Silver Dollar City and first half of June 2011

06/14/11 Thank you crayola for washable markers!!! It stays on the paper for about 3 minutes then it goes to the legs, feet, arms, and hands of their siblings.

06/13/11 Silly kids!

06/13/11 So this week in June ALL three kids got hand, foot, and mouth disease. IT SUCKED!! It truly was awful, this is cedars leg and this is when it was mild. The longest week ever, but I'm told they wont get it again now so that's great!

06/11/11 Mr. Cool

06/11/11
The ball pit got brought back into the living room. It had been awhile since they played with it so it was fun again.

06/10/11 Carter

06/10/11
Mommy and Cedar, brushing his teeth to get ready for bed. We can not believe how big he is now!

06/10/11 Calla

06/09/11 Just coloring away. Had to have markers and crayons for double fun.

06/09/11
I'm pretty sure that Calla could color or paint all day if we let her. She thinks it is so fun. Its been neat to watch her develop and go from just making a mess to trying to stay in lines or focus on one area of the page.

05/30/11
Our three doodles! This is what the couch looks like each night before bed. They have a bedtime ritual of watching little bear before bed.

05/30/11 Our boys.

05/29/11 We went to Silver Dollar City with my sister, her family, and my mom. It was a lot of work and we didn't last but a few hours but it was fun! Here is Calla and daddy on the train.

05/29/11
First carousel ride!

05/29/11 Cede and aunt Shelley

Calla held on tight and had to keep her eyes on maw-maw on the outside waiting for us.
05/29/11
05/29/11 Our crew for the day. Jamey, calla, carter, cedar, cade, his little friend Owen, and Austin.

06/07/11
Cedars sweet little teeth. (and smile)

06/09/11 Carter with his hand, foot, mouth blisters, poor kid!

06/09/11 This was too cute. When the twins had it and Cedar didn't yet, they were not getting any sleep! (neither were we) So carter just laid down in the floor in the middle of playing and fell asleep. Cedar went over and laid down with him. He loves is big brother!
06/04/11
06/04/11 Yeah for summer!

Last half of May 2011

Pudding paint. It was so much fun. Calla really got into the painting part of it while cedar and Carter just wanted to eat it.

Such a big boy. he loves to stand up top and be tall.

Showing off his only two teeth.

We went to the Leclercs for Hannah's birthday party. Hannah has a horse and calla just loved it. She borrowed a hat from another party goer and had herself a cowgirl moment.

Look mom I can use a fork. And he actually does use it. Such a big boy.

I brought this slide inside when all of the rain hit. It was great for the kids to have inside since we couldn't go out.

He thinks that baby in the mirror is so funny!

Such big kids! They are still a challenge in the tooth brushing department but they like to stand at the sink and suck on them. :-)

found this shirt at a consignment sale and couldn't help myself. It is so carter!

Up to middle of May 2011

We went to feed the ducks and cedar fed himself the duck food. :-) Glad it was fresh bread.

Holly came with us. Glad she was there. It was apparent the kids still don't understand bodies of water and that you cant just walk on them. It took all three of us to keep the kids out of the water.

Really Cedar? I'm glad that my stove it strong and that the door has not swung open on him.

This is similar to our peanut butter reaction, but much less severe. His face was red and swollen. Have no idea why. It terrifies me that this kid has more allergies than we know and we don't even know what the cause is.

The water was still cold right out of the hose so they were hesitant to get in.

They love their sandbox! The best feature of our back yard by far.

Trip to Granddad's May 4-6, 2011

May 4th - 6th we went to visit my granddad. We truly had the best trip. The kids had a blast, as I did when I went there as a kid. It is really so good to see him. It has gotten harder to get to NE Arkansas now that we have the three little ones so the times that we get over there mean so much! Here are several of the pictures that I took while we were there. It was a little cool and it had been very rainy, this was right after all the flooding we had.

Crab nets are good for more than catching crabs!

To see the kids walking together in the yard that Shelley and I grew up playing in is to so sweet. I just love it there.

We took them to a park and of course there was still water and mud everywhere. I just said oh well and let them at it. So as you can see the boots were a good investment and they are soaked and muddy but had a blast!

Weeeeeeeee!

Weeeeeeeeee!

Snack time.

Yes I am that mom who lets her kids get even wetter in the cool weather. They were having so much fun I just couldn't help it. Now had I known that it was deeper than their boots i might have made a different decision.

At least I kept the baby out of the puddle! Only because I couldn't find boots small enough.

We went to paragould to see our aunt Peggy. This is a farming field. They really were affected by the flooding over there.

So I think that public big toys are gross since I am a bit of a germaphobe. The kids have never been to a mcdonalds playland. This was a first. I was a little anxious while we were there but they had an absolute blast. I am pretty sure that carter and calla went up the stairs and down the slide at least 100 times.

Watching Kipper on granddads couch.

Aunt Peggy made a great choice in gifts for the kids. These bubble wands were amazing.

Sticks are still a favorite. Such a little boy!

Cedar had a really good time. He had already been walking but being on the farm gave him great new experiences at rough terrain. He made such progress in just three days. Much more sturdy and stable. "diddy" and cedar enjoying the porch swing.

The twins are checking out the tractor.

Cedar wanted to share the dirt and leaves he was collecting.

Peek a boo!

This is my tree. Its a cedar tree that when i was a little kid we dug up in the pasture and replanted in the front yard. It was probably only like 8 inches tall when we did it. And look at it now over 20 years later. Now had i been a little smarter as a kid, I would not have planted it under a power line. :-) I am very proud of this tree.