can i type? b/c i know how to type....

i would like to say....josiah. and he's making a funny face while i'm taking a picture of him.

i got a camera for christmas. from kara & jon. and i liked it so much that i even took lots of pictures of it. of people. and i liked it so much that i wanted to take a picture of momma, dadda, of merian, and myself. and even of grandpa & grandma. (we whittled down his over 100 pictures to this number-- he really loves that camera!)


kara & jon were on margaret street.

uncle jon. i miss uncle jon. i really love uncle jon. i love him so much. i miss kara.
momma. what are you doing? in the box? what? i know....you're momma!
kara!
merian. what? hey, that's not fair! i didn't want you to do that. (guess he's not happy with the fact that i'm typing almost everything he says...)
daddy with a silly hat. kara made the hat.
henry & aunt kara. but i held the camera like this...(he is now demonstrating to me how he took the self portrait. nice!)
david at the bowling alley.
daddy's bowling....

custess. (i think he means "cutest") merian....
jon & kara. (why did you take their picture?) i don't know...b/c i like them & i miss them. (aw!)
henry. (who took the picture?) me, i held the camera like this. henry took a picture of himself.


that's my marble run i got for christmas. i wanted it for awhile & i finally got it from grandpa doug & grandma carol.
grandpa. grandpa gary. (actually he pronounces it "ga-wee". i love it!) i took a picture of him.
i took a picture of you (mom) and merian. in fact, i should take a picture of you again right now....
david's house.

i had a good christmas. cooster. (ooh, we're getting into the made up words....i think we're about done-- thanks for reading!)

praying...

a real post from henry will come soon....but here's a quick snippet of what he's been up to. we're working on teaching him the Lord's prayer these days. and it's really cute as we talk through what it means and also listen to him repeat it back as we pray. tonight's snippet was the best....

"on erf as it is in kevin"

if you didn't catch that, it's supposed to be the line...on earth as it is in heaven. love that kid. it was already late and we had already explained a lot. tomorrow we'll have to talk about this kevin guy....

jim class

(this is cheating, but here's a log of henry's great thoughts lately. we'll start with tonight's conversation.)

h. do you know what's a weird name?
c. what?
h. jim class.
c. jim class?
h. all these people walking around because of jim class.
c. what's jim class?
h. he's a person. that is a teacher at the school.

(okay...let me explain so that this makes a bit more sense. today, h & i noticed all of these highschoolers walking up the steep hill we live on. i guess my explanation of "gym class" to him was poorly lacking. okay, back to writing what henry wants on this blog...)

you can do a world-wide flood. goatee. and dad has a goatee. and i also have...merian doesn't have a goatee, and so...what that does? bodyworks. and the bookworks. troll. kara and jon have a troll. it doesn't make no sense...but you can write it down.

we went on a walk. write that down. i'm thinking....

posty way

{introduction: this blog is fully & completely henry's, other than being censored by his parents. the pics are taken by him, and the words are his. occasionally i (momma) will put some explanations down in italics. sometimes henry will even type his own words. we hope you enjoy entering the mind of henry!}

hi blog. stop. cool. hello, yeah, i'm good. (another explanation given to henry about the purpose and nature of a blog...) here i am taking a photo shoot. um, hi. i'm hungry. henry created his own photo studio the other day...took great pains to create the perfect backdrop & put merian in the middle.

merian. i was taking pictures. i creative (created) it with lots of merian's things.
i don't know. cuckoos. cuckoo for cocoa pops. he's running out of things to say.
i took a picture of your bag. i'm hungry. hop. we are leaving for a sec to feed that hungry belly...be back soon.

chomping on raisins...taking a picture of that.
i take a picture of the dresser. and the dresser, too.i ask henry, "what have you been doing these days?" taking pictures and stuff. where's my other raisin? shoveling of raisins continues...what is that? that you wrote down? cool. cocoa pops. it's puffs, sweetie. cocoa puffs. bye. and my mom's doing good. and merian had a cold a little bit. how's shane & ellen doing? can you get some more raisins, please?