After School Fun...So Glad Spring Is Here!

Here is a glimpse of our typical afternoon.

Two Monkeys In a Tree

And a little bit of homework. I love that he loves to read!

Everything Is More Fun With A Friend...

At least that's C's story as he completed his Spelling homework with his "pet" inch-worm on his left elbow/arm :)

This Just Made My Day...

The other day I went looking for the kids because it was too quiet - normally a sign that they are hatching some kind of evil scheme :) Instead, I found C reading G The Princess and the Peas (a library book she'd just checked out and was excited to read).

I stand corrected. So. Very. Sweet! 

Misson Accomplished

After much trying, trying, and trying he climbed the tree in our front yard...and it require the use of robes, bikes, or baby sisters :)

He's one proud boy!

Ingenuity At Its Best!

C isn't quite tall enough to climb the tree in our front yard.

Naturally, the next logical step is to tie one end of a rope to his leg, throw the rope over the branch and tie the other end to G's bike (with the intention that she will drive off and pull him up).  Little did he know that the REAL challenge will be convincing G to follow "the plan."

Note:  This was closely supervised...had there been any chance of these two actually coordinating their efforts, I would have certainly intervened. :)

Last-Minute Save

One of the upstairs toilets flooded tonight. Not just a little overflow either. Thankfully, I caught it before it made it to the one-year-old-next-week hardwood floors in the hallway.  But not before it leaked down through the kitchen ceiling and down the kitchen walls.  Lovely!  I now have a new stain on my ceiling.  I am so, so, so, so, SO thankful that it doesn't seem to have damaged any of the ceilings I've already scraped.  I'm pretty sure I would have had to take to my bed for a few days if that'd happened :)

J was fortunate to be out of the house during all of this craziness...Lucky Duck! :)

I would say this would be a pretty cruddy day...but we ended on a sweet note as C prayed:

"Dear Lord, thank you for Mommy because if she wasn't here we would be in a hot mess."

Totally unsolicited and perfectly timed encouragement from my little Daddy's Boy :)

Old Habits Die Hard

Or so they say...but I guess when you are an independent, strong willed kiddo, and you decide you want to stop sucking your fingers (that you've been sucking since you were 2 months old), then those old habits are HISTORY! :)

A week ago, G told me that she was going to stop sucking her fingers. And stop she did!  No bribing or threatening necessary!  

As far as I'm concerned, this is really amazing!  She sucked her fingers A LOT...when she was upset, tired, bored, at home, at school, in public restrooms (YUCK!)...you name it.  

I'm really proud of her.  She's a determined, persistent little girl!  

She still sucks them at night.  Which I think is totally understandable.  But it bugs her.  Every morning she wakes up and "confesses"  her finger-sucking :)  I tell her not to worry about it.  That it will come.

My baby really is growing up!

4 Months Old:

18 Months:

2 Years:

I guess past this point, we started asking her to take her fingers out of her mouth before we took the picture :)