Critter crawl, camp out & a car accident

 April 23nd to 28th

Our week started out with a bang, or a bump if you ask Lucas. We were hit by a 16 y/o girl. We are fine, the van was not so lucky. The important thing is both kids and myself are perfectly fine. The van can be fixed. And Amelia's booster seat held up in the crash, which made me very happy. I had a lot of anxiety out of moving her out of a 5 point restraint and into a booster. I looked at a ton of boosters, asked everyone their opinion and finally settled on the britax parkway SGL. the L stands for Latch!! it is latch equipped and has a extra part to keep the seat belt on Amelia's lap. She fits in it well and love the cup holders!!
 We went for a Friday night visit to nana's, which the kids loved. We had pizza and salad, followed by a cake. It was a happy day cake, just to celebrate ourselves!! Saturday morning Amelia left for her first daisy overnight camp out. I really wanted to go with her, but I missed the meeting where they talked about it and missed the sign up. I hope to go with her next year! I love to camp and want to share that with my kids.
While Amelia was camping I took Lucas on a critter crawl. The park had spread little plastic bugs all over the walking trail for the kids to hunt and find. Lucas was equipped with his bug catcher and we were off. He found about 25 bugs at the end, and he even shared some with Olivia. We didn't get a special prize bug, but we had a super fun time! The cupcakery van was there and we enjoyed a sweet treat afterwards. Another week down, more memories made, lots of fun for all if us!!

Fast forward

It seems like someone hit the fast forward button on life, and I need to find the pause! The last month has been a blur of activity, always some where to go or somewhere to be. I will do a week by week recap to get you updated!

April 15th to 21st

The kids and I went to the health fair at local high school. I really wanted to go for the bicycle helmets! St Louis children's hospital was there selling helmets and fitting them to the kids. The kids also got to climb in the cab of a fire truck. Great fun when you are 3 & 5! It was such a last minute thing, i wasn't able to get any pictures.
Later in the week we to the book fair and bought the kids some more books! Amelia got a rainbow magic, rainbow magical animal fairy book. It is a book series that was recommended to us by a friend. She chose Ashley the dragon fairy. She loved this one and I think we will be be getting more of them. She also picked out summer pony. We are still reading that one, so far it has been a good read for her.  Lucas picked out when a dragon moves in and duck at the door. We even bought a book about the presidents for amelia's classroom!! The school had a snow cone truck out front so we bought the kids a snow cone and sat outside and enjoyed the beautiful weather!! The kids love getting new books and I enjoy the change too!
April 18th Amelia celebrated her birthday with her school friends! She was given a special crown to wear, a certificate and I brought cupcakes for the kids! I think she enjoyed all the attention from her school friends! She was queen for the day! It was definitively an eventful and fun week!

Ferdinand

this is one of his favorite places to be - on a shoulder, hanging out. He is really more like a baby/dog mix than a cat. He has a ton of nicknames; ferdi-man, fermando, ferdog-do, ferdilicious, little dog and plain ole ferd! He is a super sweet kitten and is so docile. We wern't looking for a kitten when he came along, but were are glad he found us.

 

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Hoppy Easter!!!

it was a perfect day to celebrate with our families!!

Easter morning

Happy Easter!!

 

dying eggs!

spring break (woo hoo!!)

Amelia had a brief spring vacation or as I hear it in my head every time , Spring Break WHOO HOO! I only had one day off to spend with the kids, so my friend Angela and I thought Suson Park would be fun. I had been once, but it was when Amelia was about a year old. The weather up to this day had been perfect so park and a picnic lunch was planned. Until the weather forecast called for overcast, rain and a cold front! boo! So instead, we decided to take the kids to the craft caboose. The kids had a blast! They all painted a wooden silhouette, then picked a smaller 2nd project. Lucas chose a wooden dino for his first project and a lion sun catcher for his 2nd. Amelia choose a wooden butterfly to paint and then made a wooded Ariel for her 2nd craft. It was a great place for a cold spring day! The owner was super helpful, had lots of patients and even had a super cute puppy in the back room! We will definitely be going back over the summer.

More than once, I have heard about the sugar shack. It is an old time candy store that also sells cake pops. The cake pops were reportedly pretty heavenly. I was quite excited to try one. The place was darling. Lots of old touches, and a small cubby for the kids with chalk wall all around. Only one thing was missing - the cake pops! The cake maker takes the month of April off!! We were 5 days too late! She also advised us to call next time to make sure she had them! oh well, better luck next time! We still had a great time!

Moonlit easter egg hunt

I saw this idea online and thought it would be super fun! Put glow sticks in an easter egg and put them out for the kids to find, The kids loved it and once they were collected (we only had 10 :) we tossed them out for round two! We will be repeating this again next year - and I will make sure to stock up on the glow rings - not bracelets! they were tricky to get inside the eggs.

growing suckers

We decided to plant jelly beans and see if they would grow! We heard they grow into suckers :) yum!! only time will tell i guess, stay tuned!!