Turning 2

Ethen turned two on the 9th.   On his birthday he received a birthday card in the mail from Grandma Pam. He was very excited to open it. He opened the card and saw the money and yelled "money".  Not really sure if he understands what that means, but he knows money is something exciting.

 Here he is with his moo-la, carried it around the house with him most of the day. He's in PJ's now and still excited to have it. Now we need to  decide what to use it for, Shoes, PJ's, or candy if he had his way.

 A few weeks before this birthday,  Nana and papa sent birthday gifts for Ethen and Elizabeth. I was hoping to save the presents for his birthday party, but he knew the presents were up in the closet and wanted them. He would point upstairs and try to say presents. so I gave in on one Sunday and let him open one.

 And of course the sister were more than happy to help him open his present.  He still has one more, but it will have to wait until his birthday party or he won't have much to open.

 At Christmas Ethen  got two big trucks and now for his birthday he added a tractor. The three are a great set to play with together. They love using them with legos. It will be even more fun when it finally gets warm and we can take them to the beach and play with the in the  sand. 

Thank you grandma Pam and Nana and Papa!

Center Piece

For young womens, we had a mother and daughter program. It was based of the book Beautiful a parable for women and young women.  The parable is about finding all  10 of the kings keys. Which would mean striving to find and develop 10 divine attributes that will help us become worthy to enter the kings kingdom.

I really wanted to decorate with keys and this is what i came  up with as our Center piece. Not to shabby for only $4.50. We decorated with blue and silver. Blue table cloth and silver plates and napkins. Made blue and silver buntings to hang around the room. I really wish I had brought my camera that night to take pictures. It turned out really nice. But at least I have a pictures of the center piece. It will look great on my front door. Can't wait to hang it for Spring.

Mommy's Lil Helper

This little man is mommy's lil helper. I can always count on him to help me with the housework. He loves to help me vacuum,  fill and empty the dishwasher, and even help with laundry.  Just the mention of Vacuum and he goes running to the front room closet to try and pull it our for me. He will fight me for it until I let him have his turn. I have to let him vacuum the same spot for at least 10 minutes before he hands it off to me to finish the rest of the house.  

when it comes to laundry he get pretty angry if I try to take the basket of clothes downstairs without him.He loves throwing the clothes into the washer and bringing clean baskets of clothes back up stairs. Now if I can just get him to not throw the clean clothes out of the basket when I'm folding them or walking and knocking over my nicely folded stacks of clothes. Thank you little man. Now go tell your sisters to go clean their room!

Half Birthdays!

Happy  Half Birthday Jocelyn. March is filled with  many birthdays for our family.  Jocelyn wanted in on the celebration too. So we did an un-birthday party for her. Her half birthday happens to be March 1st.

The big 5 1/2.

 She helped me make her cake. She wanted a pink cake with Strawberries.   We put strawberries in the cake and on top with pink frosting. It was pretty good. I couldn't find the Number 5 candle so all  she got was the 1/2 on her cake. 

 We sang her the birthday song from Alice in Wonderlnd "A very, very un-birthday". I also gave her a bracelet I got in the mail as a freebie from some website giving away free stuff. It's a little big, but she loves it!

Now on to Ethen and Elizabeth's birthdays

Lets eat some cake.

Valentines

We started Valentines day off with  breakfast

Elizabth wanted red  scrambled eggs and toast , but of course the eggs turned out orange instead. 

O'well, I tried. 

Elizabeth looks so cute in her valentines outfit. So sparkly!

The night before, we ran to the store and grabbed valentines  candy  and cards for class parties. They each had their class list and they picked each card for their friends.  Jocleyn even wrote her name on all the cards. A few days before valentines the kids got a package from their nana and papa.  They had fun opening their cute little bags filled with treats, toys, and socks. thank you nana and papa!  Lots of chocolate to go around.

Dude! put on a shirt!

another monkey to add to his growing collection of stuffed monkeys

Clifford 50th Birthday

My kids love watching PBS!  And for the last two weeks they have been announcing Clifford the Big Red  Dog's 50th Birthday celebration at the Erie Library. The kids have been so excited and begging me to go.

 So we ventured over to  take part in the party. There were hundreds of children there. It was a   3 hour event with lots of crafts, face painting, games, story time, short films and pictures with Clifford himself. We got there early and it was packed.

 Here are the kids getting their faces painted like Clifford. 

 I  was surprised that Ethen let the lady paint his face. He left it on for quite a while.

 I think we waited in line for a good half an hour to see Clifford. Ethen was very excited to see the Big Red Dog. He's not afraid of anyone in costumes like the girls use to be when they were little. I would hate be the person inside that suit, sitting for hours.

 The kids did some crafts and then we listened to story time, but had to leave soon after that. It was Ethen's nap time, and boy did he get cranky fast. The girls really wanted to play some games and watch a film, but we had to go. And we missed out on the singing and birthday cake too. Darn. Well, we stayed as long as we could.

 She loves taking pictures of herself. I delete most of them. But here's one I saved.

And I'm finally on the other end of the camera! Say Cheese mom!

Pre-Valentines

The kids were out of school the other day for a teacher in service day. The girls wanted to do some crafting so we pulled out some paper and found something for them to make.

I think they were originally suppose to be Clifford the Big Red Dog, but they turned out to be something different. they both did a great job. Now their works are hanging up on the walls.

 The little boy wanted to have his picture taken too. He looks very handsome today!

Elisabeth made a valentine Balloon too. Too bad Jocelyn's got popped.

Happy early Valentines