Growng Munchkins

Yesterday we had a three year old well child check for Myles and Elsa's four month old check up.

Did I really type that??? Four months old already?

Yup!


Our littlest Lindsay is now weighing in at 15 pounds even,
and measuring 25 inches in length.
She is one tall girl.

Myles, my little ham, now weighs in at 35 pounds.

He is 3 feet and two inches tall.

I had to laugh, yesterday, I was playing his shape matching game with him. I showed him a shape and asked if he knew what it was. He didn't, and so I told him it was a hexagon. He said "Hey, I ate a hepsagon." I thought maybe he was just being funny, but he repeated that he had eaten one. I had to think about it for a minute, and he had indeed eaten a "hepsagon." He had eaten cheese crackers in the shape of a hexagon.

Today he told me he was hungry. I replied "Well then go eat your bagel silly." At which he replied "Is that how we talk, mom?"

As I am typing this he is asking me to pick which Hot Wheels car I want to play with. I am going to pick the cool looking medic car. Oh, he told me to try again. I guess I get the Sea Wave van. This guy cracks me up. Oh, now it is time to pick a dinosaur. I am going to pick the brontosaurus. Oops, I need to try again he says. So, I guess it is the green stegosaurus for me.

He is back to sleeping better once again. This is in part due to tough love (which was very hard. I was feeling like a grumpy and bad mommy. I will fully vouch for being a grumpy mommy). And also in part due to the suggestion of a night light. Since putting a night light in his room he has slept wonderfully.

The girls are leisurely working on school work these days.
Aeva played soccer yesterday at Achievement days. She loved it.
Rhaevyn played Jeopardy at her Achievement days activity. She won the most points.
Oh Rhaevyn's big news....she entered a recipe contest for Red Robin.
She calls it Italian Chicken Supreme.

I made over the couch pillows this last weekend.
I took an old off white sheet and redid our big green pillows.
Here are the smaller pillows that I redid.

I am not sure you can tell, but I pleated this piece of material and slipped it over the new case I made.

Last week the kids had fun painting outside. Poor Myles slipped in all the paint that he had doused the paper with . He was stuck with feet and hands in the paint and butt in the air. He had paint all over him.

Where is Elsa?

Peek-a-boo!

Peaceful slumber.

She is starting to say "mamamama."
This is a first of all my kids. They have all started out saying "dadada" first.
Well, time to go play :)

Playing Hookey

Chris and I have had a rough couple of nights.
Not a lot of sleep to be had around here since Monday night.
Myles was running a fever again and pretty much has been up
too many times to count from Monday to last night.
Between getting up with Myles and feeding Elsa during the night
we were both plain wore out, and I was becoming a very tired and impatient mommy.
Myles was mostly on the mend by Tuesday evening and clearly back to his
normal self yesterday, as he was jumping all over the place.
But last night he kept us awake with his screaming from nightmares (poor guy).
Chris decided to call in sick to work today and suggested we all go on a picnic.
It was nice to have a leisure play day today.
So, Chris got together all the food for the picnic and we headed off.

Here we are, six Lindsays heading to Lucia Falls.

We had a nice picnic.
Chris even packed ice cream cones for dessert.

I tried to take a close up of Rhaevyn 'cause she has the cutest freckles.

Peek a boo Miss Elsa!

Myles running around.
He tried to tell me he didn't have any energy.

After lunch we went on a little hike down a new
trail that we hadn't gone on before.

Rhaevyn found walking sticks for Aeva and Myles.

Lazy river.

This scene makes me want to get in a canoe and just

slowly glide down the river.

We found a little stream that empties into the river.
The kids had a great time exploring it.

This is Rhaevyn before.

Kersplash!

And this is Rhaevyn after.

She slipped and fell into the water.
She was a good sport. We made sure she was okay, and then we all had a good laugh.
Aeva on the other hand freaked out and was in tears because she did not want
to fall into the water and get wet or dirty.
I have two very different girls....one who doesn't mind getting dirty while exploring, and one who doesn't mind exploring as long as she doesn't get dirty.
I love how different there personalities and characteristics are, and I love them for their diversity.
Myles was having a good time exploring and climbing.

So, that was our day in a nutshell. It was much needed and totally enjoyed.
But of course, what would my blog be if I didn't end with a picture of Elsa?
I just had to document Elsa in this outfit.
It is one of my favorites on her and she will be out of it soon.
The pants are getting a bit short on her.

Pretzmallows

I couldn't think of a title for this post, so I decided just to put the name of the treat Rhaevyn came up with today......
Pretzels with toasted marshmallows on top.
We think it would be good dipped in chocolate, but we don't have chocolate on hand.
We decided to call her new creation Pretzmallows.

This morning before heading out the door to church I was feeding Elsa and decided to keep Myles happy with a movie (Bolt).
I was telling Chris, once I got to church, that I think I could pretty much watch that movie without the sound because Myles recites the lines and sound effects while watching it.
When I watched Star Wars with him the other day he hummed the entire opening score for me.

Right now he is sleeping, and I have to say "whew!"

I think we all need a nap today.

Oh, we just got a phone call from Walmart.
Apparently our Miss Rhaevyn has won a prize.
A month ago she entered a drawing, for what we can't exactly remember, but we thought it had to do with some sort of goodie pale for summer. She guessed the correct number of salt water taffies in a jar. We keep laughing though because her prize really is not a prize. She gets a free
8x10 portrait, but the catch is she (or rather I) have to make a purchase in order to get the free 8x10. We are laughing because that really isn't winning a prize if you can only get it by buying something.
At least she can revel in the fact that she did guess the correct amount of taffies.
The weather is finally starting to cool down.
We are out of the 107 degree weather.
They say we may be in for some thunder storms. That would be fun.

My little one turns four months this week.

All I can say is "time is going so fast!"

Elsa is now grabbing for toys.
She loves her colorful rings.
When we were out and about yesterday
we kept finding that she was holding onto the rings
even while she was asleep in her car seat.

Wishing you all a productive week:)