Making Pizza's with Grama

Tonight for boys night Cooper helped Grama Nina make mini-pizza's for dinner. He is such a big helper. We had alot of fun Thanks grama!

1st day of Spring!

Happy Spring!
I love Spring! I love the longer days with more light! I love being able to take long DRY walks! I love the daffodils blooming by my door! I love watching things grow and turn green! Good-Bye cold miserable winter,
Welcome Spring!

17th of March

Happy St. Patricks Day!

We didn't really do anything special. We wore green though! Cooper and I made this shamrock for a school project. Hope everyone had a great day!

Class Pictures 2009

No goofy face this year. But still oh so cute!

Pulling teeth.

To begin this tale we must travel back in time to Feb. 19th. I was helping Cooper brush his teeth before bed, when I noticed he had a new tooth growing behind one tooth on the bottom. I thought that was weird and maybe I should take him to or call the dentist. When James got home that weekend I showed him my discovery and he too thought it was odd. While sitting in church, it came to me, (Ding, Lightbulb!), maybe his other tooth is loose. So I tried it, and sure enough it was. I could hardly believe that my little boy is old enough to lose teeth....he'll be five soon, but come on, has anyone else heard of a 4 1/2 year old loosing teeth? Well, since then we've been "trying" to get in there and wiggle it. Grampa Dave even offered Cooper $5 to pull it by himself or $10 to let him have a go at it. Cooper graciously let Grampa try a few times, but I think it started to hurt and he had had enough. He even let Uncle Dusty try a couple of times. Then just last Thursday he let Grama Nina try tugging it out with floss, it was hard to get the floss on that little thing, so Grama wanted to try pliers. I have to say I was a little surprised Cooper went with that plan.

Grama had to answer the phone, so she gave Cooper the pliers...with supervision, he tried, here's a quick video and how long that lasted...

I figured once he started pulling his tongue, the pliers idea wasn't going to work.

After that James and I tried to get in there and pull it, but he would just fuss and get mad.

Finally, to the present.

This morning Wonder Woman came to our house with Mr. T to play for awhile. She had just gone to the dentist herself and had a tooth removed. She showed Cooper where her tooth used to be. He was very interested in this, and kept asking to see it over and over. As I was chatting with my friend, Cooper exclaims, "I got it! It's out!" He came over and handed to WW and says, "I got it, here it is." Just like that. Wonder Woman Rocks! We did a victory dance and cheered for our little man.

You can already see his new tooth behind the little hole.

And so ends our 1st Tooth adventure, with more to come, but really there's no hurry.

Bowling Party!

Camyrn's birthday party was a bowling alley this year. Here's the pic's I got.

Above: MacKenzie Below: James, Camyrn and Mac
LJ

A short video presentation on the excitement our boys showed while bowling.

Above: Dad and Dustion
Below: Cooper

McTeacher night.

Tonight was Gildo Rey McTeacher night at McDonalds. I thought it might be fun to take Cooper to go and see Ms. Deanna. When we pulled into the parking lot the boys were all excited about going to McD's. However, I reminded them that we were only here to get apples, (we hadn't eaten dinner yet) and to see Cooper's teacher. When we went to the counter and Cooper saw his teacher, he kinda got a puzzled look on his face, the one "What are you doing here?" look. Anyway, it was a good chance to support our school and our teachers who do so much for us!

A discouraging word...

Sadly I must report the theft of James' motorcycle. I don't think there are any nice words to describe how we felt this morning when he went to leave for work and it was gone.

February Artwork.

A Tale of two Twiddy's

In our area there is a theatre that cost $2 for any movie. Jen and I thought it would be fun to take the boys to see "The Tale of Despereaux". It was a cute movie about a brave little mouse. It had so many good messages throughtout... I highly recommend it to everyone old and young. I have to admit I was a little apprehensive about taking them, fearing they would be to loud, get up and run around, bottom line, disturb others. I was wrong and my two little men were so well behaved. They sat through the whole movie! I was so well-pleased. Okay. I was proud. Who wouldn't be? Thankfully I had packed a little lunch bag with snacks and all. This picture was taken before the movie, I couldn't take one during, duh!

