Camping

When Owen and Ava woke up Wednesday morning they decided to go camping! So they got everything they needed and set up their campground!

Picnic with Grandma

On Thursday we met Grandma Annette at a park for a picnic lunch. After we were done eating we played on the playground for a while. Then we packed up said goodbye to Grandma and went home to take a nap!

Last Day

Today was both Owen and Ava's last day of school. I dropped Owen off at school at 8:00 in the morning. Owen proudly carried a Gerber Daisy plant into school and gave it to his teacher as a thank you gift for being such a wonderful teacher! Then I ran home got a few things together and left to go to Ava's school. We spent most of her last day outside playing, but before we headed outside Ava did some painting! Ava and her friends had ice cream for snack right before we left.

Spring Program

Monday night from 5:30-7:30 was Owen's Spring Program and end of the year family picnic for school. It was held at the City Park. They City just happened to finish all the construction at the park in time for our gathering! The evening started out with a half hour of free play on all the new equipment for the kids. Then at 6:00 everyone got settled into their spots for the Spring Program. Owen was happy to see that he got to be next to his best friend William! They sang several songs for us all and did a great job! After all the singing his teacher passed out awards to all the kids. Awards were followed by a quick prayer and then we went in and ate dinner. After dinner the kids got to go play again!

The whole group! (Not all of these kids go on the same days and times Owen does)

Owen was really excited about singing at the beginning of the program!

Then ever so slowly he lost his excitement...

and interest in singing...


However, he just happened...


to find a stick...

to play with instead!

Owen receiving his award for completing his first year of school!

NEW

We are so excited our City Park has all new playground equipment! We were able to play on it the same day they finished working on it. We were making almost daily trips out to the park to watch the progress of them taking down all the old equipment and building the new playground. So, Monday night the kids were in heaven exploring all the new equipment. I really like it. They did a great job picking a wide variety of things for kids of all ages to do.

Icicle Pops

"Icicle Pops" or most commonly known as Popsicles are in Owen's eyes a must have at our house. He loves them. They are a year around treat at our house! Now if you know me you know I don't like giving my children junk food or candy. So of course we always buy sugar free "Icicle Pops". If you are wondering why I keep calling them Icicle Pops instead of Popsicles it is because Owen started calling them that about 2 years ago and it has stuck! So any way we went to Target (my favorite place to shop) on Tuesday and did our normal routine of circling through the See Spot Save Section (dollar area)before we started shopping for what we really came for. I was delighted to see all kinds of new items that I thought our family couldn't live with out! I will spare you with the list of things I bought and move straight to the purpose of this post. They had Icicle Pop molds for $1. Oh, I was so excited and knew I would be the best Mom ever if I bought them, so I bought 2 packs of them! I brought them home washed them and filled them with 100% juice and put them in the freezer. Owen was thrilled when he got up from nap and was able to have one! Now if you are saying but Jill the 100% juice you filled them with has sugar in it. I know, I know, I know, but at least he is getting 100% juice with the sugar. Now that we bought these molds I plan to buy some sugar free juice to make our Icicle Pops. I also plan to buy 2 more packs of Icicle Pop molds from Target as well! (Thanks Uncle Kurt)

Wordless Wednesday

Silly Princess

Ava was helping me go through all of the boy 9-12 month and 12 month clothing we have because in a few weeks Ezra will be ready to wear them. His 6-9 and 9 month stuff is getting a little snug! Well any way Ava pulled out a pair of sweat pants that are a size 6-12 month and put them on. They look like Capri's on her and fit her perfectly in the waste! With the right shirt she could totally wear them as an outfit. She thought she was pretty silly wearing Ezra's new clothes (or should I say Owen's old clothes). I wish you could have heard her laughing at herself. I love when she thinks she is funny and laughs at herself!

On the Go

As soon as you lay Ezra on the floor he starts rolling and turning himself in circles. He usually ends up in awkward positions, stuck under the end table or coffee table. He wasn't supposed to start doing this kind of stuff. Evidently he didn't take our talk seriously when I told him he needed to be a little baby forever! Owen and Ava think it is the funniest thing ever when Ezra starts rolling towards them. I'm glad they think it is funny because I'm almost positive that in a few short months they will be annoyed by this because he will be getting into their stuff!

