Happy Mother’s Day

The kids were very excited to wake up for mother’s day.  SO excited that they couldn’t make it past 6:30.  So…mommy got coffee and breakfast in bed.  At 7.  Sleeping in is overrated, right?

This year, for the first time, I spent part of the day without the kiddos.  I went to Pure Barre at 9 to have just an hour or so to myself, but before leaving the kids got ready for the day. 

Can you tell which one got himself dressed?  Yikes!

         

         

While I was gone, the kids worked on questionnaires about Mommy.  My favorite answers…”My mom always tells me what to do,”  “the best thing my mom does is sleep,” and “when my mom shops she likes to buy candy”.  Actually pretty accurate answers.  LOVE these.

   

Per my request, we took a walk to the pond afterwards.  We hadn’t all taken a walk together in longer than I care to admit.  Jack had hoped to bring his remote control boat, but for some reason it was out of commission.  So they opted for throwing rocks in the water.  And feeding the turtles all the triscuits we brought for snack.  And humoring mommy with a few photo ops.

         

Love my girl.  The only one who really sat through all the pictures happily.

So long as she was allowed to take a few pics of her own.  Might need to work on the aim a little bit.  And not making the subject’s hand look 3x its normal size. 

Thinking it may be time to upgrade her though, from Kidizoom to a real camera.  (A cheap real camera).  She loves taking pictures almost as much as me.

    

Daddy and his girls.

 

Finished off the day with a nice bath and lots of stories.  All of which I got to choose.  Jack’s been VERY into encyclopedia-ish books.  Dry, informational books.  About dinosaurs.  Dragons.  Snakes.  So I was thrilled to choose all the books that I love – from You are my I Love You to Guess How Much I Love You to Tickle Monster.  John and I ganged up for double the Tickle Monster power, just to ensure LOTS of giggles.  So fun!

  

Great, great day.

Happy 6th Birthday Christopher!

Christopher turned 6 today, and celebrated with an AWESOME army party!!  Everyone was given all kinds of army loot – from water bottles to helmets to tie-dyed shirts – and then instructed to the obstacle course.  And that’s where the games began!

They needed to walk through the mines (ie water balloons) blindfolded, making sure not to pop “set off” any of them.

It was hard work trying not to set off the mines, but I’m pretty sure it was more fun when they did!  Jack’s face as Christopher stepped on a few says it all!

Next was the rope, which was used to swing over a pool.  The boys loved it, and so did Kingsley (so long as Mimi or I helped her).

A quick shot of the happy birthday boy.

My sweet girls walking the plank.

  

Potato sack races.  Pretty sure this was the first time any of them had tried something like this, but they were all FAST! 

 

Brinkley spent a bunch of her time in the fort playing peek-a-boo.  She cracks herself up.

Cake time!!

A big day for our big boy

Playing hookie with Daddy to watch the golf tournament, and then a visit to the Latin playground to meet his future Kindergarten classmates!! Fun! Fun!

After we got back home, he told me that this was one of the best days ever.  (His favorite part of the tournament was “watching Tiger putt”, and the Latin playground of course was a HUGE hit.  He did not want to leave!)