Still loving life

We are absolutely loving this nice weather. For family night we played woofle (not sure how to spell) ball in the front yard. The girls were so good at hitting the ball, we were so impressed. The ball only went over the neighbors fence 3 times. Not too bad. We have also enjoyed going on family bike rides to the park. Natalie LOVES riding bikes with me. Every now and then she convinces Mike to take her on a ride and he hops on my purple bike with the big mama seat ( I am always getting made fun of for, but those little skinny seats just don't work any more) and she is in heaven. School will be out in a week and a half and we are excited to do some fun things this summer. We are proud of Hailee and Abby for doing so well in school. Abby's school will be out next week so we went to the zoo yesterday and had lots of fun. We asked the kids what their favorite animal was and one of the kids said the slide. That made me laugh. OHH and Mia is starting to get better. The past few nights have not been bad at all. Either her she is growing out of her fussiness or we are learning to deal with it a little better. Could be both, but we are happy to have a little happier baby.

Chuckles had by all- NOT!

Natalie just turned 2 and the terrible 2's hit us all in a big way the past couple of days. Mike wanted me to write everything down so we wouldn't forget (and it has only been a couple of days and I have forgotten or blocked out some things so I will try hard to remember). She learned how to open doors so she helps herself to the bathrooms and loves getting in the drawers and putting on make-up, trying to brush her teeth by herself, and putting on deodorant. She ate half of a blue stamp pad so her whole mouth, teeth, lips and fingers were all blue. I put her in the tub to wash it off and she took a bite of the soap and left deep teeth marks. She got out of the tub and took a marker and wrote all over her body and then took her diaper off. She has also learned that if she pulls the piano bench out she can climb onto the back of the piano and walk along the top like a balance beam- scary. She also electrocuted herself by trying to plug in the humidifier after she sucked on her fingers. She hopefully learned her lesson but you never know. I think the neighbors have heard all of this craziness because when she gets in trouble or thinks she will get in trouble she lets off this siren like cry that is almost impossible to stop. Then last night Mike was getting after Hailee for saying stupid and Natalie started chanting stupid. We have to laugh inside or she would do it more. Abby also came in the house from outside and said that Natalie kicked her in the "nuts", and she is in lots of pain. These are the fun times in our lives and if it wasn't for our girls being so dang cute we would really be going crazy.

Mia's Blessing

We had some great times during Mia's blessing. It started early with meetings and ended late with a BBQ. I just wanted to post some pictures of the day. It sure is hard to get 5 people to pose at the same time. Mia was the easy one...