Bath Time

  Getting back to some long past due posts. For a while now the kids have all been big enough to all bath together (since Keisha has been about 9 months and able to sit up on her own in the tub) and enjoy each others company for the most part. A lot of the time Keisha ends up at the end of the pecking order, which for the most part Charles is the one doing the pecking. She's pretty tolerant of the activities he chooses, even when they're not fun for her in the least bit, so things can go a little far some times especially in the tub when he decides to dump gallons of water on her at a time.

   This is one of the times that they both enjoy the bath time activities.

Workshops

   Now that we have finally gotten relatively settled in our new home, and have functioning internet again, well try to get caught up on blogging and post more frequently than has been seen in the last couple months.

   Back in February we started taking the kids to the Lowe's and Home Depot's Kids Workshops.  We initially thought that the kids wouldn't be allowed to do it because of their age, but we later found out that even though they say the projects are made for kids 6-12 yrs. they let anyone do it. Adahleigh and Charles have loved making the handful of projects we have taken them to, and Keisha is content to sit in her race car shopping cart pretending to be on the speedway while they build.

   The first one they got to go to was to make race cars. They had tons of fun building them and continue to have fun playing with them.

   Since the Lowe's cars didn't really have any paint on them, we help the kids customize their own cars by painting them and altering the stickers that came with them,  so they could tell them apart.

   Following the Lowe's car build Home Depot also had a car build and since the kids had so much we took them to it also. The cars turned out to be not quite as cool since they were self propelled like Lowe's. Thus far we have be able to escape the build without too many smashed fingers, I don't think the kids have smashed their own fingers yet.

   Some of the other projects the kids have build include pinball, fortune teller, flower boxes, bird feeder/house, golf game, plane, and tow trucks.

   Her are some other fun pictures that happened a few months back.

Keisha had finally gotten big enough to climb in and out of the tub, and one night she decided that just because mom said it was time to get out of the tub and get dressed for bed didn't really mean that bath time was over. Keisha climbed back in the tub fully clothed to play more.

   As you can see the older kids must have looked like they were having way too much fun, so like usual she had to get in on the action. They may have helped her into the tub, since they like to help her out with things that she isn't quite big enough to do on her own.

    While Charles hair was still long he wanted to have some fun doing it up, so we got out the gel and hair dryer and let him got at it.

    He had to be involved in the whole process from wetting and gelling his hair to drying it. The expression on his face makes the picture that much better.

   He sure did get a lot of height in his hair.

Life goes on....

Quick Update:

Hello Again! We have not forgotten about this we have just been on what feels like a very long extended vacation for the past three months.  And we finally have Internet so we can update,  well that is when we can find our camera cord so we can load pictures. 

We have a lot of stuff we could blog about but for now i thought i would give you all a quick update of the happenings in our life. 

We started our busy schedule the end of april exploring the northwest visiting family and friends while adam had the time off. 

Adam Graduated from pharmacy school the first of May. A couple days before graduation he finally got a job offer! YAY!  Unfortunately it was not in Reno. So we spent the next couple of weeks packing and playing as much as we could.  By the middle of may we were on our way to our new home! We spent all of June shopping, unpacking, and traveling for adam to take his final tests for school! 

Besides our busy busy schedule we have been enjoying our next stage in life! The move went well, the kids are adjusting, were making new friends, adam is enjoying his job, and were all starting to get use to our new home. 

Were hoping by August things will slow down and we will have spent some much needed down time at home! Were hoping to get back up to updating this on a regular basis now that life is starting to get back to normal! So check back in a couple weeks and hopefully will have a few new posts ready to go so you can all see whats new with us! 

But for now you can all enjoy this picture of our little "meesh meesh" who is not so little anymore!

Snow Castles

   In February, one of the few days we were blessed with enough snow to have some fun in, we took the kids outs for some enjoyment.  Every time it snows Adahleigh always asks to go and make footprints in the snow, or to build another snowman like the giant we made last time. We decided to do something new this time and made a snow castle.

    Adahleigh was by far the most determined to get the castle built, but Charles did put forth some effort. I think a lot of her determination came from her recent interest in princesses (mainly from all the disney movies we barrow from the library that she watches).  The sunglasses Adahleigh is wearing were all her idea, she must have thought she'd look cool going out in them and no matter what we told her she refused to take them off.

    The kids did great packing the boxes we gave them, it was a lot easier than trying to push a snowball around.

   Keisha even made an appearance for an hour. She was really excited to be out in the snow, although she wasn't very good about staying on her feet. Part of the problem was that she wasn't that stable on uneven ground with walking and part was because she wanted to play in the snow and eat it. She also wasn't too fond of keeping her mittens on, it didn't register that they were keeping her hands dry and warm.

