Saturday morning we took the boys to a open house at the school they will most likely be attending. They were able to spend most of the time ramming around in the gym, so I think they liked it. :)
That evening Levi had a Sunday School class party at one of his teacher's house. The whole family was invited, but just he and I went so that he could have something special all his own and not have big brother's taking over. :) It was so neat and I am so so glad he had the chance to do something that was his very own. Miss Stephanie had toys, games, dinner, story time, goody bags, and dessert! Levi and I had a lot of fun.
Monday, February 23, 2015
karate chop
Two Saturday's ago the boys were able to go to a martial arts birthday party. The birthday boy is a friend of Caleb and Logan's, and he has a little brother who was going to be participating, so Levi was invited to join in as well. All three of them were SO shy at first, I wasn't sure how it was going to go! I thought there was power in numbers and that they'd be fine since they were with each other, but I guess not. It took Mike jumping in right at the beginning to get them warmed up.
They each got a belt with their name on it, they did a few different games and activities, and even got to break a board at the end! Levi didn't want to do that part, and at the very end Caleb got upset about something, so we had to leave with a crying 5-yr-old, but otherwise it was a lot of fun. :)
They each got a belt with their name on it, they did a few different games and activities, and even got to break a board at the end! Levi didn't want to do that part, and at the very end Caleb got upset about something, so we had to leave with a crying 5-yr-old, but otherwise it was a lot of fun. :)
Thursday, February 12, 2015
scared
All of the boys (especially Caleb, I have a feeling the other two are just following his lead) have been scared all. the. time. lately. Driving me crazy! I can be pretty understanding when it's dark and they're scared to go to another room by themselves (even though we have a fairly modernized house that is blessed with electricity and they would never have to be completely in the dark), but in the middle of the day, when it's perfectly light out?! Come on! Also, just the last couple days Caleb has decided he's terrified of tornadoes. Yes, being in a tornado would be terrifying, however, when it's a beautifully sunny day in February and you're having fun playing outside in the snow, yet decide to come in because it's a little windy and you think a tornado is coming, there might be a problem... Like I said, Logan and Levi are doing some of the, "But, I'm too scared!", thing too, but it really seems like they're just picking up on that from Caleb.
No new news on the Logan loose tooth front. It's still just a little wiggly. :)
Caleb and Logan went to Kindergarten screening on Monday! They did it at Hudsonville Christian, although we haven't yet decided where they will attend school. Decisions, decisions... I don't feel grown up enough to be making choices like this - I need sometime to tell me what to do! :) They really liked "going to school", and according to Logan, he "really, really, REALLY, loved his teacher and doesn't want anybody else." The lady Caleb had is a PreK teacher, and I don't even know if the lady Logan was with is a Kindergarten teacher or not! Anyways, from what I can gather they talked about letters, numbers, shapes, and colors, had to write their names (I need to teach them middle and last names...), hopped on one foot (even backwards with eyes closed!), and were asked if they knew my phone number (oops, that's another one I need to work on). I kinda feel like this Kindergarten screening is more of a test to see what kind of a mother I am than anything! A+ that they know their letters/numbers/colors/shapes good; B- for being able to write their first name, but not knowing how to write middle and last; F for not knowing phone number...
Midweek last week our dryer died. Certainly wasn't planning on replacing another appliance, but oh well. Friday evening we ended up out at Laninga Appliance and bought a new dryer. Thanks to transporting and installing ourselves, and taking the floor model, we ended up with a decent price for what I HOPE is a good dryer.
Saturday Mike started clearing out the basement in anticipation of our upcoming project. (More on that later!) I got a bunch of stuff listed on craigslist, he brought some things over to my parent's, and we decided some stuff needs to just be pitched. Glad we're getting on this ahead of time and not cramming everything in at the end. We'll also need to have the garage cleared out, too, I'm sure that will be "fun"...NOT! At least it ends up feeling good to clean things out and get rid of extra stuff we really don't need.
Levi has been telling me the last couple of days that he's too big for smooches from me. :( He's also been testing us more. Where did my baby go??? He's ready for a big boy bed, we just haven't gotten around to it yet. He's been able to climb out of his crib for weeks now, but has been good about staying in at bedtime.
