Blog Updates!

So, I've decided to be a little more protective of our blog. I have had it unsearchable, supposedly and what not, and have only given the address to family and friends, but I can see that others I definitely don't know have still managed to look at it nonetheless. I am totally ok with you guys sharing my blog with others, but I have still decided to keep the kids names off of it for now, just using their initial. You should all know them anywho. :) Anyways, just one less thing for me to worry about with my precious kids, you can never be too safe. Thanks, I hope I don't bore you guys to death, if anyone is even reading! Pretty soon "L" will be crawling and other exciting outdoor things now that Spring is in the air!

Happy Valentines Day!

Valentine's Day around here was pretty good. First of all the girls woke up to a table full of treats from a daddy who loves them and spoils them. They each got candy galore, a cupcake, and a rose. They were very excited to get REAL roses. "W" got to hand out Valentines and get a bunch from school and "E" had a little preschool party with her co-op preschool kids from the neighborhood. They had fun. We ended with a cheese fondue dinner, which none of the kids would touch, of course, until I brought out the chocolate fondue. :) We'll have to de-sugar them soon, but I think they enjoyed it all. Here's some random pics from the day!

Science Fair!

"W" had her science fair today! She did a great job telling the judge and her whole class what she did for her project. We baked cakes on Saturday and took eggs out of one and baking powder out of one. The one without baking powder was actually the highest! Yeah, so we still need to figure out why, but it was fun and she did most of it herself! Hopefully pics are not in too random of an order.

Character Counts

We got invited to a school assembly today because "W" was awarded a 'Character Counts' Award. Specifically in being 'articulate'. She was scared to walk up in front of everyone, even tho she wasn't the only one, but she did it. Only in kindergarten and doing awesome! She also will be doing a project for the science fair next week so stay tuned for that post. I honestly tried to talk her out of it since it is definitely not required for kindergarten, but she insisted.
We also registered "E" for kindergarten for next year! They are both very excited for her to join "W" in school. Fun fun!

Snow sculptures

So it was nice and warm out today, so the 2 older girls wanted to play outside during naptime. I filled some spray bottles with colored water for them to spray the snow and then they wanted my help building a few things. I don't know what order the pictures will show up, but there is a crocodile, a cat, a penguin and a dolphin sort of thing. ;) We had fun tho!

Tiny monkey curtains

I had some leftover monkey fabric so I decided "L" needed a little window treatment in his room. It's little, but I did what I could with what I had! I think it's just enough to complete the room. :) Sorry the pic is kinda dark, it looks better on the phone. :)

Mommy's little helper

The past couple of weeks "R" had been extremely excited and eager to help me with dishes. Of course she just loves the water, but she helps too! She rinses and scrubs the dishes and then hands them to me to put in the dishwasher. I didn't let the other girls start helping with them till they were older, but I guess I should have because they actually might like helping me with them now. Oh well, I guess dishes can be our thing. ;)

Banks

I made the girls each a three way bank. A spot for tithing, savings and spending. I just used plastic yogurt containers and hot glued them together, then added scrapbook paper and ribbon. I'm pretty excited with how they turned out! Hopefully we can start a little bit of allowance now and teach them how to manage their money.

Wall makeover!

For our anniversary we took the girls to my mom's house and stayed home to get some things done! The number one thing on my list was to get rid of the, wait for it, CARPETED Wall. Yep, that's what I said. Our wall right when you walked in the door had carpet on it. I have had an idea for the wall for some time now, but never the actual time to do it! So after taking the carpet off and fixing a minor dent that the carpet was hiding, we got it painted and finished! Hopefully the before and after will show up in the right order. ;)

Fish!

The kids got some fish for Christmas! "E"'s fish is the dalmation one, she named it Flower. "W"'s is the Orange one named Creama Creamy Hannah. We call her Creama. ;) And we did have a little one for "R", but sad to report he is already gone...but the others still seem to be healthy and happy!