Worms, Glorious Worms!

Harrison's such a BOY! Sometimes I'm afraid he'll turn out a little on the girly side with 2 sisters -- and to be quite honest, he's pretty comfy in heels! -- but he's definitely a boy!!

Harrison's new favorite pastime has become digging for worms. He'll spend hours just sitting in the yard digging. The past few weeks, I let him dig up the flower beds since we were getting ready to gut them and start from scratch....unfortunately, we finished them this weekend so Harrison's on the hunt for some new digging ground! :)

Once he collects a good amount of worms, around 10, he'll put them in his dump truck and tote them around the yard. Then he'll move them to the grass or driveway and back again to the truck. Generally, after about 30 minutes it's time for new worms since the ones he has are "sleeping," aka dead.

Little Miss Charlotte has been enjoying some good outside time from the shade of her stroller or swing lately. She's fascinated watching the big kids play and run outside! I think sometimes she gets a little bored when it's just the two of us at home!

And Madeleine HATES the worms! She'd rather be riding her bike or helping Harrison spot the worms -- but don't dare ask her to touch one!

Oh how we are loving this gorgeous spring weather!!

Easter

We had a great easter around here! Grammy and Pops came up to spend the weekend with us and we had such fun! I'm sure they're still recovering! Ha!

Here's what the easter bunny left for the kids this year. They were excited to set out their baskets the night before. Their favorite goodie this year?? The $.99 mini tape measures the easter bunny found at hobby lobby. Ha! They played with them ALL day long. :)

Madeleine's basket.

Harrison's basket.

And sweet Charlotte's first Easter Basket.

So excited to see what the Easter Bunny had left for them!

Harrison kept telling me that he was going to have a chocolate chicken in his basket, thanks to the Max and Ruby easter episode. I looked EVERYWHERE for an actually chocolate chicken, but no luck. Thankfully, he was more than happy with his chocolate bunny. That's pretty much all the candy the easter bunny left in their baskets.....we're not too big on candy here. :)

Oh so good!

Madeleine was SOOO excited to get dressed up in her new dress. And Harrison looked so grown up in his big boy clothes this year!

Charlotte in her first Easter outfit -- a sweet little Feltman with matching bow! Love it!

Playin' at the Park

We had our first big park trip this past week. We've been waiting for weeks for it to warm up enough that we get miss charlotte outside for awhile. So, monday I pick Madeleine up from school and we all headed to the park.

It was a perfect day! It was just warm enough, but nowhere near hot. The kids had such fun running and playing and just getting the last of the winter crabbies out of them! Ha! It seems like we've been trapped inside so much this winter. Thank goodness for spring!

Here are the only 2 pictures I got of Harrison. That boy was too busy playing to be bothered with any type of picture taking. It sure kept me busy trying to keep an eye on all 3!!!

Madeleine has become such a little mommy lately. She totes a baby doll with here everywhere these days. I am finding that I spent much time lately searching for Charlotte's socks and hats/bows because Madeleine is helping herself to them when she dresses her baby.

And what did miss Charlotte do at the park. This:

She spend the first part of the trip sleeping like an angel in her stroller.

Madeleine is determined to conquer the monkey bars this year. She's still got some work to do, but she's persistant and I'm sure by the end of the summer she'll be doing it just fine!

Of course, it's not a park trip unless the collect some rocks. I'm not sure why, but both kids LOVE rocks. They want to take them from everywhere we go. If they see a rock in the parking lot, they want to take it with them like it's the most special rock in the world. So I now have a good snack cup filled with tiny rocks.

Finally, miss charlotte work up to check out what was going on around here! She enjoyed getting some fresh air and looooved watching all the action! I think her smile says it all. :)

Something that makes it all worthwhile

As a mom there are so many times when I find myself wondering if I'm doing it right. Did I make the right decision? Am I doing a good enough job? Sometimes the days (okay, nights too) are very very long and it's easy to start to feel a little lost in this job of motherhood -- especially since I don't work outside of our home. My right now is tied so strongly to my children.

However, there are moment, many moments, that make it so very worthwhile. Moments that reaffirm that I, in fact, am doing a good job. They are the times that I get spontaneous hugs or works of art, the times when I find my children pretending to be a mommy and daddy and playing house.

Last week Madeleine brought this home in her folder.



