Random February Pictures

My kids think a sunny day means they can jump on the trampoline in their swim suits. They are trying to pop the water balloons they are jumping with.

All dressed up for church. Isn't he handsome?

We finally got a few good snowstorms. We built a fort under the trampoline and then spent an hour sledding. It's fun that we can all do stuff together now. My family is growing up. And everytime I see this pink snow outfit on Mia I remember Justin wearing it. He was so pretty.

Hans decided to burn the many tumbleweeds and trash that migrate under our patio table. It's always great fun. It reminds me of the year he decided to burn our grass in hopes that it would grow back greener. It didn't. We just had burnt grass.

Mia watched safely from inside.

I bought Mia goggles. She loves them. I take her swimming with me most Tuesdays. She loves the date with me. She is an amazing, fearless swimmer. She needs constant watching since she just wants to swim alone, although she would drown if I left her to swim alone. I love love love this time with her. I love playing with her and getting insights into her 3 year old brain. She's funny.

Mia with fun dip. She was green for 3 days. Most likely because this is as often as she bathes right now:)

Justin has re-discovered smoothies. He loves dipping waffles into them. He even likes that they are green. For the last few weeks he's had green smoothie with waffles for lunch.

Katelyn lost more teeth. I think she's lost more then she has. She is still writing notes to the tooth fairy. The last one said something to the effect of, "Dear tooth fairy, are you rich? And what do you do with all the teeth you collect?" The tooth fairy, who is not me, wrote back a note telling Katelyn that she (he?) is in fact rich because she sells the teeth on ebay to trolls who then, etc. etc. She LOVED this.

He loves breakfast. Pancakes or French Toast every morning with lots and lots of syrup dip. Justin turns 5 this month. He asked me to buy him a motorable car. What he means is he wants a car that has batteries that he can drive in outside. Like the neighbors. Who let him use their cars whenever he wants...And less cool then the motorcycle that has an actual engine inside of it. Unfortunately I haven't been able to logic him out of this obsession he has with needing one of his own. I told him they were too expensive, he needed numbers, I told him, and he said then why could I buy a new treadmill that cost more then a motorable car and he'd just ask his friends to buy him one. He is driving my crazy. He gets fixed on one idea and then cannot let it go. I try and talk to him, but every time I start to go crazy. He just needs to be really really rich someday so he can buy all of walmart and target. This reminds me that when Ashley was 2 she told me she wanted to run a walmart when she grew up. Anyway, I am having Justin's party at aerials, which is his birthday present. He has a lot of faith that someone will buy him his very own motorable car. He's asked all the neighbors for one. We have new neighbors that moved in that have an almost 5 year old boy as well. Justin has spent all of his time begging to play with Canon. He also has two neighbor girls named Ellie who he is constantly playing with as well. He would happily play away from our house all day long. He has a couple of days. He goes from one house to the next to the next. I miss him when he does that, but when he's home he does not stop asking to go somewhere else so I'm always relieved when a neighbor lets him in. I counted the playdates he had last week and it was over 15. Seems excessive, right?