The Sleeping Princess

One night she decided that she needed to dress up to go to sleep.  We thought it was cute seeing her sleep like this, that before we removed the hat and scarf to make sure she slept comfortably, we just had to take a picture.

Soccer

So our son seemed to really want to have his own thing like his sister had dance.  There really isn't much for a 3 year old little guy to do though.  However our city did have soccer for 3 year old and we thought we would give it a try.  Not really the sports fanatic here but figured we would give it a try.  Well the first two games one of which his grandparents came to see were spent trying to push him to go play, daddy running with him on the field or daddy chasing him trying to keep him from rolling down the hill at the end of the field on the the other side of one of the goals.  After that game we were successful getting him on the field trying to kick the ball by bribing him with a bite of frosty regularly through the game if he tried to kick the ball.  Basically we decided at this point soccer is not his thing.  We will see if he want to play later but not sure we are going to sign him up till he seems to show more interest.  Poor guy would try so hard and would get so frustrated every time someone took the ball away from him when he was trying to kick it.  Which would result in tears.  Then the last game he kept yelling as he ran onto the field "stop those kids".  It was almost a battle cry.  He wanted to be the one to own that ball and those kids kept taking it from him.  He was so heart broken when those kids would let him keep the ball.  So the 6 week season mercifully came to an end and all of us including my son breathed a sigh of relief.  Here are a couple pictures and videos.

Daddy hold my hand

 

No you can't play on the hill till the game is over.

A couple cute videos.  The first one is a rare moment of him with the ball.  The second one Shows them tackling the ball.  Maybe when he is old enough we should try football......

Easter 2012

Easter was simple this year.  Mostly out of necessity since I have not been feeling great through this pregnancy.  I liked having it simple as well.  I think even the kids liked it being less crazy although my daughter felt that there needed to be more than one Easter Egg hunt and so when we got home from the neighborhood hunt she decided to hide her eggs and then her and her brother looked for them.   I feel so blessed to have my children and grateful for this new child about to be born into our family.  Hope you enjoy the pictures.

Collecting Easter Eggs

 

After collecting eggs we enjoyed the potluck breakfast

 Then they played on the playground equipment

 

 We dyed some Easter eggs

 

 Let them dry

 Finished eggs/  Are they not pretty?

 Easter morning finding their baskets on the table

 Checking out their new shades

 

 Very excited for their chocolate bunny

 Their Easter Sunday picture.

Two Cute Kids

3 Year Old Little Man

He is 3 now. He is a big tease. If you say I love you to him he always responds love me with a smile. He call everyone he loves his best friend and gives the best cuddles. And when he is sad crying he will tell you in case you didn't know. He still loves trains and in the words of my husband, "He lives to own every train in the continental US". And besides trains you will find him playing with anything that has wheels. He longs to go to school with his big sister and follows her around when she is home. He no longer needs any services to help him with sensory issues and in the last few months has become a much calmer kid. He is our little man and we have no idea what we would ever do without him.

Here he is patiently waiting to blow out his candle.

Blowing out the candle

Here is three years old and playing with his trucks he got from Grandma, Grandpa, and Great Grandma. Every night for a week he would park them in the boxes they came in and sleep on the floor surrounded by them. He just wanted to be close to them.

The smaller fancy truck under his leg was from Great Grandma. She sent it in the mail and he patiently waited till his birthday to open his present from her. When he came into our room that morning I said Happy Birthday and the first thing out of his mouth with a big smile was open my present. He called it his firefighter truck and just loved playing with it all day. The Firefighter truck was from Grandma and Grandpa and only a few days earlier while looking through the store he became attached to a firetruck that he wanted so bad. We had to leave it there but he cried for 20 minutes straight. I think Grandma and Grandpa must have just known that was what he wanted.

Hubby's Birthday

Because of complications during this pregnancy I have not cooked very much. However I saw this recipe for a Reese's Peanut Butter Chocolate Cheesecake and knew it was meant to be for my husband. After the work it took I was glad that he enjoyed it. Which is good because he got to eat a majority of it. Though the kids were happy to help when they could. The kids also "helped" me make him breakfast in bed.

PS. We also found out on his birthday that he will be the daddy of another little girl.

Water Fun

Due to unreasonably warm spring weather the kids felt they needed a day in the sprinklers. Of coarse since this day we have also have rain and snow. No sprinklers those days though.