Wordless Wednesday

It's raining it's pouring the old man is snoring.....

It has been raining since yesterday..Sort of like this but these pictures I took two weeks ago last week the last time it rained... This week I have some sort of sinus thing going on. Yesterday was awful every time I sat or stood up I though my head was going to explode... It was AWFUL. We did end up going to the library and checking out a bunch of books and movies then letting the girls veg with them..I even made hubby go get the boys from school and I just laid on the couch...ALL DAY... Thankfully the headache is gone today, Just sore and achy with a bit of a sore throat.

I am sort of upset though.. because it was raining, and raining hard.. we didn't get our stuff to goodwill.. BLECH. Hopefully Thursday it will not rain long enough to get this junk out of the house... Maybe??

in the meantime you can enjoy some cute pictures of my girls jumping in puddles :).

A day or um 3 late

So I'm just a little late posting this. But the weather has been to die for here. Just absolutely wonderful! Between stretches of spring cleaning we have spent all of our time outside!

Just saying :)

Nathaniel had a WONDERFUL birthday! He woke up to a pile of presents

He got a pile of presents!

We are dorks,hehehe. My husband has been trying to get the boys to like something other than pokemon... He now has them hooked on Dragonball Z... They love it (and they still love pokemon just as much LOL)

Final Fantasy for the DS!

Something to destroy... on purpose!

LEGOS!!!!!!

Real Bug bracelets!

A pogo stick!!!! 

An awesome castle lego set woooohooo!

He LOVED his cake... It was inspired by Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Lightening Thief. I couldn't find simple Greek symbols for the gods so around the edge I did the Greek symbols for the planets with a big lightening bolt in the middle! yay!. Then I let Nathaniel read the post I wrote just before his birthday.. He sniffed and just said "Thanks mom" :)

Ok I said we have been spring cleaning.... After the winter we had ... It was scary in here... really scary.... Our trash men are going to hate us on Wednesday... also I'm not sure if good will is going to be happy or scared... We have.. 8 bags of clothes.. 5 boxes of toys and 3 boxes of books just for goodwill.... YAY!!!!

To my dear soon to be tween

Nathaniel,

I am so blessed to be here to watch and guide you in to the land of grown-upness(yes I made it up)

 

I hope you never lose your playfulness

Your fun loving nature

Your wonderful disposition (hey look everyone super girl was at the play ground with us)

 Your helpful manner

The way you care for the people you love

Your patience with those smaller than you

 And I hope you can always beat your mother at a game of horse (cause really I stink at it!) But I promise to always make time to lose to you :)

 Baby boy, 

I can't believe you are turning 10 tomorrow... I'm not sure how we got here but you are growing into a wonderful young man. I can't wait to see what the years hold for you..

Happy Birthday!

It's time for a party!!!

This Saturday my parents came over to split our cow! Oh and to celebrate the 3 birthdays, Caitlynn's which was Feb. 17th, Nathaniel's which is in 3 days... on the 18th...sigh.. And Brianna's which is coming up on April 14th.
Caitlynn Got a bunch of fun stuff a my little pony coloring book that is fabric and you color with washable markers then mommy gets to wash it and she can color it over and over! A new dolly and me dress, dress up jewelry, nail polish, and 3 new elephant and piggie books which she carries around asking people to read to her (and she has memorized quite a bit of each of them and reads them to herself and her dollies and  stuffed doggies!).
Brianna got some new cool workbooks(which she has worked on quite a bit today),  play jewelery, and nail polish a dollie and me dress, and what she was most excited about her very own MP3 player! We have added all of our disney, Hannah Montana, Taylor Swift, Jonas Brothers (read all hip pop songs for little girls) Then all of our Raffie and assorted kids music. Then a couple Queen, Aerosmith, and The Doors songs! She has varied tastes in music! I love it! She has listened and shared willingly with all of her siblings :)
Nathaniel received the gift I was probably most excited for him receive... He got a Sony Reader Digital book of his very own! He is a HUGE reader (as are hubby and I). I don't think he has set it down for long since it was charged and we put books on it! For his birthday Hubby and I have $30 for him to spend on any books he would like at the Sony Library!! Yayyyy! I am interested in seeing what he picks out! He already has on it the first book in the Maximum Ride series, The golden compass books, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, And my kids favorite classic... Beowulf... don't ask.. ok I have read it to them all.. They love it... The one book kids force their way through for English class in 12th grade and my kids love it understand it and just devour.. We are a weird family ok LOL.

Well after presents and filling the freezer we packed up and headed over to the mall to get the girl's 3rd and 5th birthday portraits.. We went to Sears and WOW is all I have to say! Check out some of my favorite shots!

They are becoming little ladies :) I just can't believe it!

Spring is in the air!

Spring is well on it's way, and the girls were right there to point it out to me..
They are LOVING wearing cute tee shirts and skirts with out sweaters and leggings and tights
and finding little items mother nature leaves around for us
I saw this picture pop up on our computer and I am in love.... I said to myself No way I took that picture! awesome!!
I love this one too... Look at her cute little arm, she still has just a smidge of baby fat there awwww.
She said "mom it's prickly but look it looks like a person" :)
Walking the boys home enjoying the beautiful day
Alex didn't want his picture taken but I caught him :)
I love this picture too, Caitlynn loves her big brother :)
She slipped a little I swear after these few nice days the girls are covered in scratches and bruises...
I'm not sure what she was doing :)

Run home!!!
Oh wait our friend is out... "just a few more min. please???"

How is spring treating you??

Little Red Riding Hood

Yesterday it was such a nice day out that the girls and I left the house 30 min early to go get the boys. We dawdled along and just took in the sunshine and fresh air. When we got to the school They were having a fire drill so we wandered along outside for a bit. In front of the school there are 2 garden statues, one of a fish and another of a little girl with a basket. My children have all decided at some point that the little girl is little red riding hood. I use these statues as story telling prompts getting the kids to tell me a story about one or both. Yesterday I asked Brianna to tell me the story of little red.

She responded with "I will tell you the story as well as I can recollect"

Me "excuse me? you will what??"

Brianna "I will tell you the story as well as I can recollect!"

Me "Brianna.... What does recollect mean?"

Brianna " It is a fancy way of saying remember!"

Me "Ok the tell me what you recollect!"

She went through the story, she has a pretty good grasp on it! She got to the end when the woodcutter comes to save little red and Caitlynn pipes up " and then the Super Readers saved the day!!!!!!!" If you have a toddler or preschooler who watches PBS and LOVES Super why you will so get it!