Lately...

Last week we visited with the Kerrs. Mrs. Roz brought over a dinosaur craft. Lewis knows more about dinosaurs than our whole family combined :)

Ella loves to help out in the kitchen. She has learned how to peel potatoes.

For our Saturday night study, the girls made a banner of Ephesians 4:29. "Do not let any evil talk come out of your mouths. Say only what will help to build others up and meet their needs."

Our family has been struggling with this concept and so we hung this banner up in our kitchen and are praying to live it out.

Karis and Juliette love to play moms while I am doing 1 on 1 teaching with Ella. Here they are, all ready for swimming lessons. Juliette is the mom, "Ms. Serenity" and Karis is the baby, "baby Tessa".

And Peter has been busy growing some new teeth. He is getting quite the toothy grin.

Wednesday was wacky hair day at Ella's community class.

Which of course meant that Karis and Juliette needed wacky hair as well.

And throw your author glasses on with your wacky hair, and you are all ready to go!

This week was Juliette's turn to have a date with Dadda. She picked out a nice outfit and pulled it all together with her Guatemala scarf and striped purse. She was really excited for her special time with Dadda.

Dadda has discovered a park close to our home that has a really great view. So this is where he has been taking the girls on dates. They like to sit on the hill, read books, and have "heart to hearts".

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Karis loves to entertain Peter in his highchair. Here she is singing "zoom, zoom, we're going to the moon."

Psalm 95

Peter Loves...

Eating! 

He loves to eat a blended version of whatever we are having. Here is his mess from black beans and rice. Often when he makes a mess while eating, Ella will say "that's what boys are like, Mom". The girls are so proud of him.

His big sisters. 

He is very patient with his sisters as they treat him as their human doll.

Juju :)

Peter really loves Juj - and she can really get him giggling. 

In other news Juliette finished reading her big book ("The Ultimate Dick and Jane Collection") and we celebrated with Dilly Bars. It doesn't get much better than this.

His reflection.

Peter loves to crawl over to the mirror and babble at himself. He often makes himself smile and squeal. This is a great activity for a fourth child.

His Grandpa Rob.

This is self-explanatory. What's not to love about Grandpa Rob?

His Dadda

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Finding pencil crayons on the floor

Peter Rabbit

I don't actually really know if Peter likes rabbits or not. But the rest of our family does. And we saw a rabbit in our yard last week - the first sighting of the year. Exciting times!!

More Easter Fun...

Reading buddies :)

On Good Friday the girls did some paintings of the crucifixion.

Ella put a lot of time and effort into her painting and it turned out great. 

We have been talking lots about forgiveness this week - which speaks to what has been going on around our home :) 

As I was tucking Ella into bed tonight she said " I love that Jesus died on the cross for my sins. And he gave us a free gift. He doesn't want me to buy forgiveness with my money. Jesus wants my heart." Awesome. We are all in such need of our amazing Saviour.

It also makes me chuckle when Ella talks about "her money." "Her money" consists of 8 quarters that she keeps stashed away in a ziploc bag.

We taught the kids the resurrection story by using resurrection eggs. This year Karis was really into it! She loved the egg that was empty. She kept saying "Jesus wasn't there, the tomb was empty and this egg is empty."

And we had our annual Easter Egg hunt! 

Happy Easter!

He is risen!

He is risen indeed!

Shots and more...

This week 3 Lafleurs had to get shots. Peter got his 6 month shots, and Ella and Juju got their booster shots.

The girls did great and we celebrated at the cupcake store after. There is a little cupcake store right down the street from where the girls had their shots. So they were looking forward to this day all week - I guess cupcakes outweigh having to get a couple of shots.

The girls also each got a finger puppet after their shots. There is an elderly lady who knits finger puppets for all the kids who are getting their booster shots. Bless her heart.

Juju thought she would wear her peach sweater for the occasion :)

We had a fun date! As much as I love being a momma to 4, it is also really special to take 1 or 2 of them somewhere. I loved eating a cupcake with our girls.

Ella and Juliette have been very into tic-tac-toe. It is hilarious to overhear their conversations while playing. Ella usually wins when they play. The other day I overheard:

J - Ella you alwaaaays win... don't win again.

E - Juj you win sometimes. And I might win again.

E - Juj, unless you block me I will win again.

E - Juj, DO NOT put it there, if you do I will for sure win again.

And so Juju won that game, thanks to a little help from her big sister :)

Poor Peter spends a lot of time playing with dolls, being read princess books, and having tiaras put on him. Thanks for being such a great sport, Peter. We love you!

I love the perspective of a child. The other day I thanked the girls for pulling the weeds in our yard. Juliette looked at me with complete confusion and said "we aren't pulling weeds, we are picking flowers." I have been given several piles of weeds ... I mean, bouquets of flowers over the past month. Some of them even end up in a vase on our dining room table.

Juliette holds me to a higher standard. She likes to dress like me, and she would also like to have a very similar life to mine when she's older. She would like to have 4 kids - 3 girls and 1 boy. And she is going to homeschool them and read them lots of books. Whenever I ask her what job she wants to do when she's big she says "I will take care of all my kids." When I ask her if she would like to do any other jobs, she says "is babysitting a job? Before I have my own kids I want to babysit."

 Here we are wearing our striped shirts, peach sweaters, and jeans.

Karis doing her rest and read under the loft bed. With the star shining and a bowl of almonds to snack on, she is a happy customer :)

Peter's New Tricks

While Dadda was away, Peter has been busy. He grew a tooth, started to army crawl - which has now become up on all fours, full on crawling. Today he crawled from one end of our suite to the other. Our girls were so very proud. "Mom, look at him, look at him, he's over here now!!" 

As a result of Peter's crawling, the girls are now much better at picking their things up off the ground ... thank-you Peter for chewing on everything to teach them a lesson :)

Peter has also started to clap his hands. He started clapping the same day that Dadda came home. I was pretty thrilled when Dadda came home as well, so I do understand the enthusiasm.