Friday, April 24, 2009

Week in Review

Last Sunday when I was at my mom's working-My mom took Ella to Fred Meyer-there Ella discovered a purse and hat she just could not live without. Of course my mom bought it for her! Isn't she just adorable. She loves wearing it and thinks it is the most beautiful thing ever!

My grandma got the kiddos a jeep to ride around outside-since it is getting a bit warmer we got it going for them the other night. Roc wasn't too sure about it at first-but now he has warmed up to it more. He about drove over the cliff once so we are working with him on his driving and breaking skills. Notice Ella is wearing the hat and had the purse in the back of the jeep.

Katie and I took the kiddos to feed the ducks -usually there are swarms of them and they eat a ton, but they must be getting fed a lot as they weren't totally going for the bread-but the kiddos had fun anyway.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Easter and Ultrasound

Ok -so I am really falling behind. I looked at last year and my posts per month were way more than they have been this year! Better get blogging!

For the first time ever, I decorated Easter eggs with the kiddos. We only did twelve as this was a practice year and they did have fun, however Roc thought it was more fun to squish the eggs rather than decorate them. Ella just happens to love the whites of the eggs plain and egg salad sandwiches so we had no problem eating the eggs afterward.

We celebrated Easter by first going to a Good Friday service at our church. I have never been to one of these before and really enjoyed it. It was a great service and I got a lot out of it. Poor Roc though, was not happy in the nursery and I was even paged once as he would not stop crying. Kevin took care of him for a while and then got him back to the nursery and he did ok for the rest. He is going through a bit of a clingy mommy stage-hopefully we will be over this before the new baby arrives!

Saturday morning, after ballet, we went to Emmett's second birthday party. Can't believe our little boys are almost two! The kiddos had fun decorating a Easter gingerbread house and we had a delicious Cobb salad for lunch. Then that afternoon/evening we had the annual kids and adults egg hunt at my parents. As usual they went all out on the eggs and the family Easter baskets. The highlight of the hunt is us adult "kids" get to do it too, and the eggs are full of money, as well as candy. Roc and Kevin hunted together and I went with Ella.

Sunday morning our church had a breakfast and Easter egg hunt for the kiddos. We amazingly made it there on time-8:15 am! It was a bit chilly so but they had a great time hunting for eggs. Since Roc had practice the night before he knew right what to do without help! Then we had a great church service afterwards.

Tuesday I had another ultrasound because they did not see everything they wanted to see with the first one. It was during Kevin's lunch break so he met me and the kiddos there. I was so nervous I would accidentally discover the sex it was hard for me to watch it too much-but we made it without finding out! It was fun letting Ella see the baby on TV! Both kiddos love to kiss and blow kisses on my stomach. Roc will say "baby" and kiss and pat my stomach. Ella loves to kiss it too and also likes to talk to the baby and wonder is she can hear her. She also tells me quite often "I like your baby, mommy" Pretty cute. Her new favorite names are Dora and Elizabeth.... She is still convinced that it is a girl. Jesus has told her this. She also is pretty confident that she has two babies in her tummy. She told me just the other day that God puts babies in tummies and he put two in hers :)

One more rambling thought, Roc loves to look at the trucks and motorcycles that go up and down the road below our house. He also loves to wave at everyone passing by, it is really cute but not a lot of people wave back-or even notice him. At least he is too young to realize this but for his sake if anyone drives by and we are out-we would love a wave back! He also really enjoys looking for the planes that fly overhead and as soon as he hears one he says "plane, plane" and is totally looking for it!

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Happenings-for lack of a better title.

As I sit typing this Roc is sleeping in my arms. He got sick Tuesday night and threw up all over Drew (he seemed to take it in stride which was good!). Kevin and I were at our home group and Drew was babysitting. We came home and Roc pretty much threw up Tuesday night and all day yesterday. He threw up today once so far and is very sleepy. So far Ella is her usually bouncy healthy self. So that is good.
I really don't have much to post on but do have a cute video to share. Ella decided to read to Roc before his "nap" so got him all settled with a blanket and the horse pillow she has. He did pretty good about complying with her, for a while anyway!


Abby held another craft day the other day, so we headed on up to Ellensburg for a morning of fun. The theme this time was Easter. The kiddos had fun decorating paper Easter eggs and making coffee filter flowers. As usual the crafts last about a half hour and the play time for a few hours, which is fine, at least they are having fun. This was the first one Roc really got to participate in and he had fun painting!

Finally just a cute picture of each of the kiddos. Ella with her bitty baby and backpack and Roc looking cool in his shades!