The Kids

The Kids

Sunday, May 19, 2013

A Grandparent Kind of Weekend

While Mom & Dad worked the weekend away, the kids enjoyed quite the splurge from their Nana and Papa! My Mom simply can not resist spoiling these kids! I keep finding things they scored from Target or the toy store! Well, the kids will soon learn they don't get a toy each time we go to the store! I think we have every toy on this planet now!

Violet scored a Cinderella dress and Dora bubbles amongst many other dress up items!

Tim scored some bubbles and balloons. His favorite!

Day 1 of toy splurge! Ashton got the new Ironman mask and on Day 2 he scored the rest of the costume!

Violet might be the cutest Cinderella out there! I'm not so sure about the pose I put her in. It's a little grown-up, but oh so cute!

The little kids enjoyed some bubble time together! Can you tell they love to get their picture taken together?!

Violet Lends Ashton a Hand

So Ashton was the recipient of his first cavity filling. He was nervous about it all morning and when it came time to it, he asked Violet to hold his hand. How sweet is that?! Ashton had some "space air" and did awesome the whole time!

Friday, May 17, 2013

A Cribless House!

It's been 4 years and 8 months, but we are now a crib free house! We also moved the boys into the "big room" ie. Violet's old room. We painted the boys room from blue to purple. I was a little sad as I painted it blue for Ashton when we first moved into this house. But it was a good move! Ashton really wanted his room green, his favorite color, but with high vaulted ceilings, I got away with getting new Ironman wall decals!

So, let's take a walk down memory lane. Here is Ashton's first room.
Wow! This is when we first moved in! Later became the guest room/Violet's room, now boy's room

Look at how little Ashton was!

I think this is when he started jumping out of his crib... clearly!

Tim's first room but quickly became the boy's room because Ashton didn't like the big room

I think this lasted less than a month when Ashton and Violet shared!

This is where Violet lived up until a month or so ago!

Let's fast forward about 4 years!
Violet's new purple room. Clearly we are in transition but I love how girly it is!

What little girl wouldn't want to play here

Site of her new big girl bed

This houses most of her dress up clothes and hand me down clothes to grow in to!

The final product! I'm a little bit jealous! I scored awesome deals on all her bedding at TJ Maxx Home Goods. I love that store! That super cute rug was on clearance for $12!
Attempt one at the boys room. Ashton's big boy bed with the unstacked bunk. It took a week or so to finally get to Tim's bed

Violet's old crib. We pulled out the mobile during the move and Tim liked it. It's not gone...

I really wanted the kids to have a play area. Note the cool Ironman decals!


The new updated, and yes messy room! Tim's new bed is the top bunk of what will eventually be bunk beds. It's perfect for him now as it has the rails! I'm not sure what the chair is doing on top of the dresser but I'm guessing Tim dragged it upstairs, yes up the stairs, to climb onto something!

Tim loves book! How convenient to put his books right there. And ignore ALL of those blankets. The boy loves his blankets!

I was even able to recycle/reuse the wall decals from Ashton's old room. The play space had to be moved as the beds were much longer than I anticipated. But this works too!

As you can see, Ashton is clearly into Super Heros. He loves his new Bat Cave house which I scored at a consignment store in town!





Saturday, April 13, 2013

Some t-ball action

Ashton wanted to do t-ball this year, so we joined the local church group. They have a great introductory program that allows the kids to just have fun. Ashton didn't even participate last week, he was a little shy I guess. But this week, he was all in!
Silly Asthon

Waiting to bat with his friend

He thinks the helmets are so cool

Attempting a pitch from the coach

Rounding the bases!

Waiting to catch the ball

A little park day

Life gets ahead of you and all of a sudden it's Spring! We enjoy park days almost once a week and this week we also did Art Club with my Moms group.

Ashton drawing a spider

Cutie Tim



Violet drew a purse! Is she my girly girl or what?!

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Violet's 3rd Birthday Party

We celebrated V's birthday a week early since Dad has work duties this weekend. It was just family and the perfect size party. V scored her coveted "dolly chair" which is a doll salon chair. It was so cute to see how excited she got over each present!

Some fun with Dad after work
The Birthday Girl

Silly T with raspberries

Such a big girl!

The loot!

Yummy cupcakes

V & T

T & V Sing