Zoo Trip

Today we went to the zoo and had a blast, the Elephants and Giraffes were by far the best part :)

 

Aiden was really serious about his monkey, I personally think he knocked it out of the park, watch out Amy!

 

Marshmallows on the ends? Clothes dryer? So many uses, gee I wish I had horns...

Now we're cookin!

Yuliya and Cash serve up dinner. Please expect crackers, or granola bars.

Photo albums

Today I ordered photo albums for the first three yrs of yuliya's life (pregnancy included) Will share pictures of them as soon as they come in! In this day we have no need to actually print pictures, so we have no picture albums. I have 3 pre printed arriving sometime next week and I'm totally stoked about it. The kids will love flipping through them and seeing themselves as babies :) Snail mail, listening to a baseball game, doing a puzzle by hand, making cookies from scratch, driving cross country instead of flying and picture albums, some things just need to stay in our lives :)

Happy Birthday Dad

Happy Birthday to my dad, he would have been 56 today

You brought life to all of us, and kept us together, mentally and physically(in touch with family and friends) Your passing changed all of us. We miss you and love you.

Views from under 4ft

 Original quotes from Miss Yuliya George

On why mommy has blue eyes and Yuliya has brown--
"Momma, my eyes are brown because my daddy gave me chloclate, and you had none"

On loving your brother--
"Momma, I love you a lot. Momma, I love daddy a lot, and soldier too, but I love Cash a little bit."

On the loopholes to going potty in the potty--said in an authoritative voice--
"Momma, I can pee pee in the bathtime, but I cant poopoo in the bathtime right"
My response-- "Let's just put our hiney on the potty if we think anything is coming out"

On why I hit a red light--
"Momma, it means you need gas"



Cash:

On love--
"keeesses!! ugg!! I yuy you"

On his sister---who he seems to misplace a lot--
"yuya? yuya? where ee yuya?"


On School buses--said screaming at the top of his lungs
"goo busssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! goo bu!!!  gooooooo bussss!!!!!!!"

Manly Men

Sleep under their beds......

and momma needs to swiffer. 

Cash has taken to sleeping under his bed about 50% of the time now, sometimes all the way against the wall where I have to coax him out like a kitten in the mornings when he's not quite ready to wake up for school.

CHeese

Cash has gotten really into the ch part of cheese lately

Cash turns two!

Saturday my sweet boy turned two and despite my best efforts of teaching cash that he's now two, (the kid can count to twenty) when you ask him how old he is he says "deuce". No idea where he picked that up from. Here are a few pics of his bday party. It was outerspace themed, we had a blast, but I also remember now why I love the community center in the summer. 

making planets out of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches left us with a see through loaf of bread, I suggested Chris bring it to work and eat it like a normal sandwich :)

 

Planets made of yarn balls :)

 

Amie helps out making alien cup cakes

 

Jen and Miss Lilly Ryan

 

Mr. Houston James, so glad you are doing better today. Poor guy spent 24 hours sick in the hospital the next day

 

Miss Alyssa and her daddy, she is such a sweet baby, just content to sit in anyone's arms :)

 I held Miss Alyssa for a while, you can tell by the drool spot on my shirt. I really couldn't help myself though, she is so cuddly and smiley.

 

make your own flying saucers

 cosmic dart board

 Chris putting the finishing touches on the spaceship cake

 And one Jackson Lehr lost his tooth on an alien cupcake!!! Now he will be able to say, an alien abducted his tooth right?

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to my youngest older sister Amy! I hope you had a great day, I hope you were pampered by Matt and Alyssa gave you the best slobbery kisses and least amount of spit up yet.

Random facts about Amy on her special day
She was born on Friday the 13th and that crazy day stuck with her sense of humor

Amy, loves getting a good deal on something, she loves the thrill of hunting for it.

She does the best monkey impression, it can make you laugh, although sometimes kids that dont know her take a few steps back :) (If I had a photo of this, I promise I would post it)

She is a stay at home mom which gives her plenty of time to teach her daughter to be a monkey. Will I be suprised if thats the first animal Alyssa knows how to imitate? no.

Happy Birthday to you mimi. Love from us. :)

Visit with Uncle Darwin

Too far and few between! We need to better plan our visits, we miss Uncle Darwin. When we got in the car to leave Yuliya said, "momma, I love him", too sweet! Thank you for the birthday presents Uncle Darwin and Aunt Kathy!!

 

notice Cash's "My Aunt is hot" shirt. :)

Happy Birthday Cash

 

mmmmm brown crayon.....

 

Cash loves his dog
Cash loves to eat and feed soldier
Cash loves his blanket, his momma and daddy, and most of all his yuya.
Cash has figured out the art of getting in trouble, just smile REALLY big and hold your hands out for a hug when you hear your name in a "what are you doing tone"
Cash loves to read books, play with cars, and love love loves his hex bug
He loves putting on his socks and shoes, and repeating anything yuliya says. 


Happy birthday to  Mr. Cash. It's been an interesting two years, you have been very sweet and cuddly and destructive, my floors, couches and walls will never be the same. Thank goodness for scotch guard and washable crayons, which you and soldier both seemed to want to eat for a while!

Oriental day at school.

 The kids had oriental day at school on friday, they both came out of their class with these adorable hats walking as still and slowly as they could. (usually they run to me) They were carrying little paper togo boxes with fortune cookies and chopsticks in them. Yuliya was very excited that they had a veggie stire fry for lunch!! I thought their hats were very cute.

I promise I didnt tell her to make this face. 

See how close my hand is to cash? This is exactly how long the hat stayed on. He was not impressed.

Caveman

Cash kickin it caveman style. He has taken to sleeping UNDER his bed, but this morning I found him sleeping in his birthday suit under his bed. Luckily he did not have an accident.