Last week Eli got his first magazine in the mail. I signed him up for the Lego Club. His magazine came and he was sooo excited!!
That magazine has become a treasured thing.
He got a Mator Lego toy that shoots a dart. The kid loves to play with that and pretend he is shooting the windows or whatever. It is funny to watch and he gets so excited when he hits whatever target he is after.
Speaking of Target! I adore that store. It looks like we are getting a Super Target. I am rather excited about that.
I figured it was coming when I was in there last week looking for some certain paper for some special pictures. More to come on those later. The whole store was being remodeled. Then we got the brochure in the mail. I got some pretty cool wrapping paper though! Eli got to mess it all up when I was done with it. He loved it.
I am realizing as I go through pictures this post is going to be going through all sorts of Random. Finally February 1st I got my calendar for the year! Pure proctrastination and being busy doing other stuff. It came back wonderful! I went for a lot simpler this year and just focused on my pictures.
I still love my Creative Memories program!! I wish I had time to get all the kids scrapbooks done but sadly I am struggling to keep up!
Eli has been having trouble eating dinner. He is so picky and just won't eat. So if he eats now he gets a special treat before bed. He got ice cream the other night. He got to eat it on the floor watching a movie. Little Sister was all over it! She kept bothering him. Thankfully he was a good big brother and shared one bite with her.
This week has brought some cleaning out of things too. Since we are having a boy to make room I am getting rid of Lilliana's clothes. I just don't have the space to keep everything right now. I feel like I am drowning and as of right now we are done with kids!! Ari will be the last unless God has different plans like he did with Ari. All these clothes will be going to Miss Berkeley. Some of these dresses have gone through all the girl granddaughters on my side since some of them came from my sister.
It is nice we can share clothes like this!!
It has also brought a huge mess. I was doing laundry and went to take the diapers outside when I saw blue all over the laundry room floor. I about died. The laundry soap fell and broke open. It was the biggest container of Tide I could buy and almost every single bit of it spilled out. It was brand new so there went $17.00 worth of soap that probably would have lasted me 6 months. Needless to say cleaning up laundry soap is a challenge. Nevermind the fact I am a clumsy fool these days being pregnant. I slipped only once but it took me a good 2 hours to finally get it all cleaned up between taking care of them and dealing with the mess. The shirt and towel is there to stop the mess from flowing. It also knocked my trash can over so there was trash all soaked with soap. Oh it was just a lovely morning.
Last night Eli and I did something special. We made some Valentine's. I got out my Cricut and Eli got to use it. He thought that was so cool. He had fun and I think we will be doing more Cricut projects in the future.
Lilliana must be ready for crafts too. She got into my craft cupboard the other day and had a blast. She got so angry when I told her she could not do that.
She normally is not into stuff. She is my easy going kid that goes straight for her toys and just plays. It is nice!!
These are the little things I find when they both play together. Silly kids. They line everything up and just play.
The other things they have been playing a lot is rolling the balls back and forth to each other or us. They carry these around all day and just play.
Lilliana especially loves to play the balls. She gets so excited when they come rolling towards her.
She says, "ball" a lot. It is really cute.
She has been saying, "bath" "thank you." The new one today was "Cheese" when I was taking her picture.
The kids were pretty fun today. It was a sad morning for me as I finished the last of the 15 pound bag of grapefruit. I have been living off grapefruit and Greek yogurt. I guess I will need to get more tomorrow.
Kenya thought she needed to share my grapefruit.
Eli is still not in the mood to take pictures. Apparantly he thinks he needs to be the photographer instead. As we speak he has his Cars camera directing Anthony where to sit and what to do so he can take his pictures. I did capture a few of him today.
I caught him reading Lilliana's Bible. He told me he wanted to read the Bible and got hers. Why he didn't get his I don't know. He began to tell the story of Jonah to everybody out loud. It was so cute. I took pictures and he caught me and was not thrilled but oh well. I love that he wants to read the Bible. We read every night before bed but many times throughout the day he reads it on his own.
I went to get the mail today and the sun was beautiful. I also noticed my daffodils and tulips are starting to come up! It was a welcome sign! SPRING IS ON ITS WAY!! There was also a reminder of Winter but its only February so I can't complain.
I decided to take advantage of the sun and go for a walk to the park this afternoon. Sadly I paid no attention to the temperature! It was nice and bright but it was oh so cold. I forgot a hat and my ears hurt. Eli refused to keep gloves on or his coat zipped so I just cut our trip short. Lilliana loved it though. She got to explore in the bark and swing. Eli insisted on eating his snack at the picnic table so he wasted his 10 minutes of play time. It was good to get out though!
She also got to wear shoes I bought last fall. She is not walking so I have not had her use them much but since we needed something with a hard sole she got to wear my $1.50 steal on shoes.
Eli did enjoy the slide but ate mostly. Gotta love the crooked hat he kept putting that way! Silly boy!
All in all it has been a good week!! We have done a lot and I am glad. I can't wait for Spring! Until then I am keeping busy planning the kid's birthdays.
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