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Here For Each Other

2011-10-22T21:34:00.000-07:00

The Crew

2011-07-05T14:54:00.000-07:00

Slide Surfing

2011-06-22T12:00:00.000-07:00

T-R-O-U-B-L-E

2011-06-21T21:15:00.000-07:00

Horton Games

2011-06-14T20:17:00.000-07:00

In Her Element

2011-06-11T13:01:00.000-07:00

My Guy

2011-06-09T20:09:00.000-07:00

Silly Happens Here

2011-05-31T13:11:00.000-07:00

What Childhood Is All About

2011-05-31T09:00:00.000-07:00

Skateboard Wounds

2011-05-30T08:48:00.000-07:00

Farewell To Grandma

2011-05-27T20:00:00.000-07:00

Puddle Jumpers

2011-05-26T20:56:00.000-07:00

The Best Seat In The House

2011-05-24T13:42:00.000-07:00

Making Us Smile

2011-05-23T06:00:00.000-07:00

Dragon Treats

2011-05-22T06:00:00.000-07:00

Shining Eyes, Silly Smiles

2011-05-21T06:00:00.000-07:00

We Have Lift Off

2011-05-19T06:52:00.000-07:00

Slivers

2011-05-18T05:30:00.000-07:00

Mommy's Girl in Mommy's Hat

2011-05-17T12:29:00.000-07:00

Out For A Walk

2011-05-15T15:21:00.000-07:00

Bedtime Buddies

2011-05-13T10:40:00.000-07:00

Roly Poly Research

2011-05-10T16:36:00.000-07:00

A Happy Mother's Day

2011-05-08T21:08:00.000-07:00

Sunshine On His Shoulder Makes Him Happy

2011-05-05T14:00:00.000-07:00

Daddy's Coming Home

2011-05-04T18:30:00.000-07:00

A Toddler, Two Sickies and a Movie

2011-05-02T15:09:00.000-07:00

Hiding Place

2011-04-29T18:02:00.000-07:00

Triple Word Score

2011-04-28T14:00:00.000-07:00

Bathtime, Interrupted

2011-04-27T21:05:00.000-07:00

Under Her Nose

2011-04-26T10:36:00.000-07:00

Reading Buddies

2011-04-25T06:00:00.000-07:00

Gentle Hands

2011-04-24T06:00:00.000-07:00

Uncommon Form

2011-04-23T07:50:00.000-07:00

Telescope Gaze

2011-04-21T06:00:00.000-07:00

Peeking

2011-04-20T14:47:00.000-07:00

Sick Day

2011-04-19T16:00:00.000-07:00

Fitting It In

2011-04-19T06:45:00.000-07:00

Catapult Games

2011-04-16T20:14:00.000-07:00

Focused Concentration

2011-04-15T15:56:00.000-07:00

Bedtime Frown

2011-04-14T20:12:00.000-07:00

Late Night Reading

2011-04-13T20:09:00.000-07:00

Grapes for Lunch

2011-04-12T12:06:00.000-07:00

Up In The Air

2011-04-11T21:04:00.000-07:00

Taking A Break

2009-08-01T08:00:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the long pauses between posts. We are taking a blogging break as we vacation, move, get used to having a new brother, start school and figure out the new flow of our lives. We hope to be back soon.

Watching the Inauguration

2009-01-20T09:49:00.000-08:00

We were watching the inauguration of Barack Obama who is the President of the United States now. We were so excited that Barack Obama won. We think he is going to be a good president. Our friends Katy and Brian are there in Washington DC. They watched the inauguration there. Me and Ellie wish we could be there with Katy and Brian.

We colored American star pictures and we are wearing our red, white and blue clothes to celebrate. Here are some pictures from our morning.

