Cutlery!

Sooooo....

Since we got married 8+ years ago we had been using miss matched hand me down cutlery. 

Nothing wrong with hand me down cutlery. Buttttt seriously NONE of it matched it was 3 different 'sets' bahaha. 

We took the plunge.

Makes me feel like a grown up.

We have enough new cutlery now for 20 people...

Party at the converse house!

Preschool 2014/2015

Commence sobbing. 

I'm going to miss my Mornings with my monkeys 

While I was sobbing I did what I do best...look at old pictures 

Oh my lanta, my firecracker baby is not a baby (I'm still calling her my baby though, until she tells me it's embarrassing)...she's gotten SO big!

Such a fun age, but why it hurts when it feels like they are growing up to fast I'll never know why but it does, it really does. I just wanna wake them up from their nap and smooch and cuddle them... HAHA jokes I would never wake a sleeping babe!!

Things I've noticed

The thing about summer is I jump out of bed all warm and fuzzy. The thing about fall is it's cooler so I can hardly bring myself out of the covers without my heart sinking. Oh how I miss the heat heat hear of hot summer days already.

Conversations with B

We took the kids to bike to the park this evening. It was a 'trial run' two kids on a bike sort of deal. I needed to evaluate if it would be safe for me to take them solo on their bikes to preschool. It was a lil hairy at times-the jury is still out on if it is safe or not. 

I walked back with beckham and Brent walked back with Audrey. 

Our chats went like this

'You like my caterpillar mommy?' (He is saying this while riding his bike, while holding a caterpillar)

'Ya bud he's super cool'

'You wanna hold it mommy?'

'Thats ok, I'm good I'll just look at him from here'

'Mommy POOP! POOP mommy'

*since he's not quite 3 I assumed the worse...maybe a sneak attack diarhea fart!*

'Do you have to poop?'

'Mommy the caterpillar is pooping!!!!!'

***laughter***

'Mommy does it have a bum'

'Eveeything living has a bum bud'

'Does it fart?'

*snicker snicker laughter*

'Maybe it does, maybe just a quite one'

'Does it's fart stick?'

'They might stink but maybe you have to be really close to smell it'

**beckham puts nose to caterpillar**

'Ewwwww it farted'

Laughter laughter laughter

Life with boys.

Swimming lessons

The kids have been in swimming lessons for the last 4 weeks every single day! They have LOVED it so much. They have both grown so much. It's such a beautiful thing to watch.

Audrey has grown exponentially and is even swimming quite well with no floaty or anything now. Beckham has grown a ton but he is in a 3-5 year old class and technically he shouldn't be in it (to young) but he is doing fabulous and totally keeping up with the whole class!!!

Nudist Art

The easiest way to paint is naked. Because if you get paint on yourself then you get thrown in the bath or hosed off outside.

Audrey is 4, when I tell her we are going to paint she immediately takes her cloths off. I'm thinking this lazy mama needs to go to value village and get some painting shirts haha. Don't want kindergarten to come and when the teacher says it's painting time for her to strip down to her itty bitties. 

Excuse the towels in the background we have has swimming lessons everyday for the last 4 weeks so we constantly have wet bathingsuits and towels hung up. 

A lil biblical

Sometimes as I look at my ravenous babes picking fruit and veggies from of our garden I am reminded of the garden of Eden. Maybe it's the lack of cloths. Maybe it's just the simplicity of snacking on what's hanging around. This summer has been so good to my soul. 

These precious babes are such a wonderful age. Full of innocence. Full of life. Full of energy. Also mostly naked. So much play. So many cuddles. How could all of those things not be good for your soul.