Sunday, April 7, 2013

Daily Life

Maren's Band Aids

Now, if you know Maren, you know she loves Band Aids. We had this tamed for awhile, that if there was not blood, a Band Aid was not needed. However. Unckie Beth sent a care package a month ago with four boxes of Band Aids. So, there had to be a limit somewhere. We had to put a lid on it somewhere - so three Band Aids a day became the limit. Band Aids fix everything!


Now, what gets me on this is that Elena has never wanted anything to do with Band Aids. She does not like things stuck to her skin. But this last week when they got an Easter package from Unckie Beth with another box of Band Aids, well, they both got busy. 


At the Park

Monday was a challenging day so I decided we had to get outside. It was not even warm, so we bundled up and went to the park. It was a much needed trip outside. These kiddos seem to know it should be spring and  they just want to be outside. If the sun is out, they want to be out. This was a cloudy, windy day but we had a great time in the short time we were out.






A little blogspot for Lu! Here is Maren pasting geometric shapes to Lucy. Lucy has become quite tolerant in the last few years! She is especially tolerant of Maren, who is very gentle with her. I am not sure if Lulu really knew what she was doing until she stood up and realized she had stickers all over. It was cute how she let Maren do it, though. 

What a great dog! 





We also did some cleaning together this last week. Let's see if I can get a repeat on this next week! My favorite thing was Elena asking me the next day on the way home from preschool: "Mom, do you have any chores for us to do today?" What a shock that was! However, she was not happy with my response of: "Well, we do need to sweep and clean the floors and the dishwasher needs emptied." "No! I don't want to empty the dishwasher!" So apparently there are only some things worth doing - like washing windows and scrubbing sinks. Fine with me! I can find all sorts of things to do with a spray bottle, which is what they seem to like best. 

Weekend Project

Kirk has been planning to build a new swing set for Elena and Maren. Our old one followed us from Phoenix but it is pretty old. Rusty old. So it finally warmed up a bit and last Saturday he got the swing set part of it done. Elena and Maren thought this was the greatest thing - they had their tools out and were hammering on their own with Elena's tool set. I love seeing them out there. They are so happy to be a part of this new construction. They are quite excited about this!

 Right in the middle of it, helping Papa


 Meme got to help, too



We did some baking while Meme was visiting, too. The apple cake was scrumptious and Papa only got a teeny piece. We three girls ate it all (mostly after Meme went home Sunday).
 One of the best parts is turning the mixer on


This is Easter Sunday after church. Somehow I only got a couple photos of them in their dresses. Elena had been waiting all week for the Easter Bunny (what kid doesn't). She actually did really well - I think she thought that the Bunny was coming Sunday night so she wasn't looking too hard Sunday morning. But after she found the second egg around the house, she was on the hunt. Oh my gosh, was she excited. I do not know the last time she was that excited. Maybe when Jesse was here. She also managed to eat all the candy out of the eggs that she found. She did share, though! I was really happy to see that, as was Maren!