For Dr. Seuss’s birthday celebration on Monday, we made oobleck (courtesy of Steve Spangler). We also read Bartholmew and the Oobleck by Dr. Seuss to go along with our homemade stuff. The kids so enjoyed it. Mark did too!
First, we play with the pans and stick them on our head.
Note to self: do not mix food coloring and oobleck wtih your hand…you get a food colored hand…in this case, green!
Oooo…oobleck
I’m telling ya’ll…this is a boys activity if ever there was one…lots of messy fun!
Zoe had on a Princess nightgown on Saturday night. After we finished worship Ace looked up at her nightgown and said, “Cinderella’s a dog…look, she has a collar.”
On Friday, I wanted to get out of the house, so right after lunch I decided we would venture out…to Wal-Mart…to purchase groceries and new carseats for Josiah and Liam. Their current car seats expire this year, and so before Ceili Rain came, we decided to purchase them.
I was trying to get the kids to rush through lunch so we could go and here is the conversation that ensued.
Me: Hurry up and eat so we can get your new car seat Liam. Are you excited about a new car seat?
Liam: Yes sir. (Okay, I’m working on ma’am still but at least he’s using some kind of form of respect.)
Zoe (very enthusiastically): Oh Liam you’re going to get a new car seat and it’s going to have cupholders! Aren’t you excited??
Okay, so the story is Aunt Yaya loves to have cupholders in the car. When she purchased her minivan, the first thing she told me was that it had eleven cupholders.
So there, Aunt Yaya…Zoe (and the rest of the crew) are falling into your footsteps and love for cupholders!!
Zoe just pulled a tooth…by herself…ughhh! Pretty cool…but uggghh…it’s a tooth!!
Taking advantage of the beautiful spring like weather this weekend, we embarked on our annual leaf raking adventure. The kids all had to help but we only had two rakes, so Mark pulled out a broom for Liam…he swept our yard! Anyway, after some raking, I suggested Mark call a friend and ask to borrow their leaf blower. He called. And within about 20 minutes, he was able to get the leaves up to rake in to large piles. Unfortunately, his transportation method broke and there are three piles of leaves in the yard that still need to be moved…but at least they’re (mostly) out of the yard.
Josiah got to sweep the yard some.
But then decided his “bu bu” was a better read.
Taking a break from raking to have a little sword fight.
Taking a break from raking to have a leaf fight (there were a lot of breaks).
“Fighting” the leaves from the leaf blower.
Liam has a “sword.”
Sweeping the leaves some more.
And finally, enjoying hard work by jumping in the pile!
The kids decided they would camp out in the hallway. No reason…just because. They got all the pillows out of every nook and crannny and piled them up with blankets. And what day was this??? Why Monday of course…Destruction Day!
Zoe decided that she was ready to be baptized this month. Our church does baptisms once a month. So, Zoe, and 30 of her closest church family were baptized! I confess, I cried…I think I was the only mom in the baptismal who cried…but hey, it’s my baby, and I am so excited to see her take such a mature, obedient step in following Christ. Ace said she was getting “babatized” and that when he asked Jesus in his heart he could get “babatized” AND “get to drink the grape juice and eat the cracker.” Stay tuned…I got some more good ones coming up!
Getting ready!
Waiting her turn!
Pastor L and Zoe
Christ died for our sins…
Buried and…
Rose again on the third day! Praise God for this act of obedience in walking with Christ!!
Last Saturday, we realized would be the last warm weather day for the week, so Mark took Zoe and Ace with him to a local area/walking trail to ride scooters and bikes. However, when they got there, Zoe had a hard time with the scooter and loose rock and Ace’s bike tires were completely flat. So, they just walked around and looked at some cool things! I think they both enjoyed that time with Dad, especially when he stopped and got ice cream on the way home.
A small waterfall near the dam.
This is just a beautiful area. Mark and I biked this trial back in May and it was just as pretty then.
Our two adventurers!
Ace spotted this in the water…alligator???
Still trying to catch up on pictures and realized I didn’t post of the kids playing with sparklers on January 1st. Tracy and Kevin came over and it just so happened that we had sparklers left over from their wedding! Josiah got in on the act this time and thoroughly enjoyed himself. It was fun watching the near misses and almost pokes of fire from each of the kids…no really, it was!
Josiah with sparkler in hand! Don’t try and take it away either. He likes fire!!
Just some fun pictures of our light show. I think this is Zoe’s work with Kevin behind her.
On guard! Yes, Liam and Ace thought it’d be fun to sword fight with them.
More cool sparklers fun!
I was able to convince Dr. B and her staff to allow me to bring three kids in for their well-checks instead of the standard two. Zoe’s was for six years, Liam for three, and Josiah for his 18 month. This all went down on Friday at 8:30 in the morning…oh yeah, I got the kids up and ready by then…no matter they had a nutritious breakfast of pop tarts on the way there.
It went over okay, besides that Ace had to act out because he wasn’t getting any attention. Problem solved when I didn’t allow him to have the “reward” of a lollipop or sticker…and no I didn’t give in to the screams and utter embarrassment he caused in front of the staff or our doctor, who happens to go to church with us.
So here’s their stats:
This’ll probably be the last time I post Zoe’s stats as she’s a girl and probably would get embarrassed at some point that I put her weight online. Oh, a funny was that Dr. B asked Zoe if she knew all her letters and was learning her letter sounds. She just politely said, “yes ma’am.” and nothing more. I nicely slipped in that she was reading on a 3rd grade level and Dr. B was happy with that. I wonder if she thinks I’m exaggerating, but Zoe was leaning over her reading all her paperwork that she was writing on, so maybe not.
Anyway here go the stats now:
Zoe
wt: 75%; ht: 93%; BMI: 40% So, she’s a little underweight…go figure…look at her percentage on height!
Liam
wt: 50% (that’s stayed the same percentage from last year); Ht: 40%; BMI: 60% (not sure how that came out…if you’ve seen Liam in person you would see he’s the skinniest of all our kids and he’s a decent height. I wonder if he fidgeted when she checked his height.)
Josiah
wt: 74%; ht: 90% (I got some tall kids I guess)–He came out just fine on the ear check. She felt his spech was good. He can say about 20 to 25 words or so…that I can understand. He still won’t drink cow’s milk and barely drink’s soymilk but Dr. B said to make sure and buy the calcium fortified juice for his morning drink (my kids only drink juice and other “flavored” drinks at breakfast and on special occasions).
That’s it. Zoe was such a big help and went with Liam for the weight/height and blood pressure checks as well as his eye checks and when he got to pick out a toy.