Emma's big Day

Today we went and registered Emma for kindergarten. She got to miss preschool because registration was in the morning. She was pretty excited about it. They do a hearing, vision and speech assessment on each child. She got a sticker each time she completed one of the stations. She has been telling everyone she sees all about registration and what she got to do. We really liked Jacob's kindergarten teacher so last night we made cookies and took her some this morning to "bribe" her to make sure she gets Emma in her class. I do not think I will be as sad when Emma starts kindergarten as I was when Jacob started. We are familiar with who her teacher will be. We are also now familiar with the school and how things run. She is very ready and can not wait to be in Ms. Zeglin's class. When we got home Sean asked her, "Did they accept her? Is she allowed to go?" It was a big day for our big girl.

Signs if Spring

Lucy's first bloody nose.

The birds are singing. The trees are budding. The sun is shining. The tulips are coming out of the ground. The kids are playing outside. And my poor baby got her first bloody nose. We were in the backyard playing on the swing set. Emma and Seth were on the glider and I was on dog poop duty. Lucy was running around the yard and climbing on the slide. She decided she wanted to check out what Emma and Seth were doing. It was one of those moments when you can see it all happening but you can not move fast enough. Yes, she got in the way of the swing and got hit in the face. She was pretty upset but finally calmed down. She would not let me wash much of it off for a little while. I tried to get a picture but you can not really tell, oh well.

Happy St. Patty's Day!!

I am not Irish but I have fun with the kids. All the kids were adorned with their green shirts. Seth was a little upset because his shirt was not "green" enough for his standards.

For breakfast we had green pancakes, green eggs, Seth wanted ham to go with it but we did not have any and green milk. The lunch menu was grilled cheese with green grapes. And for dinner I surprised them with green lemonade. The kids were all trying to figure out ways to make every food green.

We had a good day being green.

Papa John's

Seth's Joy School group got to go to Papa John's last week and make pizza. All the kids had a lot of fun. It was not a big store. Towards the end the kids were getting restless but all in all in was fun. After the pizzas were made we all came back to our house to enjoy some pizza for lunch. Seth enjoys having his friends over.

All of Seth's Joy School friends.

Seth adding peperoni's (his favorite).

Seth spreading the sauce around.

Spring is here, for now.

We have been enjoying some very beautiful weather the past few days. I would like to find somewhere that has weather like this year round. I do not think that I would ever get tired of it or the kids. When Jacob gets home all he wants to do is be outside. How could I say no. So, we have spent the past few evenings enjoying the outdoors. Last year at this time Lucy was too little to remember being outside. She LOVES it. The minute anyone opens the door she wants to go out. It is a lot of fun to watch her toddle around and discover all sorts of new things.

Her big Brother teaching all about his big wheel.

Heat please..

About 2 1/2 weeks ago our heat went out. It was pretty cold but we used some space heaters, visited some friends and we were okay. The motor went out, so we replaced it and thought all was well. Wednesday night it went out again. I decided that the kids and I would go spend the weekend with my dad and step-mom and not freeze (the man who fixed it the last time was out of town until late Sunday night and we did not want to have someone different come over). We left Friday, had a great time, and came home Sunday morning. Sunday night Sean and I both felt impressed to turn the heat on. We did and it worked fine. What a miracle!! We are not sure what happened but we are grateful that we have heat again.

There is still a fair amount of snow on the ground but these warmer days are continuing to take care of that.

We had Joy School at our house today. We talked about Outer Space. Each kid got to pretend to be the sun, where a bright yellow shirt and we orbited them. We put stars in the sky and painted an earth. I love having Joy School here.

And we just got a brand new laptop. We have had our desktop for almost 9 years now. That is prehistoric for a computer. It has been a great computer but we are going to turn it over to the kids and start a new adventure on a laptop.

Cinnamon Rolls

First Attempt at Cinnamon Rolls

Jacob enjoying them.

Emma likes them.


Seth LOVED them.

I have never made homemade cinnamon rolls but have wanted to try for a while. I decided that today was the big day. They turned out okay (the kids loved them, which I guess is most important) but I would like a little more practice and to try a few more recipes. If you have a good cinnamon roll recipe, please pass it on.

Mommy and Lucy relaxing on a Sunday morning.

We do not go to church until 1pm right now so we have fun hanging out in the morning. I was laying on the couch and Lucy decided that she wanted to join me. Jacob ran and got the camera and took a pretty good picture. I am always the one taking the pictures so it is nice to actually have a picture of me with one of my kids.