Hooray... Spring is here!!

Well we are getting settled into our new home. Glad to know we are here for a while now. (No moving for a while, yippee!!) I am still trying to get pictures of the house up so that everyone can see what it looks like. I keep thinking, "I will do that as soon as the pictures are up and it actually looks like a home." Well... I still haven't gotten the pictures up and there are boxes still sitting around. But don't worry.... one of these days I will get it all done and take some pictures. We do love it and it is nice to know that this home is ours. (Stop trying to put holes in the walls with chairs and toys, kids!!!)

We got some new bookcases for the front room as you can see in the back ground. They are really nice and holds a lot of books and then some, like our games. I am surprised at how many books we have. There is a lot more in the bookcases then I thought that we had. Makes it look nice though.... almost like a library. Now if we just had some comfy chairs to sit in...... :). Laura had such a good time "helping" me unpack the boxes. Her favorite was the one with toys. Lots of smaller, painful to step on toys. But her smile says it all!




Laura's new favorite thing is bubble baths. The bubbles are fun to slap and see fly. Generates many belly laughs! Besides they taste so yummy... see her little tongue?!?! The kids love to see her splash and so by the time bath time is over, the bathroom is a mess and everyone's sides hurt. Good times!


I just love this one. Her blue eyes are so beautiful!!

All the kids are doing good.

Amy loves her new teacher and loves first grade. She is reading really well and spelling too. She had Uncle Mikey fooled for a while in a chat. he he

Scott is struggling with the more advanced curriculum and keeping up with the kids that are used to the routines, rules and teacher. We are all trying to be patient with the struggles of a new school and getting things with his 504 plan where they need to be to help him with his concentration skills. But I know we will get it and that Scott will remember he loves school. Right?!?! Especially when it doesn't start until 9:30 in the morning. So nice to sleep in.... when Laura permits.

Andrew loves having time at home with just mom (and Laura). We love to read stories and make cookies, watch movies, do laundry, sweep and vacuum to name a few. He is such a good little helper. He is getting good at telling me what letters and numbers he sees and he is starting to learn certain small words by sight and can spell them to me. He is just so smart. Too smart sometimes..."When I say N O, I mean NO mom and when I say Y E S, I mean Yes." Okay, so which is it going to be, Andrew? "N O, mom. Okay!!" Little smarty pants.

Laura is just about to crawl. She has the army crawl down to a fast science. She is getting up on her hands and knees a lot more now and it won't be long until we will have to be teaching her the art of stair climbing and descending. (New experience with that. Never had stairs before.) She can sit up now and has strong legs for jumping. She really likes her Cheerios, chicken nuggets and bananas and of course... chocolate. She is after all her mommy's girl!!