Baby Animal Days

May 24, 2009

This year I convinced Valerie to head up with me. Of course the morning we were going to go it was raining. I watched the weather and we decided that we should wait until afternoon. I am really glad we did. The weather had let up and most people had decided to wait until Friday to go. We pretty much had the place to ourselves. It was a little muddy, but the kids didn't mind.

The highlight of the whole trip was just holding the baby animals. The kids loved it. We had saved holding all the animals until very last so the kids could really enjoy it.

Eliza loved holding the bunnies the most and Forrest loved holding the chickens.

My favorite line of the whole day was from Ben. After holding the chickens Valerie made sure to really wash Ben's hands. She told him that they had to make sure there was not any feathers still on him. Ben was really confused. He couldn't figure out where the feathers would have come from.

So Very Thirsty

May 23, 2009

Today when we came in from outside playing Eliza immediately headed to the Fridge to get something to drink. I assumed she was getting some water. I was very wrong. By the time I got to the kitchen she had a 2-liter bottle of Root Beer open and was guzzling it down like it was the water of life. This child is going to be the death of me.

Forrest Birthday Party Part 2

May 22, 2009

Luckily for Forrest he will have other memories of his seventh birthday besides what happened at the Parents. Luckily this year he was also having a friends birthday party. Every other year the kids get to have a friends party and this year Forrest chose to go to Chuck E Cheese. He and his friends had a ton of fun playing games and eating pizza. For me it was wonderful because everything was taken care. Easiest party I have ever done and the best part about it was that Forrest had a blast.

Forrest Birthday

May 21, 2009

This year Forrest birthday was on Easter. I tried to think of different times to celebrate, but it seemed that it was easiest to just do it at the parents house on Easter Sunday. After dinner we had everyone come up to sing happy birthday. It seems that for every birthday we try to out do how bad we sang the last time. Well this time we really out did ourselves and everyone started to laugh. Poor Forrest thought everyone was laughing at him, but he showed them.

Things started off well enough.

Trying to put on a brave face for the camera.

I am not going to cry, I am not going to cry.

Why is everyone so mean.

Well I will show them. I am just going to spit all over the cake. And boy did he ever. The amazing thing was we ate the whole thing spittle and all. Everyone must have been feeling pretty bad about the whole thing.

Once he started opening presents and we explained that we weren't laughing at him he felt much better.

The Annual Easter Egg Hunt

May 20, 2009

Once again we headed up to the Parents house for our annual Easter Egg hunt. The day was pretty crazy. For once it was actually Easter, but it was also Forrest birthday. We did a quick celebration for him and then headed outside for the hunt. This year wasn't a very good one. I feel like I really didn't get very many good pictures.

My kids are much faster at finding eggs and the light wasn't very good. With only six eggs to find they had it done pretty quickly, maybe next year the men will have to hide them in harder spots.

A little behind

May 19, 2009

You could say it has been awhile since I have blogged. Things got a little busy around here and well I lost all motivation to blog. Two of my sisters have noticed the lapse and commented on it. I guess someone really does read this thing. Anyways I figure I should probably get back in the swing of things. Most of you have seen, but for those who haven't we finally did get Eliza's room finished. Trying to find curtains was hard. Eliza can be a little destructive so I wanted to find something that wasn't too expensive and if she decided to swing from them it wouldn't rip big holes in the wall. I finally found some curtians that will just slide off and amazingly enough she has left them alone.

She is also very proud of her room. Anytime someone new comes over she has to show them her room. She loves the paint and her new bed. I guess all the hard work finally paid off.

A Little Peace and Quite

May 18, 2009

Recently one of my friends had a new baby. As we were driving in the car to visit the baby I told Forrest that he could tell his friend all the wonderful things about having a baby sister. He said there was only two good things about baby sisters.

#1 - When they share their food with you.
#2 - When they go to bed so that he can finally have some piece and quite to relax.

Obviously we need to work on sibling bonding.