Gram arrived late last night and Alex had a sign in the door to greet her. We spent the day the Children’s Museum in Providence. We had never been but I had heard great things. My big boys are probably aging out but it was still a lot of fun. Kaitlyn and Ben had a fantastic time and LOVED the water room.
Month: April 2019
Life lessons – laundry folding.
Naptime!
We met friends at Old Sturbridge Village Today. It was a little chilly but we had a great time walking around outside and enjoying the sites. I’m pretty sure the kids were just in it for the snacks though.
Things I absolutely did not expect to see when I walked down the hall today….
Everyone’s favorite job – sorting/cleaning the bookshelves.
Sneaky nap strikes again.
(It has been ages since I caught Teague napping.)
Quiet time for the win.
3-2-1 Blastoff.
It took several weeks, but Teague finally got to read Ben the book he bought him from the visiting author at school. Ben was a little harder to keep entertained, but we loved the book!
Kaitlyn joined us before long and she definitely appreciated the book – and payed attention all the way through.
Yes. That’s my oldest playing in the dirty laundry pile – again.
Story time.
This bathtub was made for bubble baths.
Bagel King.
These two and their forts and their secret games.
Bubbles.
Bubbles
When we were buying a birthday present last week, we found a new product at Target. We bought bubble hands and today we tried them out. (They aren’t as impressive or easy to use as you might hope.) We did have a lot of fun though!
Some days Alex is more than happy to be a complete goof ball an even let me take a picture of it.
I couldn’t find Teague all afternoon. It turns out he was just having out in his bed.
Some bunny loves you.
Patrolling the kitchen.
Today was our church’s annual Easter brunch and egg hunt. Unfortunately the weather was horrible, but we had a great time with pancakes, crafts, and an indoor egg hunt. They staggered the kids as they went to look for eggs and everyone had a 10 egg limit. I saw Alex a total of 10 minutes the entire morning. The other kids are getting harder to photograph during the egg hunts because they are so fast and Ben needs so much help. We all had a great time and brought home plenty of candy!
Then it was off to a birthday party! Kaitlyn’s friend Mason is turning 4 and we were happy to help celebrate.
Proud lefty.
Easter Egg hunt at church!
Successful Target run.
The people we are buying our new house from offered us moving boxes. We happily took them up on the offer and now we have boxes. The kids happily made a fort and I’m going to let them enjoy it for a while because I can’t seem to make myself start packing quite yet.
It’s so nice to be able to play outside. I just wish we had a longer driveway or didn’t live on such a busy street. We don’t have a lot of traffic all day, but during peak hours the traffic tends to go really quickly on our street. Ben definitely can’t be trusted not go too far straight into the street. The big kids got out the old scooters are raced. Ben decided he wanted to try too and Teague was nice enough to help him.
Library visit.
Library visit.
Library visit.
Library visit.
Some days waking up is easy. Some days you need to do it slowly with a few good books.
Somedays we dance in the chairs.
Ben was having a snack and Teague was entertaining him. But when I turned back around, they had somehow eaten an entire container of blackberries.
The true definition of a dog pile….
YMCA!
YMCA!
YMCA!
This little guy did great for his first night with no pacifier.
Some days I barely have it together. Tonight was one of those days. I was cooking dinner and something didn’t seem quite right. I normally put things away as I use them but I couldn’t seem to find the can of chicken broth I had opened. I was sure I had a memory of putting it in the fridge but I couldn’t find it. It wasn’t sitting on the counter and I was sure I had set it on a shelf. I even looked in the recycling. No luck. I finally chalked it up to craziness and moved on. After dinner, I was unloading the dishwasher and opened a cabinet door. Imagine my surprise to find my missing can of chicken broth – with my glass measuring cups…
I’m just thankful I didn’t find it days later.
Video games – again.
Knowing that I will soon have a much bigger kitchen, I was excited to finally find a learning tower for Ben.
(Hopefully Wade can get it painted before we move.)
They always say you treat the last baby different. That is definitely proving true at our house. Both of my other pacifier babies I took their pacifier away at 10 months. They each handled it differently, but it wasn’t too bad. Ben is now 14 months (I think?), and we finally took it away. I’ll admit I thought about taking it away at 10 months, but I was lazy. He’s a really good baby and I just didn’t want to deal with even a minor hiccup. He also drools constantly. My other kids only drooled when they were teething. Ben started drooling at 4 months and has never stopped. However, the pacifier will stop the drooling – at least for a little while. Today hasn’t been too bad without the pacifier. We’ll see how tonight goes!
It’s a rare family photo – and we’re all dressed up too!
These kids are dying for warm weather. The minute they saw the sun and felt like it was somewhat warm they begged to put on swimsuits and wash my car. I figured why not. My car couldn’t look any worse and it really was a nice day outside!
They insisted it was warm enough to wash my car. Who was I to argue?
If I ask really nicely and offer a bribe, Alex will entertain Ben for very short periods of time.
Teague is too tall to use a chair when he cooks but I love that he still has to stand on his tip toes.
Princess playdate.