Madison

Let’s start off this round of pictures with one of Dallas and his man-crush Scott Kelby:

On Mother’s Day Brooke made me this:

It’s not everyday you get an airplane banner message, so I felt pretty special.

Spencer was cute eating a Fun Dip:

He got a little crazy with sidewalk chalk:

I have a friend on Instagram who is always posting the cutest pictures of her child sleeping.  That has led me to do some serious reflection on my life and I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to take more sleeping-child pictures.  So I have:

There.  I already feel like I’m leading a more fulfilling life now.

Let’s move on to another picture of Caroline with her beloved pig hat:

Caroline wore that silly hat EVERYWHERE, for better or for worse.

Madison tried it out as well:

You may be relieved to know that the pig hat is no longer.  At my Mom’s and sister’s and husband’s insistence I threw the pig hat away. Don’t tell Caroline.

We went on a fun hike.  The trail started off looking a little spooky:

 

Caroline used my phone to see all the dirt on her face.  She couldn’t believe her eyes, apparently:

Caroline loves Jell-o.  She saved up enough money to buy her own package of Jell-o so she didn’t have to share with anyone:

My bearded brother:

We had a flat tire.  Dallas hurriedly put the spare on before leaving for work.  Spencer saw the jack still out and used it to do some repairs on his jeep:

Madison has a thing for shoes:

Poor baby fell off her trike and skinned her elbow.  The actual wound wasn’t too bad.  Until she started picking at it. So we put band-aids on it.  Which apparently she had an allergic reaction to. So her arm looked like this:

You’ll be happy to know we found non-latex wraps and after a few days of TLC her arm is now looking much better.

At the same time her arm skin was bubbling up and falling off her body, her face looked like this:

That was a rough time in baby’s life.

Flashback to February when I had a birthday!  Happy birthday to me!

Brooke made our family out of Legos:

This scene is one of my favorite Lego things she’s done.  You can’t tell from the picture, but the thing on the right is a snack machine.  There was a slot to put Lego money in and a way to make an actual snack fall from the machine.  The thing on the left is a soft drink machine:

Spencer was proud of his Lego car:

And whatever this was:

This is the creepiest thing my kids have done.  Our neighbors were moving.  The kids wanted to see the action but got bored watching, so they set up video cameras to record the whole thing:

I love to imagine what the neighbors would have thought had they known their every move was being filmed. Probably that they were getting out of the neighborhood in the nick of time.

Brooke used paper to weave a checkers board and she and Caroline played some game they made up:

Flossing is hard:

Brooke and Caroline were having a paper airplane contest.  Brooke named her plane “The Black Star.”  She recruited Spencer to be her cheering section and gave him a flag to wave and a hat to wear, complete with the Black Star logo:

Spencer has added a new machine to his drawing repertoire.  Here we have a digger:

Spencer used Perler beads to make a sunrise:

We got a hummingbird feeder.  I have never seen hummingbirds just out in nature around here so I was skeptical that we would attract any…but we did!  We have several that come and go every day:

This picture is hard to see, but Spencer was recreating the crash scene in one of his books with his cars:

This little girl loves to climb the bunk bed ladder and sit at the top giving me a panic attack every time I catch her up there:

When Madison is surprised she makes a perfect O with her mouth:

Believe it or not, this post gets us up to date on the blog.  We thought this day would never come!