Spring Fever

It has been close to 70 here the last couple days and boy do we have spring fever! Yesterday, the boys had every single toy out of the garage...anything with wheels was being used! Even Millie loved the fresh air! We know it's not going to last long, so we are enjoying while we can...

Here are the boys ready to go on their bikes...

Millie says "wait for me" !!

Completely on her own, Millie goes over and picks out sidewalk chalk and starts drawing...

Meanwhile, the boys are ramming their 4 wheelers into the remainder of the snow drift in our driveway and almost flipping over backwards. Notice Eli's "too cool" facial expression, you might have to zoom in on the picture to see it.

M

Millie

Here is a recent picture of little Millie. She has been sick for awhile and I think she is teething too, so this smile is a rare sighting these days. She is running all over now and her words are limited to Mom, Da-da, Hi, and woof. These four words don't really help you too much with day to day needs, but she has mastered the point and grunt/scream method very well. She also has figured out that when she has something that the boys want, she has to hold on very tight and scream VERY loud in their face. The whole "here's another toy to play with, and then snatch it away" does not work with her anymore. She knows now if somebody else wants it, then it must be something good and you have to fight for it. Despite all this the boys still adore her and Eli's new name for her is "Mills". I don't know if I say it too, but it's just so darn cute to hear him saying...come on Mills, here it is Mills, etc.

Funny Eli...

Just a few funny things that Eli has said this week that I want to remember somewhere...

1) He is really into drinking Sunny D right now. Eli loves anything and everything they sell on TV and he told me I had to get Sunny D because it will make him play sports a lot better. So anyway, yesterday I let him have a small bottle of Sunny D on the way to preschool. While walking in, I told him to make sure he doesn't have any potty accidents at school since he just drank a bunch of juice, his response: "Mom, I'm not gonna have an potty accidents today...I got the power of the sun"

2) The poor guy is getting a cold/cough that our entire has. Not sure HOW we have this since we didn't even LEAVE our house for like 6 days, but we do. ugh. Anyway, he is just not used to have a stuffy nose and his voice sounds all congested. So I just asked him if he was hungry for dinner, and he said "I don't know, I just feel strange". I said "well is your belly hungry or not?" he got all upset and said "I don't know, my belly is just freaking out in there!!"

That boy just cracks me up some time...

Snowed in...

Wow, it's been a long week. We were hit with a huge weird ice storm this year and it has caused school to be cancelled for THREE days now. Three days really does not sound that long, but being inside with a 6, 5 & 1 year old for 72 hours straight starts to get a little nutty. I have learned many things about ourselves during inside retreat though...here are a few of my observations:


1) The house gets MUCH messier when the kids (and me) are home all day long.


2) You have much less laundry when you have "pajama day" for 3 days in a row (for the record, we did change into clean pajamas once a day).


3) Playing on an ice covered backyard is much less messy than snow. The boys are completely dry when they come inside...no wet gloves, hats, etc. That is one nice thing actually! Now the risk of injury is much higher since they are falling down about every 2 seconds, but they needed fresh air, dang it!!


4) I have learned that the boys can finally watch and enjoy real movies (not cartoons)...we watched the new Karate Kid, Home Alone 1, 2 & 3, Nanny Mcfee, etc. I have to sit with them and kind of explain as we go, but I don't mind since they are actual movies and not cartoons!!


5) Being stuck in the house is not good for a diet. We have been baking sweets and eating snacks for the last three days. :( Also, I feel like I am on a 72 hour rotation of coffee & wine...I am starting to lose sense of time, so I am craving coffee at 7pm and wine at 9am.


6) It takes about 3 days at home before even Caden, so NOT my school lover, said that he really hopes Mr Andy the bus driver can make it to our house tomorrow. He even said if he can't, he is just going walk over to school, and knock on the door. Didn't tell him, but I've had the same thought!

7) Are biggest fear was the loss of power...of course that would mean no heat, but even scarier is no wii, no way to charge the Ds, no TV, no computer....ahhhh!!!!!! Thank goodness, we never lost power...but we have "unplugged" for a few hours each day and have read many books, done puzzles, played play do, etc. It's really quite amazing how much you can get done in three days inside!

Anyway, here are a few videos of the kids having fun in the backyard...I will post some pictures soon too!