St. Patty's - Green for my Girl

I went a little green crazy at the consignment sale so Camille got to wear green all week long!

 monday

 Tuesday

 Wednesday

 Thursday, Happy St. Patty's Day!

Friday

Leprechaun Trap

The littles tried to trap one of those pesky leprechaun critters. Aiden has  a few years of experience in making traps, so he started out teaching Gavin about simple machines. Levers, pulleys and such.

 Then onto the work of the real trap.

 Aiden using the glue gun to construct a ladder.

 Gavin painting his Roy G. Biv rainbow.

 Gavin liked his new color friend Roy!

 The completed trap.

The Leprechaun was to be drawn to the gold, go up the ladder after it, after stepping into the clear strawberry container he would see more in the bottom of the second box and jump down for it. Once he jumped in, the only way out would be to climb up the yarn. BUT once he began to climb the yarn the strawberry container would be pulled closed by Aiden's pulley system.

Foiled again! We didn't catch him. That sneaky leprechaun tossed the rock we used to weigh down the yarn. He tossed it up and out of the small hole in the top of the box to set himself free. That stinker then made a mess in our house, he knocked things over, pulled the books out of the bookshelf he even unrolled our toilet paper and drug it throughout the house! He did leave behind a shamrock plant for us to enjoy, he must have felt badly for the mess he made. Maybe next year we will catch him...

Holding on to moments

This is a scene that happens often in our house right now, I would like to think it will last forever BUT just in case it doesn't I'm going to document it now. Aiden walks in the door, Camille runs to him for hugs and kisses. Aiden is more than willing to get her giggling with joy!

 

Aiden is 8; Camille is a month and a half away from turning 2.

My prayer is that he will always love and protect his baby sister!

Fun with Friends

Camille and Gavin are just enjoying watching the "Big Kids" play outside. I'm so happy they have so much fun over here and enjoy coming back to play. 

This quite the creative group always inventing new games. I think here they had to tag the sign on their way down the roller coaster. Shortly after this photo they brought out the pine straw bales and used them as barricades to crash the roller coaster into. When I went outside later on I saw they had gathered up a bunch of the sweetgum balls, Aiden told me they were chicken eggs. Okay, I'm not asking anymore questions...

Outside playtime is the best! Bring on the warm weather.

Of course Gavin is back in his pajammas.

Daddy's weekend

Dad took all the littles to Tennessee to visit family. He also planned a Gatlinburg adventure complete with a hotel stay that was ironically where Nana & Papaw stayed 49 years ago for their honeymoon. 

They woke up to a beautiful double rainbow!

  Lunch in the Smokey Mountains

Geoff got some great shots from their hike.

 These are the shots that make a momma freak out!

Then Geoff informs me that this tree is 20 feet above the deep rushing water.

  And jumping on the bed... has Daddy not read 5 little monkeys jumping on the bed?!?!

I have heard about the legendary Applewood, maybe next time I'll get to join them for breakfast!

 Then back to the farm for some farm fun!

 Uncle JR took the boys for a ride up the mountain on the 4 wheeler.

 Camille was not interested on going for a ride.

A group photo, without me, they even got Lucy the dog in it. Way to go Daddy; on a well done weekend and remembering to take photos, even a group photo. Thank you Geoff for an entire weekend off, I got the chance to clean out some of the stuff that has accumulated in our house as well and time out with friends.  I'm glad they had a great time but I sure did miss everyone.

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

In honor of Dr. Seuss we read some of his books, ate green eggs and ham for dinner and wrote some poems.

I separated the egg yolks from the whites, dyed the yolks then added them back in once i put the whites in the pan.

The littles are making the yuck face.

Aiden's rhyming poem

Bartholomew Goes to School

Bartholomew rides a mule to go to school
He learned the rule to stay cool
They stood on a stool in a pool
There was a duel, a great duel
He fooled the mule then won the duel
 There was a jewel for winning the duel
Made a tool out of wood and called it his cokule.

Gavin's story

A Birthday for Agga

We begin our saga for Agga
He went for a ride and saw a ghost
He like to eat buttered toast
An owl, rattle snake and dragon were there
Right behind him
There was a lady bug, no, two lady bugs
that were on his rug
They crawled up his back.

Peter Pan in Neverland

We took my mom to Peter Pan for her birthday, it was an amazing show in a custom built threesixty theater. It was a fabulous theatrical performance, the actors flew through the air, we almost felt like we were flying with them.Very well done!

Complete with sword fighting!

Look closely, it is a height chart for some of the main characters!

Gavin was the size of Michael Darling and Aiden of John Darling. Did you notice that I am taller than someone? Yup, Peter Pan! 

I think Camille would have been close to Tinker Bell! Though Tink was quite sassy in this show.  I just adore the idea of a thimble symbolizing a kiss. So sweet, wouldn't that make a cute charm on a charm bracelet...if it came from the right person? hint, hint geoff!

We had a fun time with Baba this week. Full of adventure and excitment!