3.5 Years Old!

Quinn turned 3.5 years old this week and because he has a summer birthday, we celebrated with his sweet little class by bringing in donut holes.

Puzzling

For Christmas, Olivia spotted the same exact elephant picture that Sam lovingly colored while we were in Florida.  But this elephant was in a puzzle that you got to color yourself!  Such a thoughtful gift to give her Daddy.  Until we open the 500 piece puzzle and realized it was all black and white pieces.  So hard.  Took literally almost two weeks to get it together! #EverydayImPuzzling

But we did it!  #teamwork #winterpuzzling

And then we spent the rest of the weekend coloring it in!

Request to clean?!

At night when Olivia and Graham are suppose to be going to sleep, they have started some letter writing campaigns that they leave on Sam and my pillows.  Now this is one I can get on board with.

"So spot less!!'

"So shiney!!"

Snakes v Lizards

G is ready for his animal presentation tomorrow for his class!  

The Joys of Parenting

Graham left me this little note last night. "TO MOM - YOU ARE MIN (mean) TO ME."
On the plus side, his sentence writing and spelling is improving!  So are the details in his drawings-- please note the giant tears and frown in the picture of himself.  On the negative side, pretty sure I wasn't mean at all and just told him to go to bed.  Ah parenting...

Go Bulls!

Instead of a birthday party, we presented G with the option to have a special outing either as a family or with friends.  He decided to bring the family to a Bulls game today which was a blast for all.

 With the help of his sister and poster advertising his birthday, G got tossed a free t-shirt!  It's just a little big...

Cyclones Fans

Livie is doing great this basketball season for her first time playing (and with Mama as her coach).  She had 8 points today and her Giles cousins were all there to cheer her on!