What we've been up to......

We've had a busy couple of weeks. Clint has to take a mandatory "day off" a month now, so we spent as much time outdoors as we could on his day off. We headed to a park with the scooter and the stroller and our big coats and mittens. Spring is officially here, but it sure doesn't feel like it yet!! I'm just hoping the snow is done for the season. I can't even recall how many times we saw snow this winter- and that is not normal in Seattle.





We went to a fun birthday party last weekend at the Little Gym. The kids were in heaven as they played with the parachute, tried out all the equipment and ran their little hearts out. I would love one of these rooms in my house. :)



Jack has been in swimming lessons the last few weeks. We won a free month of swimming from KinderSwimmer. He has had a great time and gotten really comfortable in the water. Unfortunately, at $18 for a 30 minute lesson, we will be done after the free lessons run out. And not to mention, I'm tired of chasing little sis around the pool. The other day, she even went as far as to go in the dressing room and take her clothes off. She wanted to put her bathing suit on too. That's her new thing- stripping down to her diaper and then removing that too. I'm hoping this could be a sign of potty training readiness?!? I've forgotten what life is like without someone in diapers!!



Quotes of the week:

Lindsey: " I hold you." As in "please pick me up".

Jack: "I am 4. And I am almost 5." Uh yeah. In 10 months.

Clint (as just quoted by Jack as I am asking him what Daddy said this week): "I hope my job doesn't disappear." I think Jack agrees with me that I think Daddy might disappear after staying home with us all day.

Kacey : "What?" As quoted after spending any amount of time in the car or at the dinner table with a certain 2 year old. I'm reconsidering the idea that the screaming thing is just a stage. I think we may have an opera singer on our hands. :)

Lion King

Clint and I had the awesome opportunity to see The Lion King last weekend while it was in town. It was fantastic and one of the coolest things I have ever seen. The costumes were unbelievable! It was also awesome that we had a 7 hour date! It's been a LOOOONG time since we've spent that much time together on a date. Clint's parents were kind enough to watch the kiddos for us. We started at a teriyaki place for lunch and then headed to the matinee. After the show, I had a Cheesecake Factory gift card burning a hole in my purse, so we just had to go out to dinner too. We returned to fetch the kids feeling rejuvenated and relaxed. Now, if we could only figure out how to do this every weekend......

Construction Ahead

We are lucky to have not had any houses behind us for the last year. The foundations were laid when we moved in, but since the market is not exactly great for new home builders, the lots have just sat for the last year. It's been nice not to have anyone behind us, especially because the homes in our neighborhood are so close together. I love opening the blinds in the morning and having the light fill our master bedroom and not having to worry about anyone seeing in.

Yesterday, everything changed. They decided to start building and build they did! They put the framing up yesterday, and they started pounding away before 7 am this morning. I was not a happy camper. It is one thing when my kids wake me up before 7 am, but to be awakened by someone else when my children were STILL sleeping was not pleasant. I immediately thought I needed to call in a noise violation to someone.I just didn't know who. I even imagined myself yelling for them to stop out the window. The other thing that is hard for me to swallow is having strange men 20 feet away from our bedroom window. The houses behind us are set up above us, so the main floor sits at the level of our second floor. When I open up the blinds, there they were pounding away. I have been known to dash out of my bathroom before a shower in my buck nakedness to break up a fight or grab something with the blinds wide open. I guess those days are over- I'm not interested in giving the builders their own personal show.

This is taken from our bedroom window.

Jack finished up his Wiggles and Giggles class this week. They sang songs, played instruments and learned some tumbling moves. He was one of only two boys in the class, but he still enjoyed himself. The teacher commented to me that "Jack really is 100% boy!" Hmm...I wonder how she figured that out? Could it be that he has double the energy of every child in the class? Or maybe because he has to run every time she instructed them to walk/march around the room?
Or maybe because he has to make any and all objects into some sort of weapon? I don't know how she figured it out. :)

We've been experimenting with Lindsey's hair recently. She's getting some curl in it, which makes it look like a rat's nest half the time. She'll leave the rubberbands in for a bit, and then she'll take them out and hide them somewhere in the house. Her hair stays in the same position as when she had the rubberbands in though. She does have some great volume, I have to admit.