L's 2

We love this two year old with all our hearts.
I almost wrote she was my favorite 2 year old,
but for almost two more months
I get two 2 year olds in my family!
And they are both my favorites.

To celebrate her day,
we met up with some friends
at Remlinger Farms.

Not only did we have fun on all the rides,
but we even got our picture
with Captain Johnathan Hillstrand
from "The Deadliest Catch".

All four of our kids loved riding the rides.
Waiting to get on was sometimes hard
and maybe getting off was a little difficult too
for someone in particular,
but it was a great day and a great trial run
for sometime in the future
when we go to Disneyland
(we love Disneyland and it is not an option
not to go on a family vacation there
at some point).

Caught him in the act of pick-pocketing Dad in search of keys, of course

We ended the day
back home
with cake and ice cream and presents.

Happy 2nd birthday to Macie, too! So fun that these cousins get to share a birthday.

Happy birthday, sweet girl!
We are so very glad that you  have joined our family.

Oh, So Perfectly Ordinary Days

Well this may be a mix of bad phone and bad lighting pictures,

but this is what I have right now.

Just regular days, and regular pictures.

I am loving having my kids home.

Just loving 

watching Kacin playing dress up as he folds the laundry.

Then there's L in daddy's hat.

Thanks to her older brother, Kyler, this girl also goes around humming the tune to Star Wars.

Look at D right after breakfast with oatmeal running down his shirt. Nice.
Before I could help him down and clean him up he had taken to rocking back forth
and made his high chair move across the kitchen and turn completely around.

I taught Kacin how to play the card game Spit, and now he is a big fan. That's all he wanted to do for days. For this game, the boys pulled out the big cards.

And here was a spur of the moment trip to a fun place on a rainy day.

These are some good days!

Kacin's Magic Show

As part of Summer Home School,
the kids must work on a project at least once each week.
The boys pick their projects
and let me know before they get started.
I've pretty much given them free reign
to do whatever they are interested in at the time.
They've already done things like
build a baseball player head out of Legos
read about Bill Gates and share interesting facts
draw a detailed picture
and perform a magic show.

Here is Kacin's great Magic Show
full of card tricks and disappearing coins.