Cousin Conversation

Today, the kids were at my sister's house while I was at an appointment. During clean-up after I returned, Brock was "trying" to carry a basket full of cars back up to his room. I told him that he should ask Jake to help, because he has Christmas muscles (see Morris funny quotes for a little explanation). Amazingly enough, he was strong enough to carry the basket all the way upstairs!

A few minutes later, I went downstair to check on the clean-up progress, I overheard Jake and Brock talking & their conversation went something like this...

Brock - "So I heard you asked for Christmas muscles for Christmas."
Jake - "Got 'em!"
Brock - "Me too."

It's gone!

 Avery & I have been growing our hair out to donate it together. Avery's hair was finally long enough for us to donate! We both have been waiting patiently for her to have 8 inches to donate. Tonight was finally the night. She has been so anxious to have short hair again & I think she looks so beautiful!

 I'm so grateful we were able to do a special type of service together. I would definitely do it again, but for the time being, I'm going to thoroughly enjoy drying 10 inches less of hair!

Jake finally did it!

He lost his first tooth last Wednesday (April 27th)! The first one came out with a few tears (as you can tell from his slightly red eyes). I gave it two good twists, he started crying, but immediately started smiling once I got him to look in my hand. Then he lost another one tonight (with Dad's help, which is a first in this house!)& not even a week later! He has been so bummed that he was the only one in his class that didn't lose a tooth, yet. I'm so happy that he finally lost his first one before the end of the year, so he could sign the tooth poster in his classroom. Yea!

Easter 2011

Coloring eggs

 

Easter morning egg hunt

 

  Wyatt, I'm pretty sure there are no eggs hidden there!

 The annual hunt at the Miller's. This year we had to stay inside, so hiding 135 eggs got a little tough.

 Avery & Lily

 Peep Sushi

 Brynne & Eden

 Some of the kids were brave enough to try eating outside. Brrr!

This boy makes me laugh!

 Here is Wyatt doing P90X. He was trying to do one arm push-ups. I had to stop to grab the camera!

Hmmm. I wonder who colored the front door with blue crayon? Could it have been the boy with the matching blue lips? I should have taken a picture of him scrubbing the door a few minutes later.

Preschool Dairy Tour

 Eden's preschool field trip to the dairy farm was far more uneventful than our last field trip here. Which is a good thing! We didn't have to clean cow poop off of anyone! As you can tell from the pictures, Eden was not a fan of the smell of the dairy. She spent the first half of the field trip gagging, coughing and pulling her shirt up over her nose. Then I think she got use to the smell a little.

 

Eden let the babies suck on her fingers once, but I wasn't fast enough to get a picture & she wouldn't do it again for me. It is a little slobbery, but this is by far my favorite part of the tour. I love the babies!

A few of Avery's dress-up days at school

 Mismatch Day - she totally nailed that one!

Mommy loves Crazy Hair Day!

 

Roman Day - she dressed up as the Roman Goddess Ceres. Ceres was one of the few modest ones!