February

Fat Tuesday for us means time for Paczki (Poonch - key)! Basically a jelly filled donut. Once a year we can make a splurge!



Naked baby play time. Uh oh can I tell them apart???

Of course, Daniel would find a way around a problem. Don't have two bath seats? Oh well I guess you will have to share :) Good thing they are skinny girls! B on the left A on the right.

We are still double feeding them most of the time. I think I took this picture because they were both rubbing Daniel's chest while they ate. Britta's helmet is cool huh? We are not super good about keeping it on all the time and hopefully will be rid of it soon.

B - Look what I can do!!! I am so proud and think climbing is more fun than any of the toys.

Mid-winter break

This week we were out of school for "mid-winter break". If you ask me the silliest school vacation.  I guess some people go to Florida but for the rest of us we get a week in the nasty weather to try to figure out what to do.  We tried to make some plans but not many of them came to pass.  I was going to try to take the kids to the zoo and leave the babies home with a sitter but I wasn't feeling good Monday and Tuesday and then we ended up taking the babies in to the Dr and got them on antibiotics.  We did have some kid swap playdates, Easy Bake Oven, went to the Henry Ford museum and played in the snow.  We made use of the evenings with a Star Wars marathon and watched Harry Potter #6 with Nora since we just finished the book.  Here are a few pictures.  The babies officially turned 8 months old and are crawling!!! They are still pretty slow on their hands and knees but go pretty fast with the army crawl. 


Nora was trying to get the babies to race to her.


Kyla building cars at the Henry Ford. Passing the time while the kids squeak out a few more minutes of building.
I told all the kids to eat lots before we left because we were not snacking or eating at the museum.  But I ended up caving in and buying them each a $.50 pickle and a bag of chips to share at Lamy's diner. We were so excited that they rennovated it to make it a real diner but kind of bummed that it was SO pricey! $1.75 for a donut!
 
Nora built a Y for BYU since everyone else was making M's for U of M and Michigan State.  She looks so grownup in this picture!!!
Kyla and Addie and their amazing something or the other. It was very creative!
Myka, Rachel, and her friend with a cooperative effort on a yellow and black striped house.

A lot of kids in the old car.

Anya and Britta learning the ropes at the museum.

Lots of kids in the house.

Cole thinks Eli looks like a delicious hot dog!!!
Star Wars Marathon. I don't think we gave anyone nightmares and Nora was schooling me on the similarities between Star Wars and Harry Potter all week long.
Aurora came on Monday to watch the babies while I was going to take the kids to the zoo instead I spent it in bed. The girls were so excited to have someone to do Easy Bake Oven with. They had so much fun.

Santa, Legos, and the Museum

For the past few years we have made a tradition of going to see Santa at the museume during Thanksgiving weekend. We LOVE the Santa there and all the activities. I took the kids to write their letters to Santa and deposit them in the special Lego mailbox while Daniel waited in line. This was a great idea as the kids could sit and think about what they wanted to ask for, so they were ready when it was time to talk to Santa. The line wasn't too bad. See - no grumpy faces, it is almost our turn!

OK - I know I might be a biased mother but Kyla and her hair look amazing in this picture!

Pretty good posers!



Santa giving the kids the run down. He is pretty thorough about making sure they are being good!



Eli asked for Sally (the car) and legos.



Kyla wants a canopy for her bed.



Myka started writing her letter that she wanted a dog, but I told her that wasn't going to happen, so I gave her the idea of a doll bike.



Nora kind of thought she was too big to get a picture with Santa but we made her do it.  She asked for a reading hammock and a nerf gun.



Somebody offered to take our picture.  I kind of hate it when they do that.  You don't want to say no but I was good with just having the kids. We love seeing the model train display.  The kids really have a great time following the train with a camera on the front that shows up on the TV screens. We also loved the Lego train display, but somehow didn't get any pictures.  Nora loved finding Harry Potter and Eli was excited to find Spiderman on the tall building.



Peek-a-boo!



The kids enjoyed being able to control Thomas.



The is the exhibit at the museum right now, it is called "Lego Architecture", I think.
This one is Ford Field (where the Lions play) all made out of Legos.




A replica of a really tall building somewhere. (No, I did not pay very good attention.) Lots of Legos!



The Chicago Skyline - lots and lots of legos



other stuff and more legos



Had to throw the babies in the hot dog for a quick picture on our way out. We couldn't stay too long because the BYU game was starting.

Learning Curve

Hey everyone, please ignore the next three posts or so.  I am going through a learning curve with trying to use blogger again. The pictures I posted yesterday seemed really poor quality so I am trying to post some a few different ways. This is through blogger.  Have to add them one by one.

 

Flikr

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I don't think this is going to work. But the pictures quality is really good