Narnia with the Children

We took the 3 oldest children to see Narnia

at the local children's theater.

The kids really enjoyed it - it was long for Cy Guy- but he did great!

This girl

was excited for another chance to wear her Christmas dress

and her fake new glasses!

Really, they are not real.

However, her vision is borderline, so we may need to get used to it!

We ate our little snack, finished the 2nd half of the show,
and headed to our car.  Little did we know (because NO signs were posted!) that the parking garage closed!  We had a little scare, but thank Heavens someone was leaving for us to sneak in the gate!

(Please ignore someone's sweatshirt - he did have a nice shirt on under...)

And the Race is On!

I have this 7 year old girl,

who LOVES

I mean LOVES to run.

It does not come from me.

She has been wanting to run a race,

so we found a 1k kids run and entered the oldest 3

 

 there were not too many kiddos

 and they are off

Cyrus is 5 in the middle in red

goodness he was so cute

 Lydia came in 3 or 4th?

(I did not keep track - they were out there just for fun

besides I was too busy with my camera!)

if you look behind this girl you may see a certain boy in blue...

 We have to work on this boy's form-

he runs so heavy on his feet!

 and this guy

our Cy guy

he was so happy when he came up the finish

 

and proud of himself

even though

he knew his brother and sister would beat him.

 

He wore his medal for a good part of the day!

It was definitely a good experience.

They are already looking forward to the next run!

 

  This one hung out on dad's shoulders!

Lydia ending up coming home and wanting to run more!

The girl ran almost 2 miles when she got home!

It's been awhile...

I keep thinking in the back of my brain how I started recording a few family moments on this blog and I how I kinda stopped and I do not even have a picture of our newest babe - not one picture of her up on this teeny tiny (as Aliza's refers to things) blog.  Our Marin Grace, or Mare Bear as we call her was born 7 months ago!

Well here she is at 5 months...

 

Of course she started out more like this, scratch on cheek and all

 

and this is what our Mare Bear looks like more recently

and so these are all my little people

 

my sillies, my often times very loud sillies

So hopefully I will be more on track.  Now that I have not done this in so long, it seems easier than it used to be - to post pics, yay for that!

Me with Aliza & Lydia

of course I like to distort it a bit as to hide wrinkles, for the artistic affect.

 

Tootles for now...be back sooner then 10 months! ha!

Apple Orchard

We made it to the apple orchard today.

had the tractor ride all to ourselves -

don't the children look thrilled!

(They don't really appreciate group picture time!)

Really they had fun!

She enjoyed the ride

Farmer Evan -

I am pretty sure all farmers support Star Wars attire.

As much as the big kids

LOVED the corn maze

she did not!

I took this one right before some almost tears came about-

she did not appreciate the mud getting on her shoes

nor the ruff terain for her little feet

It is hard to tell, but she was giddy with delight

when daddy cleaned her up!

She was happy again!

She especially enjoys her beverages-

apple cider slushie

They did not want to leave

I love it when kids get to enjoy good old fashioned fun!

Upside down

I was taking a few snaps

of the girls in Lydia's room.

The light was fading and most

of the pics turned out dark and blah.

But

these 2

turned out to be my favs in a long time!

It was after bathtime

(which was my purpose to capture Aliza in

her hippo towel)

but they did not turn out too well...

who knows?

Oh and we did manage a ring around the rosie dance

With another baby coming we are going to have to move the girls both into Lydia's room.  Which means Aliza will be coming out of her crib soon - all my other kids just stayed in their "big bed" so easily and we moved them young, this girl I am not so sure about!



Lazy and Scrappy Day

I have been neglecting this poor little girl...

I forgot to grab an outfit upstairs this morning -

I did not get her out of jam bams.

Well, then she decides to spit out her granola at one point -

Cyrus told me "Mom Aliza is throwing up"

Me - "No, she is just spitting out...errr"

Well the jam bam shirt came off

(apparently couch cushions have too)

and that is how it was.

Then Cyrus tells me -

"Umm, mom, can you get a shirt on her

because it is really weird"

Cy's zoo this morning

and his building -

can you see how old some of those blocks are?

They are from my childhood, they probably have lead in them

or something...

Took a pic of our dining room table we are trying to find chairs for.
It is a family piece on my husbands side, while I am not
a huge oak fan, it is nice to have.

I would like ladder back chairs - in French or English country style,

but yikers, new or old they want so much for that style!

These beauties are across the ocean:

but I want them really bad

only 1450 GBP's for 6, plus $500 USD's to ship!

Well, kiddos are home for the day - I am off!

Spiderman Boy

I am not sure if it is right for me to say this, but gosh I think 4 year olds are my favorite age.  They are in their own world - this line between real and make believe and they do not care WHAT SO EVER what ANYONE thinks of them! 

he is "stuck" in the baby pool

while big brother and sister can go in the big pool

but he is ok with it

doing his own thing

How old are you Cyrus?

I love his Spiderman gear

hope he likes it for awhile yet

Cyrus can you stay 4 forever???