Gilly Soose

Gracie's way of saying Silly Goose :)

(and yes, she is naked a lot - it's hard to get her to keep her clothes on, but I'm happy as long as her diaper stays on, so I consider this a win now :) )

Finger Painting

A while ago I was introduced to Pinterest by a good friend of mine and it is the most addicting thing!!! I love how many great ideas I have found on there. I found a recipe for homemade finger paints that I decided to try out and it was a big hit. The paint is a little watery so it soaked through the paper after a while, but it served its purpose - the kids had fun!!!

Farm

We decided to venture out of the house and enjoy the nice weather. I stopped by my work to show off my kids :) then picked up Mom and we went to the Farm. The kids hadn't been there in a while and they were very excited about all the animals.

Enjoying the backyard

I don't think I've ever been as ready for warm weather as I was this year. I still haven't really wanted to take all 3 kids too many places by myself yet, so hanging out in the backyard is GREAT! It's kind of like leaving without actually having to leave :) I still want to get a sandbox set up in the backyard, but for now they seem perfectly content playing in the dirt :) Both of them have spent HOURS filling up the wheel-barrow and transferring dirt and leaves and rocks to other parts of the yard.

It has been pretty windy here unfortunately and the other night the wind blew the umbrella out of our table which caused the glass tabletop to shatter :( But the kids still figured out how to improvise and just use the edge for their drinks :)

And you know Bradley, with his dressing himself lately you never know what he's going to come up with. It's shorts with snow boots a lot lately :) And he just loves picking out sunglasses from Daddy's collection :)

Are you a puppy?

Is this wrong that I think this is funny? :) She does so many things (Bradley too) that I just think is hilarious, but I know that it's wrong, but it's hard not to laugh...

Aquarium

Tammy asked us to go with her and Craig to the Downtown Aquarium and I jumped at the idea because I can tell my poor kids are bored to death with me! I feel so bad, I don't leave the house a lot lately because it would be venturing out with 3 kids all by myself which doesn't sound all that fun to me just yet :) I know the warm weather is going to help me want to get out of the house, so I'm excited for that. A few weeks ago I was actually contemplating taking them all to the grocery store during the day... by myself. I was proud of myself for even considering it and I told my Mom and she told me it was so cold outside and I should wait for a warmer day to take them all out, so I quickly changed my mind and decided to stay home. I'm still adjusting to not a lot of sleep and it seems like it would take SO much energy to get everyone ready, time it right, and take them all somewhere. So unfortunately, my kids are going a little stir crazy! So the Aquarium was perfect timing. Our good friends, the Larsen's, met us there as well which was so nice because we hadn't seen them in a while. They have a daughter who is about 7 months older than Gracie and they were SO cute together, Gracie has asked about her every day since we went :) I hadn't been there for probably about 11 years, so it was really nice to go. Sammie did SUCH a good job, she slept the WHOLE time and ate in the car right before and after. We tried SO hard to get all the kids to look at us and smile but it just wasn't happening, they were too distracted!

AFV

Kevin has been addicted to watching America's Funniest Videos on netflix lately, and every time someone wins we always look at each other and think how our kids do more funny things than that every day. I wish I could have a video camera on them ALL the time! They crack me up! So here is my first submission to AFV. They came downstairs doing this and after we stopped laughing we said "Ugh! Why didn't we get that on camera!" So we told them to go back upstairs and do it again :) Gracie just learned how to actually leave the ground when jumping with 2 feet so now she does it all the time, even when dancing like this :) But here she was just learning and still falling down all the time :)