Pictures!

Here are some of my favorite pictures from the past few weeks. :-)  

Theodore didn't want to nap in his bed one afternoon, so I drove him around for a while to get him to sleep in the car. He finally fell asleep about 20 minutes before we had to pick Oliver up from school. :-)

This is from Science Saturday at Oliver's school -- the kids drew on themselves with highlighters, and the ink  glowed under black lights. Pretty neat!

Oliver getting started on the biggest Lego set that he's ever put together (over 1,000 pieces!). It took him about 3 hours to finish. I would still be working on it, ha ha! :-) 

Theodore having fun wearing some old boots and squirting water into a bucket.

Hanging on a tree!

Washing his hands :-)

Playing in the sprinkler for the first time this year!

You know you're a grown up when . . .

You know you're a grown up when you spend almost all of your Christmas money on a pot.

Specifically, a gorgeous 9 quart Le Creuset French oven. :-)

Isn't it pretty?? And it's so big that it takes up almost two burners on the stove top. I can't wait to use it. I'm thinking I'm going to test it out with a big batch of chicken spaghetti. :-)

A bunch of pictures :-)

Here are a bunch of phone pictures from the past month or so. Enjoy!

Oliver proudly displaying his swim school graduation form :-)

Theodore stacking blocks! (I love his look of concentration!)

Theodore talking to the "psshh" [fish] at the Nature and Science Center. :-)

A person dressed up in a mechanized T-rex suit at the Nature & Science Center. It was pretty realistic, and some of the little kids were terrified! One little girl scrambled up the side of the rock overhang to get away from it, and ended up getting cactus needles all over her legs. :-( 

Rwar!

Trying to buckle his own helmet :-)

Anna and I went bowling one night! Beer and bowling don't mix (well, for me anyway)! She won by a lot!

Biking with me at the trail one Sunday afternoon

I love this picture not so much because of how it looks, but because of the memory of what was going on -- Buttercup was being very silly, Theodore was chasing Oliver with a giant pinwheel, and Oliver was dodging Theodore, laughing at Buttercup and trying to throw the ball to her.
One of those sweet moments when they were all having fun TOGETHER. :-) 

We had one of Buttercup's friends over to play one morning, and everyone decided to play dress up. :-)

This is one of my favorite memories! I wanted to go running one afternoon, but we really didn't have time to drive to the trail and back, so I decided to push Buttercup and Theodore in the stroller to the trail near our house, while Oliver biked next to me. When we got to the trail, Buttercup asked if she could get out and run. So I let her run the length of that trail, then she wanted to run more, so she ran the length of the next trail. We stopped for 30 minutes or so at a playground, then headed back home. Altogether Buttercup ran 2.8 miles! It was really awesome because 1) she got to do something she LOVES to do, 2) everyone got plenty of exercise, and 3) I only had to push 35 pounds of kid instead of 80 pounds of kid for those 2.8 miles. :-)  

Riding the carousel at the mall

The 5 of us went bowling last weekend, and Theodore bowled a spare on the first frame! Ha ha ha!

Storytime :-)

We went to a science show at the library, and Buttercup was chosen to be the first assistant :-)

Riding a hovercraft

Hanging around at the playground

Apparently they wore themselves out!

Oliver (in the middle) waiting for his turn at swim practice

Freestyle

Backstroke

Taking pictures of her big brother. She's so sweet!

An assortment of December pictures

Merry Christmas! I hope everyone had a great holiday. Ours was nice, and I do plan on getting around to posting pictures soon. But first, I wanted to share some of my favorite camera-phone pictures from this month. :-)

Soccer, swinging, and sword (pool noodle) fighting in the back yard:

Theodore had another ear infection earlier this month. He didn't want to be at the doctor's office on a Sunday morning (and neither did I!) but thankfully he was easily entertained with a glove balloon and some Matchbox cars. :-)

Later that same day, Grammy and I took Oliver and Buttercup to a ballet performance. It was a lot of fun! Buttercup was enthralled with the ballerinas, although I think the performance was a little too long for Oliver . . . he definitely had ants in his pants during the second act. :-)  

We also made a lot of sugar cookies this month. Theodore loved watching the big mixer in action!

This is a picture that Theodore took of his foot one day when he was playing with my phone. :-)

Dennis and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary this month! Hard to believe that it's been 10 years already!!

Buttercup has decided to be a girly-girl lately. This is the outfit she picked out to wear to Oliver's winter party at school. A big hairbow, ruffly Christmas dress, tights, and sparkly purple shoes. :-)  

Here's another outfit she wore the other day -- never thought I'd see my (former?) tomboy choose a bow-bedecked, lacy top with sparkly silver shoes! 

Christmas pictures coming soon!