Beach Day!

We have been having a lovely week. The weather has been gorgeous, especially today. I think it's supposed to get to 84! I love the Spring. This is also our last week before we start watching Penelope 3-4 days/week. We are so excited! But it will also be a big change, getting used to a new schedule and how to get 3 kids fed, napped, out the door, etc.

Both of the kids had dentist appointments on Wednesday. And both have great teeth! Reid has only one more molar to come in, and we can't wait. When we got home, Ruby wanted to play Dentist, so she took care of my teeth. It was cute. I love how she likes to play pretend with real-life situations.

Reid has been getting up SO early in the mornings. This morning was 5:15am, and it has been similar all week. I'm tired. I usually just bring him into our bed and he snuggles on my chest like he did when he was a tiny baby. I like it, but I need better sleep. Some day!

He is so funny. When he wants our attention, he starts saying a word louder and louder until we acknowledge it. And he has been putting two words together, which is the cutest thing.

 This was bath night last week. Andy was having Ruby promise to not splash and to obey him. Hah!

 Washing her brother. When we say the word "bath," Reid gets so excited and says, "Baf! Baf!!!"

 On Friday, Andy had the day off, and we headed to the beach for the morning! It started off pretty cold, but it warmed up nicely.

 The kids had SO much fun playing in the sand!

 Andy brought his shovel to dig a tunnel, like he usually does at the beach. He loves to have some kind of big project like that or rerouting a river, pushing a giant log into the water, etc. :) 

And we brought our kites! We got these traditional ones at Ikea, and they were great!  

 Just chilling with the kite. This was such a nice day, just what we all needed.

 Ruby got a little turn!

 And then Andy tied one of the kites to this log, and it flew there for at least an hour until I reeled it in! It was the perfect amount of wind.

 And then this happened. He has been drooling so much with getting his molars. Haha! He kept saying, "Yucky."

 The tunnel!

 Reid helped load up the dump truck.

 Ruby crawled through the hole! And some other little boys came to play with it as well.

 Silly Reidsy, enjoying the sand.

This definitely happened a few times.

 We packed up and had our picnic on the grass, to avoid all of the sand in our food.

 Back at home! Andy installed a new air filter in our Pilot, and the kids had fun watching. It has been so nice outside!

 This is how he rolls. Starting to get him used to the potty. He doesn't seem to be interested in going on it at all though.

 Morning snuggly time. The kids and I were all snotty on Sunday morning, so we stayed home from church to recover.

 Then Sunday evening Andy went down to Stayton to hang out with his high school guys, and we walked to the park.

 He loves to slide!

Then when we got home, Ruby put on her jammies and snuggled under the blanket. I thought that was strange, and sure enough, she had a 100.4 fever. :( 

It was very short lasting though, and was gone by the morning. 

This guy is so cute when he wakes up. 

 Back into our workouts! We took a break most of last week because of my cold. Reid was trying to do thumbs up.

 Cutie!

 They are the cutest things. He loves touching his belly button.

 On Tuesday we had Penelope over for the day. I got brave and took all three out on a walk! Ruby rode in the bottom for some of it.

 Reid was so good with her! He danced for her and gave her a Lego, and lots of kisses.

 Sitting together for snacks.

 Ruby at the dentist! It took a while to get her warmed up to the little motored tooth brush thing. But when she knew she would get a prize, she let them do it.

 Dana was so nice and helped me out at the dentist. They don't allow the other kid to come back with you, so she watched them in the waiting room. And then we got done super early, so we went over to her house to play in the yard! They have a lovely garden/yard.

 Reid liked the lawn chair.

  Back at home. We had a picnic snack after nap.

And a little bit of pouty time, as usual.

Ruby sculpted Jesus' empty tomb today. She did really good!

Easter

It has been a rough week. Ruby and I have both had colds, and I've been having other medical issues too. But it has also been fun. 

Reid has been sleeping so much better, and has been just waking up once or twice a night, sometimes putting himself back to sleep. Yay! But on the down side, he has been getting up super early, like 5:15. Ug, that makes us all tired. His top two molars have popped through, it was much easier than that bottom one. Only one last bottom one to go, and then he's done!

Ruby has been snotty for a week and a half now, and it's not getting better. At least it's not a cough or anything else. She is so much like me, it's funny. :) It's like looking at myself when I was a little girl.

 So good at stacking!

 We dyed easter eggs on Friday morning, the kids loved it.

 They turned out pretty good!

 Aprons on. :) Reid just wanted to put more into the cups, and Ruby wanted to do what I was doing.

 I hard boiled 24, and we ended up with 16... A few of them cracked in boiling, one fell down the garbage disposal, and Ruby dropped three during the dyeing. Haha. So we ate egg salad sandwiches for lunch.

 Then we went to OMSI to meet Andy, we played for a little while and then ate a sack dinner. Our church's Good Friday service was at 6, and it was sooooo good. We love our church!

 Saturday morning we headed out for a hike, and it was gorgeous! This is right down the road a few miles.

 We made it all the way to the Witch's Castle (an old stone house) down the creek. There were a ton of people out hiking, and Reid particularly liked all of the dogs we saw.

 Sunday morning the kids woke up and looked for their Easter baskets. Reid was right next to his for a while and didn't see it. Haha!

 I had to give Ruby a hint, but she found it under the sink. It was probably more fun for Andy and I to fill the eggs and put everything together than it was for the kids to get them. :)

 We also hid all of the hard boiled eggs out in the yard. They were out there for about 10 minutes, and when the kids went to find them, a bunch of them had been pecked by birds!

 But they had fun anyway.

 Getting ready for church.

 Reid was so handsome in my brother's old suit. The pants didn't fit very well, so we switched out those and the shirt. But his vest and jacket were adorable! He got lots of compliments. We went to church at 10:30 like normal, but when we got there we realized that the service had started at 10. Oops.

After that we went out to lunch with Becca and Daniel, and then headed down to Del and Patty's rental house in Sherwood. Reid fell asleep in the car for a little while, but then I couldn't get him back to sleep when we got there. Reid and Cora had fun with the hoola hoops.

 Cousins!

 The next door neighbors hid a ton of plastic eggs and invited us all to join them for hunting.

 The kids did pretty good!

Ruby had way more eggs than we would ever need. Reid kept dragging his and they were falling out, and he found a stick which he was more excited about.

 Ruby, Chloe and Charlotte did a play about Jesus dying and rising from the dead. Ruby was Mary Magdalene and was so cute.

 Easter family photo!

 They both colored their belly buttons red...

 Reid's sad face. He does this when I take something away that he shouldn't have. :( And cries, "Mobby!"

 The weather has been so nice this week! The kids have so much fun playing with Lupita, or as Reid says (every time we hear them next door or outside) "Pita."

 He's so funny.

 The kids and I went to the zoo! They have this new carousel, which was so fun.

 Reid loved the tortoises. They were all just walking around in the grass. So cute.

 Giddy up!

 She was impersonating the gigantic snakes on the other side of the glass.

 Tony and Courtney's apartment is having some work done, so they are at a hotel downtown. So they invited us to go swimming! It was fun.

Ruby did really good swimming around in her floatie. She's getting more confident.