Pacific Science Center

Yesterday my mom and I took the kids down to the pacific science center and met with my sister Jessica, Vernon and their 3 (almost 4) kids and my brother Joshua. The kids were all excited to see each other again. The science center was pretty crowed so it was a little stressful keeping the kids together, okay it was mostly Daniel who kept running off.

Daniel enjoyed the aquarium area, but wouldn't touch the hermit crabs.

Daniel and Joshua are good buds.

Noah LOVED the bug section of the center! My mom wasn't very excited about this area at all! She wouldn't even go near the butterfly house.

The kids in the butterfly house.

Daniel spent most of the time in the butterfly house sitting by the fish pond. I don't even think he saw the butterflies flying around him, he had his eyes on those fish the whole time!

After we finished with the science center everyone came back up to my house and had dinner. Then the guys went out to the shooting range and had some fun there. It was a busy fun day and the kids all slept great last night!

My Boys

Took some pictures of the boys yesterday while Emma was at school.

Jacob is now rolling around really well. He doesn't stay in one place very long.

Jacob, Daniel and Noah.

Jacob sitting up. He hasn't quiet masted sitting by himself, but we are close. I can tell you that he has mastered throwing himself off the couch. He will sit on the couch and start rocking forward until he catapults off the couch. You would think that after the 3rd or 4th time of hitting the floor he would learn not to do that....

Lesson Learned....

So the other night I was sitting in the living room reading. I noticed Emma over by the baby swing playing with something. All of a sudden there was a big flash and a buzzing sound. Emma jumped back really fast. Kendall came running into the room cause he saw the flash from the kitchen. She was playing with a metal watch and it got wrapped around the cord that was plugged in. She started to unplug the cord to get the watch off and it made contact with the power. She started screaming and I noticed her fingers were black at the tips. I took her into the bathroom to run cold water over her hands thinking she had been shocked and was burned. The black marks washed off and she said she wasn't hurt, just scared. Amazingly she didn't get shocked. But she wouldn't go near any outlets for a while.

Kendall had a nice long talk with her and made her help him fix the outlet. The screw was melted into the plastic. Kendall had her cut the wires and overcome her fear. She is one lucky girl and won't be playing around the outlets anytime soon. We gave her a new nickname, Sparky.

Pinewood Derby

Tonight was Noah's cub scout pinewood derby race. He worked hard all week on designing his car.
He earned his wolf badge and was presented with it during the pack meeting.

Noah with his friends waiting for the races to begin.

Noah's car came in 1st place! He was so excited. It was a fun evening and it was nice to see Noah so excited.

The Bug

The last week we've had a bad bug at our house. It started with Emma last Tuesday waking up with a tummy ache and the worked it's way to a cough and fever the next day. Daniel then started coughing the same day. Jacob came down with a high fever the next day. Then today Daniel came down with a fever. I am wondering if this bug is ever going to leave my family alone! So far Noah and Kendall have been able to avoid it and I started to come down with it but I REFUSE to get sick!! Hopefully soon we will be back to good health!

I want peanut butter on my face!

Last night I was woken up by Daniel at 3am. I went to his room to see why he was crying. He says to me "I want peanut butter on my face." I thought he was trying to tell me he had peanut butter on his face and I told him his face was clean. He then repeats that he wanted peanut butter on his face and used his hands to pretend he was spreading peanut butter all over his face. I finally convinced him to go back to sleep, but not before I had a good laugh! I'm curious what kind of dream prompted that!

Noah Turns 9 years old

Noah turned 9 last week! We had a little birthday party with family for him. My Dad and Catherine and friend Shweta came up from Olympia to help celebrate. My mom also came for the party.

We had a yummy dinner and lots of birthday pie!

My dad with Emma and Jacob.

Noah got a snap circuit board and has already spent many hours playing with it! He loves things like this!

Emma and Daniel really wanted to help open gifts!

New movie from Mana!

Kendall surprised him with a new bike! He had had his old bike since he was 3 1/2 yrs old and he had out grown it.

Perfect fit!

The next day we had a little break from the rain and he got to spend some time riding around the neighborhood.