I still remember the day Oscar was born. I fell in love with his adorable face and red hair!
As he started to grow and develop, his little personality brought so many laughs to our house! He was so full of life and excitement! He has the cutest expressions and I think I took literally thousands of pictures! Through the years he has been a HUGE blessing to my life. Its hard to see him growing up so fast! His first Easter egg hunt One of the things I love about Oscar is how passionate he is about things! He gets so excited with the simplest things and it has helped me appreciate all the things I forget about and rediscover the world. I’ve had some great times with this guy and I look forward to many many more! Thank you Oscar for making me love being a mother! Because of you and Elaina and Mason I know that I am doing what I was meant to do!
This is the first time he made bread with me. His hands got all sticky and he was so worried about it. His reaction was so funny! Here’s a few pictures from his 7th birthday party.
We had some fun with the soft curlers recently. I love that Elaina likes to put them in so she can have "bouncy hair."
I remember hating these things when I was young so I'm glad she is not following in my footsteps!
This last time we put them in I took this picture and couldn't help but think of that movie from years ago
called Curly Sue...
The crazy thing is without the curlers her hair is just like mine - No bounce whatsoever!
Like most kids my kids absolutely love the park. So, despite me not feeling so hot, I pulled all my energy together and decided to go and take my camera to document the journey. The rewards for the kids were obvious and the rewards for me were feelings of such joy and happiness watching the kids making the most of something so simple.
Isn't it great when the kids just start hugging ... no, this was a request by me that they thought was pretty funny. Thus the laughs and giggling.
To say Mason LOVES the swing would definitely be an understatement. He wanted to swing for so long I actually thought he might get sick from it all. But oh no, he just never wanted it to end!
Oscar's favorite slide. Its super big and I think he feels a victorious feeling
every time he goes down it!
Underdog mom, again mom, again and again!
We were pretty lucky cause the park was absolutely empty of all other people except for us!
We had the whole place to ourselves. We could be as loud and as silly as we wanted!
More pushes mom, More, More!
Look at that look of determination as he tries to climb the tree. Nothing was going to
stop him from at least making a serious effort!
I love how he was smiling the whole time - except for when I said it was time to go home. Boy that did not go over well. He cried all the way to the car.
Ellie also felt like she could conquer the tree
I had so much fun that day. Everyone was so happy it was spreading like wild fire.
Mason was determined to climb to the top and got about half way up and I think he must have thought to himself, "What in the world am I doing! This is way too high for me." I ended up bringing him down and putting him back in his safe place -- the swing of course!
Kids love Halloween and for good reason! There's so many fun things to do for this holiday including carving pumpkins, dressing up in costumes, trick or treating, parties, decorating the house with scary spiders and bats, and of course candy, candy, candy.
This was one of our first projects with a pumpkin -- we wanted to make them look like bats.
So the first step was to paint them black. Mason really thought it was exciting!
For a girl who LOVES to paint, Elaina was pretty excited when I told her we were
going to paint some pumpkins. I almost feel like making the bat pumpkins all over again just
to watch her singing and painting.
Here's the finished products - cute little bats.
They didn't really last long - after the first rainstorm we had to retire them to the dumpster.
And it was a little spooky when it came to our ghosts. Three of them flew away and
we haven't heard from them since!
Mason is a little bit obsessed with pumpkins. In fact, its a good thing that we can still decorate
with pumpkins for Thanksgiving because I think he would be really sad to see them go.
He likes them so much that every time he sees one he stops, looks at it, and wants to hold it.
He especially likes the little baby ones and has been known to carry one around with him all day, cry if he looses it, and sleep with it at night and of course call it his "baby." (he has done the same thing with tiny water balloons ... should I be worried?)
You can imagine how long it took at some houses trick or treating stopping to look at all the creative decorative pumpkins. Pretty funny little guy. I think he was a little disappointed to find out
that pumpkins are full of yucky, gooey seeds!
Its hard to really see the finished pumpkins but there's a rocket in the middle and two silly faces
on both sides. Ellie and Oscar drew the faces they wanted and Mike carved them out.
Here's a video of cleaning out the pumpkins...
Yikes! Grandma & Grandpa Anderson gave the kids some Halloween treats & little toys.
Boy did they love the scarey vampire teeth!
Mason and Ellie would chase me around the house with these teeth in and
I think they really thought I was terrified. (I'm a pretty good actress)
I think Ellie was more excited about the broom than the witch costume.
We ordered it online and so everyday she would ask me "Will my broom come today mom?" I remember when it finally did come and the magic moment of getting it out of the box. I think she thought it would really do magic or something.
Here's a little information about six year old boys - at least this one- any costume
that has a toy as an accessory is pretty much awesome.
I remember when we first talked about what he wanted to be for Halloween he wanted something
scarey, had a weapon/toy to go with it, and the only thing he wanted people to see were his eyes.
I think we did pretty well considering all the other options out there.
I think we counted down for two months before the day FINALLY came where it was time to
trick or treat. Halloween and Christmas are the most exciting holidays for my kids.
The lighting kinda makes it look like he has a mustache!
I have to say the back view of this little spiderman as he was running from house to house
was pretty cute too!
Here are the kids with their cousins Carter & Bennett (Winnie the Pooh & Tigger)
Carter looks adorable posing the picture and Bennett just looks mystified by the
crazy angry ninja standing next to him!
Here's Mason talking about his fun time trick or treating...
This blog is about my adventures as a mother of three & wife to my best friend, the things I've learned along the way, and my goal to find joy in the journey!
