March 2016 – Toadfrogs & Elephants

31 Mar

Meatheads – It’s For Dinner

We love Meatheads for so many reasons. The boys love their burgers – made fresh when you order. I love their chicken fingers. Everybody loves their fries. They serve carrot sticks and dip with their kids meals. Today we love them because they are located right next to Alex’s art class which ends at 6 pm and makes it very hard for me to cook dinner. Wade met us and we all had a great meal. Kaitlyn entertained us with Peek-a-boo until the food arrived.

Teague was not to be done on entertaining us and used the Twisty Twigs they give to the kids to decorate his glasses. The only downside is they are slightly sticky and clouded up his glasses pretty bad!

31 Mar

March 31, 2016

Reading his new book.

31 Mar

March 31, 2016

Rainy day.

31 Mar

March 31, 2016

Rainy day.

30 Mar

A Day Of Pictures

Teague had his camera out all afternoon. He took pictures of everything (and I mean everything). I got a kick out of it and just let him enjoy his camera and film. I even took pictures of him taking pictures!

And here’s a sampling of the pictures Teague took today.

30 Mar

March 30, 2016

This is our favorite place to read. Tonight Alex read to me and then we quickly moved on to his book. (We are now on book 10 out of 12. Here’s hoping we find a new series soon.)

30 Mar

March 30, 2016

I looked over today to see that Teague has jumped on the makeup wagon.

30 Mar

March 30, 2016

They love to jump together on 1-2-3. They can get to exactly this point and then they (Kaitlyn) need help to achieve a tandem jump.

29 Mar

Blanket Of Fun

Kaitlyn gathered all the items you seen on this blanket from all over the house. They kept her entertained for about 20 minutes. I’ll call it a win.

29 Mar

March 29, 2016

Wade’s knee has been acting up so the ice pack has been all over the house. Alex thought it would make a great hat.

29 Mar

March 29, 2016

A little early morning market fun.

29 Mar

March 29, 2016

Today Kaitlyn learned about painting her toenails.

28 Mar

March 28, 2016

Alex really wanted to sing to Kaitlyn tonight at bedtime. Amazingly, she tolerated it.

28 Mar

March 28, 2016

During our spring cleaning we found this flashlight. The last two nights when I have gone to check on Teague’s sock situation, I have found him asleep, sock safely over his thumb, flashlight on, and usually under his torso.

28 Mar

March 28, 2016

I think the Easter Bunny knew what he was doing when he gave Kaitlyn her pretend makeup. It has been a favorite ever since!

28 Mar

Oddly Put

Alex’s glasses are always in one of two places – the top of his dresser or on the bathroom counter. Teague’s glasses are another matter entirely. They are usually in his room and usually on top of his dresser. However, I have found them on top of a book in his bookshelf, perched on the ladder of a firetruck on the playmobil table, under his pillow in his bed. Today’s location was by far the most interesting, mostly due to creativity and that he actually got them to stay.

27 Mar

March 27, 2016

Happy Easter.

27 Mar

Easter

The kids woke up and couldn’t wait to check out their Easter baskets. Alex got his much wanted Lego dinosaurs. Teague got his much wanted wallet. Kaitlyn got pretend makeup, which she has spent all morning putting on herself and her baby.

Then it was time to get dressed for church.

26 Mar

Egg Dyeing

Because we didn’t have enough excitement this morning, we decided to dye Easter eggs this afternoon.

The perfect part of all this is my kids love boiled eggs – sliced for breakfast and currently the boys love a sliced egg on bread with honey mustard for lunch. These won’t last two days…

26 Mar

March 26, 2016

Tosa Easter Egg hunt – how we missed this!

26 Mar

Easter Brunch And An Egg Hunt

The boys (and I) were so excited when they realized we were now close enough to return to Milwaukee for our traditional Easter brunch and egg hunt on the Saturday before Easter. We loved spending the morning with old friends!

I’ve been into comparisons lately. So here are the last few years in Easter Brunches (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, no 2015 due to living in KC, and 2016).

25 Mar

March 25, 2016

Alex.

25 Mar

March 25, 2016

Waiting for the train.

25 Mar

Her Chair

Kaitlyn still refuses to sit in chairs the normal way, but at least she doesn’t spend the majority of her time standing…

24 Mar

March 24, 2016

The TV stare.

24 Mar

March 24, 2016

Kaitlyn loves this singing bunny and dancing chicks.

24 Mar

Oops

I didn’t have a problem with Kaitlyn getting in the game cabinet. I even knew she was pulling everything out. It was only after she was done I realized she pulled out the puzzles and removed each piece from each puzzle before moving on to the next one. This might have been our most time consuming cleanup yet…

23 Mar

Family Reading

In an effort to appear in more pictures I have decided to start using my tripod and remote more often. Here goes. These pictures are put in order that they were taken over about an hour. (To be clear, Kaitlyn did not spend an hour on the couch listening to a book. She came and went, but she helped make the funniest pictures.) You can see how things went…

23 Mar

March 23, 2016

We have read a lot the past few days.
(To see the evolution of the hour pop over to my other blog – here.)

22 Mar

March 22, 2016

Teague had so much fun telling Kaitlyn all about cars this morning.

22 Mar

March 22, 2016

We visited a new park today. This slide was huge. Kaitlyn couldn’t wait to go down it and Alex really wanted to go with her. I finally agreed and Alex promised to be careful with her. I was so impressed. I don’t think he could have gone any slower if he had been sitting in molasses. Then I explained I was just worried about him holding on to her at the bottom. I let them go again at full speed 🙂

21 Mar

Entertaining Themselves

The boys have spring break this week and we are spending it at home. I started the day doing laundry and cleaning out closets. At some point I realized everyone was playing so nicely (and quietly) downstairs. When I finally went to check, I found the boys in the playroom and Kaitlyn enjoying all of the art supplies that had been left in her reach. After that Kaitlyn came upstairs with me and requested a change in pajamas and several different shoes while I worked in her room.