Tender Tootsies

Sorry, I've been so terrible at posting lately. Nothing too earth shattering has happened for us. We still are plugging away with work, school, playing, cleaning, errands, sickness, and biking.

We have been back to the parks and exploring new ones, with the nicer weather. The one problem that exists for Evan is that all the parks that we go to have sand. If the weather is nice I tell him to just quickly put on his "crocs", which he is happy to do. Until we get to the park and every 5 seconds he has to stop to dump the sand out of his shoes. I don't blame him, I've been wearing sandles that get sand into them as well and it does hurt your feet! All those winter months of wearing socks and slippers and boots.....

Occassionaly we are smart and Evan wears his rain boots or shoes to the park, then he has a really good time and can actually enjoy himself and play.

Spring Break...

I have actually been enjoying myself with the kids this week and their spring break. We have been keeping busy....

Monday- was our mostly at home day...tv, computer, Wii, then we hit the library and went to play at the park (hooray for nice weather!)

Tuesday - was our visit to the Royal Alberta Museum. There we enjoyed looking at a few exhibits about our natural surroundings, Alberta Wilds and Robert Munsch. The kids also got to participate in a sock puppet story and craft all themed around the Munsch exhibit. We packed up our own lunch, but on the way out we did stop by the gift shop and each picked out a treat.

Wednesday - Spencer joined us for a day at WEM. Cheaper than Disneyland and closer. Then kids had a blast at Galaxyland. Megan was brave enough to go on some new big kid rides by herself and she joined Evan on a few rides as well. Aaron got to experience a few rides too; the train, and hot air balloons. He was mostly exicted for all the movement and flashing lights and sounds....We enjoyed lunch at the food court then back for more rides. Megans new favorite ride was the Swing of the Century. We then wandered the mall for a few minutes...and Megans good eyes spotted a store that had Webkins on sale...so generous dad bought them each a new one. It was a fun, full day.

Spring break is only half over and I'm exhausted. We'll move from those activities to running more errands and getting ready for Easter.....Hoppy Easter and April Fools Day!

Busy boy

Aaron has also been rocking on his hands and knees lately. He is starting to get the idea of how to coordinate it all, so he can actually move and go faster than what he is doing now; which is army man style; pull with the arms, kick with the feet....propel myself forward...cry and get picked up!

Toothy grin

Here is Aaron with his toothy smile. His first 2 teeth broke through in March, his seventh month. That is the earliest of all our kids. He sure is enjoying chewing on things with more texture....

Happy St. Paddy's Day!

I hope no one got pinched yesterday. Everyone here was wearing some sort and something green. Evan even received 2 golden chocolate coins at the end of his preschool, thanks to another mothers good planning. We celebrated with our traditional green dinner.

We had green beans, green mashed potatoes (I went all out and also made gravy), green lettuce salad, Irish potato bread (Evan loved that) and a crockpotted roast, with green limeade to drink. For dessert we enjoyed mint chocolate ice cream. It was a hit and very fun to do.

Back to the park...

Well the weather was beautiful a few days ago and Spencer ventured out with the boys after dinner (thanks to day light savings) to the park that is close to us. I sent Megan out as my official photographer to take some pictures of Aarons first swing ride.

My boys thoroughly enjoyed themselves and when they came home they warmed up in a nice bath. Very soon we'll be able to have more outside experiences for the 2010 season! Hooray!

Said Evan...

I surely hope that all prayers are recorded in heaven, so one day we'll be able to listen to them again. Children say the best prayers, especially when they really try. I heard a good one in Primary the other day, it had the adults smiling.

Evan is the official opening prayer for our FHE. It was really good. If I try to prompt him, he immediately says, "I don't need any help!" "Ok, sorry", I say. Some of the things that he said that was cute yesterday include, "thanks that daddy can be home, and that we can have cake, help me not to hit and thank you for my friends." He is in his own small, innocent little world. BTW- we had angel food cake with whipped cream and strawberries for dessert.