August 12, 2014

 Back to school we went!  Ava on her first day of first grade!

 Caught this Goose putting her baby in her highchair.  I love that she plays babies, Ava was never very interested in babies!

Tonight I caught her with True's boot on.  The other day she had both on!  She is a serious shoe fanatic!

July 27, 2014

 I had every intention of posting this summer.. but it slipped through my fingers!  So, a few of the things we have been up to before school starts next week!  

Lu found that she fits perfectly in this dump truck of True's.  She likes to be pushed!

True likes to build!

Walked into the living room to find them like this.  Love.

Sometimes nap time can not come soon enough.

Lu loves trying on shoes!

June 9, 2014

 We went and picked strawberries at my mom and dad's.  Lu was in heaven.  She would follow the bowl wherever it was and eat strawberry after strawberry.  She kept saying, "Mmm."  It was pretty cute and she was a sticky strawberry mess by the end of it!  She had juice dripping off her chin and down her front!

True picked strawberries for about 3 minutes and then he wanted to go play.  Ava picked the whole time, she seemed to enjoy it.  We will have to go back and do it again!

June 4, 2014

 We went to the zoo on this rainy, rainy Wednesday.  It rained pretty much the entire time we were at the zoo.  We ran from building to building.  As we drove home, the rain stopped and now it's been dry the last couple hours.  Of course!  My mom and grandpa came with us, it was still a good trip.

We pretty much had all the exhibits to ourselves.  The orangutan's building was the most crowded.  They were pretty neat to see.  So, even though we got soaked, it was a good time!

May 29, 2014

 Tonight the kids found snails and were messing around with them.  They decided to try and race them like Turbo!  They were pretty brave picking them up and moving them all over.  Lu even picked one up!  Eww!

True let this one crawl on him.  I made him take a bath to get the snail snot off him!

May 27, 2014

What happens when True goes to a babysitter and doesn't take a nap!  He fell asleep watching a show and was a total GROUCH the rest of the evening.  Moral of the story:  True still needs a nap!

May 26, 2014

We got to visit with some friends last night!  Ava and Audrey hit it off pretty good this time.  Ava could not believe that Audrey was taller than her!  While Isla wouldn't join in the picture, she and True were friends by the end of the evening as well.  True asked if Audrey could come over again today… if only they didn't live so far away!  Maybe we will make a Springfield trip this summer!

May 24, 2014

 I meant to post these pictures last night, but I feel asleep!  I love when I see Lu with a book on her lap!

Ava got to bring her poetry notebook home from school.  We got to listen to her read!

May 20, 2014

 My internet was now working last night, so tonight I will post the pictures!  Lu couldn't wait for her own bath and jumped in to Ava's!  She was not happy because she went underwater!

Poor little soaking girl!  Maybe that will teach her not to try and climb in!

May 18, 2014

 Where does time go?  Celebrating this cute guy's 4th birthday today!

One of my favorite pictures - he is such a sweet, lovable, happy (most of the time) little guy.  He was in bed giggling tonight because I told him I was going to pretend he was still 3.  Some of my favorite things he says right now:  puptakes (cupcakes), hipbups (hiccups), goldbinch (goldfinch), and gril (girl).  I'll be sad when he can say all his words correctly!

May 17, 2014

 True's trophy for playing soccer!  He had his last two games today.  I wish I could say the same for Ava, but she has a tournament in two weeks.  She was a bit jealous that True already got his trophy!

This is how Lu slept today during nap time.  My neck hurt just looking at her...

May 16, 2014

Unlike you, Emily, I haven't forgotten to post.  I just haven't had any pictures to post!  This is a picture from a few days ago, but life is just crazy with BJ gone, teaching, and taking care of three kiddos.  We are in survival mode!  I was really excited because I heard soccer games were canceled for tomorrow because of all the rain, but then, unfortunately, they are back on!  Bummer!  I was really looking forward to being lazy tomorrow… I wanted to be like Lu in this picture…

May 13, 2014

 Day 2 of field trips!  I got to go with Ava's class to the zoo.  Here is Ava with her two best buds from class.  We were afraid it would rain, but it held off until we were back on the buses headed home.  We had a pretty good day - lots of animals were on the move and it was not crowded!

