Blue Skies and Brown Eyes

Owen had a visit with the pediatric eye doctor today and the report was good! YAY!

The day was completed by some quality outside time. It was finally warm enough to let the kids play in the sprinkler today.


Lucy is picking up several words a day, and can even put some 2 and 3 word phrases together. She likes to say "six-it", "wush", and "onk! onk!". Any guesses on the meanings? :) Her other favorite activity is coloring, which she will do for 30 minutes at a time, long outlasting her brothers. This morning, unfortunately, she thouroghly colored her belly with navy blue marker. It required a full out bath to get it clean enough to put clothes on.

Owen is doing remarkably well with wearing his underwear. He is now at the stage of potty training that every time he sees a bathroom, he says he needs to go. He is now working on earning a trip to go bowling. He loves riding his bike and playing catch.


Mitchell is riding his bike nonstop and playing catch as well. He loves Bakugans. He asks lots of questions about everything. Typically he is very helpful, but he's had a very rough few days with me lately. He is growing like a weed.

Our garden is growing pretty well; we've already picked some zucchini. I'll be trying my hand at Dad's zucchini bread recipe here soon. Hopefully I'll remember all the ingredients (haha).

It's supposed to be relatively warm here this week (70s, maybe even an 80!) but fall-like again next week, so we'll be out enjoying the weather while we have it.

Motor Mouth

Lucy has begun jabbering nonstop. Ken and I made a list of all of her words and it is mind boggling. Her favorites of late are: mine, ride, bike, and outside. Thankfully, we had some fabulous weather last week so we were able to get outside and ride bikes.

Owen is loving books and making great strides at school. He likes to write his name and is doing well with it. He has recently fallen in love with Yoda.

The boys (all of them) engrosssed in the movie Wall-E today.

Mitchell is still reading reading reading. Its very fun. We've started to read part of a chapter book together at bedtime each night. He has a few more weeks left in swimming lessons, which is a major highlight in his life right now. The Kindergarten class has their big showcase this week so that should be good for some photo ops.

Ken is already back to work on the golf course. He is ready for golf league to start in early May.

I am excited because a grant that I helped write was approved. This week we'll have Michigan Author Kevin Kammeraad present to the kids at school thanks to the funding of the grant.