jimmy jimmy jimmy

can't get enough of this kid!

every morning he walks around drinking from everyone else's cups when they're finished with breakfast. he's our hoover

he LOVES his daddy. when jacob is home, he follows jacob around sayin "my daee." i LOVE it:)

richard is THREE

no. i am in denial. richard is three years old. THREE. oh, but he's such a cute three year old:)

belt loops are great for holding swords

he finally got his own set of angry birds and a set of color change hot wheels batman cars

those cars are awesome.

changing jimmy

one evening, as we were getting the kids ready for bed, sammy decided to change jimmy's diaper. the amazing thing was that jimmy stayed still for sammy the entire time:)

mario meets angry birds

when jack kept falling out of his toddler bed, we figured it was time to move him into a twin. this presented some problems as his room with jimmy was too small for a twin and a crib, which meant moving him into the room with sammy and putting richard in with jimmy. we thought this would be an issue, but it wasn't. so grateful for my easy- going kids:) so, jack got a twin bed with mario sheets. a few months later, sammy decided it was time to take off his night night pullup and stay in his underpants for the night. our deal with him was that he would have an angry bird bed IF he kept his underpants dry. well, he did, so he got a new bed, too:) jacob was worried about them sharing a room, since he did NOT like sharing a room when he was younger- he felt like he was never alone and had to share too much with his younger brother- underwear, birthdays, clothing- and he didn't want to do that to our kids. but jack and sammy LOVE sharing a room! probably because they each have a personal space catered to their individual personalites:)

he originally told me rocketship sheets. then i found the mario ones:) no question whether i was buying those for jack:)

they like to jump from bed to bed:)

my loose tooth

audrey's first loose tooth took FOREVER to fall out. and when it finally fell out, it was at school, which is apparently and aweome thing to happen because you "get to go to the office and the nurse gives you a box and you can pick WHATEVER TOY YOU WANT OUT OF THE BOX to put your tooth in AND they give you a special paper saying your tooth fell out", as i was informed my a very excited little audrey when i picked her up at the bus stop:) she also paid tithing for the first time and was VERY HAPPY to shake hands with the bishop.

she was very happy about her "rectangle money"

ponyville

audrey is OBSESSED with my little ponies. she's not a doll girl but she LOVES her animals. talking animals that come in girly colors? even better! she's been collecting my little pony toys for a year now and her collection grew vastly when she needed to get eight cavities filled. she didn't like the freezing and the dentist suggested we put her to sleep. after receiving the estimate for the anesthesia, i made a deal with audrey. for every cavity filling appointment we had with the dentist, she would get one my little pony toy IF she opened her mouth after the freezing was put in and let the dentist fix her teeth. she LOVED this deal. she got four my little ponies out of that bargain, which cost us a fraction of what anesthesia would. add those four ponies along with all the ponies she'd been receiving for christmas presents and birthdays and she almost had all of ponyville. then jacob found a my little pony game on the ipad. yeah...she's my little pony-ied out:)

she has a HUGE dollhouse that's for her ponies. not dolls. if i suggest dolls, she looks at me like i'm stark raving mad

she collects all the different dwellings that we have and gives each pony her own house

some ponies have to share because there's isn't enough floor space in audrey's room. she informed me we needed a bigger house so she could have more space for her my little ponies. rrriiiiggghht. 

graduation day

i am so behind on postings, it's embarrassing! in june we had two graduations- sammy from kinderkids and jack from senior kindergarten. sammy was the first of our children to actually participate in the graduation show at kinderkind; both audrey and jack refused and just sat there, pouting. i could empathize with the other parents whose kids didn't participate. sometimes they just don't want to. one little girl just kept wandering around picking up food and eating, occasionally walking into the middle of the circle of singing children. so funny:) richard and jimmy opted to stay seated at the lunch tables where they foraged food from the remaining treats at the table.

jack's graduation was a week before school ended, which confused jack greatly. the day of graduation, he walked up to his teachers and said goodbye:) he had a wonderful year this year and we've been so impressed with how much he's grown- our little boy who pouted the first day of school is gone and has been replaced by a more confident, imaginative, and creative boy who loves to ride bikes, read, and write. he was in full-day kindergarten and they had so many wonderful activities-mad scientists, pet day, field trip to the royal ontario museum, family pizza picnic day- there were days when jacob and i wanted to go to school with him:)