Girls' Night Out

Pictures from when Stacie came for a visit...HOW FUN was that night??!!

ARRRRRRGH....Cute photo, RUINED!

OK, so I FINALLY get a good photo of my four children!
They are all looking and it's a great background and I'm so
excited. Then I get home, download it and the STUPID
DATE is sprawled across it!!! Anyone know how to edit it
off the photo without ruining it??? I have now taken that
option off the camera but Scott had already assured me it
was done...oh well. HEEELLLP! I was going to make a nice
Father's Day present for Scott and now my picture is ruined
and it's going to take A LOT of work to get such a nice photo
again! HEEEELLLP! (Did I already say that??!!)

Mothers' Day Presentation

On May 7th, the kindergarten classes at the kids' school did a presentation for their mothers. These are some of the photos and a video. TOO CUTE!--(Too tired to wait for the video to load...check back at another time, I'll load it tomorrow!)

Kara and Mommie having a snack together.

Kara enjoying her gingerbread cake.


This is Kara's BESTEST friend, Olivia and her Mom,
Mrs. Comeau....Noah's first grade teacher :)


Singing a song about a rainbow...

Kara and her friend, Aidan pointing out their
mothers in the crowd to each other.


Mommie LOVES her Kara!!!!!!!!

SEE Science Museum

On May 3rd, we went to the SEE Science Center in Manchester, NH. We went with our friends, Malcolm, Jenn and their children Karina and Aidan. We had all planned an outdoor outing and it would NOT stop raining. After a quick check online we found this place and decided to try it out. We ALL highly recommend it. It was only $5 a person, adult or child and they had a ton of exhibits. Here are some photos from our fun afternoon...


What a great way to spend a lovely, rainy, spring afternoon! A view outside one of the museum's windows :)

Noah and the dinosaur puppet show.

Lots and lots of Mommie and Kara

Noah, Kara & Elijah playing with the gears.

Noah, Kara and Karina making big bubbles!

Noah having fun with the robot!

More bubbles...check out the pile of suds on Elijah's head!

Daddy and his baby...what cute smiles!

Noah and Kara rubbing pictures of dinosaurs.

Elijah playing Legos with Daddy, then Mommie...what a fabulous Lego table! I've already convinced Scott to make one for the kids!

Noah and Aidan uncovering fossils.

Scott putting on a dinosaur puppet show for Noah, Kara and Karina.

Kara in the kiddie tunnel...'scuse my husband's backside!

All of us in front of the Millyard Lego Project. How Jenn got us all to look at the same time is beyond me! She's GOOD!

Elijah and Dinner Time

Tonight at dinner we had raviolis, bread, strawberries and watermelon. (I know, strange combination-trying to clean out the fridge.) So Elijah actually ate and ate and ate which is unusual since he normally gives us a screaming fit about eating his meals. We were enjoying this new, quiet dinner ritual! Well, at one point, he asks for more strawberries and Scott notices he's not eaten any watermelon so he told Elijah if he ate more, he'd give him more strawberries. So Elijah ate one piece and started saying, "BEAR BEAR BEAR" (for berries) and so Scott gave him a few more bites of strawberries. The next time he did it, Scott said no because he said you have to eat some more watermelon...to that his reply was "NOOOOO BEANS MY WADDERMELLY, BEANS MY WADDERMELLY!!! NOOOO!". We were getting pretty frustrated at his screaming and we were trying to figure out what he was saying then I started cracking up laughing and Scott looked at me as if to say, 'what's so funny?'. I then told Daddy, "He is trying to tell us there are 'beans' in his watermelon, honey. (Scott looked puzzled) I said, "He means there are SEEDS in his watermelon!". Scott started laughing.....AH, that's our Elijah!!

Tearing down wallpaper

Ok, some of you might remember a posting I did a few weeks ago with the paint disaster in our living room. Well, I forgot to put up these photos as well. These are from when I got really irritated at what was happening in the living room and went and attacked the UGLY bathroom wallpaper (it was coming down eventually, only not this soon). Elijah was very excited to have PERMISSION to tear the paper off with me! He and Kara have been picking at and tearing small pieces for a while now! So, he was helping me tear off the paper and then he was dragging all the pieces to the small hallway outside the door. I was so busy that I wasn't really paying attention to how much was accumulating until I looked out in the hall and there was Elijah, laying in the middle of it! I asked him, "What are you doing?". He said, "DIS MY NEST!". I bursted out laughing!! I asked, "Are you a baby bird?"...to which he responded, "YES!". SOOOOO CUTE!

Video of Melody and Karina swinging a couple of weeks ago..."PUUMP, PUUMP, PUUMP!".