Another photographer in the family...

"He's not Dad, he's GRAND-PA!" This is the important fact I was reminded of repeatedly during the three days we enjoyed my Dad's...er Grandpa's visit. Z so enjoyed his Grandpa being here, he gave him NO rest. Z is very, very, very wiggly right now. When I worked as a counselor, I made a mental note that eight year old boys are wiggly. I now know that three and a half year olds are twice as wiggly! This is the only picture Grandpa was able to get Z to look at the camera, be still and smile for. To me this picture is gold!

Juju, on the other hand, says, "Cheese!" when you point a camera at her,

puts on her best smile and poses for you.

Grandpa was very brave letting a one and a

half year old hold his little camera. She loved it though.

"You are coming back, right, Grandpa?"

Thanks for the pictures, Dad. We enjoyed your visit! Keep your eye on the slideshow over the weekend for pictures we got of you while you were here.

The Wee Photographer

The other day, Z asked if he could take a picture with my camera. I showed him how to do it and how to look at the picture after he took it. He went around the house taking pictures for a half hour and looking at each one after he took it. Many were blurry, some had fingers in front of the lens, but here's a few that turned out well, I thought.

This one he experimented with setting the camera down on the couch (which he'd previously stripped of it's cushions) and just pushing the button.

and my favorite:

Well done, Buddy!!! You're already a better photographer than Mommy!

Where milk comes from

Today we visited a dairy farm. I met several amazing women at a mother-daughter retreat that Juju and I went to a few weeks ago. Two of the amazing women have dairy farms, the other a chinchilla farm! Today we visited one of the dairy farms.

Z and I let the baby calves suck on our fingers. It was so cute!

Then I had to let the saliva dry before I could put my gloves back on.

It was really cold. It was a huge farm with hundreds of cows.

Z accidentally got squirted in the face with cow milk!

Ben and I love exposing our kids to real life! Below are the real professionals, Elijah and Moriah live at the farm and are showing us how it's done.

We also checked out their chicken coop for our own purposes. Their farm cats and their chickens drank out of the same milk bowl. Yup, you heard right, we're in the planning stage of building our own chicken coop! After seeing this farm, it feels like small potatoes, but it's big for us!

Lent starts Wednesday! Anyone want to join us? My sister-in-law, Debbi (the one in Uganda) has always invited me to join her in observing Lent. Every year I'm so glad I did. You can fast from something like sugar or something that is tempting for you or you can take on something that you'd like to do, like pray or read your Bible...or go to church! The Wigtons are giving up TV, in the middle of our third snow storm in a week and a half. No videos, just a couple hours on Saturday morning allowed. It'll be hard especially without warm weather, we'll keep you posted on all that we learn from it. It's always a good reminder of God's grace and how much we need it. Happy Fat Tuesday!