Noah's Excuse

So tonight I find Noah sitting out in the hallway, it's 9pm...he should be in bed. He will look for any excuse to be out of bed and this is the one he used tonight....(Now to get the real effect you must read his lines with a very whinny voice.)
Noah, "Mommy, my nose is stuffed up. (sniffle sniffle)" (to prove his nose is really stuffed)
Me, "Noah go back to bed!!"
Noah, "But when I am in the dark my nose is stuffed up so bad and I can't breath! But when I am in the light it isn't stuffed up! So I need to just stay in the light."
Me, "Noah go back to bed NOW!" (I'm so mean)

Tulip Festival

Last night for family home evening we decided to take a road trip to see the tulips. We went last week when my mom was here but the tulips were not out yet. This time they were all blooming and were just beautiful!

Daniel enjoyed watching the cars go by on the road...come all this way and all he wants to look at is cars!

Noah of course was more content to play in the big mud puddles!

Daniel enjoying the dirt, who needs flowers when you got DIRT!

When driving home there was a field full of all these geese and as we drove by they took flight! The kids were so excited to see that!

Kendall and Daniel walking together.

Daniel enjoyed hitting the flowers and watching them bounce around as he did it.

Emma enjoying the flowers. She kept looking for the purple tulips and was very disappointed when there weren't any.

I gave up the camera, a very rare thing!

My boys! Aren't they hansom!

Noah and Emma

My hansom hubby!

Emma in the pink tulip field.

Noah showing Daniel the tulips.

I got Noah to stand still for just long enough to take this...no small feat!

Daniel And The Doll

Daniel has become attached to one of Emma's dolls...and it's very pink and laughs this creepy laugh when you hug it. He has to have it in the car or he gets upset and starts signing for it. (He can't say doll, but he knows the sign for doll.) Don't worry....he still loves cars, trucks, planes, dirt, rocks, and sticks all things boys like....

Daniel's New Thing

Daniel chose to throw his first temper tantrum today...right in the middle of sacrament meeting. And he has decided to devote the whole day to perfecting the tantrum. This one got started cause he didn't want the piece of bread I gave him... he wanted the piece of bread I was eating (which was the same as the one I gave him). Oh how I love this stage....

RC Planes

Kendall has always loved airplanes. His knowledge of airplanes amazes me. We have two book shelves devoted to books on airplanes and he's read everyone of them. He has passed his love of airplanes on to all our children. Kendall has recently decided he needs to get back into RC planes. He just recently made an aerobatic plane and is learning to fly it. In the past he has only flown glider planes. Noah thinks his plane is the 'coolest ever" and wanted one of his own. So Kendall got Noah his very own RC plane to start learning how to fly. We took the plane to the church gym so that he would have lots of room to fly.
Daniel LOVES airplanes! He can't say airplane yet but he does know how to say airplane in sign language, and says it all the time.

Here is Noah with his very first RC airplane.

Noah did so great flying his plane. It is pretty slow moving so he would chase after it as he was controlling it.

Noah flew the plane up onto the little ledge and it's not like we could just throw something at it to knock it down! Kendall had to climb the wall to retrieve it.

Noah having a great time flying!

This is Kendall's plane. We call it Greene. We thought the church gym would be big enough to fly, but after a couple of tries we decided it wasn't big enough, and went home to make some repairs to the plane. Now we fly it outside when there is no wind. The whole plane only weighs 5 oz, so if there is any wind at all the plane is really really hard to control.

Kendall getting ready to fly the plane for the first time. (He was a little nervous, didn't want to total the plane on the first flight.)

Preschool

I'm doing a preschool with 3 other moms and this week was my week to teach. The letter we were learning was Y. So we made some yellow play dough on one of the days. The boys loved it cause it was kind of messy.

Easter Fun!

My Mom and Tedra arrived Saturday evening just in time for dinner and dying Easter eggs.

The kids had a lot of fun coloring the eggs! Before we started Emma asked if she could have one, I told her yes thinking she wanted to color it. Next thing I know she is trying to crack it so she can eat it! I had to explain again what they were for and that we would eat them after they were colored.

Easter Morning Noah woke up first and was SOOO very EXCITED!! The Easter bunny was extra generous this year....which had nothing to do with the fact that Manna was here! :)

Noah and Emma checking out there little nests filled with goodies!

The Easter Bunny also hid eggs all over the house for the Kids to find. Noah searching for eggs....I spy a purple one.

The Easter Bunny must have been really tall cause he could hide the eggs way up high!

Emma found some in the vacuum!

Daniel playing with a little bunny.

Daniel didn't really understand why he had to search for eggs that were out of sight when there was a big pile of eggs right on the floor...and Emma kept adding to the pile!

Emma and Tedra Easter morning.

Emma in her new dress the Easter bunny gave her.

Children's Museum

Saturday we met up with my sister Jessica, her daughter Emily, and my mom, and step sister Tedra at the Children's Museum in Seattle. We had a great time visiting. Sadly they left after an hour as Emily got sick and needed to go home. But we did get some great pictures before and after they left.

They had a really neat grocery store where the kids could go shopping. Everything was kid sized and Daniel went straight for the freezer section and got his ice cream!

Here Daniel is trying his best to get the ice cream out of the freezer! Emma came to his rescue and helped him reach it!

Daniel filling his cart with cans of beans, yummy!

Daniel needs to work on his cart pushing skills! He kept running into people and shelves....sometimes I think he was aiming for them!

Emma shopping.

Emma and Daniel riding the firetruck.

They had a little theater where the kids could dress up in costumes and "perform" on stage. Emma had a lot of fun!

Noah and Kendall spent a lot of time in the bob the builder section of the museum, here Noah is posing next to his creation.

Close up of Noah with his building.

The boys working hard.

Just getting started on the building. Noah was so excited to have his daddy there to help. Last time we came here Kendall wasn't able to come and all Noah wanted was for Kendall to come and help him.

Emma enjoyed wearing the hat and running around!

This is Daniel right before lunch....as you can see he wasn't to happy!

Emma and Emily sleeping in one of the little houses....this was right before we discovered she had a fever. Oops!

Noah, Emma and Emily cooking in the little kitchen....Emma is digging up something special for us to eat! (she is gonna kill me for writing that someday).

Daniel getting a plastic loaf of bread....he was a little confused about the plastic food at first.

Noah, Emma and Manna going for a ride.

The kids loved this little motor bike!

Daniel was attracted to the wheels!

Daniel and Manna getting to know each other.

Noah checking out a...not sure what he's doing to be honest!

Emma and Emily sliding down the mountain.

Daniel checking out what's under the rocks.