Happy Birthday Timothy!

I can hardly believe that Timothy is now 10. Wow. double digits. Amazing!

Enjoy the slide show!

Munchkin Mugs

These are some mugs of my munchkins. High resolution originals available upon request.

Smoochy Face


Wonder Kid


Gabby Girl


Super Baby

Video January Timothy

Christmas Money

Oma and Opa gave the kids Christmas money and this past weekend we were able to take them out to spend it. It was a fun time.

Raimy got a doll and a couple movies. Timothy purchased two building sets. Gabrielle got some Play-Doh kits. Tyler got a couple sets of blocks.

Thanks Oma and Opa!

While I am thinking of it I had a cute little story about Raimy...

We got Timothy some Iron Man stuff this year so I thought it would be good if the kids saw the movie. There are some strong parts that I didn't let them watch. For the most part Gabrielle was disinterested and the older two liked it. Tyler was napping. So, the end credits rolled and the little mysterious bonus clip with Samuel L. Jackson as a recruiter for a special team showed. Then Raimy goes, "Is it over?" I told her it was. Then she said, "It can't be over yet; we don't know who he marries!"

Ha! Such a girl.

Oh, now I am remembering a little thing about Tyler...

This season he was introduced to mint M&Ms (thanks to a package from Becky Gomez). I have never seen a kid do this, but he started peeling them. It was hilarious to watch him meticulously picking at the candy shell.

Hope you all had a great Christmas and that your New Years celebrations are safe and fun. We will be at our big sha-bang at church partying.

Love you!
Angie

Happy Birthday Timothy!

This is by far the longest slide show I have ever posted. But we had such a fun day that I didn't want you all to miss out. Enjoy!

Father's Day Poem

Dad you are the best.
You warm me like a nest.

I love you alot.
We are like a knot.

Because we're tied together.
And I feel much better.

Thank you for loving me.
You're making me feel free.

Artwork and accompanying poem by: Raimy Olivia Washington (age 10)



Artwork by Timothy Aaron Washington (age 8)

Doing What They Do

Raimy trying her hand at oils for the first time. She is an artist. Her preferred style of expression is pencil drawing. But anything pertaining to creative arts is her outlet. She loves dance, music, painting, crafts, clay, sewing, drama, making books and whatever else she can do to create.


Timothy doing a word find. These or sudukos are his choice these days. Anything that is building or constructing he enjoys as well. I am amazed at what he can do with his legos and other building sets. He is a thinker.


Gabrielle doing her lessons in school. She is a worker. She says to me, "Mama, I want to work hard in school today." Her undaunted approach to tackling problems is inspiring. I am wondering what God is going to do with her life. It will be amazing to see, I am sure.


Tyler licking a book. So far he has tasted: deodorant, hand lotion, crayons, bubbles, all the furniture in the house, door handles, books, web cams and seat belts. I can't complain because this flows over into his eating of actual food too. He will eat anything!

What did you do today that was YOU?

My Eight Year Old Boy

Yesterday I took the kids on our first Fun FridayField trip for a photo hunt up on the Cristo mountain top. I got some great shots of Timothy. I think that eight year old boys are some of my most favorite people in the world.

More slide shows to come of the wonders the kids captured.

Art and a Big Bag from Afar

Friday at school we did an art project of making Me Posters. Here are some shots of the finished pieces:

Raimy's (the whole family is included in this poster)

Timothy's (note the 3-D fold out feature)

Gabrielle's (figure lifting her arms is Gabrielle having fun with her friends)

In the orphanage kitchen I saw this huge bag of flour and couldn't miss the photo op. Notice that it comes from Cargill. The cook said that the flour makes the best bread.

(Detail of the bag and my shoe - hee hee hee)

February Fun

Is it only the 7th? Only one week has passed in February? Amazing!

Our week has been packed: our kids were in a wedding at church, we had a youth retreat at a resort, and we started school. The wedding was beautiful. An Englishman married a Bolivian. Her name is Wendy and his Peter (like the Peter Pan story). The youth retreat was great. I spent most of my time with our kids. But we had fun hanging out with the youth when they were not in a session. The day after we got back we were all very sunburned but we got started with school. It feels good to be back at it.

I wanted to get these pictures up so you could see them. Enjoy!

Peanut’s Plan

Last night my four little nuts and I were eating our dinner. I said, “Guys, after you go to bed tonight…”

Peanut-butter interrupts rolling her eyes with a little grin on her face, “I know, I know. You are going to go out.”

“I know where she is going! She is going to see papa bowling!” Peanut-man declared triumphantly.

“Nu-uh! You don’t know!” Peanut-butter stated trying to get the upper hand.

Peanut, ever the peacemaker, raised her voice above the din of the argument brewing across the table, “There is a way we can know! In the morning we can go into mama and papa’s room. If there is a trophy there that means that papa was bowling!”

Cheers of approval from both sides of the table revealed their enthusiasm as to the validity and rightness of this plan to verify mama and papa’s extracurricular activities. The unanimous observation was completely founded on logic (in their heart): If papa is indeed bowling then a trophy will be the sure proof of this activity.

In conclusion: Papa bowling = a trophy won.

All in their jammies this morning my little nuts gathered around the gleaming white trophy in the shape of a bowling pin. The comments were varied.

“You got another one?” Peanut-butter clarified.

“How many of those do you have now?” Peanut asked with proud grin on her face.

“Is this one bigger than the last one?” Peanut-man implored with eyes wide inspecting the first-place, city-wide championship prize.

Nutmeg just watched and listened, contented to be in the middle of the mix as his papa showed the trophy to his ever adoring and most faithful fans. Someday they might actually get to see him win one of those things; when the championship is not held past their bed-time.

Happy Birthday Timothy!

Here is our birthday boy making a run through the obstacle course at Panchita, a chicken restaurant; his choice. He was very interested to know how fast he did it. The video shows 40 seconds - not bad. :-)

Here is his fun lunch the Panchicono; the chicken and fries are on top of the cup of lemonade with a straw to take sips while you munch.

Here he is enduring a double whammy of kisses as his sisters congratulating him for his birthday.