Easter II

Here's the boys dyeing eggs with me and Tia. Curran didn't want to leave the eggs in for more than 10 seconds, but he still had fun. Avery had enough control to make stripey eggs this year. Here are their eggs, maybe later I'll post the grown-up ones. And yes, every one of those cups is a different color!

Easter was here!

Here's the two handsome boys in their Easter shirt & ties. And yes they do have real baskets which they used for the real egg hunt, but I forgot to bring them to the church egg hunt (again).

Soon I will post pics of the egg decorating, etc.

Super Frog 2nd installment

For those that wanted to see the cape :)

Super Frog in action!

Here's a snippet of Avery's performance tonight. I'll put up a couple more videos later on!

The new look...

Grandmary made these scarves for the boys. Can you tell they feel stylin'?

The Insanity!

So here's the boys having fun with our new video camera which detects faces, then enlarges the eyes - freaky!

Super Frog!

Below is my hand-drawn logo (c) for Super Frog [below], Avery's character in his upcoming play. I'm hoping to render this in fabric and apply it to the back of his ex-Musketeer cape. The colors will be green outside/letters and silver background.

<---Update: There it is rendered in cloth! Had fun with printable fusable web :) I didn't have any silver left so I used gold, but I still I think it looks pretty swank...

Boxing Day

Here's my boys enjoying Boxing Day. We spent it with Aric's sister and her beau. Thanks to him we got to try Christmas pudding! They set this lovely table for dinner. The goblets were actually from us and ended up matching the table perfectly!

By the tree...

Happy New Year!

This is the kids enjoying the fondue dinner we had the week before Christmas. This wee table has been ever so handy! The adults had a marvelous time too with 3 cheese fondues, 2 broth fondues, and 2 dessert fondues. I'm so happy to have pulled off a themed dinner party! (Thanks to all our friends who provided all the dippers.)

A nurturing boy

Avery loves playing with babies :)

So I got behind..

I'm gonna see if I can post kinda chronologically. This is the boys at the pumpkin patch this year :)

Avery 2nd Grade

Got the school pictures back! What a smile :)

When 4 Halloween costumes combine...

They raided the costume closet and insisted that I record their shenanigans! This was after we drew a chalk "space tree" trimmed with rockets, planets, and every size/color of star. So we've had a fun & busy afternoon :)

New beginnings...

"Well hello little preschooler..." This is kinda what I must have looked like as I greeted six of my students-to-be at their homes today. (Except my hair was up in an awesome french braid.) I didn't have to do any translating today, but I did read the same story in spanish to one little sister (4 times) while my boss-teacher did the actual interview with the parent. I also got to hold a chihuahua and yet another student & her older sister cuddled with me during the entire process at their home. Pretty fun day :)

Avery also had his first day of 2nd grade today. He wasn't super excited this morning, but he was really excited when he came home. Said he had a "great day". He already made a new friend in his classroom & borrowed a Magic Tree House book from his teacher last night at the Open House. They filled out a 'what do you like' page at open house and he liked everything except: singing songs, writing, and exercising. The singing is the only part that really surprizes me. He takes after his mom in the other two ;)

Poor man...

Avery's up to 103.7 degrees between medicine doses, but at least it's well controlled by Ibuprofen. This morning he was hyper and crazy 15min after being dosed! Still - no school tomorrow for him!

Update May 24th: He finally made it back to school today and said he felt great this morning. *whew*

Brothers..

A funny little comparison: During Avery's singing performance in preschool he spent all his fidgeting time brushing his hair off his face. Last night, during Curran's preschool performance, he spent all his fidgeting time brushing his hair straight down on his forehead. *roll eyes*

I love that my boys are so unique, it makes life exciting :)

Looth Tooth

Avery finally lost one of his top teeth! This is lost tooth #3. It fell prey to a piece of toast :)

There's also a couple of new necklaces. I did the one on the right and Eddie did the middle one. Mine is made of a stone called African Turquoise that is a richer color than the picture managed to capture. Yay Bead Bazaar!

Christmas Joy

Avery's winter recital

Avery is in the back row in a white shirt with red pinstripes. He starts out at what looks like the 3rd from the right. And below is Curran pretending to be Santa :)