Kids and their Blue Chickens

I try to clean my pockets out before I come home from work,but sometimes I accidently bring home things like tape, alcohol swabs, and occasionally a stray glove or two. Zachary got a hold of these gloves blew them up and drew faces on them. Then he named his babies Chicky poo, fluff fluff, handy and little joey. Little Joey isn't pictured because Emi laid claim to him and colored him with markers. She slept with little joey every night for a week. Zachy then started hiding his other babies before he went to school so that they wouldn't suffer the same fate. I really found this whole thing hilarious, especially when they started taking them for walks in the baby doll stroller. So funny the things kids find to play with and I am wondering if I should rethink spending money on them at Christmas time.

Growing up too.

Here's a picture of baby girl on right before her first haircut. Her hair's always kind of crazy, just look at the pictures on the side of my blog. She's wearing a Rapunzel dress and sitting on her new bike that she got for Christmas. Just what every girl wears biking right? Such a mess.


The last three days she has been in underwear and using the potty. This is one part of growing up that I have to say I'm not sad about. She's the first kid that we've tried to train in the winter, so she's training a little later than the other kids, but she's still 4 months from her third birthday.

A while back, we were at Sam's, and Angie was shocked at the cost of pull ups. I promised the kids that I would put the pullup money in our vacation envelope. Since April 2001 I have had at least one kid, if not two, in diapers. Wow. that's almost 10 years straight. If we added up that cost would be astronomical. Maybe I'm better off not knowing. :)

Growing up:(

Angie got new bedding for Christmas. In the last year she has gone from sleeping in the bunks with her brothers to finally sleeping in her own bed. In the last couple of months she has started moving away from pink. For some reason I am noticing that the natural next step for girls is turquoise or aqua. In this case, aqua, brown and white. I chose this set because its polka dots, another obsession of hers, and because its a quilt and therefore washable. We haven't taken the flowers off the walls yet, but I'm sure its coming. Her sheets are magnenta! That's the set Pam got her for Christmas, and while it doesn't technically match, it still looks cool. While she will always be my little girl, my first baby, she's growing up on me, no matter how often I tell her to quit it. Thankfully she still loves her Panda pillow pet.

Proud mama 2011

Friday was the assembly for the first semester. Angie and Tony made all "A's" for the semester. Angie had an E+ folder for the semester. This means that she had no marks at all. Tony missed it by one mark. There are usually only a handful of kids had get this so the school will take them somewhere fun, skating, bowling, a movie, something. When you get either E+ folder or Top reader for the six weeks they get to go to DQ for lunch.



This first picture is of all the kids in their school who won either a medal or a ribbon. Looks like overall as a school they did pretty well. I was especially proud of Angie's 4th grade class. Someone from her class medaled in every single event.



The kids also got their UIL medals. I've blogged about this before, but heres the pictures to back it up. Angie's are: first in Art, first place team, 3rd in music, 1st place team.



Tony's are: 1st place Music memory, team 3rd. He was so proud, I especially like how his chest is all stuck out in this picture of him.



This is just a fun one of the two of them together. I'm sticking my tongue out making Angie laugh. She has a beautiful smile when she laughs. Brian and I were both very proud. They worked hard.