Sunday, April 22, 2018

Girls Trip

The girls and I escaped to Des Moines for an overnight trip. We spent the night at a hotel where the girls swam for about 2 hours. 



Breakfast at Perkins. Always pancakes and bacon.


On Saturday we got to see Aunt Julie and meet her new dog, Higgins. This was the highlight of the trip for the girls!


Then Evy and I went to see Les Miserables. This was Evy's first big show. It was long and it's a pretty sad show. She sat through it very well although I'm not sure she really enjoyed it. 



Monday, April 16, 2018

Will: Tiny Tot Soccer

It's Will's turn for Tiny Tot Soccer! This is his first activity and he was very reluctant to play. All day long he was telling me that he was not going to play soccer! Luckily he changed his attitude when we arrived at soccer. He did so great. Listened to everything the coaches told him and followed along during the warm up. He even scored two goals!


Will's team is the black Raiders.




Sunday, April 15, 2018

Will age 3.5

I don't even know where to start with this character. He is challenging beyond anything the girls have ever thrown at us. He is funny. He is loving. He is loved. 

He often insists on the most ridiculous things. He wanted to bring these ski goggles to Charlie's dance lesson. He wore them and decided to stick this toy on them. 

Will's share day at school. He is very shy and is reluctant to participate in share day. 


It is so difficult to get him to sleep at night but then he will randomly fall asleep while we are in the middle of things. Here we are grocery shopping one afternoon. He fell asleep in the car, stayed asleep when I transferred him to the cart and slept the entire time I was in the store. 

He loves to be outside and this is the result of one of his outings. Face down in the mud. 

He loves doing outside jobs with Dad and got this wheelbarrow for Christmas. Scott says that he is a very good helper and a hard worker. He doesn't stop until the job is finished. 

Fell asleep one afternoon and proceeded to sleep on the couch while 4 other kids were running and playing in the house. 

While Evy and Charlie are at their music lessons he loves to play the drums.

He loves to shoot hoops!

Channeling Thor. 

He plays along with lots of the girls crazy ideas. Here they were calling him baby builder. 


At Buffalo Wild Wings with Dad for a boys' day. 

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Will School Snow Gear

A note from Will's preschool teacher: "I wanted to share the winter gear pictures with you.  He was so proud that he got ready all by himself.  He had his hat on over his hood.  He also pulled his snow pants up and we tucked his coat into the snow pants.  It was so great to see his independence and sticking with the job until he was done.  Hope you enjoy the pictures."

And yes, it's April 4 and we're STILL wearing snow gear!



Sunday, April 1, 2018

Easter

Both sets of grandparents were out of town this year so we had a quiet Easter at home. Early in the week the kids got to color their eggs. 



It was a cool Easter morning but that didn't stop this crew from hunting down all of the eggs left in our yard. 


The girls wanted to make an egg shaped cake and had free reign over the decorating. Notice the black jelly beans in the grass. That is bunny poop. Oh my....