Up Up and Away

Mr. Logan turned one, and we wanted to do something a little different for his one year picture. Of course we consulted Pinterest (always a bad awesome idea).  We saw a bunch of balloon pictures and basically fell in love.  I mean what is cuter than a bunch of balloons for a birthday picture? Then you throw in a basket and a cute kid and all is well with the world.  Here is our take on a hot air balloon adventure for Mr. Logan...

Bennett has a new favorite word, No.  Shocker.  But as Bennett is not exactly the "talker" of the family, we will take all we can get.  I for one think it's adorable when he says no.  Most of the time its very sing songy, and just down right cute.  Yesterday when I was picking Bennett up from the sitter, I casually said "Alright B, are you ready to go?"  The response I got of course was "no", followed by the pitter patter of little feet running away.  I repeated the same thing about 3 times, getting the same response each time.  I start laughing (giggling really) because…it's cute.  While I'm laughing the babysitter swoops him up and sits him on the bench in "timeout" because "we don't tell Mom and Dad No".  Hmmmm, I guess I'm the only one that thinks it's cute?  #buzzkill

  

Here is a little sample of the "no".  Not quite as cute as it usually is, but usually the "no" is running away from me so it's hard to tape.  In the tub I have him trapped, so you'll have to excuse the naked butts (they are just an added bonus).

Live it Up

Live it up now boys, this little activity will never be taking place again.  Yes, they look all sweet and innocent.  Hell, they even look like they are getting along.  But this fun little activity left little big white scratches all over the floor that I Chad had to scrub.  Sooooo, I think we will leave laundry basket rides for the carpeted areas from here on out.  Or perhaps we could just sit down and snuggle and read a book…no?

Easter Craziness

We kicked off the Easter season with our annual Easter Party (I can call it annual now, since we are officially on year 2).  It seems we can't get enough of the chaos.  The kids love it, and I like anything that prolongs the Easter season.  Still a kid at heart when it comes to Easter I guess, eventually I'll grow out of it…maybe.

We started the day out with the Easter Egg hunt.  I was busy chasing #2 around so I don't have many pictures of that but I do have a few of the kids checking out their loot.

And here is #2 at his finest.  He wouldn't dare look at my camera but he'll certainly shove that bag of candy at me to open for him.  He's a delight.

Then we moved on to the messy part, the egg coloring.  There were a "few" spills, perhaps an outfit change needed, a handful of colored fingers but it did result in some pretty fabulous eggs.  Mr. B really liked this activity much to my surprise.  I mean he was definitely spiking those eggs into the cups and the dye was going everywhere, but he loved it nonetheless.

And finally we shoved them outside for a little energy shedding at it's finest.  Look at Ms.Penelope, ugh I need to steal her.  She loves accessories about as much as her mom.

And because we like to torture ourselves we attempted a group photo.  I have like 15 shots of this same pose, but this is about the only one I have with ALL of the kids actually in it, awesome yes?  

Soccer Mom

Nolan enrolled in his first organized sport, which officially makes me a soccer mom.  Don't worry, I haven't procured the stick figures for my car windows…yet.  But I do feel like this is quite the milestone.  He had his first game the other day so before we left I decided to grab a picture as to not embarrass him in front of his friends when we got there.  I'm so considerate.

After our little photo sesh it was time to head on over to the fields.  They started out with a little practice.  Don't get too attached to the cute little jacket Nolan is wearing in these pictures, it was a casualty of the first soccer game.  Someone (who will remain nameless but who's name rhymes with Rad), took it off and left it at the field.  I'm not bitter, oh wait...yes I am.

This is Henry, he was not all that impressed with soccer…or my camera.  

And now it was time for the game!!

To be honest the game was less of a cluster than I thought it would be.  I mean still a cluster, just not as big as I had imagined.  It's 3 on 3, no goalie and the coaches ref.  Fairly harmless.  Except when your team trips all over themselves!  Below is one of those occasions.  At one point the 3rd kid in red was on the pile as well, but I wasn't quick enough with my camera to get the 3 deep pile up.  You can see by the coaches expression he was uber-impressed with their skills.

Nolan did really great.  I was a little worried about how aggressive he would be.  I thought he would kind of stand back and watch it all go down, but he got right in there and gave it his all. I was really proud of him, I guess that's why people put those dumb stick figures on their cars…because they are so proud.  Hmmmm, is that one of those things I'll do that I said I never would?  Kind of like dressing my kids alike?  Next thing you know I'll be driving a minivan too, a minivan with stick figures.