The first of the year brought spelling tests to Elizabeth. Each week they have 6-10 words and on Friday they have a test of the words, a sentence with the words and other sight words, and a bonus word. Elizabeth has aced each test, including all but one bonus word. Each week they have a different group of words, –ot, –in, –on etc. This past Fridays bonus word was “snot” which she thought was just hilarious! They also have math tests but those aren’t every week. At first I was surprised they were actually having tests in kindergarten but to see her so proud warms our heart.
We have an unusually warm weather this month, so we have spent a lot of time outside playing and gardening. Speaking of which we have been eating broccoli and brussel sprouts all month. I guess that’s one positive of garden – our kids love broccoli and brussel sprouts. All of them – even our picky eater Logan. something fun about picking dinner our of the back yard. We also have a few carrots in the ground which Elizabeth just discovered – she washed it and ate it raw! And not our of our yard, but locally the strawberries are all coming in thanks to the warm weather, so we’ve eaten two half flats of those. Poor Logan – really doesn’t like strawberries but he sees us all enjoying them and talking about how sweet and juicy they are and inevitably asked to try one. Of course we say yes, he bites it, makes a funny face, and says “ yeah, I don’t like this”.
We have also been contemplating what to do for a spring vacation this year. After much debate, we decided to give a cruise a try. Yes, we know we are crazy to take three young kids, by ourselves, but we’ve never been ones to back down from doing things with out kids. We were able to get one out of New Orleans, which means no driving!! We will go to Cozumel, Grand Cayman, and Jamaica. We’ve been showing the kids the ships since we see them all the time up and down the river and they are super excited. We actually live about half a mile from the river so we are excited about floating past our neighborhood from a different view point! I’ve been busy filling out passport paper work – oh the not so fun part!
Mardi Gras season is gearing up around here which means King cakes are everywhere. Our local grocery store came out with German chocolate king cake this year so Justin gave in and bought one of those this weekend. I’m convinced you can put German chocolate icing on anything and it will taste good. Parade’s start up next weekend and with all this warm weather I’m sure we’ll hit a few.
Another first, is Girl Scout cookies! That's right, Elizabeth is a Daisy this year and selling girl scout cookies. She took off with great energy around the neighborhood. Almost hour later she was ready to head back home.
Brothers have been playing more and more together.
One weekend we decided we’d have a family camp out. The kids have slept in the tent a few times but this was mommy and Luke's first back yard camp out! So we all five piled in the tent. I laughed as I lay there looking at the kids. They had all passed out and slowly migrated toward the air mattress Justin and I were on. Half the tent was empty!
This is a bad picture but it was a rushed mom’s best. They had 100’s day at school last week.
A friend recently posted about the difficulty with taking pictures of three kids together…I just laughed since I get that all too well. When I actually take the time to attempt a pic, this is what I get! oh well, guess the picture really depicts life, wild and crazy…
but lots of love!
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