Weekend Stuff

We were pleasantly surprised this weekend by the seemingly overnight blooming of so many flowering bushes and plants in our neighborhood. Finally some color!!!

Early morning reading. "Dad, will you read to me?" is a question Evan asks nearly every morning before Todd goes to work. This time it was Saturday so there was a lot of time for books. The book stack usually stays on the couch for several days until Evan is ready to go to the bookshelf and trade them in for different ones. Lately he has only wanted to read Clifford and Little Quack books. The great thing about the Clifford ones is that Chloe loves them too. She calls him "Wee-fuhd." It's cute.

"Little People" is Chloe's constant DVD request. I use it to make her sit for hair-styling time since it is short and sweet. This one is all about trucks and wheels and was Evan's favorite for a long time... and he still likes it. After I fix the hair all pretty, Chloe finishes the movie by twirling her piggy-tails round and round till it's over.

We took a family Jeep ride with the top down last week to go get Coldstone Creamery ice cream. Evan picked mint (because it was green) and Chloe shared my chocolate with more chocolate mixed in kind. It was really windy but Chloe handled it well after she realized her piggytails were safely staying on her head.

Play-doh for Chloe means having a mud pit of her own and me giving her all the containers to make a tower with. She also needs a few trucks to get stuck in the mud pit. This day, in addition to her usual, she wanted some of the shape cutters... to wear as bracelets. This girly tomboy combination is so cute!

This was before church on Sunday when Evan and Chloe were showing what toys they had each picked to bring with them that morning. Evan had two monster trucks and Chloe had the Doc Hudson car.

Bryce came to see the kids this morning right before bathtime today. Chloe was on her way to the tub and turned right around and ran away when she heard Bryce come in the door -- "Ah Bice!!"

They were soooo excited to see her! She is holding about 55 pounds or so and probably didn't put them down for a whole minute! No wonder they love her, right? She's young and strong and full of energy!!

As of this morning, Evan's favorite stuffed kittens have officially been off-roading. And when the rock crawler truck flips over and lands back on its wheels, the kittens stay safe inside... thanks to the roll cage.
This little brave girl goes flying down this slide at light speed and then runs back around to do it again -- "swide again... swide again... swide again...." She found out the hard way after insisting that "baby do it by a-self" that she would not like landing on her butt. Afterwards, in tears, she said "bum hurting!" and from then on was ok with "mommy catch you."

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In blog news, the more time we spend outside, the less time I think about doing blog posts until evening time, so they might be posted 8-9pm each night instead of in the afternoons like I was doing for a while. The sign-up is still at the right for email alerts of new posts if you want to do that. The new post comes to your inbox as a newsletter and you just read it there.

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In unrelated-to-anyone-but-Jason-and-Liz news: "The OFFER" is officially being extended. Let us know what you think. :-)

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