Fun with Friends

Puppy Daycare

Daddy and Uncle David's old toys

Who doesn't love to toss a pie in their sister's face?!

After-school playdate with an Operation

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Just to prove that we all found our green! And that 3/4 of us tried corned beef for the first time...pretty good, I know why people like to eat it every year!

Princess Auggie

This post is dedicated just to our Auggie Doggy who always finds a place to cuddle up and rest her head!

By the fire on a Friday Night Fire Night

Laying just like Grant...waiting for the egg to hatch

She loves to find a good pillow and even shares

Laps are good too!

On a car ride

Yes she actually likes to swing

Wait, is that Auggie or a carpet with legs?!

This arm not as soft for her chin, but she is supervising the kids in the pool so she is all business

And life happens....

Well snow and bubbles was about 6 months ago and now the kids are back in school perhaps I should attempt to play catch up on my 2LittleChiefs! In March we started a kitchen remodel and replaced the majority of our flooring on our main floor so life happened and it happens fast and the blog took a back seat. Luckily I have photographic evidence to recap all the things I have forgotten. So spring break, spring soccer, end of school, swim team, birthdays, vacation, start of school and everything in between...here we go!

Snow & Bubbles

Mother nature is playing with our heads! We finally got a decent snowfall, meaning the kids had snow to play in. Auggie waited all day for the kids to get home so they would  go run around with her in the snow! Then two weeks later it is 70 degrees for multiple days in a row - in February - yes in Illinois! We went to the park, made big bubbles, put up a new swing (another couple awesome Christmas gifts!) and soaked up the sun! Grant even had a few freckles pop out on his face! It's good to know we can enjoy the snow and warm temps!

Basketball

Basketball is the winter sport for the kids. Grant plays co-ed and this is the first year for Elizabeth to play all girls. Grant's first basket was in the garbage can. Notice in the pictures there is a black garbage can behind the hoop. It's pretty funny when kindergarteners miss the real hoop but it ends in the garbage can! Grant plays basketball the same way he plays soccer, a smile on his face the whole time! His ball control has really improved and he makes a few hoops every game so he loving it. Plus one of his best buds ended up on his team.

Elizabeth has a had a lot of fun too. It is important that her hair looks just right and one game she lost her headband half way down the court and I wasn't sure she would be able to go on, but she wrapped it around her wrist and proceeded like a champ! She typically sits on the sidelines with her legs crossed and big smile on her face as she cheers on the other girls. Her first game she scored the first basket and that really rallied the girls, because I don't think those points came until the 2nd half! Needless to say 2nd and 3rd grade girls basketball is a low scoring affair. There have been nice improvements throughout the season and we talk each week about being more aggressive. It will be interesting to see if she asks to play again next year!

(it went in!)

Grant told me last week, "Mom, sometimes I just throw the ball out of bounds if I don't know what to do with it!"

This is the look of "what? who's ball is it? what is going on? Oh! Ok!" 

The traveling cheering sections! Their games are never in the same place and Ima and Pops go from one end of town to the other to cheer the kids on!

Grant & Zachary - hot and sweaty!

They both wanted to play spring soccer. So we have cold, wet Saturday mornings to look forward to! Then it is on to swimming. The May stroke clinic for swim team will overlap with soccer a little bit, but it so good to have them healthy and active and they truly enjoy all the activities they do. 

2nd Grade Biography

The 2nd grade project is a biography/potato person. The kids got to choose the person and then do research to present the biography to the class. A potato, looking like your chosen person had to accompany this project. I picked Elizabeth up from school and she was so excited to tell me who she had chosen. "Ruby Bridges, Mom!!!"  WHO??? She had no idea who she was either so we had fun doing the research together. For any readers who also may not be familiar with Ruby, she was the first African American to attend a segregated school in the south in 1960. 

This is Ruby in her school uniform. It was very hard for our fancy girl to make Ruby look plain. Elizabeth is not familiar with the school uniform concept and wanted to bedazzle everything! We compromised with the bow in the hair and two red gems (rubies!) on the straps of her jumper. The brown thing is her book bag with silver sparkly pipe cleaner straps! Her teacher said she did a terrific job presenting. The potatoes were on display in the library, but only for a short time. They were asked to bring them home before they started stinking up the school!