Scared What?

Daddy:  Bugsy, you need to put your fire truck away in your room.
Bugsy:  Daddy can you come with me?
Daddy:  No, you're a big boy, you can do it!
Bugsy:  But daddy, I need you to come with me because the clock scares my ears!

Blessed!

As I mentioned in my last post, we had Isabella's blessing last Sunday.  Here are some pics:

This is the invitation I emailed out

Here are pictures from the actual blessing day

Isabella did quite well the whole day, except for the 1 minute that Daniel was giving the blessing.  She hates being cradled in your arms and since she was being cradled, she fussed for most of the blessing. She was an angel the rest of the day though.  Thank you to everyone who joined us.  We had a wonderful day!  We feel very blessed to have our sweet little Bella and for all who came and celebrated with us.

Poor Daniel!

My poor husband!  Why you might ask?  Because he is married to me and we just had a shindig!  We just blessed Isabella last Sunday which of course means that I (like my mother before me) had to make changes to our house.  Fortunately, I did not go as in depth as we often did as children.  There was no knocking down of walls, wallpapering, or painting to be done.  I did however decide to finally finish up some decorating.  This meant that the whole week before the blessing I was working on getting pictures arranged, printed and hung.  Here is what I did:

I took these pictures of my kids and then arranged them in photoshop.

Then I had Daniel make them into canvases to hang on the wall.

Then we tossed around some Ideas of what to do with the wall in our hallway and ended up with this.

Finally he helped me update the pictures over our stairs.

Besides all of that, Daniel cleaned the entire house, (I am talking, bathrooms, mopping floors, vacuuming, kitchen, the whole shebang!) and watched the kids for much of the day on Saturday while I taught a Zumba class and tried to figure out how to cut the vinyl for the walls in the pictures above.

Yes, poor Daniel.  He was fabulous though.  I am so blessed that he is so supportive of my often annoying habits.  He wasn't bugged at me even once the whole weekend and there were plenty of opportunities for him to have been so.  I AM BLESSED!

Black-eyed pea!

I forgot to post this back when it happened, so here it is a little late.  

Bugsy is our crazy little guy!  He likes to run back and forth in the kitchen/living room area.  He was doing this one night as usual when he slipped and hit his cheek on the bottom part of the couch where it is hard.  Here's what happened:

This was actually after about a week.   It got a lot worse the first few days and then slowly started to get better.  It looked much worse than this when we went to church the next day!  We got some teasing about that.  I called him my little black-eyed pea for several days.  I felt so bad every time I looked at it because it just looked like it hurt.  It didn't seem to bother him though.  It has all cleared up now, but I imagine this is just the first of many to come with this little guy.  

As a side note, he did something the other day that we were praising him for.  I don't even remember what it was now, but when I asked him how he did it he said, "I'm just a cool guy."  It was so cute!  We love our "cool guy!"

What we've been up to!

Here is a little of what we've been up to lately.

February 25th was the last really good snowfall as I recall.  Daniel had a little time off that day and took the kids out to build a snow fort.  Bugsy got cold and bored and came inside before I got around to taking pictures, but here are some pics of Emma and Daniel.  Thy are not the best because I took them through the window, but they are fun.

For St. Patrick's Day, we had a play date for Emma and Matthew and did a "Leprechaun Lunch."  It was not a huge success.  I made green rolls that Emma really liked, but she was the only one.  I also made green pudding that nobody liked.  However, after lunch we made homemade oreos with green frosting that they liked.  Also, Mieka brought Matthew a cupcake with green frosting which he loved.  We had a fun time despite the fact that the lunch was a flop!  :)

We have had a couple of semi nice days this past month and have decided to take advantage of them.  Daniel stacked up some bricks in a circle to create a fire pit on part of our dirt.  We have used it a couple of times to roast marshmallows and make s'mores.  This was the last time we did it.  We had made them before and Emma couldn't exactly remember what they were called, so between her and Matthew they were called snorklers, snorkels, smorklers and finally s'mores.  They didn't really seem to care what the s'mores were called, they were just interested in eating them!

Dropped What?

We recently told Emma that mice carry disease and so we don't want them in our house.  The next day I was doing her hair for school and she saw a spot on my oh so clean mirror.  The following conversation took place:


Emma (pointing to the spot on the mirror):  "Mom what's that?"
Me: "Just a spot on the mirror that needs to be cleaned off."
Emma (after thinking for a moment): "I think it was a mouse that walked across the mirror and dropped some disease on it."


Watch out for those gravity defying, disease dropping mice, apparently they are everywhere!  You never know when one might strike a mirror near you.  I have since cleaned my mirror!  :)


Note to me:  explain that the word "carry" does not always mean holding something in one's hands.  

About A Month Ago...

We celebrated Bugsy's birthday.  My little boy turned 3.  He's getting so big!

Bugsy wanted a tractor party.  There wasn't much in the way of tractors, so we went with a construction theme.  Here are some pics:

This was the invitation that I ended up emailing because I got around to it too late, as per usual!  :)

We decorated with a bunch of "construction signs" that I made.

We decorated hard hats instead of party hats.  Everyone had a name tag to wear and one to put on their hat.  They each had their name and then a construction tool that started with that letter.  For example Bugsy Bulldozer, Emma Excavator, etc.  We also did a tractor pinata, pin the bucket on the tractor and scoop the rocks (balloons) with your tractor bucket (cake pans.)

Bugsy wanted a tractor cake, obviously.  I finished it around 3:00 in the morning, as usual.  Bugsy loved it and it was well worth the time and effort.  He was so excited about it!

 We did invited all cousins this year.  There aren't that many kids Matthew's age, so the age ranges goes pretty high.

Everyone seemed to have a pretty good time.  Thanks to everyone who came!