Another engineer

I think we might have another engineer in the family. Miles built this "twactor" all by himself. 

Mother's Day

For Mother's Day the kiddos sang in church for the first time. They were all a bit terrified and Miles refused to participate but they were still adorable!

Clara had a Mother's Tea at school to celebrate Mother's Day. This little girl was SOOOO excited about it! She also requested for me to wear the tiara she made me the next time me and daddy go out on a date. Oh goodness.

Roller Skating!

Last weekend Miles was in Raeford with Mimi and Pop Pop so we took Clara to do something fun. She did such a great job roller skating!! By the end she was moving her feet correctly and not holding onto the wall at all! 

It took me and Brian a little while to get use to having skates on again too.  Me to Brian: "I haven't been skating in forever!"  Brian: "Yeah probably like 20 years" (laughing)  Me: (doing a little bit of math in my head) NOOOOO! It really has been 20 years!!!! 

Our crazy boy Miles

So Miles fell and hit his head yesterday in the living room (this is a common occurrence for Mr. Daredevil) so I tell him to come to me and I'll give it a kiss. He comes over and I pick him up as he's crying with giant tears falling down his face. 

Me: Where does it hurt?

Miles: Here (touches forehead then looks at his hand)

Miles: Wook mommy no bwud (look mommy no blood)(immediately stops crying, gets down from my arms and goes off to play again).

Oh Clara....

Today was.... rough. Clara is in a I don't really need to listen to my parents phase because she thinks she knows better than we do. She is really smart and yet she is still only 4 (although she is under the impression that she's 16). Seriously. Just pray for us. This morning she injured me because she wasn't listening then this afternoon she injured Miles because she wasn't listening. After some yelling, I finally sat down at the table with her (head in hands).

Mommy: I just don't know what to do with you today.

Clara: You could send me to heaven.

Mommy: I'll be real its crossed my mind today.

Clara is 4!!

My first born is 4 years old!!! WHAT!!! Clara went for her four year check up today and was 40.8 inches tall (60%) and weighed 35 lbs (50%).  This little girl brings us so much joy with her constant curiosity about the world, her love and compassion for those around her (especially her brother/bff), and her motivation to constantly learn and do new things. Clara currently knows all the sounds for her ABC's and we've started to work on reading. She loves to do workbooks and any kind of craft, play games, do puzzles, play outside and read books. For Clara's birthday we basically had a birthday week!

On Monday they celebrated her birthday at school and she got to be the starfish which means she got to bring in a show and tell item corresponding with the letter of the week. We were blessed with the letter Y ??? so she brought in a ball of my yarn and her crocheted blanket. She also got to bring in a special birthday snack so Sunday night we popped a ton of popcorn with the air popper then bought several different shakers of popcorn seasoning. Her teacher said it was a big hit.

On Tuesday she got to be the special person of the day at LAMBS and brought in her favorite toy, her baby doll.

On Wednesday it was her actually birthday so we had birthday pancakes for breakfast then opened presents after dinner that night when daddy got home.

I promise I don't normally serve my children whip cream for breakfast.

On Friday we went to the zoo with all our family and a couple of friends. That was what Clara had requested for her birthday and I was more than happy to not plan a party with a house full of four year olds!

Then on Saturday we had a little family party with spaghetti for lunch and ice cream cake! Shew, I need a vacation after all this partying!

We are so blessed to have this beautiful little girl that is so full of life in our family!

Seriously where does she get this sass from? Her TV time is limited to Peppa Pig and Octonauts so I'm pretty sure she didn't get it from there! 

Clara's cow box idea

Brian wanted me to make sure and write this down for us to remember even though it was months ago.

So last summer Clara was very disturbed that the cows on Pop Pop's farm just pooped all over the place.  A few days later she told me she had a great idea! That we could get a really big box and teach the cows to poop in it like Hope poops in her litter box. I thought that was pretty creative but we told her that there were a lot of cows and that cows poop a lot so the box would get full really quickly.  We didn't hear anything else about it for a couple of months then one day in the car she says, mommy remember my idea where the cows poop in a box (this comment was completely out of nowhere). Yes I said. Well, she says I have a better idea about that. How about we put a drain on the box and connect a pipe to the drain so that the poop can come out and it won't fill up.

At three years old this kid was blowing our minds! I can't wait to see what 4 brings!!

Miles is 2

Last week Miles had his two year check up. He's grown a ton lately so I felt like he would be higher on the charts this time. Not the case. Guess he got mommy's short genes. Miles was 32.8 inches tall (11%) and 26.2 lbs (34%).  He's wearing size 24 month clothes and has tons of blonde wavy hair. His eyes are brownish/green and he is ALL BOY. We've developed quite the attitude since turning two but his language has also exploded in the last month. He has gone from using only single words to three and four word statements in just the last couple of weeks. My favorite is "wach dis mommy" translation, I'm about to do something crazy and dangerous so make sure you watch. Or "mommy, Cawa still seep?" Because Clara still naps longer than he does. He loves tractors, Olaf and Peppa Pig. Our lives are wild and crazy with this little guy around but we couldn't love him more!

For his birthday we had a tractor day at the farm in Raeford. He LOVES riding on the tractors with Pop Pop so it was the perfect birthday surprise for him.

He wanted a tractor/Olaf cake so daddy came to the rescue and made all his dreams come true!

We grilled ribs! Yum!!!

And opened presents by the bon fire!

And the day of his birthday we had sprinkle blueberry pancakes (his favorite)!!

And some other miscellaneous pictures from this month.