Oh what a wonderful weekend!

We had so much fun this weekend, there wasn't time for taking pictures!

We had fun on the slides, story time at Keanu's school, tennis, fun at the "farm", lots of time at the park, golf, more time on the slide. First of all, it was gorgeous weather. Second of all, it was a long weekend as we "celebrated" 2/28.

The only picture I've got to share is this one. I love it because none of the 8 that I took of all 4 kids on the swing had everyone looking at the camera. In this picture, no one's looking at the camera and everyone's happy doing what he's doing. Second, it's a great picture of Teresa's growing belly! Sure is nice someone else can wear my maternity clothes!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Kate had a great time making valentines on Friday. When Keanu got home from school, he helped add the finishing touches. Watch your mailbox!

I Did It!

Grandma brought Keanu a great floor puzzle for his birthday. He loves it, but he also loves to have his sister help. The other day he did Lighting McQueen, she and I did Mater, and the kids did Sherrif together. Keanu finished his his part and was patiently waiting for his sister. You can see why he needed to wait so long. She had to take a break every time she got a piece in.

The Van

Keanu has a little matchbox van. It holds a special place in his life, maybe because it has cool sliding doors, maybe because his beloved teacher gave it to him for his birthday. He picked it up today and saw it had a chunk missing from the side door. Here's the conversation that followed:

Him: Do you know why its broken? 'cause that's where the ramp goes.
Me: Really?
Yeah, like Grandma's van. That way Grandpa can get in because he needs to sit in his chair.
oh.
The middle part is empty so Grandpa can sit here. Grandma sits here (driver's seat), Daddy, Mommy, Kate and I sit here (back seat), and Ahma sits here (front passenger seat).

First haircut!

Our little tomboy doesn't like to keep barrettes or anything in her hair, so to keep it out of her eyes, we decided she should have a bang trim. She went to the same place Keanu had his first haircut and really enjoyed driving her car and watching TV while she got her first haircut. I was amazed at how well she sat through the whole ordeal! Stay tuned for further pictures of the end result!

Look who's playing tennis!

Happy Birthday, Keanu!

Last week Keanu celebrated his 4th birthday!

He'd asked for a Diego cake, so I found a place that would make a Deigo cake if I provided a picture. No problem. That's what the internet is for, right?! So, we picked up the cake after school the day before the big day and I mentioned the fact that the kids in his class would love the Diego cake. And that's when he got crabby.

It turns out that he didn't want to take the Diego cake to school. Not only did he not want to take the Diego cake, but he didn't want to take a cake to school to share. He's going through a phase in which sharing is difficult, if not impossible. Of course another factor could have been forseeing being the center of attention while everyone sang happy birthday to him at school. That's pretty intense for a shy kid like Keanu. We figured these are fears that should be faced, so Kevin brought another cake to school and all the kids sang to him and he was super embarrassed for a few minutes. Then he was happy again.

Anyway, back to the Diego cake. Angela (Yoyo) spent the weekend with her aunt Teresa so they came over for cake, too. Keanu sure was excited about showing two of his favorite "older ladies" his beloved Deigo cake. It turned out pretty nice, didn't it? I wish I could take more credit for it beyond providing the picture!Oh yeah, and there were a couple of presents, too!

He also asked to go to Friday's like Kate did, so maybe that'll be on the agenda for this weekend.