSLATION:

Dear Taylor, I love you.  Did you remember you were the flowergirl? I hope that was fun.  We have a window well.  Love Jadan

That cracks me up! "ded yow remenbr yow wr du flower girl"  And the window well?  I had no idea where that came from, so I asked and he meant the wooden well my brother built for us that we just put out in our front yard with the flowers.  HA!!

And finally, here is some true artwork!  I love these little guys and their sweet, young perspective on everything!!

Not bad, huh?!!