Fun Things

Here I am once again staying home and blogging instead of being at church. Russell got croup on Friday so we are staying home until he gets all better. Poor little boy sounded awful yesterday. He was talking in a high pitch squeaky voice all morning. I took him to urgent care and they gave him steroids so he is feeling much better now. I am paranoid whenever he gets croup, it was almost a year ago that he ended up in the hospital with it, so I pretty much freak out now whenever I hear the barky seal cough! Here are some fun activities that we've done the last few weeks. The weather has been beautiful and we have been enjoying it as much as possible!

About 2 weeks ago I decided to plan a Mother Daughter date with Janey. We invited her friends and there moms, which happen to be a few of my best friends as well. We went out to dinner at Red Robin, it was so much fun! I hope everyone else had as much fun as we did! I feel another date coming in the near future:)

Unfortunately I never got a picture with everyone in it.

Janey being silly while she ate her dinner.

I'm too lazy to flip the picture. It's not that great of a picture anyways since Janey wouldn't look at the camera.

Janey and Ella played like this for about 30 min. the other day. Ella was laughing so hard at Janey, it was one of the cutest things ever!

Janey being motherly and giving Ella a bottle. This is the first time Janey has fed her and she has been talking about feeding her since before she was born. It was pretty sweet.

The kids decided to play "astronauts" so Janey went and found some bowls to be their helmet.

I don't know what this little astronaut is looking for:)

We got a new bike for Russell. It's an early b-day present for him so he can enjoy it all spring and summer. He was pretty excited about helping Daddy put it together.

Going on their first bike ride together. Russell was in heaven, we couldn't get him off his bike to go back home.

Russell feeding Ella for the first time.

The kids made a band. I was tinkering around on the piano and the kids went and got all the musical instruments and sat behind me and started playing. It was a really fun afternoon.

We had a sneaky leprechaun come to our house on St. Patricks day. He left a rainbow treasure hunt for us to follow, in the process he also left some footprints behind. Janey followed the footprints all around the house.

Janey found another 4 leaf clover.

looking in the flowers for the treasure.

They finally found their "treasure". We went to the Renton library last week with some friends to watch Caspar Babypants. The kids love him, and I actually love him as well. His songs are super fun and catchy!

Kevin even left a meeting early to join us for the concert:)

Russell watching Caspar Babypants with his buddy Cameron.

After Caspar babypants we went and played at the park. It was such a beautiful day but it was too windy!

Janey took this picture of Russell and I thought it was too cute even though it is blurry. A few Saturdays ago we decided we were going to do something fun even though it was rainy and cold. We decided to go to the Woodland Park Zoo and enjoy what we could. When we first got there it was raining harder than we had expected. We wondered what we had gotten ourselves into, but it ended up being really fun!

The zoo was super cold and rainy but the kids still loved it. It was actually perfect because hardly anyone was there and all the animals were out!

We played indoors at the Zoomazium for quite awhile.

Russell built a big tower. I got this picture just before it collapsed.

We have LOVED the sun this past week and hope it comes around more often! I can't wait to spend all of Spring and Summer outside in the sun:)