Wednesday, January 29, 2014

a magical week with my kids

Preschool reading time at the library, but at the avenues one this time. Definitely not as good.  The guy who does it really actually looks very creepy and can't sing or read without sounding and looking awkward lol I think we might stick with the downtown one, even if we have to psy for parking. Today was really fun!! I felt extra brave and took the boys with me for the first time, and even took all the kids to costco by my self!! Can I get a woot woot!! 

Cousin fun



Friday night pizza night

Natalies little personal pizza




Natalie and the boys watching them read 

Playing in the tots area after this was fun!!!

Here are the boys















Of course playing on the bikevrack outside :)






Tuesday princess day!!  We spent almost the entire day in princess gear! It was great and magical! We also watched clips from frozen on YouTube all morning! We will definitely be buying that movie when it comes out!!! 

Natalie in her tinkerbell dress


Hi laddie















Our magical fortress we built, made for princess and two princes :)

















And we switched dresses now we are wearing princess Annas dress from frozen!


Watching the video "do you want to build a snowman?"

And of course eating our lunch in our princess dress 
while watching tangled now I think


Hi spencer!!

Ohh poor laddie lol

Getting ready for bed...still spying with the tent


Mondays with the cousins 

Doing some arts and crafts 
















Playing on the couch cushions



the girls asleep in the bed together :)


Poor little laddie, teething and not feeling so good.  
Sitting on daddy trying to feel better.

















 Some fun snow man art we did together.  I love toddler art work, its just so cute and pure




Saturday, January 25, 2014

So this is my life

Its a new year and with that comes new goals and attitudes and often reflection on your life and how far we have come since the last year.  I just can't believe my life and how lucky I am to live the life I live.  I look at my Nells and I just can't believe who amazing and cute and beautiful and funny she is and what an amazing little personality she has!  She is so loving and just full of magic and imagination and and cuteness!  She LOVES to watch the little mermaid, both the first and the second.  in the second one the bad witch (odee) drops a magical potion on melodies foot and she turns into a mermaid, and Natalie always tells me she wants Odee to help her turn into a mermaid too!  So priceless!!   She just as the new movie frozen in the theaters and the song 'Let it Go' she loves to take her blanket and wrap it around her shoulders pretending to be Elsa and she walks and twirls just she does in the song and while she's doing it she is singing (with the right tune) ne me no ne me no (her attempt at let it go)  Its so cute!!!  It really just makes my heart smile when I watch her and I look at her and her brother and I just can't believe that this is my life!  The boys are trying to run and are just the most typical little boys!  They love their toy cars and to run and try and jump and to get into absolutely everything!  They love their little play tent, all three of them and could spend the whole day playing in it and making forts.   I feel so lucky that my little Nells loves to make forts and dress up and sing and dance where her mommy!  I am just the luckiest mommy in the whole world to have my three little babies. 

We went for  cold winter walk today..but had to come back early cause it was so stinking cold out today! 







Happy face!

walking on her own on the way hone! 





I love her her so much and I loved her little outfit today, even though you can't really see it under her jacket!















playing on the grates
















Dressing up in her princess skirt and mommies boots….how cute is she!














playing in their room


little laddie sitting on her chair and table



Friday nights are our  family movie nights and tonight was Brave
but poor little Spencer woke up twice with a fever and so he got to 
finish the movie with  his sister.  How cute is this!! 


Friday with the cousins again 


on our way to the dinosaur park with daddy and the boys!
               



We saw a cool dog in the mall on our way

playing at the iPad kids table while me and El try and get a new charger for his computer.  I HATE apple chargers.  they suck and never last long and they want $80 for the stinking thing!  I don't' think so!  Well try out Ebay I think

Monson helping Laddie down the slide















Spencer loves going down head first















the girls playing the dinosaur rock/slide






Today was a library day.  We went to the Sweet brach right by our house for the very first time.  I actually just because aware that we even had a library in the Avenues. I always take Natalie to the downtown branch.  I was very happily surprised at the Avenues branch and I think so was Natalie.  They have this amazing little kids corner with benches, stuffed animals, mirrors, toys, books obviously, little bean bags sized perfectly for toddlers.  It was great!  I took the kids there to pick up some more books for Natalie since I am so sick of the ones that I have at home.  It was the first time that I mixed it up a bit with both board books and regular books.  I had to put the regular picture books up high in our living room books shelf because the boys would tear them apart if  left them in the kids bookshelf in their room.  We came back and I was lucky enough to make house forts with my babies after.  I took out the play tent and the tunnel and took down the couch cushions and we played forever until Natalie took her nap in the tent.  She has been on a Caillou kick lately, which I am fine with since its on the best TV shows for little ones (it was created by a child psychologist) can't get much better than that! 

Our morning before the library, watching our morning shows while mommy makes breakfast    



And its a pancake kind of morning today!  We all love pancake mornings! 




Getting ready and putting on her socks and shoes all by her self!


Getting a drink at the library.  I love this girl!














My twinkles at the library, with the very cool kids corner behind them!
















Playing outside as we make our way back to the car


Natalie was showing me some of her pretty cool tricks on the bicycle rack

















Yeah for the talented Natalie

the boys watching on

big smiles


The fun house fort I made and the couch cushions on the ground…make shift trampoline













Peek-a-boo Natalie!

















And now the fun kids tent I brought in to the mix

Playing in side the tent before nap time















What a cute and beautiful little girl!















Laddie boy

















Benny Wenny

Laddie smiling at me

conked out in the tent for her nap...

What is cuter than this…seriously!  I love my life!



lucky girl gets to eat her breakfast on her special red table while watching Caillou


So this is my first attempt at a chicken pasta salad with bell peppers, celery, peas carrots and beans.  It was so much easier than I thought and I even made the dressing from scratch!  Pretty proud of this momma! Natalie loved it which made me smile and so did the boys! 















Heres the finished project





Breakfast with my babies!



Natalie just loves to get all dressed up in mommies dresses and my shoes and walk around or dance and twirl around the house!