Braided Pig tails

My daughter was born with barely any hair. It has taken a loooooong time to grow. Now its long enough for braided pigtails! We took the picture and emailed it to daddy.

Wall Trax... really?

So my mom bought my boys wall tracks. The smart idea was that I would no longer have to tell the boys to pick up their tracks, or step on the tracks while checking on the boys at night. They were to go up on the wall and out of the way.

I was able to get the first track up, and then the boys asked to get the second track linked to it. My daughter ended up playing on it while I was trying to let the sticky wall mounts dry.

I speak for the Trees

I recieved my degree in English. I am a huge reader. I love reading. I read as much as I can even if its only about 10 minutes worth on some days. Most of the time, I end up reading after I have the kids down for bed.

Some days, when they are playing quietly enough I sneak into the corner of the couch and cuddle up with a book. So they see me reading from time to time.

Everyone in my family has bought books for my children. So we have a ton of them all over. The books no longer fit on the shelf, so they have been put on the shelf in the living room and into drawers. They pull the books out of drawers and off shelves and climb on me so I can read to them. Beau loves the Blue truck book and depending on what Billy is into is what he's asking me to read. We read the Pixar Cars book so much, he could recite the story back to us at 2 yrs old and its since fallen apart.

My husband started buying Dr. Seuss, my mom brought over my old books, and finally the Lorax was bought. All my kiddos will stop what they are doing and come sit by who ever has started a story. I hope they become big readers like me.

We read the Lorax by Dr. Seuss.


My children loved the story, so I bought the original animation from Walmart. They sat still and quiet.... and watched it about 30 times.... I could only sit throught it the first 4 times... then its to the point that mommy has chores to do and doesn't have to worry about coming back to a mess.


Finally I took my kids to the theater to see The Lorax on the big screen... They were absolutly glued to the screen. I think I watched them more than I watched the movie.

I took them to IHOP to eat. They had all the different Dr. Seuss themed food. Then I had to go by Walmart to pick up some groceries. They wanted to plant a Truffula tree.... but there arn't any... so I found the next best thing.

Flowers that look like the trees.

We planted these and my kids managed to get me in the garden every day to water. We'll see how they survive the hot summer and winter.

Water Table

It's still cool outside, the heat hasn't set in here in Texas. That however, does not slow or stop my kids from playing with their new favorite outside toy!

 

We have decided to do different activites with it daily. I've had them play with just water, cold water, warm water... and then I added bubbles to the water today, so they had a blast making different size bubbles.

 

Luck of the Irish

I'm Irish.

 

and I LOVE St. Patricks Day.

 

This year I started the day off for my children with Irish Milk. ;)

Green food coloring in milk

I bought the fascinator at Party City and all the tulle at Hobby Lobby. 

 

So I knotted her tutu. And put leggings and a jacket on her because it was cool.

 

I found these shirts last year at Target and fell in love with them. I bought one for each boy and they still fit!! I also found one kind of like it for my hubby.

After spending time at GG's taking pictures with her, I took the kids to the local park to spend some time. They love climbing!

 

Early St. Pattys

One my hubby's best friends, has been coming over every Friday if possible. If he's out of town, or I'm just really out of it, he doesn't show.

Since hubby is deployed, I've been relying alot on Papa, my brother, and this friend to do all the guy stuff around the house that I can't do.

The other upside is besides my mom, he's about the majority of my adult conversations.

He was going to be gone for St. Pattys day, so when he came over I made him a mixed drink with Apple vodka and green food coloring with sprite.

Total Girly girl

I have been painting her nails every day. So today I found those old nails that you slide on. I used to play with these as kid! The local Dollar Tree is now carrying them. She played with them for hours!

Trying to escape

So my kids learned how to unlock the door.

and they run outside...


So Papa came over to fix the problem... he put a latch on all my doors where the kids can't reach.

 

 

But they have been trying. ;)



Finally Long

So I have been trying to grow out my hair, because I want be able to get a perm like I had in high school.

My hair is naturally wavy, but not that cute thrown up into a pony tail every day. At least I would have the cute curls, when I have no time for anything else.

And it's finally getting long!

Dallas!

So we took a trip to Dallas during spring break to get out of town and visit family.

At the mall near my cousin, my children found this!

 

 

Later on my mom & I agreed to make my 3 kiddos and my cousins 2 pre-teens to the indoor play place near their house.

The whole place is like this. We didn't realize we had been there for over an hour.

They even have entertainment for my 21 month old to bounce and play on.

Rock band

My daughter has discovered our Xbox Rock Band instruments

She bangs, and tries to use the drum sticks. She has no rythem, but its cute.

 

And look at her hair! It's finally getting longer...

No more flooding!

My best friend couldn't figure out what to get the boys for their birthday, so he handed me some cash and smarted off, "Get them something useful."

I laughed and headed to the store. The one thing my kids didn't have was a water table. They LOVE playing in the water and my bathroom has flooded several times because of it. The sink and the bath tub have been plugged with several things so they could splash as it filled with water, then over flowed because they couldn't unclog it.

My bathroom needed a break. So I bought this. All the other photos I have are the kids literally playing in it. G has deemed it his swimming pool.