Stuff we've done lately!

Well, this first part is from back in April when Thomas' class did a program about bugs and he decided to dress as a cockroach! We made his costume the night before (classic Amy procrastination!) out of cardboard and brown paper. I think it looks pretty good for last minute throwing together!

Here is Thomas doing the Square Dance number with his friend Gabriella. They had a good time dancing together.
Soccer season is over and Abby's age group coordinator got all of the girls little medals, which is great, but made Thomas a little upset that he has been playing soccer for two years and hasn't yet recieved a medal! Anyway these pictures are of Coach Joe giving Abby her medal and then the girls gave him card and they even signed it themselves!

Abby is number 4

If you look really close you can see Abby's face squished between Kayleigh and Romina.

Last weekend we got to have some friends over for the afternoon and they had lots of fun together. Thomas and Stephen are about the same age and Abby and Callison are about the same age and, of course, Bensen and Molly are close in age as well. After some outside water play, they all came in to watch a VeggieTales movie. Abby told me "I know who I want to sit by!" And when I asked her who, she whispered in my ear, "Stephen" it was very cute!

After the movie Abby and Callison played dress-up

Molly and Bensen played Pop-Ons together and

Thomas and Stephen played with Legos. They all had lots of fun together. We will miss our Okie friends very much when we move.

And finally, here are two videos I recently shot of Molly. The first is just a short video of a few things she says regularly, and the second is of her jumping. I'm not sure why she even started jumping unless it was because Abby is going through a stage of trying to learn to jump rope. Anyway, the way Molly jumps is just hilarious, if anyone remembers how she crawled with her one "power leg" you will see why it is so funny!

Abby's game

So tonight Abby had a Soccer game at 6 pm. It turns out the other team thought the game was at 5pm, so we just played three on three by ourselves! About halfway through the game Abby started to cry for no apparent reason. She came and sat with me, but wouldn't tell me what was wrong for awhile. When I finally got her to talk to me, she said that it was too hard and she would never be able to score a goal!! She stayed out of the game for about five or ten minutes while everyone tried to convince her to keep trying and telling her that we are only playing for fun! Anyway, we finally told her that if she wasn't going to play anymore, that we would just go home. She didn't want to leave, so she decided to play again. Luckily, since we were just playing ourselves, the Coach was nice enough to tell the other girls to help Abby score. Well, of course she made her first goal and was very proud of herself! Thank You very much Coach Joe!!! She played the rest of the game and had a great time like always!!And then after the game Thomas was playing around and got stuck in the net! ( I made Toby wait until I got a picture and then help him down! hehe!)

coloring eggs

These are a couple of pictures I forgot from the last post. The kids counted up how many eggs they found and Molly thought that was a good time to start eating candy!

This is actually the first time we have ever colored Easter eggs with our kids, I know I'm a horrible mother. I bought two egg dyeing kits on clearance after Easter when thomas was very small, and I always meant to do it the next year, and the next year, and the next year. Well we finally did it, and the kids had a great time!

The finished products!

Easter 2009

Ready for the Easter Egg Hunt, we decided to do our own and not fight the crowds at the Edmond Easter Egg Hunt.

Molly did pretty well after I showed her a couple, she found a few on her own.

Thomas and Abby searching for the last few eggs.

Ready for church all in our new outfits.


Toby had to work, so he didn't get a new outfit!

Ducks

While driving home this afternoon, we saw a pair of ducks walking down the sidewalk in front of our house. We quickly pulled into the garage and the kids ran in and to get bread. Both Thomas and Abby fed the ducks a piece of bread while Molly watched. After they both ate a piece of bread, the ducks settled down on our lawn (I guess they knew a good thing when they saw it). The kids kept running to the windows to watch the ducks. Finally we let Molly go out and chase the ducks off. She ran toward the ducks and when they didn't instantly fly away, Molly got worried. The ducks then looked at her and her courage failed...she ran away while the ducks just kept looking at her. Finally Thomas and Abby showed Molly how to chase away birds and ran screaming at the ducks. They flew across the street and settled on the neighbor's lawn. Once they were across the street, Molly's courage returned and she yelled at the birds...as long as they stayed on their side of the street.

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Seriously, if Alyssa is the only one who ever reads my blog, maybe I should just call her everyday and tell her everything we are doing! If you read, please comment so that I don't feel like I am talking to myself. Thank you, I love you all!!!