Mother's Day

I had a great Mother's Day this year. T.J. spoiled me by sleeping in, helping me get the kids ready, carrying my heavy bags into church, cooked dinner, and got me a nice gift. Timmy and Maura also brought gifts home from school, and Topher stayed in the nursery the whole time and church. I'm a lucky girl.

Maura's card said "Mom, I love you bunches!" Love, Maura. It came with a hand painted pot (by Maura) of yellow flowers.

Timmy gave me a jar of paper flowers with chores on them that he promised me to do. Along with it was a card. His card read:

Top 10 Reasons Why I Love My Mom

10. I love my mom because she reads me Smiley Shark.

9. I love my mom because she helps me with my homework.

8. I love my mom when she makes me laugh by singing.

7. I love my mom because she taught me how to ride my bike.

6. I love to hear my mom sing Popcorn Popping.

5. I love my mom because she finds time to play Wii.

4. I love my mom because she snuggles with me.

3. I know my mom is smart because she helps me with math.

2. I love my mom because she works so hard at cleaning the house.

1. I love my mom because she is the best mom ever!

Both of those kids melted my heart...I love being a mom!

Birthday kids

Since Timmy's birthday is in the summer, his teacher wanted him to celebrate it on the same day as Maura's. So we brought in treats to both classes on the same day and both of them came home wearing crowns! They loved it!

Happy Birthday Maura!

We had a birthday girl on Friday! Maura turned 5 years old. She was so excited (can you tell from that first picture?) She has been counting down for months. She had quite the eventful weekend. She opened her presents, helped mom make cupcakes, played with Jada, went to school and got to wear the birthday crown, went to bed, and threw up at 1:30 am. We were supposed to go to the zoo the next morning, but the wind was blowing about 50 mph and we weren't sure she would feeling well enough so we cancelled. Maura was devastated and was feeling really good so we decided to go to Chuck E. Cheese (no matter how hard we try to avoid it, it always sucks us back in). We ate, played games, ate cupcakes, and went home. We had a good day.

Opening presents

Making cupcakes

People at the party

The Dynamic Duo

The big boys played more the the little kids.

Our cupcakes

Five Fun Things about Maura

1. She is a snuggle bug.

2. She LOVES stuffed animals and live animals.

3. She loves to be a girly girl but also loves to play outside with the worms and snails.

4. She is really good at entertaining babies.

5. She loves to giggle.

Earth Day

For Earth Day at Timmy's school they planted a new tree. Each teacher was asked to choose one student from their class to attend the dedication. Timmy's teacher chose him to attend. He was then asked to share one sentence about why he liked trees. He was so excited to be chosen and to participate so I couldn't miss it. As the program started, I pulled out my camera to start taking pictures and my camera was dead. At least I had my cell phone. The quality of the pictures were poor but I least i got a record of it. I was very proud of him for writing his own sentence and saying it so loud and clear. He said, " I like trees because they give us fruit."

Sunday Best

I wasn't able to get the kids Easter outfits together until this week. I decided to just make Maura's dress and decided it would be fun to match her so i made myself a skirt too. I had good intentions of making the boys a tie to match, but I ran out of time. Its hard to tell in the pic but they do have a green pin stripe in their shirt so I thought it looked pretty cute. How could they not look cute right? (I might be just a little prejudice though)

Silly kids

Brothers

Mom and Maura

Dodging my kisses

Me and my kids

Maura's Pre-K program

Last night was Maura's Pre-K program. She was so excited to get up on the stage to sing. She looked super cute and sang super pretty. We were a little sad we had to sit so far back in the auditorium, but we had fun watching her.(The videos are wobbly because Topher kept trying to climb onto my lap the whole time.)

Waiting for the program to start.

Easter

We hope everyone had as good an Easter as we did!