Tuesday, April 26, 2011

March/April 2011 Update

NATHAN

Nathan loves the outdoors. Give him a shovel and dirt and he will dig happily for hours. He loves going out with daddy to be his backyard helper.


Nathan's other love is going for rides in his wagon. Here we are on a family walk by the river.



Nathan enjoys jumping in his crib with his best friend Margaux. He is talking a little and signing more. Mostly he makes noises which are fun to hear as he eats his food: Grapes and berries are called balls, which he enjoys rolling across his tray. Sandwiches and bread are dinosaurs that he pretends are growling at each other. String cheese is a snake which he moves around as he hisses "Sssss."




MADDY

Maddy going for a ride at the park on St. Patrick's day--so cool!



Now that the weather has warmed up, Maddy loves playing in the backyard constantly.



ABBY


Ever since we did Kindergarten registration Abby has been very excited for school. Here she is playing school with Maddy and all her stuffed animals. Being the oldest she loves being the teacher and bossing everyone else around.


Abby's favorite backyard pastime is picking dandelions and bringing me bouquets everyday. She was really sad when Daddy pulled them all up.


MARY


My birthday was spent trying to keep the kids away from Daddy while he tore up our grass in the backyard so we decided to celebrate on Easter. Even though Jared was tired from all his hard work on Saturday, he stayed up until 1:00am making me this delicious Reese's Peanut Butter Cream Pie so we could enjoy it the next day. So good!



Nathan loved it so much he kept eating it and giving me back his bowl saying "yum yum, more!"


JARED


Jared was really excited to have some of his family come up to visit for the first time in over a year. His brother and his family came up for the weekend and Jared treated them to one of his delicious crepe breakfasts. (I am posting this picture hoping that we will get more visits from family in the future, and Jared promises to make crepes for anyone who comes up to visit). We had a wonderful time with them and hope for more visitors in the future!



Our backyard being re-modeled.


Jared decided he didn't want to spend his entire life mowing the lawn so he rented a sod cutter and took up 1/3 of our back lawn. He plans to put in some raised garden beds, a shed/greenhouse, and some more flowers, trees, etc. It will definitely keep him busy all summer, but should look really nice when he is done.

2 comments:

Ruth said...

I love it! Everyone and everything looks great.

Astromom said...

So very cute, I love your posts, it was so nice to see you last month and miss you all so much already. I think Abby will love kindergarten.