Watching the Ceremony

Coloring while I watch the ceremony

Watching live on cnn.com and Facebook

Proud of our new President

My New Brother, by Payton Rush

2008-11-21T08:56:00.000-08:00

I like my baby brother. He's so cute. I like it when he looks at me. And I like looking at him. Yesterday he was in his pajamas and he was sitting in the bouncy seat and he spit up. I cleaned it up with the rag all by myself. I like to help him.
He was so cute at the hospital. My mommy made me a special shirt that said "BIG BRO". I like to wear that shirt but I don't wear it a lot.

My New Brother, by Ellie Rush

2008-11-21T08:41:00.000-08:00

This is my baby brother Shiloh. I am the big sister. I have been a little sister to Payton, but this is my first time being the big sister. I like it a lot. I like holding Shiloh because I love him. I comfort him when he's alone. When he's scared I comfort him too. I give him kisses and hugs when he goes to bed. He looks kind of like Payton and me. He has blue eyes and kind of green eyes. And one time when he was crying he fell right asleep. It was funny. It is good to have a little brother.

Election 2008

2008-11-05T07:25:00.000-08:00

Last night we colored our American maps. Barack Obama states we color blue and John McCain states we color red. Washington voted for Barack Obama so we colored it blue. When a state comes up we need to color it for who they voted for. Each state has votes and Obama needed 270 votes to win. We added up the votes when we colored in the states so we could keep track of who was winning.

You have to be 18 years old to vote. When we turn 18 we are going to vote. We will be happy when we get to vote. We also colored pictures that said VOTE! and we hung them inside the windows of our car. They had to be on the inside so the rain would not get them wet. We were so happy this morning when we heard Barack Obama won. We cheered and yelled and jumped around. Our mommy told us that we should remember this forever.

Trick Or Treat!!!!

2008-10-31T20:01:00.001-07:00

These are our Halloween costumes. We went trick or treating tonight. I am Frankenstein and I have green skin made from green makeup. I also have stitches on my face and hands. I like my costume because I can put makeup on. Frankenstein walks side to side. When he walks he puts his arms out. Frankenstein is not real. He is just a monster from a story. A doctor made him in the story.
Written by Payton

This is my costume. We went trick or treating and people gave candy to us. We said "Trick or Treat!" We went house to house. When we were trick or treating, Grandma was at our house. I was a pink leopard and I had whiskers on my cheeks and a black nose.
Written by Ellie

Chalk Drawings

2008-09-19T10:21:00.000-07:00

Payton:
There is a mountain and a rainbow, clouds and a sun, stars and a bus. The bus is taking school children to the mountain to learn how to rock climb.

Ellie:
My picture is a sunset and a flood. My sunset is blue, purple, white and yellow. There are cars and a hotel and a person making a silly face.

We like drawing with chalk. We are going to make another one. I'm going to make a zoo (Payton) and Ellie is going to make a barn and a farm. We hope you like our pictures.
Today is our Uncle Lenny's birthday. Happy Birthday! From, Payton and Ellie

Swimming Lessons

2008-01-26T15:53:00.000-08:00

Swimming lessons are a good thing, so you know how to swim when you are a big kid. We are taking swimming lessons every Saturday. We were excited to start. We blew bubbles and kicked and played "Red Light, Green Light". Payton's favorite part was when he got to do the back float. Ellie's favorite part of the lessons was playing with the toys. We like to be in the water. The water warms us up. It gets cold sitting on the side.
Ellie didn't want to go in the water right away. I played up on the side instead. I played with toys. I went in with my teacher and she helped me swim.
When we get bigger we will know how to swim. We won't be afraid of the water because we will know how to swim.
by two great swimmers - Payton and Ellie

The Turkey Trot

2007-11-27T16:08:00.000-08:00

We were racing at the Turkey Trot. The Turkey Trot is a race that we try to win. It happens on Thanksgiving. We run the race with all of our cousins. We start the race at the start line. When the gun shoots we get a little scared but it tells us to start running. In the race Morgan fell down. Morgan is our cousin. Daddy told us we win if we finish. We both finished so we both won! Here are some pictures from our Thanksgiving Turkey Trot.

