St Patty's

So this is still Gabe's favorite holiday. She loves pinching people. Although, her school gave a big lecture announcement about keeping their hands to themselves and not pinching people. She was bummed and followed the rules of course. It probably was for bullying prevention or something, which I get, but think it's lame too. 

Anyway, the night before we got a new trap ready. Thanks to Pinterest I got some good ideas, and made Daddy execute them. Gabe tells us our traps aren't good enough, so we had to step it up this year. She still remembers her preschool teacher catching one, so she knows we can too. Thanks for that preschool teacher. Every year we're gonna have to make new traps now. 

Ollie helped me make the Lego stairs while Daddy and Gabe got the box ready. The Leprechaun was supposed to climb the stairs, and while trying to get our fake pot of gold, fall through the tissue paper into the box and be stuck. 

We didn't catch him, but he left us some snacks, and some fake gold that he called lucky gold to give us good luck. He left glittery sequins all over our house and green foot prints. He ate some of our donuts and cereal too. He also mixed up our rooms and furniture. Sneaky guy!

He took a bath this time.

Decked out in green

We had a green lunch and Shepard's pie for dinner, cause St Patty was a Shepard for a while. So there you have it. 

Some Ollie cuddles when he was sad I had to throw in there. 

Spring Break!

Our Spring Break was a lot of fun. Adam had a work trip the next weekend in California, and we were gonna try and make it into a beach trip, but we didn't have the money to at the time. So we decided to just make a fun spring break for our kids locally. We did a lot of fun stuff. 

We went to the Washington Rec Center to swim. It had 2 kiddie play and water slide sections, a lazy river, and a bigger water slide you can go down. We finally convinced Gabe to go on the big water slide with Daddy and she loved it. Ollie wanted nothing to do with it, but loved the lazy river. Milo insisted he go on the big water slide too. We had to ask the life guard it's for 3 and up. We told him he is almost 3, so he let us. Milo was in heaven and wanted to go 12 more times. He now talks about water slides all the time, and at church much to our horror pretends the bench is a water slide as he screams pretending to go down it. So yeah, the place was a hit and we'll have to go back again soon. 

We had a play date at our friends house. 

We did some shopping and got some new pajamas. 

We stopped by to visit Daddy at work and had a picnic lunch/park play with him one day. Plus two more park visits besides that one. 

We wish we would have camped, but the camp ground was full. So we took a day spot and spent the evening playing and having a fire to roast marshmallows. 

Saturday we split up and the boys went with Daddy and the girls went to get Gabe's ears pierced. We told her it was up to her to decide when she wanted to get her ears pierced. I know a lot of people have their girls wait until they're 8. Adam mentioned that he didn't want Gabe more excited to get her ear pierced than to get baptized. I agreed. I got mine in Kindergarten. So we let her choose. She told us not until she was older for a while. One time while at the store we watched another girl get it done so she could see how it was done. The week of Spring Break she wore stickers on her ears and we told her how cute she'd look with real ones, so she decided to go get it done. So that ended up part of our date. 

She was super brave, but nervous. She did awesome. She didn't cry at all. She didn't love it at all, but was happy to have them. We even picked out some fun new ones for her when she gets to change them. 

Meanwhile the boys ate lunch and went miniature golfing for the first time. I was a little sad that I missed seeing it, but so glad they had so much fun. 

Afterwards they played the arcades. 

Gabe and I grabbed lunch and then went to see the new Cinderella movie. It was super cute we loved it. 

We tried to take the kids to play pickle ball. Ollie hated it, and got frustrated when he couldn't hit it, in true Ollie style. Gabe and Milo loved hitting the balls anywhere. 

Our Spring Break was super fun we loved it, despite staying home. 

Around the House

Every day stuff.

When Milo finally got his potty chart filled up, he earned his big toy. He was so excited!

We had Dr Seuss week. One of the things I like about Ollie's preschool is that she follows what the elementary schools are doing. So Ollie gets to do some of the fun things Gabe does and not feel left out. It's cute. So he had a crazy hair day, and Dr Seuss hat day. They had them on different days. 

A picture with some of his buddies. 

Gabe had a workout clothes day, so she wore some and Daddy's sweatband. 

Crazy sock and shoe day we had the Wadsworth kids here and they all didn't get to enjoy half of this day. This was the day that some crazy guy tried to kidnap a girl at the High School at gun point. So all the school were on Lockout, meaning the wouldn't let anyone in our out. I didn't even send her for half the day until the lifted the lockout status. The Wads had me do the same with their kids. I just had heard when this other elementary school had to do it for a close by robbery that it was hard to know what was going on, and nobody could get their kids out of the school. Plus with some guy out on the loose who they hadn't caught, I was more than happy to keep her home with me. Some parents did and some didn't. Later when they lifted it the Wads asked me to take theirs back, cause they had missed a ton of school the week before. So I did. I didn't want to send Gabe back, but I did. Had I not had their kids she would have stayed the day at home. The school tried to play it off like most kids were at school, but when I went to drop them off a lot of parents were trying to get their kids out. Some were screaming. Yeah my kid didn't need to be around that confusing chaos either. Good thing they caught the guy later that evening. 

Gabe's crazy hair day. I let Milo have blue hair too. Ollie's hat day.

Park Fun

Gabe was so tired one Saturday after soccer and playing that she feel asleep on the stairs. Milo played down by her being silly. 

Spring soccer had begun. She is already lots better than last time. She still is hesitant to kick the ball lots. I finally told her at her game I'd give her a penny for every time she was brave and did. She is afraid of getting kicked in the face by the ball, cause it happened in one of her first games. Now she's nervous about it. But since I bribed her, and not sure that was the best thing, but nothing else worked, and now she's all about it. The first game she got 7 pennies, her second she got 40. So yeah HUGE difference. 

Her coach is really good with her. It's nice she's had some good ones both times so far. Some of the other ones I'm grateful she doesn't have. 

Out to eat with Daddy.