Friday

Today my mom came over to watch Joel while the rest of us had dentist appointments.  Colin has been very adamant all week about not letting the dentist near him and wanted to stay home with ma-ma-maa but he came and then when he was about to give the dentist a strong "get away from me" look he quietly asked "do you have any green toothpaste?" And he did! After that he let the dentist do anything he wanted in his mouth.  Even the yucky fluoride part. I'm so glad. I was afraid it would be years before we got Colin's teeth cleaned.

When Brent came home we walked down to the "yucky pond" as Colin says and fed the ducks.  Brent and Colin found some baby turtles to play with.

Then to celebrate Colin going to the dentist AND a $1500 refund I got from the doctors (still not sure how that happened but always nice to be refunded money than have to pay it. It'll just go towards next year's medical bills) we went to Jason's Deli for dinner and walked around the mall so I could get new running shoes.

 Joel loved finishing my icecream cone

And for some reason in the middle of the mall was a man with bugs. Colin loves bugs so we went to look.  And Colin got to hold a hissing cockroach. These pictures still gives me the shivers.  And these cockroach pictures are a little blurry since I wasn't getting any closer to those things.  And its true - they do hiss.

The Spider and the Fly

The spider builds his web

When he is done he waits

Poor little fly gets stuck in the web

 Cute little fly

The fly thinks he has a friend coming to rescue him

Then he starts to figure it out...

A little too late

Happy Spider - Sad little fly

I wish i could say I made up this story but this is what happened according to Colin.

Soccer Game

Today we went to Colin's 2nd soccer game. After the last game we weren't sure if he'd play but he was SO excited and couldn't wait. Colin scored 4 goals and assisted in a lot more. It was really cute to watch and his team is starting to get how to play as a team and at least both teams this time knew which goal to go towards :)  Colin would do this little dance after he scored that was so cute.  He would also make a great goalie because he dove for the ball at the end to block the other team from getting a goal.  I think the cutest thing they do at the end is have all the parents line up and make a tunnel for the kids to run through.  The kids LOVE it and went through it maybe 3 times today grinning the whole time.

Then we went to our friends 1st birthday part this afternoon. Colin ran around at the playground and got to climb the mountain and roll down (mt. trashmore... still a weird concept for me to think he was playing on trash...) But the weather was perfect and a great way to spend the afternoon.  Joel loves Samantha (the birthday girl) and had a fun time eating cake and playing too. After watching the birthday girl eat cake Joel kept reaching for the icing on my plate too.  He's going to be ready in a few months for his birthday

For Leah and Julie :)

Dont zoom in too close :) I ran out of thread for my sewing machine and Colin was too excited to see it finished so I hand sewed the bottom on really fast.  But Colin loved it so thats all that mattered.  I learned a lot. This is just regular felt ($0.20 a sheet at the store)  that I doubled with the green and yellow to make it more sturdy but I think next time I'll use that stiffer felt and just use one sheet.  Still need to work on how to do the bottom a better way.  Any ideas?  I added the bottom last but there must be a better and easier way.  Good thing I have another year to perfect it! 

Organization

This was Joel's room this afternoon.  In the middle of getting out his summer clothes and putting away winter clothes I decided to redo his whole closet.  Move his dresser into Colin's room since its bigger than the one Colin has, put shelves back Joel's closet and move Colins old dresser to the garage for now.  It has taken a few days and much longer than I thought.  Mainly because its fun for me to get out all of Colins old clothes and also sad to put away all of Joels tiny clothes :) And also because the only time I have to work on Joel's room is when he's awake.  And Joel is a big helper.  Pulling everything off the shelves, rearranging my piles, getting everything out of the storage bins :)  He wanted to be in the midst of it all until I think he got overwhelmed. 

So he left.  And then I was able to finish and I wish I had a picture of what it looks like now but its all clean and there are just a few things left to sort and put away. 

Pool Party

Its hot. 90 degrees and its only the first week of April.  Makes me really worried about the summer. But when its this hot already there is nothing better than to bring out our inflatable pools and invite some fun friends to come over and help us use them.  Colin has been asking almost weekly since we got these for christmas if we can bring out the pools but the answer had always been wait until its warmer.   

This was Colin this morning at 8:00am.  He was just a little excited about the whole pool party today :)

The kids had fun.  I had fun.  I think other moms had fun. We'll be doing this again until the pools and inflatable toys pop :)  Thanks everyone for coming.

Easter Sunday

This afternoon we ventured out to the Chesapeake Arboretum with our friend Kristin for a picnic dinner.  We had never been and were pleasantly surprised. The weather was beautiful and the walking trails were fun.  Even if we couldn't seem to read the map to figure out where we were half the time :) It was a fun way to spend Easter and we are really glad Kristin could come with us. I think I've mentioned this before but its fun to have Kristin in the area. And she's staying here next year which we're very glad and hope to see her even more (hint*hint)  I think we'll be venturing out to this place a lot this summer for more picnic dinners.

My Boys