Happy Birthday to Will!

It's official, William is one. We celebrated with some yummy banana cake with a vanilla cream frosting. We were going to have a whole monkey themed party but the 4 or 5 days prior to his actual birthday all of the kids were sick, so we had a lame party but he doesn't care.
Will didn't know what to really think about the candle but he loved us singing Happy Birthday to him.

We had to blow the candle out for him, I should have been practicing blowing with him, oh well.

Not to sure what he is supposed to do with this.

Once he got a taste he was all in.

I couldn't pass this picture up, P.J. took it and I love Henry's face in it.

We eventually lost the plate and then he really started chowing down

"Do you want some?"

Look at that face, I am in for years of trouble.

He of course made a big mess but we just threw him in the tub which he LOVED and called it a night.

It's Baseball season again!

P.J. decided he would like to play baseball again this year, so I talked to some of the Moms at his school and we were able to get him on the same team as his friends from class.

P.J. #12
They have to say this little pledge before every game about how they will play fair and all that mumbo jumbo. Base ball here is a huge deal, it was opening day and there was a parade and opening ceremonies and a pancake breakfast. I had no idea what we were getting into.

Waiting for their turn to bat.

All this one wanted to do was get down and play in the mud.

Henry found a friend to sword fight with.

P.J. up to bat.

Run P.J. run!

Playing "pitcher", he thought he couldn't go outside of that circle.

After it was all over we were all ready to go home.

Fat little walker-

Wills favorite thing to do lately is walk around everything, he even scales the walls instead of crawling.
Most recently he has gathered enough courage and know how to take the 2 or 3 huge steps, on his own, from the ottoman to the couch. Any day now he will be running around the house with those other two wild monkeys.
isn't everything cuter when the baby is fat and naked?

Cool Kid

A few weeks ago William started standing up on his knees like this all the time.
As you can see he thinks he is pretty cool.

So cool that ha busted out the dance moves.

Homemade Lunchables

Personally I think that Lunchables are overrated and way too expensive. The kids never eat it all but they still seem to always beg for them.

I came up with a solution, cut ham into a shape(in this instance it was a heart), cut cheese into squares and give them a few crackers. Of course Lunchables always have a drink and a treat so they got juice boxes and starbursts. The boys loved it and P.J. said that he liked it even better than a Lunchable. They still asked for a Lunchable the next time we went to the store.

OBY

It's no secret that Oby and I had a very love hate relationship when we were younger.
We fought like cats and dogs, he was always teasing me and my genius comebacks were shut up or, not any more.

I would often times scream "Oby stop it" in my sleep. And he has always loved the fact that he could get to me.

We did have some good times growing up and spent many hours riding bikes, playing in dirt piles and playing barbies and ninja turtles.

What is the purpose of this post you ask, well the other day while talking on the phone I was asking the name of a website from my friend. Pete is always thinking he needs to be part of my telephone conversations so he answered my question by saying "stupidhead.com". My automatic response was "OBY". I don't know it just came out and now the boys think it is the most hilarious insult to call you Oby. P.J. even thought more about it and said, "I get it, you called him Oby because Oby always bugs you. He always bugs me too."

We do love Oby very much but he can be annoying and anyone who knows him knows that so I hope he doesn't take offense to this post because I thought it was too funny of a story to pass up.

Some drawbacks....

I can only think of a few negative things that go along with having a house bigger than a 800 sq. ft. apartment. One of them is there are a lot more places your kids can go to be unsupervised. Lately we have to keep all the bathroom doors shut because of this little monster. William loves the bathroom, I don't know exactly what it is about it but he loves it. Last week P.J. came running out of the bathroom yelling, "William is playing in the pee water." That was a fun little mess to clean up. As of late Will likes the toilet paper, or to just roll the toilet paper off the roll onto the floor. I can tell he is going to keep me on my feet.
Oh, another draw back is that I have to clean all three bathrooms and keep them clean with 3 boys. Yes that includes Pete:)

Little Budding Artist

For Christmas Henry got this easel from his Grandma and Grandpa Norseth. It has a chalkboard on one side and a dry erase board on the other, but best of all it came with two clips to hang a "canvas" for him to paint.
He never uses more than one color on a paper but that is mostly because I am a little anal and told him he couldn't mix the colors together in the tray. I wish he took everything I told him to such an extreme.

Everyday he thinks he needs to paint, he says, "I not paint today." He also thinks he needs candy everyday and says that the same way but that is for another post maybe.

Happy Valentines Day

In the spirit of Valentines Day we went and got a heart shaped pizza last night, now some of you might remember about 3 years ago when I attempted the heart shaped meat loaf, I opted out of that one until I find a heart shaped pan, so pizza it is. The kids loved it and Papa Murphy's made it so all I had to do is clean up.
To my surprise my Valentine pulled through and got me this beautiful Orchid. Potted flowers are the best because they don't die in a week, unless you have serious problems keeping plants alive. We will see how I do. Happy Valentines Day to everyone, I hope you enjoy my catch up post. We love you!!!

A new way to keep your kids "under wraps"!!!

Since a decided that duct tape is much too abrasive I've been trying to come up with a better way to tie my kids up. The other day P.J. came up with this idea all on his own and now maybe he regrets sharing. Henry got out in just a couple of minutes, P.J. on the other hand had been wrapped up so tight by Pete that he eventually had to ask for help.

No children were hurt during this activity or photo opp.