Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Mornings with Cooper

*They tore down a building downtown and it was fun to watch their progress each day on our way to preschool.  *The boy is growing (Outgrew all his pants!) and often taking afternoon naps again.... sometimes a short one in the mornings!  *Storytime!  The last one was about chocolate cupcakes - Yummo!  * He is just TOO COOL for me in his Toothless sunglasses.  (I HEART him.)  *He's one smart cookie never letting any challenge pass... writing all his letters for me!!  *Serious gamer!!  He loves checkers and sees chess pieces EVERYWHERE.  (Look - it's a pawn!)  He also can tell me what cars my van can kill, based on where they are parked in the parking lot, if they were a -insert current favorite chess piece!!  *And my shopping assistant.  Often in charge in of the list, reading a book, playing on my phone, or here where he tried on the clearance St. Patrick's Day hat!  *And oh the games this kid loves to play!  He cracked me up this day!!    Good times!!













Rolling through MARCH pictures.... Oy Vey....

Cute Reader!  We love the new easy reader super hero books at the library!!


Play date with the Coopers.... Nick had a great smile in the first group picture.... Cooper was picking his nose.  **Sigh**




Indoor soccer - water break and saying hi to our fans!!

Nursery duty... that is one flexible baby!!

My first dandelion of the season... in March!!!

Monday, May 21, 2012

Our mornings...

Picking up some goodies for Aunt TaTa who was sick...
New shin guards for soccer - had to try them out.  They made him run super fast, he said!
Playing a little raquet ball....
Learning to count money... Daddy is so excited.... 
AND....
90,000 miles on the van!  and my two babies when it happened. We got the van six years ago with only hopes of filling it with babies, and now they are 4 and 5 years old!  And it still feels new to me!!







Cell Phones Make it Easy....

To capture the everyday happenings....Like Soccer pictures.  :)
 And date night!!  This was a strange night... we drove to Ft Wayne to buy parts for the Jetta - which Tim fixed in the parking lot.  So we decided to splurge with the money we saved!!  We texted with Mom and the kids, Monica, Fin, and Gene the whole dinner!!  It was like we had dinner with them as well!!  And on the way home.... DeBrands!!!


 My Geeky kids.  Love them!!
 Tim has grown accustomed to receiving a "picture of the day" from us.... today was "skinny me!" after an all time low weigh in!!  :)
 Turning "1/2" around here is a big deal!  Here is Grace covering half her picture on her shirt on her half birthday!  
 Donated tubs to organize the VBS stuff in the attic!!  
 Proud new owners of Mikasa VolleyLight training volleyballs!!

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

"Antique"

My Fisher Price record player.... So. Cool.  




Easter Party Days

The kids were pretty excited for their Easter party days at preschool.  They got to decorate eggs and were super proud of them!  :)







Ally Ball

This boy loves to play games.  We love a good game of ally ball at the Y.  :)