Snow, snow, go away!

Meet Nixon, the smiling robot

 We have been seeing the squirrels more now that the weather is warming up and now that we have a decent zoom lens we can get good pictures of the squirrels

We watched the original Marry Poppins with the kids last week. Here is Lyza trying to say "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"

 Before church the kids have recently been doing this

Mason was so tired Saturday afternoon that he fell asleep on the floor watching videos

 Lyza just had to get out and play in the snow

 It was such a beautiful day on Sunday that I took Nixon and Mason on a walk before dinner. We saw a couple different propeller planes fly over us

There were lots of puddles to splash in and I was encouraging the boys to splash but every once and a while I forgot I was OK with it and I would find myself telling the kids to stay out of the puddles. I guess there is something to be said for habit and repetition

 Mason has decided again that he really loves eating peas 

I think this preschool activity was teaching something about clouds? Sounds right

 Kim surprised Lyza one day last week and took her out of school at lunch so they could go to the open gymnastics afternoon

 It is fun watching Henry eating baby food. He has a very unique way of eating that we didn't see with the other kids

 It is also fun to watch Kim's facial expressions while she is feeding him (thanks for posing since I missed the actual shot ;)

He is such a smiley boy

 I woke up one morning and Mason was already up and out of bed and excited to show off his Mr. Potato Head creation

 Mason also learned how to draw a spider this week and was really proud of himself. If anyone wants one of these we have at least a hundred

 Lyza missed a day of school this week because she wasn't feeling well. She got to do lots of reading.

 Kim has a workout buddy

 We love this smiling face

 Nixon can be so helpful. Here he is vacuuming his room.

 And proud of his creation

 I am always amazed at how messy Mason can get even with the smallest amounts of food. This was a tiny square that he had for dessert

 Lyza and Nixon got a game out and played without asking for any help

 Henry was busy eating as usual

 I had the camera out and Lyza decided that she wanted to get involved

The Light Brites are lots of fun

 Kim and I went on a date last night to...wait for it...Costco. When we got back we unloaded the groceries and in between trips and putting stuff away Mason got his hands on the jelly beans (which are supposed to be a potty treat for him when we start potty training)

 He didn't want to give them back to Kim because they are "too yucky for you" but apparently not too yucky for him

During breakfast on Saturday morning we had some squirrels putting on a show for us

It is funny hearing Lyza talking about using an electric net around our apple tree to keep the squirrels away

Kim wasn't able to teach the second day of preschool this week because all of the sick kids in our house

So we decided to play with the thing they were going to do for preschool. We combined two pop bottles together and made a water tornado/whirl pool with them

 It was really mesmerizing

We hope you all have a great week!