Movie Day

We went and saw this today. The movie was entertaining. The popcorn, on the other hand, was a HUGE hit! Over all the kids were pretty awesomely behaved. Kiara was the star. She was so still and quiet the whole time.
Bella and Sharice joined us at the theater. We had a great time.

Play in the summer rain
When we got home it was raining so we got to play for awhile in the rain. We spun with arms open and danced in the rain. We practiced somersaults. I tried to teach the kids how to slide like a baseball player but they just didn't get it. We played Follow the Leader and tried to catch the rain on our tongues. We headed inside once the thunder and lightening started. I told Alex it sounded like Heavenly Father was bowling, he thought that was funny.

Have you seen my camera?

Me neither. I had it last night. I took pictures of Matt playing Connect 4 with the boys and then it disappeared. Don't worry, I'll find it. I loose stuff ALL the time. It's annoying.

Anyways... today we played a big game of running around and jumping on the boys little couch. Tyler was cute counting "EAH! EAH! EAH!"
Once the little girls went to bed for nap time we popped pop corn. The boys and I watched an ocean scene be painted by old Bob Ross. He is the painter guy who always makes "happy trees" You know him? I was telling them about how my grandma (who was an amazing painter of nature and flowers), would watch him when I stayed at her house as a little girl.

We went to the park again for lunch today. It's great. The kids are having the best time there! Today we ran up and down the length of the grass. We played ring a round the rosy around the trees. We spent fifteen minutes taking turns at the water fountain. On the way home we sang the ever silly 'On Top Of Spaghetti' the kids giggled and screamed, "again! again!" Thanks everybody for letting me be a part of your awesome kids lives. They are great!!

Water Balloons

Play with water balloons

While the boys cleaned up the playroom I took the girls and we filled up the balloons. I made some sandwiches for lunch and we enjoyed them outside with carrots and go gurts.
We ran in the sprinklers until everyone was done then we had a little water fight.

Last Friday

Last Friday was just my kids and I so there isn't much to report. Anyone want to hear that I went to the bank during day care hours, no-- I didn't think so.

Isn't Joshie's donut mustache cute? I LOVE HIM!

Looking Good Mr. Emmett!

Mr. Emmett at the park. Hanging out while the bigger kids ran up and down the hill. Sun glasses courtesy of my Alex.

Park and Playing

First order of business-- I was thinking about how long Kiara has been coming here and it's been a year! Kiara started coming on July 7th of last year. Happy belated anniversary to Kiara and me. We've been together a year and some change.

This morning started out with some games. I taught my Alex how to play Dutch Blitz. It is my new favorite game. Matt and I have been playing it with anyone who will join us.

One of the other games we played was restaurant. Look at that team work!

Josh was our chef today. The rest of us got to sit back and be served.


Also, Alex and Josh's Grandpa came over this morning and left us his dog. He's out of town until next week and it was too long to leave Dixie home alone.


The kids had a lot of fun with her. I was really proud of them. No one yanked on her or chased her (phew). She was having a ball with the kids. I told Chase she was so excited and licking because she never gets to be around kids, just one grumpy old grandpa ;) and this was so much more fun! The kids wanted to take Dixie outside and once we did Dixie became a complete nut. She ran all over the place from one kid to the next to the next. Licks for everybody! I told the kids she was trying to play tag and the kids got a kick out of running from her.


For lunch we went back to the park today. the kids are having a super fun time there. The park has a dinosaur slide and the can't get enough of it. The other kids in the picture are Ebon and Aliah, my friend Liz's kids.

Kiara played witht he grass today. She was rolling it between her fingers. She stayed glued right to my side today.

Chef Alex

My Alex helped make us pancakes this morning. Good job buddy! They were great!

Lunch at the park

Play at the park
Today we went down to the park by the Olympic Oval. The kids LOVED it. It was a really great get-away. We ate lunch there and the kids got to play for an hour afterwords. I met some other moms while we were there, it was a nice experience all the way around. My Alex played on the slide and climbed all over the play ground. Josh was more reluctant to play (it was right before nap and he gets clingy when he is tired) so he just played in our stroller/wagon. Kiara was LOVING the little hill we ate on. She would run down it and crawl back up, have a bite then run back down. She was giggling-- so cute! Ava of course, just sat on my lap. She crawled about a foot away and decided that was too far and came back. Alex P. and Tyler are on vacation for the week so that was all of us there today.

The boys and I played restaurant during morning nap.
We found pictures of food and I cut them out. The boys glues them on to paper to make menus.

Alex wanted to be our waiter so Josh and I ordered food and were served. Lots of fun! Alex even wrote down our orders on a little notebook.

Hiding from the crawling spiders

Hiding from the "spiders" aka the babies.

Little Friends

I love it when the girls play together. It's so cute!

Chalk Art Show

Have a chalk art show
We had ourselves an art show today. I drew the frames and the kids created their masterpieces. My Alex colored in the entire frame orange. Alex P. made a spider. Chase "made blue" Josh drew a fire truck. Tyler, Ava and Kirara's were more interpretive art. Enjoy the show!

Red Breakfast

We had a red breakfast today. We enjoyed cranberry juice, cherries, strawberries, blush peaches and added red sprinkles to our oatmeal.

Josh's preschool book was about music today. Among the pictures were violins and cellos. Josh didn't know what these were so I had the kids close their eyes and I played some of each instrument for them off of good ol' youtube. We then talked about how the music made us feel.

Bella, bouncy balls, banana bread for breakfast

Today we made banana bread from scratch. It was delish! We substituted half the flour for oatmeal-- tasty! Bella and Sharice came over for lunch today. It was so nice to see her! The kiddos had lots of fun catching up.

We made bouncy balls out of water balloons. I've been itching to try this and I'm glad the kids would finally let me do an art project with them today. Here the kids all are with their balloon balls. They're being piggies with their noses pushed up.

Sharice brought strawberry short cake with her. YUM! The kids loved it!

Since it is party Friday we got to watch a movie today. We watched about half an hour of Finding Nemo.

A picture of Emmett without Ava?!?! She was eating lunch otherwise she totally would have been in his lap ;)