Tulip Time 2016

Adelyn and I got to march in the Tulip Time parade with HC2.  So much fun.  I love doing this.  I need to get a friend to make me a costume though.  I always borrow one, which is great, but Adelyn is always dismayed that I am a "boy" and it isn't quite long enough.  Pretend to be surprised.

Adelyn and I waiting in the classroom before we board the bus.

Adelyn and her good buddy Beret Anna.  They were the only girls in 1st grade.  Thankfully they got along really well.  :)

Pretty lady waiting on the street before the parade

Love.

Adelyn and Josiah at the end of the parade.  On our way back it started POURING.  We were watching the radar all the way through the parade and thankfully we were towards the front of parade but we did get soaked on the way back.

Mother's Day

Mother's Day 2016.  We were all super bummed we weren't in Mackinac.  But alas.  Life.  We couldn't miss Adelyn's dance recital.  So here we are ;)

Eric woke up early and made us a delicious breakfast of...oatmeal.  I told him the other day my new life mission is to teach him to cook.  I must begin.  I also always tell him I'm afraid I'm going to die and our kids will be stuck eating boxed Mac and Cheese for the rest of their life.  BUT.  I did not have to cook the oatmeal.  And that's what counts.

We ate, went to church, we went to Art in the Park for a little bit and came home and had lunch.  I took a nap, which is always winning and then we went to Eric's brother Scott's house for supper with the Fitz family.  Yum.

Can't miss out on a picture when we all look nice.

This is real life.  :)

April Phone Dump

Have I mentioned it's April?  Hmph.

My sweet boy and I

The chickens got booted to the garage.  I was sick of the dust and the feathers floating in the pantry.  They were most certainly running out of space in their Christmas tote.  And winter was supposed to be over.  I closed the garage door and said good luck.  They made it.

We started doing date afternoon's.  Nana comes over Monday afternoon's and I take out a child per week.  We are all in love.

Movie night.  Because we don't have a couch in the basement.  Eating popcorn is the only way we can get Lincoln to watch TV.

It's a rough life.

Wah.  I'm going to miss super cute one piece outfits.

This chicken is lucky we caught it at the right moment.

Eric's mom's cousin came into town from Canada so we all went out to lunch.

Oh how I love this picture.

It is miraculous we have not had any stitches or broken bones.

"Don't take my picture."

Picking bouquets of dandelions.

"It's bright out."

Lincoln was driving his car across the keyboard.  Then he shut the screen.  Repetitively.   I nearly cried.  Dell wanted $300 to fix it.  I nearly cried again.  Thankfully Eric could buy a screen and replace it himself.  For $40.

I went to the bulk store in Pullman and bought stuff to make my own chicken food.  This is what it looked like when I left.

We went to the zoo with friends.  Lincoln started getting his hives.

This is what he looked like when we left.  Makes me mad.

Again.  Life's rough.

Our Third Bike Rider!

We tried to get Joelle to ride a bike last year.  HAHAHA.  Joke is on us.  I took her training wheels off and told her we were going to do this thing.  Any time I would even think about letting go she would not stay up at all.  So then I figured I would try in the grass.  Where I could let go and she wouldn't meet her death.  So I did.  Let go.  And she literally tumbled over her handlebars.  I can not make this up.  So.  That ended our saga of trying to ride a two wheel bike.  For the rest of the year.  Any time I would bring it up she was adamant it wasn't happening.

Enter this year.  Joelle decided she wanted a new bell.  I told her if she wanted a new bell, she had to take her training wheels off and ride.  She said ok.  Bring on the next day.  We take them off.   I literally held on to her one time.  And then we did this.

Crazy girl.

The Chickens First Time Outside

We let the chickens outside for the first time.  To say the chickens (and the kids) were elated is a mass understatement.  The chickens look so tiny here.

Of course everyone loved chasing them around.

Cuties.  They love these crazy birds.

 

Homeschool Field Trip::Hemlock Crossings

We had our April field trip to Hemlock Crossings.  It was a really cool trip.  We were at the end of reading The Pond People and we got to see a lot of the bugs that we had just been talking about.

 

Our little cuties gathered on the bridge listening to the guide.

Catching some things in the pond.

Caddis Fly Larvae.  They are little worm like bugs that build this wood house around themselves and then they turn into flies.

 

Adelyn scooping up some treats



 

Kailyn and all her prizes

She was showing the kids the bug homes in the field.

 

Brecken had to pick one "to take home."  I think not.

Our First Missing Tooth!!

Listen y'all.  This kid is over 7 and hasn't lost a tooth.  Her front one started wiggling.  Then the tooth came in underneath.  Then the baby tooth wouldn't come out.  Then the adult tooth and the baby tooth started clanking on each other.  We would yank and yank and nothing.  It would start to hurt her while I was yanking so I'd stop.  But each time it got a little looser.  One morning she was raging, again, and it was because her tooth hurt.  So I took her into our bedroom and told her we were yanking the dumb thing.  We got it out.  Eric nearly barfed when I sent him this picture.  It is quite impressive.

Success!!  And no more pain.