The stats are in...

McKade and Journey each had a Dr. appt. on April 21st. McKade had his 18 month appt. and Journey had her 4 month appt.
McKade
Height 31 inches
Weight 21 lbs. 3 oz.
He is in the bottom 5% on the charts. He has always been in the bottom 5% so as long as he stays on his curve, they don't worry.
Journey
Height: 20inches
Weight: 7lbs. 5 oz.
She is (as the doctors put it) in the less than 5%. Basically, not on the charts. That is to be expected though and she is growing up. She started rolling from her back to her tummy now, and she has been going the other way for about a month.

Getting Bigger

Nursery

I have been anticipating today for a long time now. The day McKade starts nursery. Ben and I took him in and they were all working on puzzles. Fantastic, McKade likes puzzles and he is good at them. He puts his first few pieces in while I stayed with him and cheered him on. Yeah McKade (we always celebrate after he puts a piece in and then he says mmmmm, which means I need to give him a kiss for doing it). After about the third piece I decided it was time to sneak out. I left him and watched from the door as he did his next piece, but then he threw up his arms to cheer with me, but I was not there. He was not sure what to do. He sat there for a minute looking rather unsure at which point I decided I really better get out of there before he sees me. I did peak in once and he was eating snack very happily. When I picked him up they said that he did really well, he only cried if another child cried, but then he stopped when they stopped. I was so proud of him for doing so well, but at the same time, as a mom it is hard to step back and not cheer them on right then and there. I know this is part of growing up, but it is hard to let go, even in the smallest instances. Good Job McKade!

Easter

I just realized that I totally neglected Easter, so here it is. We started out with coloring our eggs the day before Easter. We then had the Easter bunny come that night. He hid their basket of goodies and the kids had to find them. Afterwards they emptied their baskets to make room to hunt for the eggs outside. McKade was still not quite sure about the whole thing, and he took his entire bottle of Mr. Bubbles and dumped it on our rug. Good thing we have a steam cleaner to vacuum that up for the next hour. My sink was overlowing with bubbles.






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McKinna's Life

What has McKinna been up to lately? She had her 2nd grade performance last week. She did a great job! The program was called, Happy Birthday Hans, since Hans Christian Andersen's birthday was April 2nd. They sang about his fairy tales that were put to music and it had some acting with it. It was cute. She was bummed that she did not get one of the main parts because they had assigned them before we moved here. Maybe next year.





McKade and I then went to visit her class on Friday. Her class had been incubating some eggs and they had hatched so she wanted us to come and see them. I was amazed to see all of the animals (I will use this term loosely to describe some of the things that they have). They have a hissing cockroach, ferret, hedgehog, fish (McKinna tells me that they are called fry's because they are babies), chicks, and ladybugs. I asked the teacher how they got all the animals and she told me that they have a Living Center here. You have to spend a Saturday taking a class on how to take care of all the different creatures. You then become certified and you can check the animals out for up to two weeks. People check them out for Boy Scouts, schools, or whatever. This is so cool, the teachers don't have to spend all of their own money on this. What a concept!! And the kids are learning so much about living animals. They will be going on a field trip in a few weeks to a Wildlife Park to finish up this unit. How fun is that!


On a funny note, we have been doing our family nights on Mondays. I plan it all out for the kids and we usually have a lesson followed up with scavengar hunts or stories using stick figures or something like that to keep them interested. Anyway this last Monday we had a discussion on why it is important to keep our house clean followed up with their new chore chart. I spent a lot of time figuring out how to make this work best with picture images and the whole nine yards. Anyway they seemed really excited, and then McKinna says, "that's it? That was boring!" "What"? "Well", she says, "it was short". "Okay, you go plan it". And so she goes and plans a new lesson for us. How I love my little McKinna.

Who doesn't love a sleeping baby?

Happy Birthday Asher!

We had a great time at your birthday party, thanks for inviting us!

I have strawberries coming out my ears!

We had Jaiden here on Friday, so we decided that it would be fun to go down to the Froberg strawberry farm. Little did we know that Good Friday is the busiest day of the year at the Froberg farm. That was okay, we got there early and had a lot of fun. We did not want any of the kids to feel jipped so we let them each fill their own bucket of strawberries, so here we are $30 worth of strawberries later.








We came home and made homemade strawberry jam, we took some strawberries to the neighbors, we made homemade strawberry ice cream, strawberry fruit roll-ups, we got up this morning and made pancakes with homemade strawberry syrup (this was delicious and super easy), and we are making a couple strawberry shortcakes to take to an Easter dinner tomorrow night. I am sure we will still have a few left to munch on. The good thing is that you can never get sick of strawberries!

Egg Activities

Yesterday, I packed up the kids and off we went to the Kinder Easter Egg Hunt. It was fun, even though it was hard for McKade to not collect the eggs.


Today, we packed up and went to McKinna's egg drop. Her egg did not break. Good Job McKinna! We packed foam around the egg inside a formula container.