These boys do A LOT of fighting and bugging each other, so I treasure the times, like earlier this afternoon, when they're outside playing nicely and having fun together. It certainly doesn't last, but I try to soak it in when I can! Today the three of them were outside with Roxy and they were trying to get her to pull them on the sled. She was actually doing a pretty good job, I think the biggest problem was that they would try to go all at once instead of taking turns and then they're too heavy for her. :)
No new news on the Logan loose tooth front. It's still just a little wiggly. :)
Caleb and Logan went to Kindergarten screening on Monday! They did it at Hudsonville Christian, although we haven't yet decided where they will attend school. Decisions, decisions... I don't feel grown up enough to be making choices like this - I need sometime to tell me what to do! :) They really liked "going to school", and according to Logan, he "really, really, REALLY, loved his teacher and doesn't want anybody else." The lady Caleb had is a PreK teacher, and I don't even know if the lady Logan was with is a Kindergarten teacher or not! Anyways, from what I can gather they talked about letters, numbers, shapes, and colors, had to write their names (I need to teach them middle and last names...), hopped on one foot (even backwards with eyes closed!), and were asked if they knew my phone number (oops, that's another one I need to work on). I kinda feel like this Kindergarten screening is more of a test to see what kind of a mother I am than anything! A+ that they know their letters/numbers/colors/shapes good; B- for being able to write their first name, but not knowing how to write middle and last; F for not knowing phone number...
Midweek last week our dryer died. Certainly wasn't planning on replacing another appliance, but oh well. Friday evening we ended up out at Laninga Appliance and bought a new dryer. Thanks to transporting and installing ourselves, and taking the floor model, we ended up with a decent price for what I HOPE is a good dryer.
Saturday Mike started clearing out the basement in anticipation of our upcoming project. (More on that later!) I got a bunch of stuff listed on craigslist, he brought some things over to my parent's, and we decided some stuff needs to just be pitched. Glad we're getting on this ahead of time and not cramming everything in at the end. We'll also need to have the garage cleared out, too, I'm sure that will be "fun"...NOT! At least it ends up feeling good to clean things out and get rid of extra stuff we really don't need.
Levi has been telling me the last couple of days that he's too big for smooches from me. :( He's also been testing us more. Where did my baby go??? He's ready for a big boy bed, we just haven't gotten around to it yet. He's been able to climb out of his crib for weeks now, but has been good about staying in at bedtime.
These boys do A LOT of fighting and bugging each other, so I treasure the times, like earlier this afternoon, when they're outside playing nicely and having fun together. It certainly doesn't last, but I try to soak it in when I can! Today the three of them were outside with Roxy and they were trying to get her to pull them on the sled. She was actually doing a pretty good job, I think the biggest problem was that they would try to go all at once instead of taking turns and then they're too heavy for her. :)
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
tooth
Logan has a slightly wiggly tooth. It may be a bit before it actually comes out, but could this really be happening?!?! There were just babies!
Sunday, February 1, 2015
january in pictures
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| Fun in my parent's hay loft. |
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| Sometimes they play nice! |
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| Visiting Mike at work. |
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| Poor Roxy after her surgery. |
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| Hanging out at the doctor's waiting for Caleb and Logan's well child visit. |
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| Stinkin' cone. |
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| Logan's sledding injury after I got it cleaned up. |
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| Listening to Psalty cassette tape. |
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| One of my latest projects. |
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| They love the snow! |
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| Levi really enjoys his Wednesday evenings with us while Caleb and Logan are at church. |
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| Fort in Caleb and Logan's room. |
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| Levi's creation from his Lunchables. (That's a cookie on bottom, the whole block of cheese, then a cracker on top...) |
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| Anyone need to do a study on the correlation of music and art? We were listening to Trans Siberian Orchestra while the boys painted these. |
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| Fun at Zehnder's! |
slide
On Thursday after Mike got home from work (a little early) we drove to Frankenmuth to go to Zehnder's Splash Village. The boys were SOOOOO excited - we've been talking about it for weeks, and there have been many times where Caleb says, "Let's talk about the water park!", wanting to discuss the plans and what we would to there. :) So, even though it's not that bad of a drive to get there (just over two hours), it seemed like an eternity to the boys. There was lots of, "Are we there yet?", "When are we going to get there?", "This is taking so long!", etc.
Thankfully, when we got there it didn't take long to check in and get changed into swimsuits so we could head right down to the water park and get playing. Levi was not a fan at first, and Caleb and Logan's preferences haven't changed much - Caleb wants to do the big, fast slides, Logan wants to do smaller slides, play in the water, and go in the hot tub. Levi did warm up to it after awhile, and started going down some little slides. Bedtime in the hotel room was of course interesting. First it was Caleb and Logan in one bed, Levi on the floor in his sleeping bag, and Mike and I in the other bed. Boys took quite a while to settle down. Sometime around midnight or so Levi woke up crying a little about something and when I realized he wasn't going to go down again easy, I just put him in bed with us. I noticed that Caleb was RIGHT on the edge of their bed, so I tried to shove him in a little, but it wasn't too long later that he fell out of the bed. He hit the little table pretty hard and landed upside down, but there were no injuries and the next morning he didn't even remember it happening!
