Oh what a new Lego box will do. . .

We began Caleb's 8th birthday celebration on Friday with a surprise trip to the newly opened Legoland Discovery Center in nearby Grapevine. He and the other kiss had a great time! Greg and I not so much, if we're being honest. Not the best value for the money.

For his gift from us, Caleb was able to spend some money in the gift shop at the Discovery Center - which he spent wisely. He came home with three different boxes and couldn't wait to begin building.

      

Upon our return home, he shared the building process with his brother and sister. Needless to say that he was disappointed that he had to go to bed without building everything!

Saturday morning arrived earlier than normal. . . The puppy was up and needing to go out. . . as I let her out, I heard a rustling sound from upstairs. Hmmm, I went to see what the sound was and found Caleb and Calvin on the floor in front of their bathroom sink, building a new Lego set! At 5:40 AM!!

I went back to bed and left them to it. Elise joined the group shortly after I departed and they all got along great for quite awhile. The afternoon brought some tired kids who didn't want to rest . . . but did, so as to not spoil Easter Sunday.

{pretty, happy, funny, real}

I am linking up again this week at http://www.ourmothersdaughters.blogspot.com/ .

This week I think I was able to have the button show properly.

Pretty

Happy

Funny

Real

The previous post was supposed to be linked up to http://www.ourmothersdaughters.blogspot.com/ as part of capturing the contentment in everyday life through the week.

Granted, I haven't sorted out how to actually link it. . . I will.

Pretty, happy, funny, real

Pretty girl. My only.





Happy. Ice cream!




Funny. Playing with photo apps. . .




Real.
Lunch and dinner prep, same counter, same time,
same cutting mat, same knife. I could get used to multitasking
like this everyday . . .

Dutch Baby, baby

This morning we somehow ran early and were more organized than usual. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that today's clothes and schoolwork were laid out last night and two thirds of the kids were already bathed.

Amazingly, I was able to get a Dutch Baby (pancake) into the oven before anyone was "starving". . . Proverbs were read, the meal was blessed, horrifying real enormous snake videos were enjoyed. Not. By. Me. I hate snakes. Truly. Deeply. Completely.

After cleaning up some of our powdered sugar laced breakfast - boys were dressed, schoolwork was started, remaining kiddo bathed and hair fixed for art lessons thus afternoon.

I was able to follow up on a few outstanding items, be available to help Greg, get myself ready, get lunches made, begin dinner prep work and get out the door mostly on time - scurrying only a little and inadvertently taking the soda that Greg had taken out for himself. Oops.

An actual french braid

I finally did it. I French braided Elise's hair. It didn't look too bad. She liked it and requested it for art class so that her hair won't get in her eyes!

"Tea"

Tuesday morning we made Pancakes for breakfast and French Toast!

Apparently the kids were hungry.

They had juice in Elise's tea set. We refilled the teapot again and again and again and again.