It made me cry. I love it. I will keep it forever. And I'll know, that at least for a moment, all she wanted was to be like me.

SNOW much fun

When we returned home from our weekend away at the start of spring break it was to about a foot of snow!! I still can't believe that we had that much snow this late in March. Wow! By Monday, it was warm enough that the snow was starting to melt, but that also meant that it was not miserable cold when playing outside.


As soon as we got home, we immediately put on our snow clothes and headed out the door for some fun! The snow was nice and wet which made for some great snowballs and snowmen. Harrison didn't like getting wet, so Matt made him some makeshift boots with the newspaper wrappers from the weekend. Ha! It worked and he stayed outside with the rest of us. :)

Madeleine and I made a snowman. She was a big help and had fun decorating it when we were finished. Unfortunately, it was warm enough that he melted by the end of the day. Boo.

Matt went to work trying to build a snow fort for the kids.

After awhile, Harrison figured out how to make some MAJOR snowballs.....his mission became to hit Matt as many times as possible with them! Ha! He would come at Matt and yell "Daddy. Be still so I can get you." Then he'd launch his snowball at him! The snow was actually wet enough that Matt could catch the snowball and relaunch it. Look out Harrison. :)

After a couple of hours, Matt and I got tired -- but the kids were determined to make the most of this last snow day! They stayed and played outside for at least another hour. They were soaked by the time they came in since the snow was quickly turning to water. :)

Hopefully, this was the last snow of the season. It was the perfect way to end the winter with a fun snow!

Charlotte at 2 Months

The time is just passing by too quickly for this momma! I can't believe that my little girl is already 2 months old. She's getting so big and changing every day. I think that she's about 10 1/2 lbs -- we haven't gone in for her "official" 2 month checkup yet, but that's what she weighed when we were there last friday. She's gotten the cutest little rolls this month and has quite the double chin! She has AMAZING head control for a 2 month old and can sit up with me holding just her back very well. She loves to sit up and look around -- and even loves the Bumbo. She has constant entertainment with her sister and brother around. :)

She's just this week found her hands and loves to look at them and suck on them. I'm TRYING to get her to like her paci, but so far she only will take it occasionally. Boo. Both Madeleine and Harrison loooooved their pacis, so I'm hoping eventually Miss Charlotte will too.

She is still such a happy baby. Thankfully, the colic is mostly gone and she really only cries if she's hungry. Every one in awhile, she'll let out a good wail as if to say, "Mom, I'm here -- pick me up!" Ha! Otherwise, she's very content. She loves for us to talk to her. She immediately smiles when I start talking to her or pick her up. And, she loves to talk back to me! She will coo and coo -- more than either Madeleine or Harrison ever did! I guess she's already figured she'll have to speak up if she wants to be heard around here!!! :)

I love this little girl so much! She's so sweet and I'm sure we've spoiled her by how much we're holding her. I think that now I've realized that the time does pass so quickly and in just a matter of months they are wanting independence and are less content to just let you hold them. So, I'm taking full advantage of my time with her. There are days when Harrison and Madeleine are both at school that I just sit and rock my baby. I know that that time could not be any better spent & I'll never get those moments back so I'd better enjoy them now. I also have realized that those memories are some that are entirely mine and a part of me really loves that too.

Here's Miss Charlotte at 2 months

I found this picture when I was loading all my pics onto my computer. How funny is this --- I'm guessing Madeleine hijacked my camera and took this! So cute. She's going to be such a good mommy one day.

How much do I love this double chin!

St. Patrick's Day Lunch

Today Charlotte and I had lunch with Madeleine -- just us girls! Madeleine was SO excited to see us at school. I love getting a peek into her day when we're up there and seeing her with all her little friends. They are so cute! There's nothing like kindergarden; it really is the most fun time in school. :)

We brought McDonalds and ate with her then stayed for reading time. After reading time we were getting ready to leave, when Ms. Simpson offered to watch Charlotte if I wanted to go to Art Class with Madeleine. Of course!! So, while Charlotte got some good lovin', I got to see what happens in art. Today they were going back through all the art projects they'd done this year & choosing one to be in the art show after spring break. It was so fun to see all the work Madeleine had created this year! I can't wait to see what she chose for the show -- and what she named her piece of work!

She's so cute in her Green for the day!

My girls. How I love them!

Charlotte in her Green.