May and June

It has been a while since I have gotten around to updating the blog. This will be an incomplete post since I haven't gotten all the most recent pictures of my camera. Maybe (he he) I'll get around to updating more than twice a month.

 

Erin Heit had a post a while back talking about her kids coloring right around the same time my girls were learning the same thing: How to color on themselves (and everything else.) Kate is wearing a shirt that says, "I love toys."

Here's Kate after painting. She loves her own personal art board...

 

Olbrich Garden



 

We walked around Olbrich gardens, um sometime, with Aunt Michelle and Uncle Allen. Here's Kairi sitting on a bench with them. Such good smiles guys!

 

We generally get a picture of Wesley by this elephant around September. This time we got one with the twins. We might go in September to get the Wesley one.

 

Here is what Allen and Michelle were doing while I was trying to dislodge an eyelash from my eye for like an hour. I'm serious. The stubborn thing would not come out. When we made it home I ended up washing it out of my eye at the bathroom sink. By then my eye was rather tired of being irritated and so was I.

 

 

Wesley's Birthday

 

Wesley had a Space themed birthday party. I made him this rocket ship cake. We also had juice boxes and watermelon balls for comets.

 

We started out by making UFO's out of  upside down paper plates stapled together while everyone arrived.

 

Then we got to pin space men, (really they were characters from Planet Heroes) on a rocket ship. Here is Wesley at his turn.

 

Then we headed outside for a moon rock hunt. The kids located aluminum foil balls and tossed them through a hoop into a basket. He He just look at that cute dad in his "dad" shirt trying to decide what to with all these kids.

 

Wesley opened presents....

 

Here you can see the "moon rocks."

 

The kids finished every single activity an hour earlier than I had expected so then they had fun just playing around the house and yard for the remainder of the time. They really enjoyed it and went through a whole container of bubbles.

 

 

Lego Show

 

We went to a lego show in Chicago. They had some really cool creations, huge ones, little ones, trains, boats, a whole long table (longer than I am tall) of the entire movie Wizard of Oz, lego robot bonking, soccer ball mechanically moving machine-it moved the soccer balls- and tons more to look at. I didn't post all the pictures or even my favorites, but I thought some of you would enjoy the scene above.

 

This one is a picture made all of Lego. It's flat. 2D.

 

Here's one for Randy, and all the other Portal fans out there. They even had a heart cube off to the right.

 

I like the green color on these ones. Imagine trying to get that dome put together.

A Walk

 

I took the kids out on a walk so we could look at different types of rocks. The kids ended up collecting a few rocks, but didn't really get into any discussion about them. At least at the end Wesley was able to tell me that Lava and Sand helps make rocks. I'm not sure if he still remembers that though. We sat on this log and ate snacks for a long time.

 

Strawberry Picking

 

We took Michelle with us to go strawberry picking. I must say that this years produce was twenty times better than last year during the drought. Here you can see Michelle, Chris, and Kairi.

 

This might be me....

 

Wesley found the biggest strawberry of all!

 

After the strawberry patch, when we dropped Michelle off, we had to play on the swing set in their backyard for a while. Kairi is climbing, Kate is on the swing. Wesley is by Uncle Allen.

More Epic

Since Epic had opened up three new buildings since the last time family was in town, when the Heit grandparents and Morse Grandma and Aunt Ann came out to visit, we had to go through the new buildings.

 

Here we have Ann, Grandma Heit, Michelle, Allen, and Grandpa Heit

 

Wesley called Grandpa "My friend" and held his hand everywhere. He's also holding a stuffed animal of The Cat in the Hat.

 

We went to the Madison Zoo with these guys on Monday. Here is when we stopped to eat a light lunch. We did more things with people, but I have not gotten them off my camera yet, and I still would like a picture or two of when we went to that climbing place. :)

 

Birthday Videos put together.

 

Ta Dah! I'll try to get around to putting another post up shortly. There's bound to be some good pictures of Epicnic next week and we had a Milwaukee beach trip this weekend etc.

 

 

Mostly April

 

 

We went to the Madison Kids expo March 16th this year. Here are the kids coloring and getting doctor hats.

 

Wesley was amazing at the pick up beans game. He was way faster than the other kid next to him until I pulled out the camera and distracted him. (Kairi in brown, Kate, Wesley)

 

 

The kids even got to sit in a real race car!

And they played games. (Kairi and Wesley)

 

Here are some Lego's I got from my dad's collection this year.

 

We died Easter Eggs with Uncle Allen (Allen and Kairi)

Notice she has a pink cast on in this picture. She broke her leg March 26th by jumping off the couch right when I started to make dinner. The doctor saw her the next day but she wasn't crying or anything and we thought it was a sprain. Two days later, she still would not walk on it, so I took her to the ER to get an x-ray. Her pink cast come on Friday March 29th. Two days before Easter.

 

Aunt Michelle is helping Kate put stickers in her eggs.

Cheese! I love pink!



 

 Kairi's next doctor appointment was on April 9th. She ended up needing to get her cast redone since the heel of her foot was slipping up into the back of the cast. She got purple this time! We have done a lot of coloring lately...

 

Here is a cool sitting spot close to Uncle Allen's office at Epic.

(Kate, mom, Kairi, Wesley)

 

His office is in a barn so you see a lot of cows and animals on the walls.(Kate and Wesley)

 

You can also find Charlottes Web. The web says "Some Pig." Kate is hugging the pig.

 

At Kairi's next doctors appointment, again a week later, she needed to get her cast redone again. You guessed it her foot was slipping again. I was told it's common in toddlers since their muscles aren't as developed to hold a cast in place. That and they are squirmy. She couldn't really make up her mind for the cast color so the nurse made it pink and purple. That was on April 16th.

 

April 25th was Chris and Amanda's five year wedding anniversary! To celebrate I took the kids to "Take your kids to work day." Later we went out to eat dinner after the kids had been put in bed.  Here is Wesley and dad fishing. Kate is hiding behind them.

 

They made some frog crafts.

 

And got to color. Kate was nice enough to help Wesley color all of his picture. And she loves these sunglasses she won while fishing. They go everywhere with her now. She even wears them in the house.

 

Here is a picture I took of the picture they took for us at Epic. I think it turned out well.

Mom, Kairi, Wesley, Kate, Dad

 

This week I had no idea what to do and Chris told me to take the kids bowling. I don't think he expected me to do it, but I did. We were the only ones there on a Tuesday morning and enjoyed bowling and a snack.

 

Kate and Wesley lining up the ball.

 

Kairi during her turn.

 

When it was not their turn, the kids could sit and color. We have a ton of pictures exactly like this one that Kairi took of Wesley coloring when it was not their turn.

 

As you can see we are pretty good bowlers! Actually I think it is a little sad that even with the one strike I got, I only won by six points. Oh well.

 

 

 

Here the kids say Happy Easter!

 

 

I wanted to get a movie of Kairi walking around on her cast before it came off. Yes it came off this past Friday May 3rd. She's in a boot for two weeks now and will be done with it all. However, if you notice Wesley took a spill at the end of the movie. Poor kid. He got a little scrapped up, but he's fine.

 

Look up what a funicular is because this is a lego version of one.

Uncle Allen and Aunt Michelle's House

Uncle Allen and Aunt Michelle moved into their new house! I had to beat them by putting up pictures first since they have no internet until Wednesday.  Here it is everyone!

The frog under the front stairs a very popular attraction.

 



Here is a movie of Michelle and Allen's house. Part One

 

Here is another part of the house.

 

 

There is a stone frog under the front step that was a favorite hangout.