Mommy School

We are trying to stuff as many mommy school days in as we can lately.  Justin will start Kindergarten this fall and I am not sure how motivated I will be this summer to work with him.  He does love school work, which is really nice.  Emma was NOT a lover of school work which made mommy school not very fun, (she does like it better now at school.)

Justin and Claire know all of the abc’s by sight, we do a flash card contest and they LOVE it.

 

Now writing the abc’s is a whole other thing, Justin can write his name and that is pretty much it, Claire can write her C.  I know Ashley could write her name at 3 years old but Claire is more like Emma, not loving the school work as much.

Notice Claire's tongue action:

Ryan was doing the same thing with his tongue when he was helping me make Justin's bed!

Justin is definitely a “south paw”  He loves to spend the day dribbling.  (which drives me crazy in the kitchen) He LOVES to dribble, and now wants to play basketball when he grows up.  He will play baseball when he is a kid, and basketball when he is a grown up.  Sounds like a plan!

I Think I May Be Spoiled

*warning the next picture is not for the faint of heart or squeamish*

The one BIG draw back to my “nesting”  is my swollen feet.  I CANT stay off of them, which is good, but also bad.  I think it is quite traumatic for Ashley, she asks if she can rub them almost daily.  I didn't intend for my cankles  ankles to get in the picture but I wasn't a very good shot. 

Ashley set me up with a great foot massage complete with a “cabana” drink and reading materials!

 

Yes, I am pretty sure I am spoiled!

Baby Blanket Idea

Mom (and others) here is the cute idea I have been wanting to make for the new little brother. I dont know if I will repourpose mens old shirts like she did or just try and find cute plaid/flannel fabrics. I think it is just darling, and not your typical blue baby blankie. I found it at thismamamakesstuff.com, or click on the link below. She has lots of cute ideas.

http://thismamamakesstuff.com/2011/03/making-stuff-hes-all-boy-cap-blanket/hes-all-boy-collage/

Claire’s Pictures

Claire Bear the Three year old.

Justin’s Pictures

Justin’s 5 year old pictures.

Emma’s Pictures

Here are Emma’s 8 year old pictures. 

Ashley’s Pictures

Ashley’s pictures turned out so cute!   We especially loved the ones with the kitties! 

(Aunt Jenna was our photographer)

Family Pictures

A couple more from our photo shoot.

Thank you Jenna for all of your hard work!  You've got talent!

It Didn’t Take Long

She was in the cradle not long after we got done with it!

On a good note, she did not like it  because she couldn't get out of it with it moving and swinging on her, so maybe she wont get back in??

Fix it Man

Justin is loving his tools lately.  Anytime he gets to go with Ryan he takes his pliers and pocket knife.  I am constantly asking him if I can use his screw driver, he says which one, flathead or phillip.  (not phillips, phillip)  It is pretty fun!  We had a loose screw on the cradle and I volunteered him to crawl underneath it and screw it in, he LOVED that, and did a good job!

   Then he wanted to be the photographer for a minute.  I have not let him use my new camera yet so this was tough for me…..

Almost as tough as posting this picture of myself (he took) 

 

He and I make a pretty good team I think! 

Then there is this girl:

At least she didn't try to get in it……yet!