SPRING!!!

I love the spring.  It makes me so happy to have my flowers pop up, our grass turn green (you may not know, but bermuda grass is super common in our area and it turns yellow for half the year....not pretty, but it sure is exciting when it slowly turns green!), and my kiddos and I get to spend more time outside.  We went to a fun county expo last weekend where the kids got to ride mini horses, participate in a boot scramble, and hold baby animals.

Lately, Andrew loves to build with Legos during lunchtime.  He makes all sorts of fun designs and then asks me if I can make a cooler one.  Since he's the judge, he always wins that competition.  I registered him for kindergarten this week and I will miss the constant chatter, silly jokes, and cuddles when he goes to school.

We saw this little flamingo at Walmart last week.  Nora was reaching for it and I just had to get a picture so Grandma could see it.  

Last month, Lydia was the student of the month for responsibility.  This picture hung in her classroom all month to celebrate it.  She was so excited and proud to bring it home and hang it up.

We got school pictures back last week.  I'm so glad I didn't buy any of them.  We've had some good pictures and some not so good ones, but these ones just made me laugh, especially Sam's.  Oh my goodness, we had a great time laughing about his :)

Now that Nora is a great walker, she can participate in all the fun at parks.  The boys and I took Nora to a tiny playground while the girls were at jump rope class.  She's so cute and the boys were so sweet in teaching her how to do the playground :)

We were trying to get a picture of Nora's new hairdo.  Her hair is long enough now that we can pull it back and she looks so cute.  If we stick her in the carseat with it still wet, her little ponytail goes straight up and it's comical.

No words, you guys.  One of my favorite quiet moments of the week.

Nora has figured out how to climb up on Andrew's bed, much to his sometimes aggravation and sometimes pleasure.  She climbs up and pretends to fall asleep, which only lasts for as long as it takes Andrew to tickle her.

We try to attend storytime at the library every week.  Andrew loves it and is getting brave enough (finally!) to participate in the songs and fingerplays.  The last few weeks, he has pretended to be a chicken doing "Head, Shoulder, Knees, and Toes".  The librarian is so awesome and did a second verse with chicken parts :)

I loved this view of a typical night.  We read scriptures, sing a song, and say prayer.  I love this time and I love these people.