The orangutans are the new exhibit and they have not officially opened, but we did see one out!  I can't wait to see the exhibit!

May 12, 2014

We went on a field trip today to Morgan Monroe Forest.  It turned out to be a really good trip!  We weren't so sure it was going to work out due to the rain we had Sunday, but the forest didn't get any rain and we were able to hike, do s'mores, and find caterpillars galore!  Fun trip!  I am going on Ava's field trip tomorrow to the zoo.. 2 days of field trips may do me in!

Happy Mother's Day!

 Happy Mother's Day!  Love this little guy..

 and these two divas...

and my mom!

May 10, 2014

 We planted flowers today.

And Lu pet the neighbor's cat!

May 9, 2014

Say hello to our new family members:  Fifi and Nemo.  Ava and True are the proud owners of these fish won at the school carnival.  They may not be here tomorrow, they were a bit overfed… 

May 8, 2014

Throwback Thursday.  A baby True.  He was such a chunk and I just love that little look on his face.  He doesn't feel good today.. he had the "hip-bups" this morning and needed some water.  He also saw a "goldbinch" tonight at our bird feeder.  That's a close one.. Love this little guy! 

May 7, 2014

Not going to lie, really wanted to skip posting, but here it is.  I am excited for my kinders to give these to their moms for Mother's Day!  We made shrinky dink charms for necklaces.  I brought them home tonight to bake them, so I'm excited to see what they think tomorrow when they see how much they've shrunk!

May 6, 2014

 We just have all kinds of wildlife around our house! Ha! We had a cocoon in our bush and I've been kind of watching it because it was a pretty big cocoon.  Today it had hatched and the moth was sitting by it.  This isn't a great picture, but it had my fingers in to show how big the moth is!  

It was big!  On another happy note, our frog was back! :)

May 5, 2014

 True got a sunflower seed from preschool that has been spilled multiple times since he brought it home.  We finally planted it tonight.  He really likes to dig in the dirt, so he really enjoyed digging the hole for it.

Then all three were digging in the dirt!

May 4, 2014

We found a toad today - I think it maybe the same one we had last year in our flowerpot.  Ava really wanted to put him in a 'house' and keep him, but I told her how much happier he was outside.

Hopefully, he's still around tomorrow!

So, I actually didn't take this picture, I stole it off Facebook.  True and Ava are playing soccer for the first time this year.  This was their 3rd Saturday of games (2 each Saturday for each kid!).  True finally figured out how to play the game.  The first two games he was pretty put out that kids would steal the ball away from him and he spent sometime just sitting on the field.  Today he went for it!  He scored multiple goals and was all over it.  Now we just need to work on not taking the ball away from our teammates!

My little early morning riser.. She was awake and raring to go at 6:30 this morning.  She found the iPad on the floor and brought it over to the rug in the bathroom to play by me while I got ready.  She is trouble!  Tonight, as we were getting ready for jams, she ran face first into the stair corner.  She busted her lip and had quite a bit of blood.. poor girl.. True said, "I don't like when she is hurt."  Me, neither!

Speaking of True, he had two of Ava's "gril" books about pink tutus.  I teased him about it and he started saying his favorite color is pink.  He was giggling so hard.. it was pretty funny.  That kid makes me crack up!

Here we go!

 First day in the May challenge to post everyday and I'm already cheating.  I didn't take this picture today, but it was still on the camera and I didn't take any other good pictures today, so I'm using it!  This is Lu in the morning.  She is usually pretty happy in the morning and ready to go. 

She is learning the pout though (this was the only picture I had of it).  When we tell her no or don't give her exactly what she wants, she uses this little pout face.  It makes me laugh!

Happy Easter!

It's been a while… here is life lately...

 True was told to clean up all his big trucks.. and this is what he did.  Made me laugh!

 We dyed eggs last night, then had baths, and then went out for what is becoming our annual Easter egg hunt in our pajamas!

 True thought it was great!

 Goose didn't really care that much… She just loves to be outside!

 Reaching...

 Tried to get a cute group picture.. it just didn't happen.  If one or two were good, the other wasn't!  This has a good picture of True...

 The girls looked cute in this one… (True had something in his eye for about 3 or 4 pictures and he wouldn't stop rubbing it!)  The last one is kind of sweet because Lu was checking out True.  She loves him.