Hot Rod

We got Caleb a bike a couple of years ago and he had never really been interested in riding it. We found that so odd, a little boy who didn't like to ride bikes? He would play with everything else except that most of the time when we played outside. Even opting to play with his trike from when he was 2 instead. Well this summer something has switched on and he's been on that silly bike more often. The problem is, he had outgrown it over the last 2 summers of it collecting dust. So we went on a new bike hunt a couple days last week (which was harder than expected) and finally settled on this new one from Toys R Us. He loves it and the first thing he told me when we went outside to plant flowers yesterday was, "it's a beautiful day for bike riding huh Mom." So cute, can we say spoiled? But he's so worth it.

My Mother's Day

I have had a good Mother's Day here. It started off when I woke up this morning and Mike had written me the sweetest note (not I am not sharing!). Then he cooked me my favorite breakfast, ham, eggs, hashbrowns and toast. Then before it got too hot we headed outside to plant the flowerbeds. This is a tradition I started right after Caleb was born, we buy the flowers the day before and then Mike and the kids help me plant. Of course Caleb helped with about 2 of them and then ran off to play but Mike was a trooper. He complained a lot but when all was said and done we had planted 64 plants. We have petunia's, marigold's, snapdragon's, geraniums and salvia all over our two beds and in our pots.

After all of the work I relaxed on the couch and fell asleep for a while. There were a couple of Sunday afternoon movies on the TV that I hadn't seen so we watched those and lounged around. When it was time to cook dinner Caleb was napping and the boys were just about to so I was thinking it would be nice to have dinner with just Mike for a change so I jumped up and started cooking. By the time I was done Mike had fallen asleep too while rocking the babies. It was cute so I let them be and ate dinner by myself. Afterwards(and a little before) I enjoyed this cake Mike picked up for me while we were getting flowers yesterday. Yummy.

All in all, it was a pretty good day.

Happy Mother's Day!

To all the wonderful Mom's out there I know, I hope you have a great Mother's Day. I am going to try my best to have one here. My MIL sent me a book recently called "You Are My I Love You." It's a children's book written in rhyme but it's all about the relationship between a mom and her child. I thought I would share the verses with you for Mother's Day this year. It's not the same without the cute illustrations, but enjoy.

I am your parent;

You are my child.

I am your quiet place;

You are my wild.

I am your calm face;

You are my giggle.

I am you wait;

You are my wiggle.

I am your carriage ride;

You are my king.

I am your push;

You are my swing.

I am your audience;

You are my clown.

I am your London Bridge;

You are my falling down

I am your carrot sticks;

You are my licorice.

I am your dandelion;

You are my first wish.

I am your water wings;

You are my deep.

I am your open arms;

You are my running leap.

I am your way home;

You are my new path.

I am your dry towel;

You are my wet bath.

I am your dinner;

You are my chocolate cake.

I am your bedtime;

You are my wide awake.

I am your finish line;

You are my race.

I am your praying hands;

you are my saying grace.

I am your favorite book;

You are my new lines.

I am your night-light;

You are my starshine.

I am your lullaby;

You are my peekaboo.

I am your good-night kiss;

You are my I love you.

Happy Mother's Day!

P.S. This was written by Maryann K. Cusimano and Satomi Ichikawa. I would recommend that you pick up a copy for yourselves.

P.P.S. Thanks again for the book Annie, I really do love it.

Mothers Day Gifts

Tomorrow is Mother's Day! This year I found this cute craft at Kaboose.com. I loved it. It's a little planter made from a baby food jar. And since I just happened to baby food jars lying around, they worked out perfectly. The babies helped by gladly eating the food, Caleb helped me pick out flowers and viola. I made 4 of these for Mom's and Grandma's and mailed them off. Since most of them don't check the blog on the weekends, I thought it would be safe to post. I hope they all make it to their destinations safely.

Gardner Village and Playtime

Yesterday was Caleb's preschool program (stay tuned for videos). Papa Ringo and Leyton drove up for it. Afterwards we went to Gardner Village since we were right there anyway and had lunch at Archibalds and then walked around a little. We didn't have a ton of time but did a couple of the highlights. Here is Caleb and Leyton on one of the bridges that goes across the pond.

And here they are running over the bridge when I told them we were going into the candy store :). Couldn't get there fast enough.

Ever heard the expression "like kids in a candy store". Well here it is. And yes, I think Papa is one of them. ;)

We also went to the coy pond and watched the fishies swim around. There used to be quarter machines to feed the fish. Does anyone know what happened to them? Caleb was pretty bummed that we didn't get to feed them. But there were some fun ducks swimming around. I loved the white ones.

Here's Papa holding the twins on the railing while they watched the fountain and the ducks.

And Caleb and Leyton got to go on Pony rides.

But the fun didn't stop there. We had to come back to the house and Caleb was so thrilled to actually have another kid to play in the yard with. He's not allowed to play out front by himself but since there was a 2nd kid there he could. In less than 20 minutes they had ridden bikes and the scooter and started their own baseball game.

Then they got out Caleb's Powerwheel 4-wheeler and took turns driving it around and then decided it was faster to ride around together.

We were sad when it was time for them to leave but Caleb then took his brothers for rides on the 4-wheeler. They loved it. You can't tell in the pics but they were very talky and looking all around during it. As a matter of fact, Zaden wanted to go a 2nd time after Zaric's turn.

It was a fun afternoon.

Tball Continues

Last night was a long night at the ball field. Caleb had pictures before his game. He wouldn't smile his great smile for the guy. Kept giving him this goofy grin, so we'll see if they turn out or not. However, as soon as he stepped on the field for his game, he lit up and the smile came out.


He was a little bored again on the field. But a couple of balls were hit his way and he went after them. So I would say we are improving.

He hit the ball both times without using the T. So he was a pretty happy boy when we got home to tell Dad and the babies all about it.

Natural Brothers

Yesterday the boyz were playing so well together that I thought I would get a couple of pics. Here they are enjoying their learning table they got from Santa.
But it only took a couple of minutes before they showed how naturally brothers learn to fight over toys. You can tell in the pic but they were fighting over who got to play with the middle bowl part. They were pushing each others hands away back and forth like a tug of war.

And Zaden won! Here's Zaric being all dramatic making sure Mom noticed how mean his brother is.

I was hoping it wouldn't start this early, but lately they fight over everything and steal eachothers things like bottles and sippy cups. Zaric stole Zaden's cracker right out of his hand yesterday.

I guess it's just natural.

Make A Wish

Stair Sleepers

The boyz favorite thing to do these days is to climb the stairs and go exploring around in the rooms upstairs. They have learned (sadly the hard way) that going down the stairs isn't nearly as easy as going up so they usually come to the edge of the stairs and holler for one of us when they are done. I ran to Michael's today to pick up a couple things and when I came back, this is how I found them, fast asleep at the edge of the stairs. Mike says they crawled to the edge and whined for a couple minutes (he was busy changing laundry) and by the time he went to get them, they were fast asleep. Being the thoughtful (and trained) Dad that he is, he grabbed the camera and took a couple of pics. Too cute.

Fridge Tetris

Caleb's Tball games were rained out again yesterday. It rained pretty much all day at our house so when we had to run an errand to Walmart we also picked up some craft supplies. We decided to try out some good old fashioned fusion beads and made some fridge magnets in the shape of Tetris pieces. Mike and I have already arranged them several times and Mike has been humming the music from Tetris today after we finally glued on the magnetic backing and stuck them to the fridge. Something fun for Caleb to play with and make designs. Mike says we need to make more pieces, we'll see.