Happy Spring!

What a beautiful Sunday we had yesterday! Yay for 60 degrees! Yay for spring! I know there's a storm coming but I can handle it as long as we get some days like this one. The kids wore their new Easter outfits to church and after we decided to head out to Temple Square to beat the rush of next weekend.




Ahh...pictures are so depressing when you're pregnant! Did I mention I'm measuring big?! As if you couldn't tell. I have an ultrasound in a couple days to make sure everything is okay. I think I'm just big. I tend to stick out A LOT and it's only going to get worse!



This was their first time in the visitors center. Kenya was actually a bit scared of the big statue but she eventually got the courage to go stand by it. Charlie really took it all in, asking a lot of questions. It was great. He's been asking for his own scriptures since seeing his cousins get baptized and going to Temple Square. I told him we could tell the Easter Bunny that's what he wants. He doesn't want to wait though...







Look who's in a big girl bed! Yep it's still on the floor, probably will be for a while knowing me but she loves it and is doing really well in it. We've still got the crib in there until we clear out and paint the baby's room. It works well as a threat and so far we've only had to use it once. :)

Green Day

In the past I haven't really done much for St. Patrick's day. In fact last year I completely forgot about it, luckily Charlie happened to wear a green shirt to preschool that day! It dawned on me a couple nights before when Charlie kept talking about Leprechauns that he might have some expectations for the day of green. Really his only expectation was to catch a Leprechaun (this is mainly my fault for buying him a book "The Night Before St. Patrick's Day" where the kids set up traps for the leprechauns) but I told him that if you put out your shoes the leprechauns might leave you a little something. So he did just that, along with setting up some traps for them in the playroom. When he woke up and went outside to look for his shoes they were gone! Those tricky leprechauns stashed them in a different place for him to find, they also put army guys and cars in his traps. He got a kick out of it, sneaky little guys!

Lucky Charms, green gum, 4 quarters, and a candy bar made these two pretty happy.

We had a delicious green breakfast and the kids ate it up. Green pancakes, green eggs, and a green smoothie (the eggs and smoothie were colored with SPINACH and my kids never thought twice about gobbling them up! I love sneaking veggies into my kids food.)

I made green bread for their sandwiches and to wash it down, some green milk.

green mustache

Silly girl

To top off the evening we went to my nieces Kaia and Harper's birthday bash. The were both born on the same day which happens to be St. Paddy's Day. 8 years old, I can't believe I'm the person saying to them "I remember the day you were born!" These two were 3 months old when Mark and I got married. Crazy, crazy.

We had a fun green day, I think I like St. Patrick's Day, after all green is my favorite color!

Fire Station

Charlie had a trip to the fire station again this year. Kenya was much more manageable this time around, they both really enjoyed it. Hopefully she won't be sick of it by the time it's "her" field trip since she's already been twice! Charlie now says he wants to be a fireman when he grows up. He insisted on taking a pic in front of this fire engine so his dad could see it.
Lovin Kenya's faces in pictures lately.

Happenings

Charlie had a little Tea Party at his preschool that he was suppose to get all dressed up for. They also got to choose a bear to bring as their guest. He was pretty excited and looked so grown up in a little kids sort of way.



Kenya is loving dance. When I ask her to show me what she learned in dance she always does this and says it's her "sunshine" and she walks on her tip toes and points her foot out and brings it back in. She is just so cute. The patch is back as you can see. The doctor says let's try it again for a couple months to see if we can strengthen her eye back up. Surgery is a very likely possibility again but we'll see. She's doing much better at keeping it on this time around.


I was proud of her cute little hair do that I learned to do here. I may be a hair stylist but I'm not very good at doing my little girls hair. Plus this lasted maybe two hours before I had to redo it!
Kenya started riding her bike that she got for Christmas and she loves it! She just goes back and forth up and down the street. it's great, the smile on her face the first day she rode it was priceless, she was so proud of herself.

My kids have been little helpers quite often lately. Charlie loves putting Kenya down for her naps. He'll read her a book and sing her a song. It's quite sweet. Here he is singing to her. Sometimes she likes him to sometimes she doesn't. On this day she requested Charlie, I was not going to object. He also helped us clean up the kitchen last night, after the dishes were done he said "now I'm going to clean the whole house!"
You may remember this post a little over a year ago about how hard it was to get housework done around here. Now Kenya is a great little helper, if I give her a wet rag she is quite entertained and loves to help me clean. It's great. I hope these kids continue in their helping ways when this baby gets here!