Crazy Kids

My kids are always keeping me on my toes!  They do the craziest things that make me amazed to be their mom or just plain make me laugh.  I love that I get to stay home and be a huge part of their learning.  Some days I wonder if I make a difference, but most days I am blown away by the wonderful kids I have and the great capacity they have of love and kindness.  We must be doing something right!  (Most of these pictures belong to my crazy girl Avery because she is always moving while Roswell snuggles with me and the big boys are at school.)

 

 Avery moved her baby and crib next to her rocking chair so she could rock and watch Baby 'Dora' (Princess Aurora).

 

 We watched the Lorax (with crazy songs that will NEVER leave your head!) so the kids decided to get groovy with the music.

 

 Avery is all girly these days (except when she wants to get rowdy with the boys).  I made her this headband/ear-warmer that she can easily put her "pretty bows" on.

 

 We went to the temple and Avery decided to play dress-up with daddy's change of clothes.  Might I add that EVERY day during nap time Avery plays dress-up with her own clothes and is usually wearing something different when I come to wake her up.

 

 Boy if only I were that flexible again!  Avery loves to fold up like a clam.

 

 Crazy hair!!

 

 Elliott being silly and working on a hand stand.

 

 He ended up going back to his normal craziness of climbing the pillar like a monkey.

 

 Avery the hobbit.

 

 One of these is not like the other!  Obviously the inside of the house is warm compared to the snow we got causing yet another fun snow day!

 

 We love the new movie "Tinkerbell and the Secret of the Wings".  Avery got Tink and Periwinkle for Christmas and decided that since they were twins they could share clothes.  Thus with the boys' help they also got new names:  Peri-bell and Tinker-winkle.  What imaginations!

 

 Giddy-yup Daddy!

 

Avery LOVES this dress that my sister got her for Christmas.  She tells us that she is a princess in it.  She has a tendency to lift up the sides, like this, and tell everyone that she is a princess and that this is her Zowie dress.  (Zowie is her cousin that gave it to her.)

 

Avery with her friend Maggie in the nursery at church.

 

We ordered this engraved ornament for Evelyn to hang on our Christmas tree.  Unfortunately the UPS man put it between the doors that we have a sign on to not use.  So we didn't find it until after Christmas.  :(