23 weeks

Miles is 2!!!!

My little boy turned 2 last week.  TWO!!  And it has been a joyous two years.  He makes even the worst days bearable. We all smile just by looking at him.

with cousin Logan

3-days-old

After I made my nieces dress for Easter I loved the pattern.  I decided I wanted to make one for Kamri.   So I went and got some fabric for it.  I got the black, white, and turquoise for Kamri and they happened to have the same fabric but in red instead of turquoise so I got some to make a skirt for Sara.  Then, they also had it in yellow, white, and black so I got some of that to make something for the baby to wear. 

 But wait, of course I couldn't stop there, so I got it in gray as well and made a tie for Evan and a bowtie for Miles.

Seriously, aren't they adorable.  You can definitely tell they're family.

Yard work

The kids love to help Ben mow the lawn.  I realized today that I LOVE the smell of freshly cut grass and the smell of yard work.

Mother Son Fiesta

A couple weeks ago I got to go to the Mother Son Fiesta (our city puts on.  We had fun and Evan was really glad two of his cousins showed up.

Kids, kids, kids...

This past weekend we took the kids shoe shopping.  ALL 4 of them have been wearing shoes that are two half-sizes too small.  And, of course they all needed two pairs of shoes (one for church and one for play) AT THE SAME TIME.  Thank goodness it was BOGO time at Payless.  Still cost a bundle, but oh well. 

Then Saturday night I went through their boxes of summer clothes and realized 3 of the 4 have almost no summer clothes in the right size.  What does that mean?  Shopping trip :(

Well, a couple weeks ago I won a $50 gift card to Target from a blog.  It came in the mail today!  Yay!  Couldn't have been more perfect timing. 

A couple weeks ago Evan got an assignment to do a diorama.  His happened to be on dinosaurs.  What's funny is that a couple weeks before that I had the thought that we've never had to do a diorama or really even a project for school with any of our kids.  He took great pride and was very excited to get to draw his own background for the box.  He picked out a couple pictures from his Zoobook and tried to draw them.  He actually did really well.  I let this be his own thing and he decided what he wanted and we did it.
  I was going to get real sand and glue it on the bottom and add some fun things to it, but we decided to keep it simple.  It was very simple, but he had a fun time doing it and was proud of his work.