Scripture Reading

This completely melted my heart. I love love love it when they get along. And when Coleson voluntarily took Hunter's finger to help him keep his place and helped him with sounding out his words- I almost became a puddle on the floor. I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!

Friday Fun Day- at the movies

This week for Friday Fun Day (thanks Gigi for the awesome idea!) I took the kids to the summer time dollar movie at the theater (by myself with 4 kids). Katelyn (and obviously Ethan) had never been to the movies before and were pretty enthralled by the whole idea. I even sprung for popcorn (and made them all share). And can you believe we even made it out of there without a single incident??? Unless you count Ethan pushing his stroller, which started rolling down the ramp during the movie and I had to jump up and catch it? But that was no biggie compared to what I was afraid of. It was a super fun way to beat the 100 degree heat this week!

Ethan faces

A silly baby totally hamming it up for the camera. Cute!





This is the cheeeesy face he does to make me laugh or when he wants something. It like he's thinking to himself, "Oh they totally eat it up when I smile like this!" And we do!!

Daddy Projects

One of the perks of having a dad who does construction is early introduction to power tools. Here are the boys learning the basics at a young age. The ones of Ethan at the bottom from this weekend are almost IDENTICAL to the ones I have of Jared and Coleson at that age doing kitchen cabinets. But, alas, that was in the days before the wonder of digital cameras, which is a total bummer because I had this wonderful idea of showing the same pose across 8 years of babies. (But the picture is in the 2003 photo album, boys, if you're really wanting to see it.)

Coleson & Hunter in daddy's shop at their own workbench.

This is Hunter at just about 2 years old.

Just like daddy!!


Ethan helping daddy with those stubborn screws when we took apart and reassembled the boys' bunk beds this weekend. He was really into this project.


And last, but certainly not least, is this cute clip of Coleson working in the shop. He was about 4 years old in this video. He's always been pretty good with a hammer.

New room!

Yes that's my unmade bed down the hallway :)

Hunter is so excited to be on the top bunk- can you tell?


4 of the cutest kids I've ever seen!!!!


It's time for another Harrington Family Project. Over the weekend we decided to move Coleson and Hunter into the same room. Not since we moved to this house have they shared the same room. But, in an effort for them to get along better, we decided to move them back in together. It's either going to work great or crash and burn, right? So far things seem to be going much better (but I didn't say that out loud- knock on wood). We were surprised they were even excited about the idea. I sure hope it lasts.

New glasses

So I've been having these terrible and really relentless headaches. Finally, Jared was like, "would you just go get your eyes checked woman!!" I wouldn't usually stand for the derogatory "woman" remark, but I knew I was wrong. I just hate spending money on things like that. I wasn't convinced they would find anything and then the whole thing would be a big waste of money. But, desperate for relief of the headaches, I went to the eye doctor. "You've needed glasses for a while" he says. Oh. My bad. So my new glasses arrived today. I was AMAZED just how crisp and clean everything was when I put them on. I really had no idea my eyes were that blurry. The doctor even joked with me when he was doing the machine thingy where he says "this one or this one" then moves the lenses and asks the same question. I don't know what that's called. But at the end, he flipped it to a set of lenses and I was like "Oh not that one, it's so blurry!" And he said "Uhh...that's your regular eyes". "Oh!!"

What do you think? I think I look a like a more sophisticated version of myself. But they are a little pesky. I keep wanting to take them off or slide them up on the top of my head like I do my sunglasses. And oh my sunglasses!! What will I do with them??? My sunglasses are like my best friend. I pretty much wear them all day long, all summer long. Slide them up when not in use, back down when needed. I HATE squinting. Where do my glasses go now?
Anyway, these will take some getting used to.

Sunday pics

We call this a daddy pile. The kids were the squished ones, though. You can't see faces, but that's (from left to right): Coleson's legs, Hunter's legs, and Katie's legs). Ethan was the cherry on top! Aren't daddy's fun?!

And here's one of Ethan & daddy from the other day too. They were just chilln' and Ethan wanted to share the same spot on the pillow as daddy.
A few new words for Ethan from over the weekend:
Tan uuuuu (thank you)
Sou (Sorry)
Uh-ohh
Cookieeee!!!!!
Uh high (for high-fives)
Do oh (down low)
Do soo (too slow!)