Selfies-Cuz They Are Funny!

A few weeks ago we went to National Night Out where all the departments around town set up at the park down the street from us. M didn't want to, but J sat in all the ambulances, fire trucks, police cars etc. It was exciting for him!

Blurry selfie of M:

Also, we kept our friend's kids one day while she was at work and they did a lemonade/art stand:

Selfies of J:
 (One of these days I'm gonna make it where I can do a nice collage and things for this blog. Not today.)

Moving

Thank Goodness this is all over now. We moved into a house-which is old-but so so so much better than being down in the dungeon where we were. Also the rent is cheaper, which is nice. I like everything about it except I am really worried we smell like old house now. Anyway-here are a few shots from all that involved the move:
J riding in the moving truck: (we moved just two or three blocks over so it was no big deal for the kids to ride in the truck).

We stayed in the apartment for a couple nights after we got all the furniture out. Here is the mess. We let the kids watch a cartoon after church because we were all just too tired to do anything else.

M playing amid all the boxes and such. What a cute cowgirl!

 The kids slept in their sleeping bags in a tent in J's room for the nights we were at the apartment. They thought it was great fun!

When we got to the new house, the new-house fairy had left them a special gift of a swimming pool:

More Antics and Activities

 Amid the packing before the move we were kind of having a bad day and I was reaching my limit. M (who is a waaaaaaaaay better mother than I am) took the little ones into her room. It was kinda quiet in there so I peeked in to see what they were up to. M had them in her bed with their sippy cups reading them a story. It's kind of hard to see them, but they are there. Isn't she sweet?

Here they are being goofy:

Library day: 

Holding hands in the car:

J and his new tractor: he loves those things!

 We watched How to Train Your Dragon for movie night and the next day M wanted her hair like the girl's in the movie: (She wanted me to cut her some fringe so it would look just like the girl's-I vetoed that real quickly).

Pool of Rules

A while back we went swimming. It was not that fun. There were so many rules at that pool that we truly did not enjoy ourselves. Except Miss P. She quite enjoyed the baby pool. I'm not sure why anyone goes to that expensive place. We won't again. 

This Just Happened

A true story from my life with a three year old:
          Here I am sitting at the table looking up recipes so I can go grocery shopping. J and M want to ride their bikes. "Sure, I say. J, please put some clothes on first." (That child strips to his undies the SECOND he walks in the door from being outside-so he gets dressed multiple times a day.) Humming, J brings me a swim shirt and swim shorts so I can help him. 
          "J, why do you always want to wear swim clothes?" I ask. J continues humming, but takes his underwear off. 
           "No, leave your underwear on, we have to go to the store." 
          As he begins putting his swim shorts on, "No, I'm gonna cover my booty and my penis and my bum up so nobody can't see my naked." J continues humming, and runs to find his flip flops. Thank you J, for always putting a smile on my face!

A Long, Long Time Ago

What seems like such a long, long, long time ago (now) we went to the spray grounds in S.B. (So long ago that I really have no clue when it was-just sometime this summer...) For the most part it was a lot of fun. The not fun parts were trying to keep all three kids doing the same thing at the same time and not running all over creation, and Miss P hating the water. At the spray ground. Hated it. I had to sit and hold her a bit away from all the spraying instead of playing with my kids because otherwise she would scream. The kids played in the water for a while, but since I am the life of the party, they got pretty bored without me there to help their play a long. (Also it was pretty crowded, and my kids do much better with more space and less kids in their faces.) But, we all enjoyed the playground attached to the spray ground before we got wet, and after we got wet. Miss P would have sat on the spinning deal all day if I let her. She loved it!

So did this little handsome dude:

M loves the monkey bars!

Our picnic lunch:

It was a fun splash pad because it is colorful, has a variety of ways the water comes out, and is somewhat animal themed since it sits right near the zoo. And it is free-best part for me. :)

My climber:

Closer-up with better coloring...