Baking, and Frosting, and Sprinkling– oh my!
We’ve had a good baking week this week. Sunday Alexander and Muma made her favorite Linzer cookies– happy little jam filled stars cookies with cloves, cinnamon, and pecans. They look like this (though I didn’t take a picture of mine before we ate most of them :0 !) Tuesday, after Continue Reading
Fall in the Forest- a spontaneous “welcome fall” event.
It was a couple of Thursdays ago when Alexander came up to me after several minutes of playing by himself (gasp!) and asked. “Muma- what can we do?” “I don’t know, what would you like to do?” “We should have a party!” We occasionally have little pretend birthday parties for Continue Reading
A Little Life Dedicated to God
Last Sabbath, November 28, was a very special day for our family. It was Thanksgiving Sabbath. It was Aidan’s seven month old birthday. And it was the date that little Aidan Daniel Winkler was ‘officially’ dedicated to the Lord. It was a day set apart to consecrate this little life Continue Reading
Winklemania
Bubbles with Visiting Bowser and Roxy | Aunt Renee floats the bubbles up in the air | Bubbling with Grampapa The past month has been quite a whirlwind for us. We’ve had our Prophecy Seminar meetings in the evenings four days a week while David’s been running a full summer Continue Reading
A Classic Michigan Fourth
This year for the fourth of July weekend, we headed up to The Cottage for a classic holiday weekend with the Schaper fam. It was a marvelously relaxing weekend with nothing but hours for chatting, boating, babying, yummying, and, of course, watching fireworks. Aunt Nancy and the Schāpers got to Continue Reading
Celebrating Six
We had a bit of down time on Sunday too for some porch sittin’ and toodling around. Grammy & Aidan | Wheelbarrow Rides | Alex helps pump up the bike tires.
Big Brother, meet Baby Brother
Before Aidan arrives, Alex is “practicing” – putting Susie in the carrier We’ve been prepping Alexander for months to meet ‘the baby.’ From counting down months, weeks, days on the calendar, to various stages of babifying the house, to conversations and feeling baby kick from muma’s tummy- he knew all Continue Reading
Two… Take Two!
Though initially we’d planned to do a birthday event, we later decided to keep it a quiet day here at home. So we were more than happy to go up and visit Grammy and Grandpapa the following weekend and Alexander was more than thrilled to make the trip up to Continue Reading
Olympic Hopeful: 2024
This year, Grammy and Grandpapa came with us to our annual Tumblerific event at Infinity Gymnastics. There were a few little tykes this year, so they opened a new area of the gym specifically for them. It was absolutely perfect for Alexander. Mats, tunnels, slides, rings, a climbing wall, trampolines, Continue Reading