Monday, April 26

Cowboy Hat


I found this series of pictures on my camera today when I downloaded them. Ellie had some fun! I recently found an old 35mm in a box and gave it to her. She took a whole roll of 24 pictures in one day. I'm very interested to see what she took pictures of - and how they turn out. We need to take them to the store to get developed. Do they still do that?! So not only does she want to be a Target Rep when she grow up, but a Photographer too. Abbi, you have an apprentice!






Spaghetti, anyone?


So, I'm pretty sure every baby has a picture like this in their photo album of life, right? Evelyn enjoying some spaghetti - I love the grin on her face.

Jack Turns 5!



Holy wow -- Jack turned five a few weeks ago, on March 31st. He's really grown this winter. All his pants are too short and when looking at pictures from last summer of the kids - he's the one that has changed the most.

Kindergarten Round Up was last week. He was totally pumped and really enjoyed it. I think he'll do well in school - as long as he keeps the wrestling around to a minimum. I've worried about his lack of letter/number learning -- but he seems to be making big strides the past few months.

For his birthday he had a few friends come with us to some parks in Ankeny. It was a beautifully sunny, warm day! He wanted a Spiderman cake - and this is what I came up with. What is under that whipping white frosting is a strawberry jello cake. Yummo!

He's really into Legos these days and I recently purchased a huge bin of legos from a friend's garage sale. He builds and builds in his room everyday. He always wants my help building something, but I end up getting lost in sorting pieces. Wow - aren't I nerdy fun?!

Wednesday, April 7

Dirty Panties

Here was a recent conversation with Amelia -- who will be 3 next month:

"Mommy, I need new panties."
"Why?"
"Because these have toots in them."

And then today, after going to the bathroom, I noticed that her panties had some skid-marks in them. I asked her, "What happened?" She replied, "I don't know. They're dirty! I want new ones." I explained to her that sometime during the day she had went poop and hadn't asked for help to wipe and she got poop in her panties. Her response, while laughing, "That's funny, Mommy."