Roly Poly Named Ladybug

One day when I was on vacation and we had Trevin, we walked to the mailbox. He found a bug on the sidewalk and asked me what it was. I told him it was a roly poly and showed him how it rolled up. He carried it home and told Tito he needed a jar so he could keep it.

I was surprised it made it through the day because he kept taking it out to let it crawl around. 

He kept calling it a ladybug and I kept correcting him that it was a roly poly.  Finally he told me "His name is Ladybug". 

He took it when his Mom picked him up, but dropped it in the car on the way home.  He wasn't as upset about that as his Mom was.

Spring Vacation

I was not able to take vacation during Kaiden's spring break, but the boys did stay at our house for 3 days so I did get to enjoy some time with both of them. My spring vacation was the week following so I did get to spend 2 days with Trevin (Tito takes care of him 2 days a week). The first day we had him after Easter, he wanted to hunt eggs again.

He is very good at finding the eggs and at hiding them for Tito, but not very good at keeping the hiding places a secret.  He kept telling me not to let Tito know their was an egg in his shoe.

Then when Tito didn't find one fast enough for him, he kept pointing to at while Tito kept looking everywhere else.  Trevin got a little frustrated over this.

I cleaned some closets and drawers that needed attention badly and Trevin helped me.  For some reason, I had wooden skewers scattered in drawers.  After we gathered them up, Trevin arranged them all pointed ends up so we could bundle them - such great concentration!

He then helped Tito put a rubber band around them to keep them together in the drawer.

After we got everything out of one drawer by our coffee pot and toaster we found grounds, crumbs and sugar.  He looked at it and said "that's disgusting", so I gave him the vacuum to clean it up.

Easter

 The boys in their Sunday best.

 Hunting eggs at church.  The hunt was inside as there was still quite a bit of snow on the ground from the blizzard on Wednesday.

 The family cam over in the afternoon for our egg hunt.

 Nathan had to work in the morning was able to come that afternoon.  He has that smile because he found all his eggs first, but

he has some competition from this one.  Not only did he find his basket first, he found the prize egg and helped others find their eggs.

Vampires



My house was recently taken over by vampires!

All of them cute and adorable in their own way, but vampires none the less.

Cool Dudes

Another Birthday

 The numbers aren't quite right, but I had a birthday.  Not sure why my family keeps trying to make me younger!

 The boys went shopping with their Mother.  Trevin wanted me to have the crown but didn't want his picture taken.

In addition to some wonderful pictures and the crown, I got growing dinosaur eggs;

noise makers and a scrub brush for dishes.  I was at the store with the boys several weeks ago and told them I thought it was so cute. (it has a face and the bristles are the hair of the girl - blonde like me!)  I am so impressed that Kaiden remembered exactly what I showed them!  He told me it was the one who looked like me and they got the last one!

Seven!

I am a little late in posting Kaiden's birthday from the beginning of February. He turned 7. I don't know how that can be, the time is going by so fast.   He enjoys school, loves to read and loves math.  He surprises us every day with what he knows.  Tito and I just look at each other and wonder at things he says.

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His party was at Dave and Busters and he had a great time with his friends and family.  I didn't get any really good pictures, this last one Stacy took.