Fly On the Wall

I just checked out a great site. Go and have a look for yourselves lunchbits.com You can buy lunch bags with things to do, facts to learn or puzzles to figure. It's really cute and it was started by my amazingly talented MOM! She has done a great job creating all these lunch bags and they are online now. So I thought I'd spread the word, of course spread to anyone who might be interested. I think it's such a fun idea to have something interesting on the plain old lunch bag. The little ones have loved having something to color on the bag.

I forgot to include this with our trip synopsis. I don't know why exactly but we thought of Christopher(my bro. for those that don't know) when we saw this. Well I guess there are a lot of reasons actually. But mostly because I truly believe this would be his dream vehicle. I couldn't believe it when I saw it, Ray quickly drove around so I could get a good shot of it and we couldn't stop laughing at how much we thought you would like it. It was somewhere in the Tri-Cities area during our trip. I thought Chris would enjoy seeing this and maybe you can track it down someday and make him an offer for it!

What kid doesn't love opening presents? Probably not many, Kate tells us on a regular basis how much she loves opening presents. Well for St Patty's I got the idea from my sis to leave a trail of green paper around the house from the Leprechauns and then have something at the end as the pot o' gold. Kate LOVED this. There was a fun little game for her called Cookin' Cookies. It comes in a cute little lunch pail and is very simple and fun - I recommend it to anyone with kids around 4yrs. That was fun but she wanted more. So I thought I would tell her about Easter as the next holiday, we could get excited about the easter egg hunt etc etc. Well for the next day and a half she would tell us every few minutes (with her head tilted back in agony) that she absolutely could not wait for easter. Maybe I should have held out and made her wait but for my own sanity we bought easter eggs today. She dyed 4 of them which was fun but I think even more she liked smashing and peeling the shell off of them, much like she enjoys peeling dried glue off her palm. She sits there so quietly concentrating on peeling! And we hid plastic eggs around the house all day. It was a lot of fun and why not celebrate a holiday each day. Although I'm sure she thought it would involve presents, that at least is a good lesson to learn.

We just got back from an incredibly fun trip. I don't think the kids could've had more fun with their cousins. It's amazing to me how different our two kiddos are. Jack has no fear of any of the animals on the ranch but Kate prefers to stay inside and insists on being carried while outdoors - she says just in case the animals get out. So my hopes of getting her up one of hte horses will have to wait until later. Pretty comical how different they are. Here are some pics of our fun trip. We went sledding, had a birthday party for Kate, she also got to attend Lonnie's dance class, played outside a lot, and visited the children's museum where they went shopping, pretended to be vets and make pizzas etc! I even got to go skiing for the first time in 5 years and we tried the mini skis - lots of fun.