Tricks

It seems like everything in life goes in cycles. With my kids I've noticed their cycles of happy moods, grumpy, funny, etc. Lately James has said some funny things and most of them are out of the blue and make no sense. It's so entertaining. I definitely love this cycle or phase. It makes all the grumpy times worth it. Have you heard the phrase, the mom sets the mood in the house? Who came up with that? The other day I woke up happy and things were going well as I got the day going until my kids woke up. They were grumpy and going through sugar with drawls. They were so grumpy that after awhile it made me grumpy and then the whole house was grumpy. Ugh! I'm definitely blaming that one on the kids. Thank goodness every day isn't like that.

Now onto what I really sat down to blog about. We had a family trick talent show yesterday afternoon. We all took turns doing 3 tricks each. Marshall is the best at helping the kids with tricks. Kaden was an airplane for one of them.

Sadly, I am lacking in the trick area so after an attempt at a hand stand, a 360 jump and sliding down the stairs I gave the floor to the kids.

Who needs a $50 gymnastic lesson when you can pretend to teach your kids for free?! Lynnlee did a hand stand, somersault, and a jump of the step.

James gets his trick abilities from Marshall. He was jumping off the second to top step. Glad he landed all his jumps. I was worried he would require a trip to the ER.

He also did some spins on the floor.

I didn't get my camera out when we first started and that is when Marshall's tricks came out. He did a standing back flip, jump down from the top step and a hand stand. I tried to talk him into doing them again after my camera was out but it was a no go.

He was worn out from all the fun and I got a picture of him and Kaden sleeping.