As soon as the water park opened we were ready to play again, and had a fun-filled day with slides, the lazy river, hot tub, lily pads, etc! The water park has a whole new area that was under construction last year when we were there, and it's really nice. We had a lot of fun in the lazy river on that side, which really isn't 'lazy' as it has a very strong current, there's a new hot tub that Logan and I enjoyed a few times, a kid's play area that had a little slide Levi liked, and there's two new big slides, one of which Mike and I were able to test out. We both did the slide twice, and not back-to-back, it is just so intense we could only handle so much of it! Basically, at the top the slide is almost vertical. You step into the tube onto a little platform, the platform drops away, and you fall, and fall...I'm not sure how far the drop is, maybe 30-40 feet? Then you curve around and when you come in at the bottom you're still going pretty fast plowing into the water. My heart was pounding and I think I was in shock that I actually did it!
Caleb got into doing the bigger tube rides by himself, Logan tried swimming a little without his life jacket, and Levi started doing the bigger tube rides along with Mike or I. There's another medium sized slide that he got brave enough to do by himself, too! Still in the lazy river and such Levi preferred to sit on my lap in a tube, or hang on around my neck for dear life - so he's more like Caleb in that he really likes the slides, and not the swimming as much. :) One of the times in the new hot tub Logan made a friend. A girl about his age started talking to us about how it was a surprise for them to come to the water park, after she heard me and him talking about how we were finally there and having fun, etc.. After she stepped away Logan said to me, "I'm going to ask her to be my friend." I said it was okay, he went over to her and asked, she said 'yes', and that was that! :)
It was a great getaway, and we can't wait to go back next year!
Thankfully, when we got there it didn't take long to check in and get changed into swimsuits so we could head right down to the water park and get playing. Levi was not a fan at first, and Caleb and Logan's preferences haven't changed much - Caleb wants to do the big, fast slides, Logan wants to do smaller slides, play in the water, and go in the hot tub. Levi did warm up to it after awhile, and started going down some little slides. Bedtime in the hotel room was of course interesting. First it was Caleb and Logan in one bed, Levi on the floor in his sleeping bag, and Mike and I in the other bed. Boys took quite a while to settle down. Sometime around midnight or so Levi woke up crying a little about something and when I realized he wasn't going to go down again easy, I just put him in bed with us. I noticed that Caleb was RIGHT on the edge of their bed, so I tried to shove him in a little, but it wasn't too long later that he fell out of the bed. He hit the little table pretty hard and landed upside down, but there were no injuries and the next morning he didn't even remember it happening!
As soon as the water park opened we were ready to play again, and had a fun-filled day with slides, the lazy river, hot tub, lily pads, etc! The water park has a whole new area that was under construction last year when we were there, and it's really nice. We had a lot of fun in the lazy river on that side, which really isn't 'lazy' as it has a very strong current, there's a new hot tub that Logan and I enjoyed a few times, a kid's play area that had a little slide Levi liked, and there's two new big slides, one of which Mike and I were able to test out. We both did the slide twice, and not back-to-back, it is just so intense we could only handle so much of it! Basically, at the top the slide is almost vertical. You step into the tube onto a little platform, the platform drops away, and you fall, and fall...I'm not sure how far the drop is, maybe 30-40 feet? Then you curve around and when you come in at the bottom you're still going pretty fast plowing into the water. My heart was pounding and I think I was in shock that I actually did it!
Caleb got into doing the bigger tube rides by himself, Logan tried swimming a little without his life jacket, and Levi started doing the bigger tube rides along with Mike or I. There's another medium sized slide that he got brave enough to do by himself, too! Still in the lazy river and such Levi preferred to sit on my lap in a tube, or hang on around my neck for dear life - so he's more like Caleb in that he really likes the slides, and not the swimming as much. :) One of the times in the new hot tub Logan made a friend. A girl about his age started talking to us about how it was a surprise for them to come to the water park, after she heard me and him talking about how we were finally there and having fun, etc.. After she stepped away Logan said to me, "I'm going to ask her to be my friend." I said it was okay, he went over to her and asked, she said 'yes', and that was that! :)
It was a great getaway, and we can't wait to go back next year!
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