Friday, August 29, 2008

THE ZOO

Riding the buffalo


Averie and her hat


Averie and the elephant


Little poser


After lunch


The Zebra from the train...


The carousel-Averie rode the "wild cat"


Baylor is on the zebra-sober boy


And on the train


The impala from the train


We went to the zoo yesterday with my mom and the kids. It was so fun! The kids favorite things were the train ride, carousel and their favorite animals from what I could tell were the zebras and giraffes. Those were also the best for viewing out of the train. Averie also liked seeing the elephant! Yea, next time we will take daddy! :o) Have a great Holiday Weekend everyone! Pictures from the weekend with Max and Maddie to come!!

Friday, August 22, 2008

PUDDING.PAINTING.PARTY

Delaney, Jayde and Averie enjoy some sugar free chocolate raspberry pudding...paint!


Baylor and his paint (pudding) face!


Averie's pudding face.


Painting boy


Jett finally decided he wanted to paint...he was very confused by the paint brush and ended up just eating instead of painting.


It's sleepover time! Delaney, Jayde and Jett are here tonight...so that's 5 kids in my house...YIKES!! They are actually all in bed and sleeping. We had home made mini pizzas for dinner and broccoli. Then played and played with every single toy in my house (all of which were in my living room scattered about!!! EEK!!!), then they all cleaned up and were very cooperative! Then we decided to paint with pudding...fun, fun! If you watch Jon and Kate, you know where I got this idea!! Averie and Baylor then needed a bath. After the bath, the girls all got settled in Averie's room and read books for twenty minutes...the boys went down...and all is calm and quiet! But only til about 8am when they all get up and Daddy makes chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast!! Yummy!! I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Monday, August 18, 2008

FIRSTS


Averie's first stick people!! This is Averie and Baylor (two separate people)- Heads, legs, one has feet, arms, hands and they are reaching up to the bar (swimming to the bar is actually is what Averie said)! So adorable! I'm so proud!

Sunday, August 17, 2008

SUMMER FUN


Sissy and B


Hamming it up for the camera


Showing you his teeth


Showing you her teeth


SMILE


Family Reunion Fun


Visiting Friends! Alexis, Marie, Anna, Baylor, Me (Beth), Ava and Averie!!


Alexis with her eyes open!


Having story time!


Baylor during the story time


Parade & float time


Parade & float time


Heels


Swinging at the Park-O-Rama (after the parade and lunch)


Butterfly (fuff-fly Baylor says it)


Our Oasis
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WOW! Summer is flying by- without me posting about it (oops...)! We have been doing so many fun things. We went camping twice. We've been playing outside, swimming, riding bikes, digging in the garden, playing with friends and cousins and grandma and grandpa, eating, cooking out, visiting friends and getting so BIG!! I can't believe how big and mature the kids are getting. Averie is always doing everything herself. She also is always disagreeing with whatever I choose for her. If I tell her she doesn't like spinach, she'll probably eat it and like it (I wish THAT were true)! But you get my drift. She loves to play with Baylor and be little Miss Boss. He loves to please her as well. She is riding her big bike (with training wheels) around very well. She is also getting good at coloring and drawing. Today for the first time she made a face with whiskers! Too cute! She still loves Thomas Choo-Choo but doesn't watch him on tv because she is very sensitive to the choo-choo faces (when they are sad-she gets sad etc.) So we don't watch "Tom" (as she chooses to call him sometimes) on tv (or any tv for that matter). We have been having tons of butterflies outside on our flowers (see pic above). One time we had 6 + butterflies on the flowers at once! It was amazing! We were in a parade for our church (pics of B and A above are from the float) and enjoyed that, we also have a town festival we went to in Aug. for the town I grew up in (10 minutes from here), the kids played, ate and crashed for a nap that day! Exhausting! Baylor, B-boy, Butta Boy, Buddy Boy, Butter, Buddy or B- is getting so big. He is not my baby anymore. He is Mr. Independent 99.9% of the time. He plays with Sissy all the time. They make choo-choos (line all the chairs in the house up in a line) and make food and play in the Thomas House and dress up (check out their new dress shoes in the pic above). They love to push (B pushes blanket and Manny) (A pushes her Doodlebops) strollers and "go to the store." They were also very in to Play-Doh for a brief time. I bet that'll be a favorite cold weather activity! We also have two toys/activities that I've had saved for a few months that will come out soon. Once the warm weather starts cooling off! The kids are at a great age this summer. It's both good and bad! They are flexible enough to stay up later, go out and about later and even (rarely) skip naps. The bad is that we sometimes take advantage of that and they pay later (and get whiny and needy and grumpy), which means we pay later. But as the summer fades into fall, we're working on getting back into a routine of pre-school and staying home more which will help with the transition into school time and less busy-running around time. I am looking forward to less busy days/evenings, more time sitting out back in our oasis enjoying the kids playing and even eventually putting on a jacket...maybe we'll finally buy that fire ring we've been meaning to buy all summer! Ha! Enjoy the pics! Hope everyone is well!

Saturday, August 02, 2008

RANDOM STUFF

Having pool time!


The dog I found. We still have him and it's been over two weeks.


Part of camping...more to come!


At a "fun park."



Served Averie fresh milk for 1 year, 2 months and 5 days! Served Baylor fresh milk for 1 year, 6 months, 1 week and 5 days! Served Colbie fresh milk for 1 year, 3 months exactly!