Spring Break!

Spring break has come and gone... so fast again this year.  I know that I plan things and keep the week really busy so we all have a good time and by the time I look at the photos there are just a couple that I bothered to take.  I guess that figures... hard to remember to take pictures when having so much fun :)

I'll try to outline what the week held and then explain the photos.

Monday:  Play at home and errands, such fun I know :)

Tuesday:  Park play date with friends from the ward

Wednesday:  TCU baseball game and friends from AZ over for dinner

Thursday:  Play at the local school with friends from the neighborhood

Friday:  Fort Worth play date at the park :)

The pictures are from the Friday play date at the park.  

Here are most of the friends that played.  

Closer up of the girls

Bug, sadness.  It was a hard week on the baby who just wanted to nap :)

She almost looks happy in this one, but she's totally crying :(

We had a great week "off" and are sad it's over already.  It was also great to have time to play with friends from near and far!

Sweet boys

I thought these pictures would go well for coming into spring... although they were taken back in December :). 

 At the kids old school the front lawn always had tons of dandelions!  One day the boys collected all of the dandelions that were ready to make wishes on...

Talmage

Grant

Then they let the seeds go

I love that even though they are getting older they are still sweet.  I loved watching them enjoy something as simple as picking dandelions!  I love my boys!

10 Month Old Bug!

Our little Lorna bug is already 10 months old!  I'm not sure I'm happy with how fast she seems to be growing up, but she sure is fun to have around and such a cutie!  She is also super smart.  I think she is trying to keep up with the older kids a little too much.  

We were at the park this week and she decided that she needed to climb the playground equipment!

She acted like she was going to go right up the chain ladder too!

Here she is from bath time.  She discovered the water as it was filling the tub.  Evidently she was thirsty!

 Silly girl

Lorna really is doing so much it's amazing.  She will wave hi and bye now and says hi when she waves.  She also claps her hands when she wants to... usually if something exciting is happening!  She blows out her nose and scrunches up her face!  It is adorable and she keeps doing it if we copy her because then she knows we think she's funny :).  She can stand on her own, but hasn't taken any steps yet.  She just started pushing some of the baby toys (strollers) so I'm sure she'll figure out the walking thing soon enough.  She loves food and doesn't care for baby food any more.  She also likes to bite, which is great for eating food, but otherwise it really hurts.  She got her two upper teeth this last week!  She doesn't want to cuddle and be rocked, but would rather just lay down with her fluffy blanket to fall asleep.  She is a great baby and loves to explore and be around the kids and her mommy!
We love our little bug!  

firefly!

We have already had our first school performance at the new school.  The first grade put on a music program about bugs.  It was really cute :).  All of the kids got to pick a bug they wanted to be and then come dressed up as it.  Oh, what fun!  Sandra wanted to be a firefly.  I wasn't sure what costume would make a firefly so I asked Sandra.  She said she should be all yellow and have wings.  Hmmm, now the hunt was on.  I found material to make a yellow polka-dot skirt so that was one piece down.  The yellow shirt was much more tricky as were the wings, but I found them after searching a few stores.  

Here is Sandra all ready to go to her performance!

She is the top right corner.  

She did a great job!  It was fun to see the cute performance!  

8 Wheels

It has been a while since the kids had decent bikes to ride.  They got too big for their bikes, the bikes got neglected and left out in the rain, and there was no good place to ride bikes at our old house.  The time has come to replace the bikes and get riding again!  The kids were so excited!  It is even better because now that we are on a cul-de-sac the kids have lots of area to get out and ride!!  We now have 4 kids out on 8 big wheels :)

Sandra is big enough for a 2 wheeler now... no more training wheels for her!  She was so excited for her big bike!

Here is Mhari with her new bike.  So excited to be riding with the big kids.

Lorna hung out in the grass during all of the riding.  She really enjoys being outside!  I never got a picture of Clark, but he loves to push the umbrella stroller around the cul-de-sac as the kids ride.  It's pretty crazy with all of the kids riding!

Sandra was having a hard time learning to ride her big girl bike.  I got to teach her and I knew she could do it, she just needed to keep practicing.  I took a picture so she could remember how sad she was before she figured out how to ride.  Oh, it's hard to try new things, but she kept at it...

Until she was riding all by herself!  She really did great and figured it all out in less than an hour ;)

There's the happy face I knew I'd see!!

The girls

Talmage on his new big bike

Ready to ride!

 Jeff adjusting Grant's bike a bit

It was a great Saturday!  The kids rode for a few hours, the little ones played, Jeff and I threw a football.  What a way to spend the afternoon!  We are looking forward to lots more Saturdays... and other days spent out in the cul-de-sac and maybe even some family biking adventures!

Playing Dress up!

My kids sure like to play dress up.  I think the girls really enjoy it.  The wood floors make it even more fun to wear the dress up shoes and klunck all around the house.  Mhari usually dresses up at least once a day.  I think it's fun so we just go with it.  One day she included Lorna in her dress up fun.  

Such a cute bug 

One of Mhari's favorite things to dress up as is the leopard outfit from Halloween!  Too cute!

Oh, and Clark is not to be forgotten either... Here is Mhari and Clark wearing their crowns.  So much fun!

I'm glad they like pretending and using their imaginations :)

Dallas Zoo

At the end of February we joined our ward on a play date at the Dallas Zoo!  It was our first time going and the little kids had a great time!  Too bad those older kids had to go to school... they love zoos!

Here is Mhari on one of the elephant statues.  The kids liked climbing the statues almost as much as seeing all of the animals!

When we first got inside the zoo we found the penguins.  The kids got to watch them as they were being fed.

Mhari wanted to measure herself :)

This was Lorna's first time to a zoo... and this is how she spent it - in the stroller ;)

Mhari looking at the lion

Clark and the lion

Some of the nice ward members bought food to feed the giraffes and shared with us.  The giraffes were probably the coolest part of the zoo!  The kids even got a chance to pet them since they hung around while they were being fed :)

Mhari's favorite part of the zoo was everything inside the barn:  the owl, the rabbits, the pig, the horse.  I guess next time I should save some money and just take her to a farm :)

It was a fun trip and it wore us all out!  Yay for zoos and yay for friends to hang out with :)