The Fun Never Stops

Daylight savings is stupid. I'm still tired. And I think it made my children crazy because they have been full of it this week. Remember the time Andi cut a toy out of her hair and I had to take her in and get it fixed. That was a few years ago, and understandable considering her age. The fact that I had to take her in for another repair cut at 7 is a little ridiculous. She cut her hair at school, and when I finally got her to fess up about it(she didn't realize how obvious it was) her reasoning was that she wanted to cut it and give it away to make a wig like I did. So I couldn't be too mad, but we did have a talk about telling Mommy when you want to get a hair cut. Here is her new "big girl" hair cut. She decided it was big girl hair because it is shorter like mine, and because she has side bangs.

Peter got a hair cut too this week, because he really needed it. Here is the crazy mop before.

And after. The curls are gone, but so is the mullet and long stringy stuff that hung in his eyes.

He's making progress in the crawling area. He is scooting backwards and doing a lot of this.

Sammy is a mess this week. Every day brings a new injury. getting him in the shower last night I realized that if CPS ever got a good look at him they might try to take him away. The bigger and more capable he gets, the more often and severe his injuries seem to be. His face is totally healed now, but both legs are covered in scabs and bruises, and Friday he fell off of something and scraped up his chest, arm, leg, and face all in one fall. Awesome. Though this does not give the full effect, I do have a picture of his lovely legs.

Aside from the children's antics, I spent the week getting ready for Alexis' bridal shower.  Mom helped me make strawberry jam for the favors, and it turned out amazing.

The cute little jars say spread the love. The food was lovely, the backyard looked great, and we had about 50 people to help celebrate. I'm just hoping the bride to be had as nice a time as I did. Of course I didn't really take pictures and I'm still waiting for people to send me theirs.(cough cough, Bree, Alexis) I managed to take two. One of the cute pennant banner on the pergola. . .

And another of one of the game tables. Andi dominated this game. She walked around asking people in her sweet innocent little voice "What's this party called again?" and they would answer with wedding shower or bridal shower and she would stick out her hand and say, "You said a word you're not supposed to" and take their pin. Then, instead of putting the pins on her shirt like you are supposed to, she hid them so no one would realize what she was doing when she asked the question. Too much Thad in that girl.

One more week till spring break and I'm really looking forward to it. 6:30 am is getting really old and I'd like to not see it for a few days.

February Wrap-up

It's the first weekend of March already, and it's definitely spring around here. The weather is warm, all the plants are blooming and T-ball has begun. Today was Sammy's first t-ball practice, and I'm not sure who was more excited, Sammy or Thad.

Andi had her spring patriotic program at school this week and it was really nice. It was just the second grade classes and they sang 9 songs, recited the midnight ride of Paul Revere, and quoted excerpts from the Gettysburg Address and quotes from people like Winston Churchill. I was totally impressed. Thad took video of all the songs and Andi's speaking part, but because we were so far back we really didn't get any good pictures. She could not look at Thad without smiling, so avoided eye contact through the whole thing.
Peter had a few firsts this week as well. He got his first hair cut, if you can call it that. I just trimmed the scraggly mullet hair in the back. It looks much better. He also started sitting in the basket all by himself, and loves it. He sits quietly all the way through the stores and just looks around.

Peter has a favorite show. Baby Einstein of course, but the numbers nursery to be specific. He smiles at the little puppets as they come on the screen, and that is my guaranteed 20 minutes of peace to make dinner.

Sammy had another one of his mishaps last weekend. It went a little something like this.
M: "No Sammy, you can't ride the skateboard."
S: "I'm just going to ride on my tummy."
M: "No, especially not on your tummy, you'll hurt your face."
S: "But i'll be careful."
M: "don't do it Sam."
10 minutes later. . . screaming from the front yard. Yep, he rode it on his tummy, and used his face as the brakes.

His top lip was so swollen it stuck out almost as far as his nose. He's healed really fast though. It's only been a week and all the scabs are already gone.
The yard projects continued this week. Thads parent's were kind enough to give us their old set of outdoor furniture. So we brought it home, stained is to match the pergola, made some new covers for the cushions and tada! Check out door seating off the list.