summer fun

Bad news, the hose has a leak
Good news ... the hose has a leak!
Xavier is cautious, Serena skips around and
around the squirting water.










Serena telling Xavier how much fun it is to run in the water.












Iris prefers sunbathing :)

snakes at the zoo

time out for capri suns and sitting on a tiger.













Xavier doesnt stand still for long, but a cheeto slows him down for a couple seconds
Iris petting a snake in the reptile house at the Zoo.
So brave for a three year old ;)










Taking a lunch break

spring

The girls having a picnic,
Spring is here I hope.
hope its a long one, before the real hot weather comes.

St. Patricks day

The girls making Cookies to celebrate :)
We had an "Irish breakfast" for dinner.
Bacon, fried tomatos and mushrooms, eggs and soda bread. And we also had "champ" wich is potatos and green onions It was pretty good. but I think I am going use it as a base for cheesy broccoli soup.



































This is how Xavier occupied himself while we were making cookies, eating all our yummy spring strawberrys :)

Dads Birthday

Serena and Iris making Their Dad a cake, pineapple upsidedown cake as requested.
What a fun cake to make!
























The girls made their Dad some cards :)



The cake came out great and he loves it :)

winter blahs

I realized that I haven't posted anything except Iris's birthday in February and that actually happened in January.
The middle of winter isnt that exciting around here I guess. We have been doing lots of school.
Serena is reading and loving it :) Math is fun and I am so glad that she likes it. We started Spanish and that is also neat. We took a Spanish/English dictionary we have and looked up things around the house and labeled them, that is a really good way to learn the names of things. I just had to start doing school with Iris because she was quite unruly if she had nothing to do while I was doing school with Serena, so I have been printing out alphabet books for her to color a different letter everyday and we are going to collect all 26 to read to her as she is learning the letter sounds. When I do math with Serena I give her one of the preschool math readiness sheets froma book that I had lying around and she likes that. We just finished a unit on money and that was fun because I could give her a handful of pennies to count and stack and then They both love to play store, so my house is not only labeled with spanish words many things also have price tags and everything is under $1, lol.
The picture above.....Xavier was turning the tv off and on and the volume up and down while anyone was trying to watch so I had the great idea to put the toy boxes in front of the TV to keep him from being able to reach the buttons worked great for a couple weeks. There he is sitting inside the toybox and soon he will scooch up and turn the tv on or off or the volume up or down.:) We have been having Serena take him far down the hallway everytime he does it hoping that this will serve as some kind of "natural consequence" that would disude him, He is unphased.But sometimes he gets distracted on the way back into the living room which gives us a break for a bit :) Spring is coming and hopefully that willmean more posts.

Iris is three

Iris's Big day was the 28th :) (of january)
The day was very exciting for her because we had a big snow and her older brother came and took her and Serena and Dad sledding. No pictures of that, Mom didn't go and no one wanted to be responsible for the camera in the snow; ) But she had a great time, but so great she came home and fell asleep before dinner and presents and cake! We had to send Kyle, Jordon and Ricky away without eating any cake.
When Iris did wake up She opened her presents,
she is wearing one of them in the picture to the left.


Here she is having her cake, in the middle of the night. You may notice that before Mommy was up and ready to sing happy birthday some girls helped themselves to a piece of the cake, or two.











Iris requested a strawberry cake, which I managed to deliver with no red dyes, woohoo!