40

No, not turning 40 yet.. a few years to go for that, thank goodness. It's how much weight I'm down so far (since Nov) slowly but surely I guess.. was just glad to finally hit that marker.

Mini Dinner

So our theme tonight was mini.. I found these cute mini (slider) hamburger buns and decided to make mini turkey burger sliders for dinner. They turned out so good, and it was a 3 out of 3 hit with the kids (which RARELY happens).

So to follow up we had mini ice cream cones for dessert. Yum!!

Don't Multi Task while the Kids Paint...

So I was trying to rearange my closet after hubby put in some new shelves for me.. Ella REALLY wanted to paint.. and well I gave in.. so this is what happened between my "peeking" in on them. I think he likes to paint... but it's about a once a year event at our house.. and this is why.

Toys in the bed (don't worry clean)

So does the title make you leary to read on? It's G-rated.. I promise..

We we wake up this morning and Jayme says he didn't have the best sleep last night... fast foward 20min (i'm up at this point making french toast, and he's just getting out of bed) and he comes down and shows me this.....

He had slept on a toy tractor tire all night.... the joys of children :)

Friday

So I'm happy to report Jett made it thru yesterday with no injuries :)

I talked Jayme in to going swimming with the kids this morning. It was quite fun. Ella is such a fish, just LOVES the water. The other 2, eh. not so much. Jett likes it better than Keera. She's happy playing just at the waters edge. Jett is still at the no fear stage. Not wanting me to hold him he walks deeper and deeper in to the water. You'd think at some point he'd figure out that it's going above his head, but nope. Jay and Ella did a few runs on the water slide, which she always loves. She wasn't brave enough to go by her self, as she has in the past but it has been awhile since we've been swimming.

We also got the kids bikes out this week and adjusted seat heights ect. Jett LOVES his little red trike (Keera's from last year). As I speak he's toddling around our basement with it as I didn't want to deal with the fight of getting him off it to come inside, so we brought boy and bike in all in one shot. And he hasn't gotten off it. Hmmm should be interesting come bedtime.

Ella is starting to get the hang of riding her bike. It's actually kinda hard to 'teach' someone to ride, at least I find it its. When it's not blowing like a son-of a gun outside, Jay will take her to an empty parking lot for a few one on one lessons. She quite anxious to 'go for a bike ride Mom'.

Keera has yet to get on her Dora bike yet. She's happier pulling the wagon around.

Learning...

So learned a few things today....

1)If a child falls, then gets ran over by a wagon, they forget about the pain of falling... and focus on on the bloody nose they got from the wagon. (Keera fell and before I could scoop her up Ella accidentally ran over her, giving her a bloody nose)

2)Cinnamon flavoring burns the skin. Ella was playing with a tiny bottle that had cinnamon flavoring in it. Of course she dropped it on our tile floor and it splashed on her leg. We didn't realize till after a few minutes that it was burning her leg. Weird.

I'm just waiting to see what the rest of the day holds for Jett...

Big Boy...

No, he's not potty trained, I'm still tramatized from the girls, so not sure when i'll tackle Jett, but he loves wearing his 'big boy' ginch. And he looks so cute in them I can't hardly stand it!!

Kids....

I love'em...

Shed / Play house

So Jay has been very busy this past week building our shed and a play house for the kids, all in one. He's done a great job and I can't wait to paint it up all cute. I have light green, blue and purpleish colors. I have some cute ideas for it.
The inside pics aren't that great, you can't get a good perspective. Basically you walk in and 1/2 is full height and then a ladder up to a loft area over the other half. He put in 3 plexie glass windows which add alot of light. He also did a front porch with cute lattice railing. The kids absolutely love it!! They also loved helping Dad build it too.