Special Moments

A couple of special moments happened in our family last week. Grandma came to meet baby Silas, and Silas started smiling. In the picture above, we captured both of these moments ;)

We love it when Grandma comes to visit. The kids love having her here. She plays with them, reads to them, listens to all their funny stories, and often brings them some new outfits. We also tend to do a lot of fun things when Grandma is in town, such as: going out to dinner, going on a field trip, and this time we took Grandma to visit our new neighborhood. 

We spent a day with Grandma at the zoo. Above is a picture of our kids admiring the peacocks. Below they are looking at the zebras.

Snack time.

And a couple of weeks ago, on an uncharacteristically hot day we closed our books and spent the day at Crescent beach. It was beautiful and we loved playing in the sand, and soaking up the sun. 

But when we went to bed, we found these "special surprises" under our pillows. "A liveing clam for Daddy" and "A liveing clam for Mommy." 

As in, Ella surprised us by putting living clams in our bed. Ew!

A couple of Wednesdays ago, it was wacky hair day at community class. This year we went all out!

Unfortunately, Ella was sick for this day. 

And unfortunately, I had to go grocery shopping at Costco with Karis that morning ;)

Last weekend we had a special brunch for Ms. Moo's birthday. 

Brotherly love.

Blessed

Silas is 1 month!

Baby Silas turned 1 month old this week. We are grateful that he got a healthy report at his 1 month check-up. And he is getting big! He weights 10 lbs 11 oz (80th percentile) and measures 22.5" (97th percentile). This explains why all of his sleepers seem to be getting too short for him!

He is a very happy and sometimes gassy baby. He is sleeping well - last night he went for a 5 hour stretch! And please take note of his old man hair - receding hairline, balding near the top, thicker on the sides. But he pulls it off so well. We love you Silas!

Preparing our Friday night pizzas! I love making pizza with my girls.

These 3 are such a good time.

If you look closely at the following 3 pictures you will notice that Peter has cars in his hands. He LOVES cars. He wakes up in the morning looking for his cars, and pretty much holds on to them and plays with them all day. A favorite activity of his is building cars out of duplo Lego.

And when you have 3 older sisters, sometimes your bike has to look like this. Don't worry Peter, we have a trade lined up and you will have a blue bike soon.

Peter is enjoying riding the strider bike. One source of frustration, however, is that it is very difficult to hold on to the handle bars of the bike with cars in your hands.

The girls were pretty excited when Grandpa Rob stopped by with Dadda's old Daffy Duck puzzle. Here it is all completed. And they also commented that Grandpa did a great job of not losing any of the puzzle pieces after all of these years. Grandpa mentioned that he has a whole closet full of puzzles at home :)

New House!

The excitement around here this week is that we bought a house in Whalley! We are so excited and thankful. On Friday we took the kids for a bike ride in our new neighborhood. There is an amazing path behind our house that has a creek beside it. We are really looking forward to doing our nature walks there! It is beautiful...

And the above picture is taken at our current home. Our landlords got a new playhouse and are very kindly letting our girls play in it too. 

Last Monday the girls started swimming lessons. This time we have Ella in Swim Kids 2, Juliette in Swim Kids 1, and Karis in Sea Stars.

And Peter is pretty excited to go swimming with Dadda while all this is going on.

Homeschooling class sizes have increased ;)

Peter enjoys doing dictation from his highchair.

Ella enjoys being a big sister.

We all enjoy doing crafts.

Peter enjoys crackers and bananas. And just eating in general.

We are really happy with our math program this year.

Juliette enjoys making silly faces for the camera.

This kind of looks like a baby doll on Ella's lap. But it is our sweet Silas. 

And Spencer and I got out on a date last Tuesday night. We took Silas with us to go see "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2." He slept through the whole movie. And we were both able to stay awake for the whole movie :)

Spring Happenings...

Silas has been busy filling out his cheeks and legs. He is a happy and healthy little baby. He is such a gift and we love him so much!

And Peter loves him too!

The girls are getting lots of reading practice with their two little brothers as a motivator!

Peter is very confused as to why Silas doesn't want to play cars with him.

We had a nice visit with the Paskos last week.

Here is a picture of our Easter Egg hunt from last Sunday. Peter was thrilled to be included this year. 

Peter also enjoys comparing himself to Silas. Here he is measuring his feet against baby Silas' feet.

Monkey Bars

When you are 6 and a half, monkey bars are a big deal. Ella has wanted to do monkey bars for a long time but hasn't been able to.  After much practice and determination, she can now do them!! 

Here is a video of Ella and Dadda on their date last week. Ella requested to go to a park with monkey bars so that she could master them :)