Guess which Queen is Luke's? The smiling happy one or the one with scary teeth and a knife?
But this one is awesome--in art class Luke learned about Van Gogh and made a picture inspired by Starry Starry Night, which is especially cool if you remember this blog post.
Thank goodness for Alyssa and her beautiful pictures! We had an "old school" playdate at my friend Diane's on Monday when the kindergarteners were off. The kids had so much fun, although chasing Justin was challenging for me and I felt like I didn't get to talk to anyone. Oh well, that's what Moms' Nights Out are for, I guess!
This is Molly and I do believe she has a bit of a crush on Justin. They played together a lot and she kept force feeding him sippie cups, which Justin seemed to like!
Monkeying around.
This picture made me laugh out loud. Lola, Daniela and Luke posing together?Really? How did that happen?
That is all kinds of trouble right there. See why I couldn't talk to anyone?
Ok, I'm not naive enough to think that spring is actually here, but it sure has been a nice preview. I've been so much more productive the last couple of days and I've been much better with the kids. Makes me realize how much the winter was grating on all of us! The entire side of the house and backyard are mud bogs and I had to don my rain boots this morning just to go out to the shed. Then I cut my finger opening it and decided that cleaning up the yard and garden could wait a while longer. The kids got out the bikes and scooters this afternoon and we found the push car for Justin. We bought it for Michael's first birthday, but Luke always wanted to hijack it, so we rarely used it. With the older boys so much bigger now, I think Justin might actually get a lot of use out of it this spring and summer!
It was cold and 2 out of 3 kids were sick this past weekend, so we stayed inside. There was a lot of video game playing, but there was also some lego and trio building action. Luke wanted a picture taken of his Trio Dragon Cannon Battle Tank.
We visited Matt's Dad at his office downtown. He works on the 30th floor. The boys could have stared out the window forever.
Honestly, I dressed the boys in nice sweaters for the big family party , but it was very late and very hot by the time we got to opening presents and the boys looked like a couple of hoodlums as they played with their new RC cars.
Our nieces Jacinta and Maeve get double presents since they have birthdays around the holidays. We gave Jacinta this sparkly purple dress for her birthday and she stripped right down to put it on. Maeve was fast asleep by gift time, but I got this picture of her earlier. She just turned a year old and used to be so chubby, but she's really thinned out. Justin is about the same size that she is now.
Speaking of Justin, he is now bigger than both of the twins who are a month older. Kayla has always been petite, but Kyan was really fat. Not so much now. I could not get a picture with all of them facing the camera.
Lots of presents, lots of eating, lots of drinking (for the adults, that is) and very little sleep for anyone made for an exhausting visit. We had fun, but everyone agreed that it's more fun in the summer at Uncle Greg's when we can all hang out by the pool.
While I was busy uploading videos of my firstborn, this is what was happening to my thirdborn. Overtired Justin was trying to pull the baskets out from our coffee table and smacked his head on the table. I'm pretty sure the other two kids made it to at least 10 or 11 months before they got their first goose eggs. Poor baby boy.
And what do you do when you go to see Santa, but the line is too long? Stop for pizza instead.
