Spring Break

Our Spring break this year was far from "springy" but we managed to have fun. The Friday of Spring Break was a bit warmer - I think the first day of 40 degree weather since fall - so we celebrated by walking to the library! The sun was shining and the kids were running down the sidewalks through the snow and slush and I'm pretty sure everyone who saw us was wondering why the kids and I were all laughing and grinning like we'd just won a trip to Disneyworld. Actually, they probably weren't wondering since they experienced the same winter we had! It was awesome to be out and walking again. The rest of Spring break I was watching 3-4 other kids every day so it was pretty 

much a mad house here Monday - Friday!

 

 Sophie helping with dinner.

 Nora making a duct tape bracelet. Nora loves her duct tape!

 Miles has really loved paper airplanes lately. The first time I made him one he looked at and was like, "Umm... what is that?" So we checked out a library book and I've improved a bit. Though daddy and Sophie are both better.

 The girls back up in their tree with their friend Beatrix that was at our house all week.

 Just a bunch of kids at the table :)

 We made Fairy houses for a project and used some wooden birdhouses from the craft store and glued on moss, rocks, flowers, butterflies, etc. The girls spent about 5 hours doing this.

 Nora and her fairy house. She also included a cute note to the fairies who will come and live in her house. We do believe in fairies.

 This is Wesley and one of the two boys I watch in the afternoon, Lance. These two are almost exactly the same size and love to wrestle and hug and chase each other all afternoon.

 I had to include these two pictures of my kitchen and dining/family rooms. Every night during the break my house looked like this, or worse, so each night I had to clean it all up so it could happen again the next day! And the kids even helped when I asked, so it would have been much worse!

 Nora climbed up in our tree in the backyard with a couple of blankets and stayed up there for almost two hours! She was trying to take a nap and I'm not sure she succeeded but she loved it anyway.

 Sophie played a really great trick on me and mixed peanut butter with fudge sauce and spread it on the toilet. She called me in and made me think one of the boys had done it. Since there were 8 kids in the house at the time, with four boys ages 5, 4, 2 and 2, this wasn't too hard to believe. Scooter was licking it when I walked in the bathroom so Sophie was quite pleased with my reaction that went something like "SCOOTER! SOPHIE! Don't let him lick that! Gross! Who did that? Get him out of here!!"  Funny girl. We were both laughing pretty hard the rest of the day when we thought about it.

 

 

 

At the end of Spring Break we had an Easter brunch and egg hunt in our backyard and that night our friends from Michigan, the Allee family, came to our home. They just moved here and were in town for the weekend because they were signing on their new house on Monday. Their three girls stayed with us so they wouldn't have to get two hotel rooms and they came over for Easter dinner. I watched their 4 older kids while they signed on their house on Monday and my kids were pretty excited because I let them stay home from school an extra day to play. It will be fun to have the Allee family in the same city as us. We had a very busy week but it was a lot of fun!