Wild Child - or children...

Cole and Alexis have been a wee bit WILD this past week. I'm not sure if it's the weather - or the recent visit with all the Trochisnki family - or just the end of the school year. Maybe it's all of the above! Monday night/Tuesday morning the kids did not want to stay in their beds. I think they came up 3 different times. Cole told me he doesn't like being downstairs and so on. When I come out into the living room on Tuesday morning, I find Cole sleeping on the couch. He told me it was so comfy that he was going to sleep there EVERY night! Alexis pulled the same thing the next night, getting up 3 times and finally snuck into bed with mom and dad. Though they have been good in their beds now last night and hopefully again tonight. They forget that Mom's need sleep too!
They are both happy to have the warm weather back and have been back at riding bikes. Alexis decided she was going to wear her new winter boots riding bike. At least they matched. :)
Today we went for a walk with Julie, then they played in the little pool in the driveway for a bit. They also "Helped" mom and Jeanne with the doll project and managed to make a mess all over in the house. But that's really just a normal day.
Tonight at dinner the kids were getting silly (again) and Cole says to me "you can eat a dirty worm mom!" No idea where that came from but it got me laughing pretty hard. Just when you think the craziness of 2 kids, a husband, 3 dogs, a household and everything else may be too much - your adorable 5 year old tells you to go and eat dirty worms! Just makes you step back and remember that being together and laughing is what it's all about.

Some new pix and updates

Well it's been a crazy couple of weeks...then when isn't it? How did I ever work and do all this??

Thought it was time for some new photos of the kids.

Here's Cole flying a kite back in April. He can get the kite going all by himself! He starts on the side yard and runs down the hill to the back. He really got quite good at it.

Then Cole and Alexis made a farm with the Lincoln Logs. We had to make sure to get a picture of it for Papa (though Papa got to see it in person on a quick trip up for work). Cole LOVES building with the Lincoln logs with Papa. So every time he makes a house he has me take a picture of it so we can send it to Papa. Alexis didn't do much building, but she did find the pieces and helped with all the animals.

Cole also made some Alien's out of Legos. In his lego magazine, the challenge was to make an Alien. He made Ratchet and Clank (from one of the video games he and Eric play) and then a family of Ewoks. Why Ewoks, I'm not sure...especially since he hasn't even seen the movies with them in it. But I guess the one little Wicket figure I have in the house is his inspiration.

We lined up all the creations, took our picture and sent it in. Lets keep our fingers crossed he has a chance of making it in the magazine. :)

Alexis hasn't been without excitement. Though mostly it involves her injuring herself. She got into a fight with the sidewalk at the Post Office one day, and well...the sidewalk won. But she's tough. After 2-3 minutes of crying we headed to the library to finish our errands.

She also got this wonderful leotard with a Tutu on it...she thought it was so wonderful that she insisted on wearing it outside to ride her bike. Ok...I can see little girls might think this is super cool. Especially when there is a princess on the front - but when it's only 60 degs out!! BURRRRRRRR!! It didn't seem to faze her one bit though. She was riding up and down the sidewalk like she owned the whole town!

Once it did start to get warmer out and all the flowers were blooming we spend A LOT of time riding bikes. The kids were super excited to get new "big kid" bikes. Cole's is Yellow - of course and Alexis's bike is princess - Snow White to be exact.

Cole insisted on a nice photo of him out front by all the tulips & daffodils. They are only about 1/2 in bloom in this photo but still quite pretty.

Lastly, Miss Alexis got a new hat. I won this cute thing from Cotton Blossoms in a random drawing. We took some pictures to send to Kim, the owner and before we knew it Alexis is modeling for her site.

You can see this pix out on the website at:

http://cottonblossoms.com/item_116/ALOE-BREEZE.htm

So that is the latest and greatest updates on Cole and Alexis. They sure are keeping me busy! And with only 3 weeks left of school - I have NO idea what I'm going to do all summer! It will be over before I know it.

My mom passed along a great message from the Proverbs 31 blog from Friday May 7th. Ariel writes about the daily-ness of being a mother: "I remind myself that the days are long but the years are short."

This is so true, so very true.