But, before that time arrives, it's been cold! The last week of Feb. into the first week of Mar. Zach's mom, Shirley, came to visit from Arizona. I know she has missed the winter weather just a little bit, so mother nature was sure to give her a good taste of it! Despite the cold weather, it was warm inside and the kids loved playing with their Grandma! Top of the list was Tickle Time!
While she was here visiting, we planned a trip to the Children's Museum with her. The kids had a blast with her! So... of course... here are some pics!
Princess Lylah (She knows it too!)
The boys really really liked playing with the itty bitty tiny legos! So much in fact that I considered getting them some... If only I believed they would keep them picked up off the floor and out of the vacuum cleaner!
There were costumes the kids could put on to dress up as royality. Nathan was a knight and Aunt Britt helped him put on this costume to joust.
It was all he could do to keep the thing up! It was heavy! But- he had fun playing with it!
There is this oversized thrown for the kids to sit in. We tried getting a picture of all of them. But- have you tried getting 5 kids to all look at a camera the same time... not to mention to smile. Crap- we couldn't even get all 5 of them to sit down!
And don't even get me started about me not being able to get my camera to focus because of the light from the background! (I swear one day I will get to reading the directions to figure out what all those other functions on my camera besides 'Auto' mean!)
Nathan enjoyed playing with this squishy stuff you're supposed to mold over the dino head. FYI- when it's rolled into a ball and thrown hard to the ground, it gets a pretty good bounce!!
Little T liked playing with it too! (I think he's actually watching Nathan bounce the stuff!)
It was really important to Carter and Nathan to get a picture of Spiderman.
Yes... there is a sign that says to keep off the back of the car. I just didn't notice it with Carter standing in the way! lol
Aunt Britt was helping Nathan play this game.
And then Lylah wanted to share her food!
I'm pretty sure Nathan's taking this apart. He's always been a destroyer of things! lol
Carter taking a timeout to smile for the camera!
From Princess to Super Hero in a matter of hours - That's my girl!!
Trying to get a cool mirror picture. Nathan is in the phase where he purposely closes his eyes for pictures sometimes. He thinks it's funny!
At home we tried to get a couple pictures with the kids and Grandma, but we only got a Take 1 and Take 2 before my batteries needed recharging.
Also- coming with the slightly warmer weather... is the need to breed. ... FISH that is. I was watching the fish last month and noticed one doing some... um... rubbing on another fish. It was actually quite interesting -until I realized what I thought they were doing and started questioning if I was a pervert for watching my fish get it on. ? lol Well- I was right- they definitely were doing their thang! The she I referred to as he had 22 babies. Two babies died, leaving me 20 to catch. It took an hour to get all those suckers out of the tank and into their own growth tank for safe keeping until they're not small enough to be eaten. They were smaller than a dry grain of rice. I figured it out to be 3 minutes per fish to be caught. But... I didn't loose my patience once! Yay! Anyway- here are their first pictures. (I'm a dork, I know!)
They've grown a bit, and they're starting to get slightly oranage colored bellies (like their mommy- RIP). But, mostly they're still gray. I'm interested to see which fish they're going to resemble- the mom- a calico large bellied fan tail goldfish - or their horny dad- a yellow molly. hehe
In addition to so much going on between the baby fish (which, FYI- are called 'fry', and Carter decided to remember this by associating it with frying fish!) - Anyway- we also babysat my brother's children last Friday night and Saturday afternoon. It was fun having a house full, but was definitely ready to relax after they were picked up! It brought back great memories having a newborn in the house, but I forgot how unpredictable they were at 4am. lol! The kids loved playing with Mya and having a sleep over with her. Lylah and the dogs, Cali and Reno, were very protective of Matthew and hardly left his side!
Carter was excited to help feed Matthew.
Here's Mya- she's getting to be such a big girl (with her own little attitude complete with hands on hip and head wave!)
(PS- check out Nathan behind her picking his nose! That's my boy! Maybe one day he'll find gold...)
One night the end of Feb. when I went out to celebrate Christy's birthday, Zach and the kids camped out downstairs. Here's what I came home to:
How sweet!
The happy couple:
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