April 2023

The cousins and Aunt Kellie came over on the 2nd to have a belated birthday celebration for Auntie Kellie.  The kids had fun playing outside with their cousins.

Saturday morning all of the kids climbed into my bed to watch TV and cuddle in the morning.  I love having all my kids in my bed watching TV.  I loved Claire resting her head on Grant's belly.  So adorable.

Nana and Papa took Blake and Grant to the new Mario movie the first day it came out.  It was so hard to wait SO long for the movie to come out so the boys were counting down the days.  They loved it especially Blake and he was laughing during it and very into the movie.  My parents had a blast taking them.

Claire has been loving playing in water lately.  She will have multiple tantrums if she doesn't get to play in water.  It is not always warm enough outside so we let her play with her play sink inside.  It is very messy and always requires an outfit change but keeps her busy for awhile!

The boys got their new swim suits from Aunt Nicki and love them!  They got them the night they got home from the Mario movie so it was perfect timing.

Claire has been wearing Maribel's glasses from her doll.  She wears them all over and it is the cutest thing.  I bought her toddler size ones and she only wants to wear the doll size ones.

We had a good Easter this year! We did not make it to church because Claire was sick until Saturday afternoon with a fever.  She has a cold/virus but luckily the rest of us stayed healthy that weekend.  We dyed eggs Saturday morning and there were only a few meltdowns in the process and lots of questions why we dye Easter eggs, but still moments of fun.  We had Easter dinner with the Chalik family Saturday afternoon and it was beautiful outside so it was fun to be able to play outside with family.  Sunday the kids found their Easter baskets and then we played until going to Auntie Kellie's house to celebrate Easter with them.  The kids had their Easter egg hunt with Grandma and the adults had theirs also.  Greg ended up being the big winner this year!

Blake and Claire wanted to ride their bikes.  We brought out Claire's pink bike and she loved riding it and was really good at it! Blake is getting better at coasting on his balance bike so hopefully it is a smooth transition to a real bike.

Blake got new "fast shoes" and he was so excited to go home and race Daddy and WIN! 

We celebrated Chloe's birthday a week late since it was on Easter weekend.  The cousin's all had so much fun playing together.

We took the boys to Monster Jam and they loved it!  Claire stayed home with Courtney since it was during nap time and very loud.

Claire has been having a lot of tantrums lately.  She is better at communication but still has a hard time.  If she doesn't get what she wants it is a complete meltdown!  Thank you Ms. Rachel on youtube for helping us understand out emotions.  Here Claire is acting "frustrated."

Claire just wants to do everything like her big brothers!  She is trying to grow up too fast.  She wants to swing like a big girl these day!

We finally got Claire to wear her new Maribel glasses!

Claire vomited at school on Friday, again on the way home and twice more that night.  We think it might be from drainage from her cold but don't know why she puked.  She didn't have a fever and was fine again by Saturday. I tried out a new pigtail hair-do to keep her hair out of her face.  She hated it but looked oh-so cute!

Grant went over to his friend, Finlay's house to play one night and Claire had fun playing with his sister.  The boys tipped over this gator and I think my heart stopped for a few seconds.  They were all alright but definitely scary to watch.

Claire has been loving yogurt lately and she makes a huge mess when eating it!  Baths every night after yogurt!

The kids (Greg) sent me these beautiful flowers to my last part-time day at work.  I am switching to PRN and will be working one day a week -ish.  It will be nice to have more time with my kids and not have to miss any activities. 

Claire found her bunny sweatshirt and loves it!  She hops around like a bunny and points to it and says, "bunny!"

Claire will run to the corner of our family room and giggle and stare at Greg until he chases her and tries to get her. She is such a cute age.

We had planned on going to the epilepsy walk at Jordan Creek Mall but I got the date wrong and we went a day too late.  Ooops!  Nana was already there with us so we just walked to the play area of the mall and the kids played for awhile.  It was nice since we were the only ones there and the kids were able to burn of some energy.  It was cold and windy outside so they had a lot of energy to burn!