FINALLY some cute kid pics

I guess Charlee was in a good mood this morning because she finally allowed us to get a few fun pictures. Enjoy.

Baseball game

(James is one of the kids in black)

It was military night at the Voyagers Baseball game (local minor league) last night. They had a special BBQ for Malmstrom little league and their families, which was fun. Then James got to run out to first base with the rest of the little leaguers from the base to hight five the first baseman right before the game started. He had a great time. It was funny. The announcer goes..."There's the little leaguers from Malmstrom running out on the field. Let's give them a hand and get them off the field!"

Mini-golf

I took the boys the other day to a mini golf place we recently found out about.  It's a bummer that we've lived here for 3 1/2 years and just found out about it.  Anyway, we had a lot of fun.  James was pretty good, too!

Still trying to get a good picture

I tried again this morning before church to get a cute picture of the kids.  The one I have posted on this blog is really old.  But, of course, they didn't feel like cooperating again.  So, I'll just have to share the pictures I got.  You'll get the idea of how it went.

This week

This is as posed as I could get the kids for a picture.  Pretty typical!  The kids NEVER seem to stop moving!

Charlee's favorite word the last few days is NNNNNOO!  That's exactly how she says it.  She'll sit and play with her toys and yell out NNNNNOO! every few minutes.  It's really funny.  I tried to get her to do it in the video, but she didn't say it with as much gusto as she usually does.  She has been babbling a lot to anyone who will listen to her, especially in church.  It's very cute.

So I am leaving for Utah in a week.  Jason will be alone with the kids for about 8 days!  I am nervous, but I think it will be good for them.  I hope the kids get some good daddy-bonding time.  As for me, it will be fun to have a whole week to myself.  Of course, I will be pretty busy with the classes and stuff, but I have a whole day on Friday to spend having fun with my friend Marie and my mom.  Hooray!!  Plus, I'll be staying the whole week at my grandma's house, whom I hardly ever get to see anymore, so I am really excited for the trip.

Jayden's last day

That last post drove me crazy.  I couldn't get anything to go where I wanted it.  Ahh!!  OK, got that off my chest.  

Jayden had his last day of preschool last Thursday.  They had a party at Gibson park.  There is a big pond there with lots of ducks and some swans to feed.  Jayden couldn't contain his excitement!  He kept throwing whole slices of bread at them instead of breaking it up into little pieces.  The kids played for a while on the playground and then had a picnic.  There was duck poop everywhere and I had to push my stroller through it.  Yuck.  :)  Miss Carol also had a parachute that we played with.  The kids didn't so much play with the parachute as fight over who got to hold the beach balls we were trying to bounce on it.  Oh, well.  They're 3, right?

I am kinda sad he's done.  Carol is the best preschool teacher ever.  She loves those kids so much.  Since we will likely be moving sometime later this year, I didn't reserve a spot for him in her 4 year old class.  Maybe if we're lucky, she'll have an open spot and he can go for however long we live here next school year.

Cute pics

Charlee gets really funny and happy at meal times.  The way to that girl's heart is through her tummy, I tell ya.  She is very cute at the the "how big is the baby?" game.  For a while she was only doing it with one arm because that's all Jason could do with his hurt arm.  It was pretty cute.  She is such a daddy's girl.  The other day in church I kept saying, "say mommy!" and she would laugh and say "dada" over and over again.  What a stinker!  :)

Speaking of food, Jason gave her a chocolate chip cookie the other day.  As you can see, she thoroughly enjoyed it!