Logan Is 5!

 Every family home evening during "announcements" Logan lets us all know he can't wait until it's his birthday...talk about pressure! It turned out to be so much fun for everyone! I borrowed his awesome costume from a friend who made it last year and it was perfect. We went with the mummy theme with his costume, pinata and cake.

 Of course the pinata was a "hit", they all got to try it with a blindfold then without so they could really get a hold of that thing!

 Jaida and Jenna were excellent helpers, they helped with decorating pumpkins and playing "pin the bow tie on the skeleton".

 We had pumpkin shaped pizza for dinner and cake and ice cream for dessert.

Kids

 I took the kids out for a mini photo shoot, because I didn't have a recent picture of them all together and also because of Jaida's 10th birthday pictures.

I Wish

Today has been good, well except the treadmill part, I wasn't into running this morning.  

I got to go to the school for a volunteer lunch with the girls' classes.  There was good food and it was fun to chat with other moms and teachers.

On the way out to the car from school Logan saw a big dandelion with seeds, ready for wishing.  He was so excited and said, "Oh! I'm gonna make a wish!"

He crouched down as far as he could and quietly said, "I wish I was a race car!"

He got right up and with a big grin ran to the van to meet me and gave me a big hug.

This was my favorite part of the day.  Favorite.

(Photo: Logan isn't acting, he's RE-enacting what took place at the school.)

Parachute

 The kids and I made a parachute today, after running up and down the stairs too many times they wanted to take it outside.  I was surprised Logan wasn't more into throwing it, Jenna was the one who loved it.  We were out there for an hour throwing it up in the air.

Logan decided he would rather spend his time in the dirt, as usual.  If he's not riding his scooter he's making "birthday cakes" with the dirt.

X versus Check

Lately I've been finding myself hoping Logan doesn't call me an "X".  

I'm sure the girls have put this into his head, but now it's starting to get a little out of hand.  In many arguments I keep hearing, NO! You're an X!!  I'M A CHECK!!

I guess it's better than hearing other words being used.  

Logan keeps putting whole groups of things into the "X" or "Check" category, for example, 

"girls are X's, boys are checks".  

That boy cracks me up.

Wooden Shoe

 It was a BEAUTIFUL day yesterday at the Wooden Shoe!

We had a busy day, we got to have M with us for the whole day, she was great the whole time.

The drive down to the farm was quiet (thanks to a movie), I got to chat with my Mom on the phone.

I had followed a new van from the exit off the freeway, the whole time I thought it was a friend in my ward.  While waiting in line to get in I see her head pop out of the window and it's B.Lowder!  Such a fun surprise to see my favorite Vancouver-ite.

The drive was worth it, the field was absolutely gorgeous.

My favorites are the multicolored rows.

 Here we are getting our boots on, which we didn't really need...but they were cute.

Speaking of cute...love these two kiddos.

 These kids were great the whole time, although we didn't have a lot of time to spend playing (because Jaida didn't get to come with us, so I had to be back in time for the bus drop off...I made it with 2 minutes to spare) we made the most of it.

After the tulips we picked Jaida up, went to the Primary party at the church (the kids kinda watched Disney's Robin Hood, while I was catching up on blogs and WWF), picked up Russ and dinner then went to the Yee's for the annual Easter egg coloring party.

Such a busy, fun day!

Logan Singing Twinkle, Twinkle

I could listen to his sweet little voice sing all day.

A few pictures

 

 I took a few pictures of the kids just before the party yesterday.  I made this frame to go around the pirate cut out, it made for a great frame for the kiddos.

A funny thing yesterday, when the girls woke up for school Russ could hear Jenna whispering to Jaida, "you don't have to make your bed, Mom will do it because it's your birthday.  She did it for me on my birthday."  I got a good laugh when Russ told me.  When we were getting ready for the party I asked the kids to pick up their toys, Jenna told me that Jaida didn't have to do any of it because it was her birthday.  What a sweet little sis looking out for her big sis on her birthday! 

Just Dance!

To say Jaida loves to dance is an understatement.  She is ALWAYS dancing!  We went to our friends house for dinner the other night and they started playing the game.  I loved watching Logan shake his little buns.

Artist Logan

Logan said this is his Dad, I think he's being generous with the hair. Hehe. 

What a good little artist he's turning in to.

Pop Goes The Weasel

At Target the other day, Logan was stuck with this toy for a good 10 minutes laughing so hard!

HaPpY BiRtHDaY Bubby!

 Happy 3rd Birthday to our little boy!
(tomorrow) 

We went downtown for a photo shoot for Bub's 3rd Birthday pictures.  
It was a perfect day, so I knew we had to do it!  
What a sweet boy we have!  
There is so much I love about this kid...here are just a few things.

His deep voice giggle

He loves to snuggle

His sweet voice

He's all boy

His blue eyes

He always has a smile

He is silly

Leaves

 Fall is officially here!  Lots of leaves falling in our yard to clean up.  What's the use of being a kid if you can't get dirty once in a while...and I mean DIRTY!  Lots of these leaves were in the gutter, yuck!

 J and Bubby got to "help" me pick them up, aren't they lucky?  I was the lucky one listening to all the giggling, I can't help but join in the laughter when they're being so silly.

StOmP RoCkeT

My kids have always been "binkie babies", they love them!  Logan has been no exception to the binkie baby rule.  Tuesday I'd had enough, what was supposed to be "just for sleeping" kept turning into an all day event.  All day long I kept asking him to put his binkie away, after about the 10th time of asking him I got the scissors out and cut a little piece off the tip.  A little bit later he came up and said, "Mom, my binkies broken!  Can you fix it?" with the biggest, saddest, tear filled puppy dog eyes ever!  My heart broke and I had to tell him that he'd been using it too long and it was broken now.

That night I was at the church with the Y Dubs so BR was home to put the kids to bed. I came home and was worried about how bedtime had gone, to my surprise it had gone well since Logan hadn't had a nap and fell asleep quickly.

All was well until he woke up at his usual "10pm I want my binkie back in my mouth" time...he was sad, wanting his old friend!  He decided he wanted to cry and put up a fuss until 1:30 am!  It was a long night.

The next night I told Logan if he'd go to bed without crying and stay asleep and in his bed ALL night long I'd get him a RoCkeT.  He was all for it and didn't cry, he slept all night long too!

So long binkies!