Monday, April 20, 2009

The long awaited accomplishment!

Now, she is by no means ready to use this as her exclusive means of transportation, but we are taking steps on our own when prompted! Finally! One step at a time...


this one is for Ava's entertainment :)

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Day at the Park

The weather was sooo nice yesterday, so we decided to go have a picnic and play at the park. The kids (and adults) had a blast!!! The playground was awesome, we saw ducks and even found a caterpillar. Linlee brought him home of course. I think they found 5 of them once the day was over. I hope they all make it.....
 
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Out like a light.

Sidney was really out when I went to get her up from her morning nap. Yes, she takes one but is really wanting not to. I usually put her down at 9 but she rarely falls asleep until 10. I make sure to get her up around 10:30 because I really want her to nap at 1 when Conner does. Manipulation.... I am trying to decide if I should take it down to 1 nap but I am not quite ready I think. She is.....
 

Sidney is really talking alot now and it is great! I have tried to get it on film but have yet to do it. She loves to say "gotta gooooooooooo!" and yesterday she started counting!! I said "1" and she came out with "2, 3". Amazing. She know lots of signs for things to like more, please, thank you, milk, happy and stop. It is really nice to be able to comminicate a little!
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Monday, April 13, 2009

Easter Morning Pics

We were in a rush as usual on Easter morning so we only got a few pics and none of all of us. Sorry Dad, you didn't make the cut did you? I have given up trying to fix Sidney's hair because as soon as she is sitting still long enough, out comes the hair accessories and off comes the sock and shoes. Every time.
 

 

 

 
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Friday, April 10, 2009

Egg Hunt and Fishing

Linlee and Conner had their Easter egg hunt at preschool yesterday. I luckily got to be there for both of the egg hunts this year! It was great. Linlee's class hunted eggs by which sticker they had on their card. Very fun and cute idea!
 

Conner's class had their names on all their eggs. He found 7 out of 8 of his. There was another class hunting near where Conncer's class was. His eggs were very distiguishable and I saw someone from the other class pick up on of Conner's eggs. Conner saw this too but we thought maybe the other boy had eggs like Conner's. Well, after a few minutes, Conner decided he was not ok with this. When his class went back inside, I went over to the other kids basket and retrieved the egg in question. Hope he didn't notice....it was an honest mistake, his name was Connor and the teacher helping must have just quickly read the name and thought yay (even though they were using the sticker method...)
 

We took the Fish family fishing yesterday as they had never been...ironic huh??
We had a great time!!! Sidney loved going down the hill of the bridge in her jeep. She will now say "cheese" when I take a picture.
 

While Annelise was borrowing Linlee's fishing rod, Linlee found a dandelion. She was sooooo excited. "I have wanted to blow on one of these my whole life!!!" she said. cute!
 
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We have never taken a picture of the moms with all the kids so we took advantage of the oportunity. Our lives are so intertwined and these kids are a very large part of each of us. I kind of dread the fall when we sort of go our seperate paths once school starts. What a lot of kids!!! We had to take about 12 shots before all of them were at least looking forward at one time!
ps, Daniel had a mishap in the water and had to strip halfway. he usually is wearing pants....

Monday, April 6, 2009

Fun Weekend

 

We went to visit Grandma and Grandpa this weekend. Always a great time! The kids loved fishing and even had some luck. Conner actually cast, hooked , reeled and brought in a bass all by himself from the boat! He was soooo proud. I caught the largest bass and Ben caught lots of fish and a turtle!! Linlee caught several but they all got off the hook before we could get them in.
We went to a birthday party for one of Ben's best friends little boy. It was great to see old friends and the kids had a blast!!!
 

 

Sidney's favorite pastime was standing in this chair and turning the lights on and off. She loved it and Grandma was good to stand there and let her do it to her hearts content.
 
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Thursday, April 2, 2009

Amazing Linlee

I have a couple of situations that I wanted to document for myself. Never underestimate the power of a 5 year old (and the heart). For weeks now, I have laid the kids clothes out the night before they have preschool. I intruct them to get dressed before they come downstairs or at least bring their clothes down with them. Linlee alsways does of course, Conner never does of course. I didn't even mention it to them last night, knowing the outcome. Well, low and behold, Conner Berteau came down this morning dressed and ready. Shoes and all!!! WE made a big fuss about it. After the fuss, Linlee bolted upstairs. Ben said she prbably didn't like him getting all the attention. She had only brought her clothes down and wasn't dressed yet. A few mintues later, in she comes with her hand behind her back. She walks up to Conner and proudly hands him a dollar!!!! I guess her heart is not as jealous as Ben thought. She was proud of her brother too. Gotta love those 2!! So sweet.

We have known for a while that Linlee is strong in the math department. Well, she asked me the other day if 13 +13 is 26? I said yes, how did you figure that out? She said well, I know that 10+10 is 20 and 3+3 is 6 so 13+13 must be 26. Good logic~!! She then asked Ben the next day if 45+55 is 100? he said yes. She said that I know 50+50 is 100 so I thought if you have 55 then you must have to take 5 away and make 45 to get 100. There are no words.....What makes a 5 year old think through this on their own? I hope she keeps that logically thinking brain!!

 
Sidney loves this book and always says SO BIG on this page.

 
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

My extra appendage

This is my life for just a little while longer ( I hope ). She is getting so much better with her walking and defintely has the ability, just lacks the confidence.
 
Her new trick it to climb up the stairs. She made it all the way up to the top without any help several times yesterday. Between scaling the stairs and sliding, we do little else!

It has been a fairly quiet week so far. I started the P90X workout program and LOVE it! I have not been so excited about excersise since college. Feels good! that and the fact that we are going to the beach in about a month is great motivation too. The kids are looking forward to seeing GRandma and Grandpa this weekend. We are going to visit some friends too while we are there. Always a great time.

WEll, that's it until something more exciting happens......
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