SPRING BREAK / GRANDMA’S HOUSE

Our spring break this year was a busy one! Both of my brothers travelled to St. Louis to spend the week with us. One from Oregon and the other from Alabama.

There was a lot of Moon Sand and Legos to keep the kids busy once we arrived at my mom’s house.

Plenty  of hugs were passed around all week long! No shortage of those in our family!

Solomon (who’s daddy is a drummer), found the instruments right away! It was our first time meeting him, and it was worth the wait! He is the sweetest, calmest, happiest little one year old!

Uncle Joe took my place as Samuel’s BFF. I’m trying not to be bitter about it, since I have plenty of time to get him back on the Aunt-‘Jake’-is the-BEST train before Joe visits again…

We topped off the week with a pre-birthday celebration for Solomon, since we can’t be with him for the actual day. Penelope snuck some of his icing while he was getting acquainted with his first bite of sugar. :)

TWO PARTIES IN ONE

This past Saturday my family came over and we had a small party for Amelia and my nephew, Samuel.

^  Zack made a four layered cake!  ^

They had an Avengers and Hello Kitty theme. Samuel was so excited to share his birthday with Amelia, it was soooooo  adorable! Amelia was just excited to see everyone,.I’m not sure she knew it was a party for her. :)

^  Birthday boy!!  ^

We ended the afternoon playing games with the kids. My parents stuck around for a while. Penelope put puzzles together with Grandma Penny and Grandpa snuggled with a sleepy Amelia by the fire.

The girls and I finished off the night by eating cake for supper and heading to bed early – well they did. :)

SNAPSHOTS: : 51

This photo was the last photo taken on Saturday. The last photo of the week, and it was taken at the request of the lady in it. It makes me so happy. She requested that it be black and white, and edited it herself. I told her the steps and she was so proud (as am I!).

This fire has been such a blessing tucked into our tiring week, begging us to stop, snuggle, and make time to truly rest.

My sick baby in warm jammies taking care of her sick babies. I know she is now an official two year old, but lets just sick with calling her baby for, oh I don’t know, the next 98 years? That sounds about right to me.

The doctor’s office. 3 days in a row. Never want to go back again. Ever.

We hung our white board back up, and restocked our marker supply. The girls’ drawing skills have improved drastically in a few days! Ok, well, Penelope’s skills. Amelia’s creativity has been expressed better, even better than with crayons and blank paper.

I needed new art to add to our collection. I enjoy watching them do their magic. Figure out what colors they want to use next. ‘Should I clean off my brush now? No, it needs more pink first.’ Penelope stuck with purple, red, and green for her two paintings. Amelia went all in and used every color on her palette. All or nothing approach.

We rearranged our house a bit. Not much better than a rocking chair by a fire on a cold cold day.  /  This is what a newly healthy four year old looks like!!  /  This is what a recovering sick baby looks like.  /  New painting hung in the kitchen, courtesy of Miss Rae.

We had a small celebration for Amelia with Zack’s family. My nephew shot a gun for the first time, and hit all the targets! Amelia got to spend her day with three grandparents. We ate soup, homemade bread, cookies and fruit. We kept a fire going and spent most of the day talking by it. We played a few games with the kids, and Penelope spent the whole time with Sadie. She was very sad to see her cousin go.

I am desperately praying this week will be better than the last. I feel an ear infection coming on and haven’t had a full nights sleep in at least a week. October was wonderful, I’m hoping November follows in it’s footsteps.