Cute Porter-isms

So no pics for this post, but I did want to do a quick shout out to Porter. Such a funny kid!! I love him to pieces, he can be a handful sometimes, but is so stinking cute the rest. He is so creative, and very persuaded by infomercials! I just had to document his latest thing. So if he ever sees one of these great commercials, he drags me over and insists we need whatever new thing it might be. Lately though he saw one of those "cash for gold" envelope things. He has been talking about it ever since. We have told him on different occasions that he hasn't earned enough money, or mommy didn't bring money for that toy today, etc. Things like that when we go to the store and he always wants a new toy. So he told me yesterday, " hey mom, I know what I can do to get some cash! we'll just get an envelope, and put some gold "juwry" in it that you don't need, and then we can get some money!" I laughed, and said, yup people do do that. So then tonight, I found him going through our unopened junk mail searching for a good envelope to use. He said " I need an envelope for some gold juwry". He then proceeded downstairs to my jewelry box and found everything gold looking- luckily I don't have much, then came up and said with some earrings held out, "are these the gold you don't need anymore?" I laughed and said sure. He filled up the envelope, but wouldn't be satisfied. He then insisted that it needed to go to the mailbox, it is nighttime mind you- he went and got his coat on, and well.... that is where we are now. Trying to convince us to take the envelope out to the mailbox. What a silly kid:) We love him!

Also, earlier today we asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up and he said "I just want to be mommy's baby still." Melts my heart! I told him he could always be my baby!

Fun Pics

So this morning I did a fun photo shoot for my friend who is having a baby in July. She wanted some cute belly pictures, and we had a great time. I got a nice camera a little while ago, and I've really wanted to ramp up my efforts at taking some great pictures. I'm sick of spending tons of money to get the kiddos portraits done, as well as not be totally thrilled with them! So anyway, in an effort to get better at all kinds of portraits I decided now was the time to just make it happen. I'm loving to practice with anyone who wants it! This morning's shoot turned out really cute, and I just had to post some of them. I have created a different blog a while ago, just to kind of make a little portfolio for myself, and have added the link if anyone wants to check out some more. I hope to be adding to it more and more. Up next for us is Porter's 4 year portraits, so I'll be sure and let you know how those go!

Madagascar Exhibit

We took the boys to the Madagascar exhibit at the zoo the other day! It was a fun time, and great to see a shout out to Noah's mission:) Both of the boys absolutely love the zoo, so we make frequent trips! The Fossa was unfortunately hiding, but we did get to see most of the other cool things! As always, we loved the Lemurs, and got some great pics. We did enjoy the larger assortment of Lemur toys than a normal zoo would carry, so the boys both got a new fun momento from the experience. It was almost like really being there! Well, not quite actually, the picture in front of the "Madagascar Market" was cute, but I must say-was NOTHING like a real Madagascar Market! A good time anyway though:)

Sad

Ok, so I'm a little high strung about flying, and this whole story has upset me a little. I decided that maybe I should write something down and get all my feelings out, and then maybe I can move on plus talk myself into feeling better while I'm at it. First off though, if you don't know of which story I am speaking, it is on the loss of the Air France Flight 447. I would like to first say that I am extremely saddened for the loss for all of the families of the vicitims. I can't imagine very many things that would be worse to go through. My prayers are with them. I truly, truly hope that they can feel some sort of comfort right now. Now in my attempt to get my feelings out and just to the random world, and not to have to make any one person listen to my rant... so now one of my big fears in flying have been confirmed. First of all, I have always hated turbulence, but have taken some measure of comfort in the fact that as most people always tell me " turbulence isn't enough to bring down a big jet, you never hear about that! Seriously, that never happens, you only hear about other big problems that make jets crash!" And, for the most part I have always believed that to be true, and it always made me feel better . Now, I BEG TO DIFFER. Second of my worst fears in dying in a plane crash over the ocean. I have always said that if I was going to die in a plane crash, I would much, much rather it be over land than over the ocean. At least then they can eventually for sure find the crash site. NOW, we can see why I think this way. The thought of boarding a plane to fly off into the sunset Amelia Earheart style, like these unfortunate people just did is simply awful to me. Vanishing. My worst nightmare. I am also upset that it was an Air France Flight, Air France is one of our go to airlines of choice, and has almost always given us great service, unlike some other notable American companies, i.e. Continental, (yes, I am speaking to you!) anyway, they have never had something like this happen, and I am positive that it will be a major jolt to the whole country. My thoughts are also with the 7 children and baby that were on the flight, it really breaks my heart to think of how scared they must have been. I'm sure the adults were all upset as well, but thinking about the children just breaks my heart. Anyway, here's what I've come to after thinking about it for two days. In this particular case, I am taking comfort in the fact that they experts seem to think that it probably happened quite quickly since there wasn't a mayday signal, hopefully indicating that the pilot didn't have time. If something like this is someone's fate, it would be nice to make it quick. And, after really thinking about it, if it is your fate to die in a plane crash, then it is probably really your time to go. Not much you can do about it. If my little family died in a plane crash like this, then it would be ok, we would all die together. That is a good thing I guess. One big fear I have about dying is leaving my kids without their mom, so this would be one less worry for me! But last of all, I think this whole thing really has been good for me, because I have really decided to try to not be so worried about flying. If it is our time, it is time, and we need to live our lives to the fullest. I don't want to let my anxiety stop me from having some really great experiences in life. Things happen for a reason, and there is a Plan for all of us, and I need to do a better job of just trusting in that Plan. People learn important lessons from tragedy, so it is never all bad. My prayers are with you.