April Snow

We had a big snow storm about a week ago. It was perfect because it snowed all day, my kids played and had fun, and then it all melted the next day and spring was back.

Swinging

James's soccer practice is held every week at a park with swings! It's so awesome! So the minis got to swing together and were happy for about 45 minutes.

How could they not love swinging with each other? They are two peas in a pod.

Tulip Festival

We had a great time at the tulip festival last week with my mom. The minis were happy in the stroller. Yay! It is absolutely beautiful there! There are so many color and varieties. My kids wanted pictures by all of them. I included just a few.

Yes, that is Kaden in the background about to fall into the water. Thankfully he didn't. He was a hard one to watch because I couldn't keep him from the water. 

This garden is my most favorite.

This was taken in the secret garden. It is probably my second favorite.

Now, for the scrapbook, here's all the pictures of Lynnlee and James with the flowers.

Sunday Minis

The minis were really good at church today. It as the best sacrament meeting we have had in a long time as far as all my kids behaving, no melt downs, etc. I hope there are more of these to come.

Tag is still crawling backwards all over the room. He is getting more and more frustrated about it though. We try putting toys just out of reach and he army crawls forward to get them. When it comes to being on his hands and knees though he just scoots back.

I took this a few days ago. Kaden and I were sitting on the couch and Tag was making the best faces.

Research Challenge

James participated in the research challenge at school this year. You could pick any topic you wanted to research out. He chose chameleons and how they change color. He read books, looked online and went to a pet store to gather information. Then he and Marshall put together a short video about what he learned. He presented it at his school last Thursday. He did a great job! You can click above or click HERE to see the video.

Easter '15

The Easter Bunny comes to our house on Saturday every year. It is just how we like to do it. So Saturday morning everyone waited patiently until they could go downstairs and find their Easter baskets and go on an Easter egg hung through the house.

That afternoon we went to my parent's house for more Easter fun. The minis stayed inside while the rest of the cousins went outside for an Easter egg hunt.

We went to Lehi's Easter egg hunt the week before. I was dreading it because usually it involves way too many kids, not enough eggs and parents shoveling eggs into their kids' baskets when the kids don't care or aren't even old enough. There were some crazy parents but luckily there were still plenty of eggs and the kids were spread out enough that no one got trampled.

I prepped everyone before hand and told them they might only get one egg and that they needed to be happy after, no matter how many eggs they got.

We never got around to coloring Easter eggs this year. I felt bad at first but then my kids didn't even notice or care so I can let the mom guilt go.

Sunday Minis at 9 Months

The minis are starting to feel better but still have runny noses and coughs so they stayed home Sunday with Marshall. They had their 9 month checkup today and it went really well. They are growing well and have good iron levels.

Taggart's stats: height  27.25"(15%) weight 18 lbs. 2.5 oz. (12%)
Sienna's stats: height 27.5" (45%) weight 18 lbs 5 oz. (33%)
They have been really sick twice since their last check up when Taggart weighed one pound more. Sienna has bounced back faster each time. He used to eat more than her but now they eat about the same. No wonder she has caught up to his weight.

Sienna crawls over to the stairs each time she is playing. She doesn't know how to go up them yet but it's her new favorite place to hang out.

Sickies

It has been a really, really hard week. Each week is hard with two babies but this week made all the other times seem easy. Kaden started napping again and has been happy to lay on the couch all day. That's when you know he really isn't feeling well. Any other time he is the energizer bunny.

Unfortunately it hasn't been the spring break I had hoped for. Four of my five came down with croup at the beginning of the week. Taggart has ear infections on top of that. So we have stayed put except for doctor's appointments. Thankfully my kids don't really seem to mind that we haven't done all the things I told them we would.

Kaden has had a tube in his eye for the past year. It took four months to get an appointment with the specialist. His appointment was yesterday and even though he was so sick, I still took him because I did not want to wait another four months. The assistant took out his tube right there in the office and Kaden didn't even cry. He just kept saying "that hurts!" He even held fairly still through it all. What a relief to have the tube out. Hopefully his eye is better now and won't have any more problems.