Of course after the movie here are the boys in all their cheesy glory. So happy.We decided to treat ourselves to lunch afterwards. Luckily lunch had just gotton over when the melt downs started. Looks like James and I will be able to take the kids to movies, now that they'll behave and you can't beat the $2 price.

To view the trailer to the movie: http://www.thetaleofdespereauxmovie.com/splash/

Build-A-Bear

Today our little family went to the Build-A-Bear Workshop to do a service project with the Forresters group that Aunt Freda belongs to. Saturday the Forrester's volunteers (and us) built a total of 600 teddy bears, 500 of which will go to children at Seattle's Childrens Hospital. The children (15 and under) who came to help were able to take home a bear or rabbit of their own. Here's a picture of them waiting for us to get started.
Our family made a total of 6 bears. We watched as the ladies would manuever the empty bear/rabbit while the boys took turns stepping on the pedal that stuffed them. Logan was amazed at the stuffing maching. He probably sat for 5 or more minutes before his turn just watching it.

Logan's turn stuffing a rabbit. Once they were stuffed we put a little heart into each animal and then the next lady would sew them up.

Heart and & Sew! da da da da da dah!

They had a little "wash and brush" station, before we dress the animals in an outfit.

Here's a picture of the Bear's & Rabbits we made. Cooper is giving them all big hugs before we put them in the boxes for the sick children.

Cooper kept the Rabbit in the baseball outfit. We went to the naming station to print birth certificates for the boys' new animals. Logan kept the bear and his name is Sam. Cooper's Rabbit's name is Aaron Hippity Hop.Here's Logan carrying his bear in Sam's house.

We had to wait a little for daddy and the boys went out into the mall, and I couldn't help but take this picture of them being so cute and so behaved.
As a Thank you we received food voucher's for lunch. Here' our whole group at Red Robin. Once again Aunty Freda provided a fun event for our little family. And it felt really good to do good.

(Left to right- Me, Cooper, James, Logan, Breanna, Denise, and Freda)

sorry if I spelled it wrong....I lost my notes.

6 of 6: tagged by emily.

Rules:
1. go to the document/ my pictures site on your computer
2. go to your sixth file
3. go to your sixth picture
4. blog about it
5. tag 6 people
This picture was taken on Logan's blessing day, Feb. 11, 2007. This is a good picture of my boys all dressed up. I'm not so sure I like this picture of me, not quite back to pre-Logan weight. But I like my hair, which my friend Marjorie did for me.

I tag:
1-Aimee
2-Jennifer
3-Julie H.
4-Andrea
5-Tammy
6-Auri

Zoo Pals

We picked a very beautiful day to go to the zoo! The sun was shining but it was still a little chilly. Yesterday there was a monkey on the loose at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, and they had to evacuate the entire zoo, for one little monkey. We go to the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, and let me tell you, I was chasing 3 or more little monkeys around and at a few momentsI wanted to evacuate. It was sure fun though. Cooper and Logan were able to run play, look at the animals, and have a picnic with Nick, William, Hailey, Taylor, and Wendy. That's right 7 kiddos 5 years old and under. The older boys were very well behaved and even had maps to direct us on what we were to see next. I also didn't bring my camera, I remembered everything else though. Thanks J. for taking all the pictures and sending them to me. It was kinda liberating not to take pictures for a change, I was able to run and play with the kids more.

This was Logan's first trip to the zoo, during the day, as we went to zoolights at night last month. He loved it. He didn't want to stay in the stroller so I hooked him up this his doggy backpack and let him explore on foot. He would stick his nose right up to the glass peering at the 'mamimals'. At one point I had three 2 year olds on leashes, it felt like they were walking me.
As always the aquarium is the highlight of our zoo trips. Here's a rare shot of ALL the boys together in the same spot. It wasn't very crowded in the aquarium, so we let them loose and let them wander, within sight of Mommy was the rule.
After our visit to the fishy's and the sharks, we sat and had a nice picnic lunch. Then it was back in the stroller for the little ones, the rest of the zoo was going to go faster, as nap time was approaching. Thanks D. for letting us the double stroller.

It was a fun day. We always have so much fun with our friends and look forward to our next zoo adventure together.

Here are a few of the animals we saw on our visit.
I got these pictures off the zoo website http://www.pdza.org