Alexa counts in Spanish!

Baby Loves Paper!

07/13/2011

This evening I took the kids to the store and we bought some fun craft making supplies. They have been learning how to use scissors at school so I thought it might be time for them to have their own pair at home. Alexa picked out a pink pair and Gavin picked out yellow. They both felt pretty proud to have their own pair of scissors! We had a long discussion about what we can and cannot cut with the scissors. They sat on the floor and cut up construction paper for almost a half hour. I showed them how to make butterflies and then they used the glue stick to attach some decoration to the wings. It was a great learning experience!

Tysen loves paper! He was having as much fun as Alexa and Gavin by drooling all over the paper scraps. He tried to eat the paper multiple times, too.

Tysen has been sitting unassisted for about a week now. He never sits for long, though, because he's such a busy-body. He'll lean forward and place his hands on the ground, then flop his belly to the ground, and he's off crawling across the room!

07/04/2011

We've been so busy recently that it's been a couple weeks since I last updated the blog. I've got lots of pictures, mostly of the fourth of July weekend.

Tysen is sporting his new shades while we get ready to go to the pool to cool off.

He mostly just wants to chew on them!

Tysen liked putting his feet and legs in the water. He even took some steps with Daddy's help.

Then we surprised the kids by taking them to see Cars 2. This was Tysen's first movie theater experience.

Alexa wanted to hold her own ticket!

Tysen slept through most of his first movie. Oh well, that made it easier on us!

Then we went to Easton to do some shopping and we stopped to let Alexa and Gavin play in the water fountains. That's their favorite thing to do at Easton.

Alexa likes to stick her face directly in the water. Afterwards, she was complaining that her eyes hurt and she kept rubbing them with her towel. She told us that she never wants to play in the "hurty water" again. Matthew went to Dicks and bought her and Gavin goggles.

After we got the kids dried off, we went to Red Robin for supper.

Gavin was unusually well-behaved during supper. He must have been worn out from all the water play.

Gavin is patiently waiting for Mommy and Daddy to finish eating.

After supper, we went to the New Albany fireworks. We had great seats right inside the high school football stadium. We really enjoyed the fireworks. The kids had a blast.

(Tysen's doctors have told us multiple times that he doesn't hear anything...but I know that he heard the fireworks! That's a good sign.)

Alexa is dancing around while we wait for the fireworks to start.

It's not easy to get all the kids on my lap anymore!

Alexa is still obsessed with rainbows, so I decided to make her a rainbow cake. I told her that Rainbow Bright brought it to our house while she was taking a nap. She was really excited.

I didn't get a very good picture of it, but the kids just got done feeding Gabbi her special birthday treat. On July 11th, Gabbi turned 7 years old!

07/02/2011 Our Evening Walk

This evening I took Alexa and Gavin on a walk. Matthew was busy working on homework and Tysen was already asleep, so I thought it would be nice to get out of the house. First we went to see if there were any ducks or geese in the ponds. We found a family of young ducks that I believe are the same babies we saw about a month ago. It's amazing how much they have grown! The mother duck wasn't in the picture below, but she was still protecting her babies.

After saying goodnight to the ducks, we walked to the little playground. The kids burned off some energy.

I took this picture last week and wanted to share. We had to buy Alexa a new car seat because she reached the maximum weight limit on her old one. Alexa and Gavin had a blast playing inside the cardboard box that it came in.

07/02/2011

The kids are playing dress up again! Can you guess what movie they chose for family movie night tonight? Madagascar! Gavin is Alex, the lion. Alexa is Marty, the zebra. Tysen is Melman, the giraffe.

Right now as I am updating the blog, there is a zebra and lion eating popcorn and watching a movie in the living room and a little giraffe asleep in the baby swing! They are so cute!

07/01/2011

The kids wore red, white, and blue for their Independence Day festivities at school today. They were so cute that I had to take their picture before we left.

They were all in such a good mood this morning. TGIF!

We had family movie night tonight. Alexa and Gavin chose the movie Finding Nemo. They dressed up for the occasion. We have a huge collection of costumes at our house. I find them for super cheap at my favorite thrift store (never pay more than $1.50) and then the kids have so much fun playing pretend. The Nemo costume that Alexa is wearing is one of the favorites. She's worn it to the grocery store and to Target with me in the past. She gets so many compliments on it! There isn't a single customer that can walk by her without smiling.

My little clownfish are "swimming" around on the living room floor!

Nemo hugs!