Daniel

I have a hard time getting Daniel to eat vegetables of any kind. But the boy LOVES his juice! So everyday I try to make juice. Today I made spinach, carrot, apple juice. He would drink his cup full and then shout "MORE!" The boy would drink gallons of this stuff if I made that much.

He does get a bit messy while drinking it though! I figured he is two years old, he shouldn't need to drink out of a sippy cup any more. It's just more clean up for me till he gets it down without spilling it everywhere.

Yummy!

Daniel has also inherited his daddy's love of air planes. He discovered all Kendall's airplane books on the bottom shelf in the living room this week and he will spend hours at a time looking through them. It's really very cute. He gets a very intense look on his face while thumbing through each book. It's like he's trying to memorise each plane.

Tulips and Mud Puddles

Today was a beautiful warm day! We had my niece, Emily, up for the weekend and thought it would be a perfect day to go see the tulip fields. We have done this every year since moving up to Washington. The kids had so much fun running along the paths between the fields. But we weren't sure which they liked more...

the fields of beautiful flowers or....

The big puddles of MUD!

I think they spent more time playing with the mud then they did looking at flowers!

I did manage to get some pictures of them with the flowers. Daniel wasn't too cooperative today when it came to getting pictures.

Daniel's favorite flowers were the purple tulips.

Emma liked all the different colors of tulips, but pink is by far her favorite.

This is the closest thing I could get to a smile from Daniel. When ever I tell him to smile he scrunches up his nose and scowls (as you can clearly see in the next picture).

Daniel and Emma.

I really like this one of Emma and Emily. They are so funny together. Emily is once again in Emma's clothes so Kendall and I kept calling Emily Emma.

On the way out of the fields Noah spotted this tree and just had to climb it!

Easter 2010

The kids had a fun Easter this year. We went to my mom's house and had an Easter egg hunt, ate yummy food and just had a good time visiting. My sister Jessica and brother Joshua came too. The kids always have a fun time with Emily!

Daniel discovered there was candy in the eggs and decided that he had to open each egg as soon as he found it, then open the candy and eat it right on the spot!

Emma pauses her search for a moment so I could take a picture.

This was the best picture I could get of all four kids. Daniel is all boy and wouldn't put this toy down!

We decorated eggs on Saturday and Daniel must have eaten 2 or 3 of them before they were done!

I heard that if you put a little oil in the dye it would make a marbling effect on the eggs. They did turn out really cool, but man what a mess!!!

Strange jelly belly flavors

We were at Costco the other day and of course we were all munching on samples. Noah was trying out the Jelly Belly's. He would pop one into his mouth and then tell us what the flavors were. He popped one in his mouth and said, "Oh, this one tastes like laundry detergent!". I looked at him and laughed and asked him when he has eaten laundry detergent! He reassured me that he has never EATEN laundry detergent but that the taste of that jelly bean tastes like the smell of the laundry detergent...therefore laundry detergent must taste like that jelly bean. My kids are always making my smile!

My son Noah who is 8 yrs old has become very interested in knives, all kinds of knives, but there is one kind in particular that has really caught his attention... the Swiss Army pocket knife. My husband also has a love for knives. The other day Kendall took Noah into a knife shop and Noah saw a Swiss Army knife and wanted it more than anything! Kendall told him it's $30. He said that if he does all his chores and saved his money he could buy it. I wasn't so sure how I felt about this...but now I LOVE the idea! We do a bingo chart for chores, for every chore they do, they get to put a little star in that spot. For every bingo they get they get a bingo dollar. A bingo dollar is worth a quarter. So the last few days my son has been working hard, he spends all day cleaning and doing chores (He even does all his school work quickly). I haven't had to load or unload the dishwasher in days. He vacuums the whole house, cleans the bathroom, his bedroom is spotless, as is his sister's bedroom! He sweeps the kitchen floor, brings in the laundry, sets and clears the table before and after each meal! Life is good! This morning he got up and made scrambled eggs and toast for us, so he could put a star on the "kind deed" spot of his bingo chart! I'm trying to figure out what I can get him interested in after he saves up for this pocket knife.....maybe something less sharp!

Brown girl, brown girl what do you see?

I see a blue brother looking at me!

Noah and Emma recently started dressing in one solid color...Emma loves wearing all brown or all pink and Noah prefers blue or black. I think it's kind of funny. Emma has been reading the story Brown Bear, Brown Bear and on this day she noticed Noah was wearing all blue so she started reciting the book with a small change in words to include things around her.

Noah has this strange habit of only wearing one sock...It drives me crazy sometimes cause he always starts out the day with two socks on. No wonder finding matches is so hard. I have wondered for a very long time where he gets this from until the other day I noticed this....

Like father like son....

Noah joined cub scouts recently. He loves it! He is excited about going to camp this summer and learning all there is to learn about the outdoors.

Last week Emma had a little accident. She smashed her finger really bad and it required some stitches. The doctor was great with Emma and gave her this little purple lamb to help her be brave while they stitched her up. She named the little lamb Emily and it has been her constant companion this whole week! So now I have two children who have had stitches. It's been a bad couple of weeks for my kids...I am just hoping Noah doesn't have to go in any time soon!

Needed: Helmet With Face Shield!

It's been a rough couple weeks for my little independent almost 2 year old! He was climbing on his chair one afternoon (one in which I had a million things to do and not a lot of time to do it in). It would have been just fine if not for a little toy air plane he dropped as he was falling. The tail of the plane went into the back of his head which means a trip to the Dr. for two staples. He was really good about the whole thing too. Getting the staples removed the next week was worse then getting them put in. One of the staples malfunctioned while going in which meant a painful removal! When he was done he said his very first sentence "I wanna go home!" and then ran out of the office without looking back!
His independence is sometimes a painful thing to learn. On Tuesday he decided that he could go down the front two steps without holding onto anyone or anything. Well he went down head first. Cement does terrible things to the face! This is a picture of him a few hours after it happened.

This is what is looked like the next day...before he did the same thing all over again. We were going to a dinner and it was dark. He made it down the steps just fine but then tripped over his own two feet and went down. I thought he avoided hitting his head and put him in the car. When we got into the light of the building I saw that he had hit his face and had a fat lip! I really need a helmet with a face shield for this kid!