St Patrick's day project!

When I got home from work on Saturday I was ready for some Isaiah time! :) So I decided to see if he was up for a "project." Of course he was excited to do one! So here's what we did...

The supplies:

I cut strips of both shades of green for Isaiah to cut into small pieces.

I have yet to buy safety scissors for Isaiah so I let him use the big ones!! He did really well and was very careful.

After a couple strips he was tired of cutting, so we worked with what he had done...and it was time to glue them on our clover.

Fun with the glue...

Look what he made!

The finished product.

Isaiah LOVED this project...I think it is one of the best ones we've done--he' really enjoyed it, he was able to participate in every step and completely create his very own art. We might have to do it again with Jayda!

binoculars

The other day Isaiah made his very own binoculars. He did a really good job and they turned out great....and he thought they were VERY cool. In fact, he thought they were so great that they HAD to come to Wal-Mart with us later that morning.

We used them to look out the window to see if there were any birds outside, to see all of the houses, and to look for anything exciting! And we did find something exciting!!! Dada getting home from school!

And by the way, don't laugh at Isaiah's shirt HA ha... it's an old shirt from somewhere my dad worked (I think). It was mine when I was in junior high...I'm not sure I ever wore it... My dad put it on him one night when he came over and Isaiah thought it was so fun to wear that he wanted to sleep in it that night so he did. He looked pretty cute! It was the next morning that we made the binoculars.

just another day.

Today is just another crazy day around here...The meter reader guy is coming somewhere between 8 and 10, the dishwasher repair guy is coming between 8 and 12 (yes again!) and the group of realtors is coming somewhere between 9 and 11. Whew!!

So I figured I'd better be prepared to keep the kids entertained (and out of the way) and our house clean (so the realtors will think we are serious!).

First thing in the morning, Mark and I tried to clean, clean, clean while the Isaiah and Levi were still asleep...then Isaiah woke up, Jayda and Jonah got to our house, and Mark had to head off to school. I tried to find ways that Isaiah and Jayda could help me clean... and in the midst of it all, a monster showed up!!!

Isaiah came up to me and said, "A monster's here!!" (this is a pretty regular thing for him right now)

"OH NO! We'd better hide!" I said to him, so we all hid for a minute and then...

Isaiah said, "the monster's gone." so we went back to cleaning....

"A monster's here!!!" Another monster came a couple minutes later.

"Oh no! Let's hide."

"No mama, this is a nice monster. He's a big boy like me!" (so cute!)

By this time it was close to 8:30 and we had our first visitor -- the meter man. He came and read the meter and left...2 minutes later.

Then Levi woke up and decided to do (one of) his daily blowout(s). Jayda and Isaiah helped me change his diaper, onesie, shirt, pants, and socks and wipe him down from hair to feet (yes it reached everything! Just ask Laura, I'm not exaggerating!). As I was wiping him down, Isaiah started chanting for me, "Go Mama Go! Go Mama Go! Go Mama Go!" I started laughing so hard that Isaiah and Jayda joined in. It was hilarious!

Shortly after Levi was all cleaned up, the realtors showed up. I was expecting like 3-5 of them to come look at the house and then leave... well, our realtor came in and said I'm bringing in the troops...and he wasn't kidding at least 15 people came in and looked around our house while Isaiah, Jayda, Jonah and I tried to stay out of the way (by this time Levi was back to sleep on our bed). The kids were pretty cute watching all of these people and I think they all thought I was the mother of 4 really small children (which I thought was funny) and a few even asked about the age difference between Isaiah and Jayda... I quickly explained that they were not all mine... Then the head realtor commented on our dishwasher--he said, "wow that's a really nice brand, I hear those are wonderful." I just said, "yeah." He then said, "my wife would really like one of those. they are supposed to be really quiet." "yeah, it is really quiet," I said. I didn't think it'd be appropriate to tell him that the repair man was coming for the 8th time today to fix it again.

So they left.... and just as the last one was out the door, the phone rang and the repair man was just around the corner and ready to come fix our dishwasher.

So he came... and worked on it. He had to run to his vehicle to get another tool...

and Isaiah says, "Where did that man go mama?" I told him he went to get another tool to keep fixing the dishwasher....and he said, "oh." and the man came back and Isaiah got down on his hands and knees to mimic the repairman. He was so curoius.

Then he left, saying that the wrong part had been ordered for us and the would order another one...and they'd have to come back... maybe I should give that realtor's wife our dishwasher?

Anyway, we had lunch and it was time for a nap...for the kids...

and that was just our morning...

the mess i wanted!

Levi's week of bananas was up on Sunday so yesterday it was time to try something new...peas! Levi hated them! He kept spitting them out and shuttering when I tried to feed them to him. He hardly ended up actually eating any of them...it was pretty funny. We'll keep trying, hopefully he'll get used to the flavor and like them!





They are so bright green because it is homemade baby food peas, thanks Laura!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Mark and I gave each of the boys a balloon for Valentine's Day.
They both have been playing with them all morning.
I love how the little things are what they enjoy the most.

Happy Valentine's Day!

PS tonight I get to go out with my valentine!!!!
Thanks mom and dad!!

My little farmers :)

The other day I went to pick out something for Levi to wear and Isaiah came with me...I said to him, "we need to pick out an outfit for Levi to wear." I decided on a little pair of red overalls. I've never been a huge fan of overalls, I'm not sure why because they are pretty cute, but I'm not, so it was Levi's first time in overalls. Well, I'm not sure if Isaiah had ever really heard the word "outfit" before or at least he's never really picked up on it.

Later that day, Isaiah told me he needed an outfit to wear too. I told him he was already wearing an outfit, and tried to explain that a shirt and pants make up an outfit. After some more conversation with him (yes, we actually have conversations!!) I figured out that he meant he wanted to wear overalls too. So I dug through his clothes and luckily I had overalls in Isaiah's size for him to wear...

He really loved wearing them, and has worn them for at least a little while every day since... although he has spent the last few days naked because he is REALLY, REALLY interested in the potty! In fact, he's gone MANY times on the potty the last few days...this morning and yesterday morning he went poopy on the potty and has even told me out of the blue that he needs to go!! So I'll keep you updated on that!

Anyway, Here are a few pictures of my boys in their "outfits."

Levi eats!

On Monday night after work, I decided it was time...to let Levi eat food!! I knew he was ready...he watches me eat so intently and he grabs for my food. So I got the cereal mixed with a little bit of my milk and Mark, Isaiah and I sat down to feed him. Mark got to give him the first bite, and he was so excited, he never got to see Isaiah eat baby food!

Daddy feeding Levi his first bite!

Isaiah was SO excited too. He's helped me feed Jonah before, and so when I told him we were going to feed Levi, he REALLY wanted to help too. He was a little cranky that he didn't get to feed him first, but after Daddy had a turn, it was Isaiah's turn.

After he ate several bites of rice cereal, Mark said, "don't we have something that tastes good that we can feed him?" Because he was doing so perfectly with the cereal, I figured it'd be fine to feed him some baby food bananas too. So he got to try those too. He LOVED both. In fact he kept reaching for the food when we were getting him another bite.

And when we weren't fast enough, he'd try to eat the high chair.


We all had a lot of fun feeding him! And he did so great, I'm almost sad to say that I don't really have a good really messy picture of him--because he hardly got messy at all!


Here were Levi's first foods...


PS The bib was for you Grandma Michele!