   Once Charles was done making snow blocks, He and Keisha went and had some fun on the playground too.

    Once Adahleigh and I got the snow Castle build everyone joined in for some pictures (it only took us an hour or so to make). Everyone was excited to sit down in it.

   After the first couple pictures Keisha was done, Adahleigh was actually holding her down because all she wanted to do was get up and walk away.

    The window was one of the highlights of the whole structure.

   When all was said and done there was really only standing  room for three inside.

    After we finally talked everyone back inside, Adahleigh had to keep checking on her castle to make sure it was still there. It ended up being the envy of our complex, because not even 10 min. after going inside several of the other kids in the complex were out playing with it. It seemed that they had been watching the whole time and were just waiting for us to go in to play with it. It ended up lasting a couple days before everything fell apart, either from being kicked over or the warm weather that followed the snowfall.

   Now every time it has snowed since making the snow castle Adahleigh asks "Is the snow good enough to make a castle with" or "Is there enough snow to make a castle again".

Duck Mouse

Yesterday, Adahleigh and Charles wanted to look at animals on the computer and see what ones they liked best. We started by googling frogs (because they're Charles' favorites according to Adahleigh). Then she wanted to look at ducks, and finally she wanted to see mice. On the mouse image page we came across this:

She was completely fascinated by this oddity. We went to the page to find out that this was a taxidermist's creation (and not photoshopped). There was a video on how it was made that peaked my interest, so we watched it. Afterwards, Adahleigh said, "Dad lets make a Duck Mouse".  I told her maybe another day. Then this morning Ashley asked Adahleigh what she wanted to do today and of course the first idea to come to mind was "make a Duck Mouse".

   For those that may have the same desire to create this abomination of nature, I have saved you the time of having to google Duck Mouse yourself and attached the instructional video for you. 

   So if anyone has some freshly deceased mice and/or preserved duck (or waterfowl) feet laying Adahleigh would greatly appreciate them being sent to her (this is mainly for Oliver and Miles).

The Rest of Grandpa and Grandma W. Visit

The rest of Grandpas and Grandmas visit was spent just hanging out, going shopping, eating out, a late christmas party, and hanging out at their hotel. 

When my parents came to visit they stayed at circus circus so the kids could watch the little miniature carnival shows they put on throughout the day. The shows we watched the most had dogs doing silly things and the kids enjoyed watching them. The rest of the time was spent playing games at the carnival/ arcades games. Grandpa and Grandma spoiled all of us and let us play until our hearts content. We even had grandpa shooting chickens into the pot. (He won everytime.) 

The kids trying to throw the ping pong balls in the rows of cups. They put in a good effort but the balls just did not want to stay in the cups! 

 Adahleigh and i getting ready to pull the handle on the slot machine! We must not of had the luck cuz we only won 4 tickets. (Obviously it was not a real slot machine).

The kids had a great time playing air hockey, the game was lasting for ever because neither of them could hit it hard enough to make it hard for the other one not to intercept it. 

The kids enjoyed playing all the games but we're pretty sure they had the most fun riding the escalators up and down from different levels in the hotel.

After wards we wandered the hotel and took some pictures from some of their animals they have around.

We always enjoy when family comes to visit or when we make it out to see them!!

Charles turns 2

Charles turned 2 a couple months ago. His current stats from his latest doctors appointment are

Height: 34 1/4 in

Weight: 24 Lbs 3 oz

(Yes he only weighs 4 pounds more than his little sister.)

He is still skinny as ever but i think he is starting to feel out more.  

We celebrated charles birthday a day late because grandma and grandpa W were flying in the next day so we waited to celebrate until they could join us. 

For his birthday we made him a mickey mouse cake. (we really hate the taste of black frosting so we settled on a brown mickey mouse.)  We managed to keep fingers out of the frosting until he blew out his candles and he was more than excited to be able to eat the candles. 

Best Buds! 

Charles got a alot of fun things for his birthday.

Things Charles is doing at 2 years....

His vocabulary is coming along and he is slowly starting to form sentences

He has gotten brave enough to jump down from our dining room table chairs. 

He takes after his dad and has to stop and watch every bug he sees. 

He loves mickey mouse and dora.

He is a great helper in the kitchen, he has about mastered cracking eggs and only gets a shell in it every once in a while. 

He enjoys being outside and playing at the park. 

His music ability is starting to show, as he sings the last words of every line of a song. 

He can always put a smile on his face esp. when he gives you one of his ear to ear grins, or even when he put on one of his mean scowls.

He is also in dier need of a hair cut.