Happy Easter

Clark Bunny shares the love, its Easter Time! 

 We hope you had a nice holiday, and continue to celebrate the joy of Christ throughout the Easter season!

Hops, Little Fluffs,Little Dipes

Here's some cuties of Iris aka, Little Fluffs, Little Dipes, Hops, Wah Wah, Poppet. 

Sensory Bin play. Iris loves pouring from one container to another 

Cheeeeeese!

Sibling Love!

Little

Hops

Our Fluffy Baby

Cheeese!

Weee... also featured here, are her bunnies

Playing Church

She loves coloring

Appropriate use of markers

Inappropriate use of markers

She doesn't like wearing gloves, but doesn't like touching cold snow either... conundrum

But she LOVES Kitties! 

and "cheeeeese"!

and the playground! 

and she loves coffee, although she's drinking cocoa here!

Little mommy puts on her makeup, and gets into all sorts of other trouble in the bathroom. We gotta watch her!

Too Sunny. 

CHHEEEEEESE 

I bet she's going to hate these cheese pictures when she's older. oh well!

The Precious

Here are some Clark highlights from 2013!

Climbing

Banana Phone! 

Playing with kitties at the pet store!

My brave boy got a vaccine!

Getting head stuck in the stairs!

Coloring and making faces

Clark Bunny and Jimi, his friend from school!

Finding flowers and celebrating Spring

I love his coloring with this coat.

Swinging! 

Climbing again! 

Listening to music on his CD player

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

For St. Patty's Day. The kids and I went to a local parade. We had a lot, a lot, a lot of fun! 

 After the Parade, there was a concert by a Flogging Molly-esque kids band. Iris thought it was a little loud!

other blogging.

I'm doing some blogging on the Women of St. Raphael blog, which you are welcome to read. The children are featured!

Lent Countdown and Intention Chain
http://womenofstraphael.blogspot.com/2013/02/lent-countdown-and-intention-chain.html

Lenten Meal: Bean Cakes
http://womenofstraphael.blogspot.com/2013/02/lenten-meal-bean-cakes.html

enjoy! 

Life is fun and learning

an amazing thing is happening at our house...

our kids are growing!

Clark is learning so much, and has become such a ... boy... a child... 

he's not a baby anymore

he's not a toddler

and sure, he's a preschooler, but he's.... learning so much!  

He can trace letters and write words when he does it. 

He can read the words

Clark

Iris

Mommy

Daddy

Buzz

Fly

Chapter

Stop

Dog

Cat

Yes

No

The kids LOVE it when Tom gets home from work. They climb all over him, and he doesn't disappoint. He picks them up, throws them around, lets Clark (and often BOTH) sit on his feet as he walks around the house.

They are constantly looking for physical challenges like climbing, balancing, hopping, jumping, hopping, and twirling (is that a challenge?) 

except, I don't like jumping off at the end! 

Being the best parents in the world, we let them jump on the bed - and climb on the head board - and often into the window frame to jump off of it onto the bed. 

One day, these monkeys will be bumping their heads, but so far, they've been pretty injury-free. 

Here's some more climbing. 

And on icky days, trapped indoors...

we learn in other ways. 

I recently went outside of my comfort zone and made a sensory bin. 

Its rice, and there are things hidden in the rice...

you can see a pile of hidden treasures in the middle bottom of the picture. 

They scooped, poured, and moved the rice around for hours one snowy afternoon. 

it is a wild ride... this parenting.. but these kids are simply awesome.