This is the starting line

We are running!!!

I finished! I won!

Ellie chose to go around the finish line.

This is our family

Our Buddies

2007-11-20T16:59:00.000-08:00

These are our friends, Charlie and Carston. We are riding on a teeter totter. We don't live next to Charlie and Carston. Charlie still lives far away and Carston lives in California. That is far away from our house. We don't see them very much, but when we do see them we feel happy.
We like being at Charlie's house because we like playing with him. We jump off the couch onto the pillows. We ask his mommy if we can and she says yes - sometimes. If we all jump at the same time we will bonk our heads on the other kids. Instead we take turns. Charlie is very nice to us. He gets excited when we go to his house.
We loved when we got to play basketball with Carston at his old house. Tim, Carston's daddy, taught us how to shoot baskets with the basketball. He learned by playing basketball with our daddy. It makes us sad that he is far, far away from our new house. We don't see him very much so we miss him.
We love our friends.

The Pumpkin Patch

2007-10-30T08:01:00.000-07:00

We went to the Pumpkin Patch with Daddy and Mommy.

We couldn't find our pumpkins because some of them were dirty. We finally found the just right ones.

We went on a horse hay ride. The horses were going fast. The bell dinged when it stopped. Then we got off. It was a long ride.

We fed some animals. These are goats. One goat was funny because it tried to eat the bag that our food was in. There were peacocks, cows, and chickens too.
Our favorite part was getting to eat homemade donuts and drink berry-apple cider.

Rabliloli

2007-10-16T18:50:00.001-07:00

I made a video about food. I like rabliloli (translation: ravioli). I like lettuce too. I didn't get messy when I ate rabliloli. I ate it with Mommy, Daddy and Payton for dinner. I really liked it because it was good. I ate all of it. Here is my video.
Goodbye, Ellie

Webcams Rock!!

2007-10-12T15:57:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we make silly faces. I think you will laugh. We used our computer to make curvy faces. When we saw our pictures we laughed so hard. We took pictures using the mouse. We clicked on the camera on the screen and took the picture of our faces squeezed. Here are some of them.

The pictures made our faces look silly. It made our noses look like the place where we blow our nose was by our eyes and our mouths looked lower. Our blue eyes looked big in some and little in some others.

We hope you laugh when you see them because they are very funny.
We love you! Goodbye!
Payton and Ellie

Pumpkins

2007-10-10T11:03:00.000-07:00

These are our pumpkins. We made them with glue and jack-o-lantern makers. I made a silly face pumpkin. If you see my pumpkin you will laugh so hard. Mommy taught me that with glue, "One dot is a lot". I did the dots all by myself. We are going to put the pumpkins in our windows so everyone can see them. We are decorating the house for Halloween. I moved a lot when Mommy was taking my picture.
From, Payton

I put two silly eyes on it and two silly eyebrows. I have a silly nose on it and a silly mouth. I squeeze, squeeze, squeezed the glue. I played with our pumpkin bikes today too. They are little toys.
Goodbye, Ellie (If you were here I would shake your hand)

**All posts are in Payton's and Ellie's own words. Mommy only does the typing.

Our First Post...

2007-10-08T15:32:00.001-07:00

Hi! My name is Payton. My sister is named Ellie. I like to put my Elmo puzzle together, play games, play my BINGO game, and play games with Holly and Haley. I like to play hide and seek with them. They are my Aunts.
They came here this weekend. When I woke up from my nap they were here and I saw some presents in my house. But they weren't for me. They were for Grandma and Holly's baby.
My sister Ellie loves to play hide and seek with Haley and Holly too, just like I do.
Here is a picture of me with my sister Ellie. We are at the State Capitol building. Mommy took a picture of us in the flowers. The other pictures were of us smelling flowers. That's all.