Content!

OUR LITTLE MAN

BEAUTIFUL BLUE EYES

CONTENT
LOVABLE
HANDSOME

$15 Lego

Notice that I said Lego. Not Lego's or Lego set. Just one little Lego piece was $15. Are you thinking wow that is crazy who would pay $15 for one tiny Lego?

I had to on Wednesday. Yep, I paid $15 for the little black Lego you see in the above picture. Well, actually I paid $15 to have it removed from my oldest child's nose. Then we washed it off and brought it back home with us.

I'm not exactly sure how or why it got stuck up his nose but here is what I do know. Wednesday while I was making lunch Owen was in the living room playing Lego's. Then we ate Lunch and when Owen was done eating he went back to the living room to play with his Lego's some more while I cleaned up our lunch mess. After the kitchen was clean I helped Owen and Ava get their swim suits on and we went outside. We were outside for about 5-10 minutes when Jenny and William came over to play. The kids had started playing in the water right away and then after about 2 minutes from the time Jenny and William arrived Owen announces to every one "I have a Lego in my nose". Just like it was no big deal. I immediately rushed over to him to take a look and sure enough there was a black Lego stuck up his left nostril. I covered his other nostril and had him try blowing it out but that made it worse. So Jenny called her husband who is a Firefighter and EMT to get his opinion and he said not to mess with it and bring him to the clinic. Great call Brandon! Luckily Jenny was over and was willing to stay with Ava and Ezra while I ran Owen to the clinic. I explained what happened to the receptionist and she kindly let us go straight in to see our Family Doctor right after I paid our $15 deductible. Our doctor was able to get it out without any problems. He had me hold a light while he used a really long tweezers and pulled it out. It was lodged sideways very deep in his nose. Owen stayed very calm through the whole thing. Our Doctor did a great job talking to Owen to make him relax and not worry about his nose and the Lego. After it was out, cleaned off and we were ready to walk out the door the Doctor asked Owen what he was going to stick up there next. I was happy to hear Owen say with a big grin on his face "nothing". Our Doctor gave him a five and said "that is exactly what I wanted to hear". We left the clinic went home and Owen went swimming again!

There is never a dull moment at our house!

Jump & Go

Ezra loves

to play

in his
Jump & Go

Green Beans

Ezra tried green beans on Monday. Wasn't sure about them at first and then decided they weren't very good!

We will keep trying them for a couple more days than move onto another veggie. Hopefully he will find some that he enjoys.

Owen hated green beans too in fact they made him gag as did a lot of different baby food veggies and fruit. He still is a picky eater and gags on the taste and smell of food easily. To this day he dislikes green beans but does eat most other veggies and fruits.

Ava well she is a different story all together she refused to eat any type of baby food we tried. She had a really good lip clamper on her. There was no way that she was going to let us try more than one spoonful of anything in her mouth. We tried and tried with her and she down right refused. This is the same baby that also refused to drink from a bottle too. It didn't matter how long she went between feedings she just wouldn't do it. She would choke, and gag, and clamp her lips together and turn her head as far away from the bottle as possible. We eventually ended up taking our strong willed baby girl to a specialist to make sure there wasn't any thing wrong with her. Of course there wasn't we just had a stubborn princess. The advise we got from the specialist was to skip bottles and all together and switch to a sippy cup, and skip baby food and move right to solid food cut up very small. She loved the sippy cup and slowly started eating the food we offered her. And, well now she is our best eater. She will try any thing we give her and will eat some of the strangest foods.

So we will see how this baby food stuff goes with Ezra. I am hoping we will like it and be a really good eater for us!

Wordless Wednesday

New Pool!

While we were planting the Garden Sunday evening we told Owen that we could set up his new pool so he could go swimming on Monday. He was really excited about it. He got out of the garden and went to get the box that his pool was in.

It took him a while but he eventually got the pool out of the box!

Then Owen and Ava started to unroll it.

They kind of struggled to get it to lay flat!

After lunch on Monday Owen and Ava put their suits on to play in the pool.

The water was still pretty chilly!

Owen blew some bubbles...

So did Ava!

Neither one of them got completely wet. The water was too cold.

(They went swimming again after dinner on Monday and the water was warmer so they actually got all wet!)