Four wheels is so boring, Mom.

Dad took off the training wheels and Little Man is doing great.
With Dad close, Little Man switched to a bigger bike.


Sissy decides to get into the action.
My friend helps Sissy so I can take pictures. Little Man says, "four wheels is so boring, Mom."

North Dakota for spring break

I have been behind on blogging and am catching up today with so many posts. We have been sidetracked with our family and friends going through the flood in North Dakota. We visited them the week before it all hit Fargo and got to see a lot of snow then. (Second week of March) They received a couple more feet after we saw them, during the sandbagging and trying to hold the flood back. Many of our family and friends had to evacuate. We received good news today though, businesses in Valley City could open again!

Little Man is 6

This post is a little late. Little Man, I can't believe you are six now. You and I had fun making your cake for the family birthday party. I like how you decorated your dinosaur. It sure tasted good didn't it?

Mural

I have been painting a mural at a house in Shawnee during this past week. Here are the pictures of the progress so far... It is for a tween that wanted a funky tree, Hawaiian flowers and her initials. Here is a link to the hibiscus that the family liked...hibiscusby Lorie La Plant and the link for the inspiration behind the tree.

Great project for Earth Day! Take a plastic grocery bag and make a parachute guy. We just found a small toy that you could wrap a pipe cleaner around and twist to the plastic grocery bag handles and had some fun. We used a small lego guy, an action figure and a hotwheels car. The lego guy sailed the best.

I want to be an '80s girl.

Like the leg warmers? She does. She specifically asked me to make her some legwarmers (several months ago.) I have been putting it off thinking that the cold weather was over. I finally got some made and she sported them at school. This is now one of her favorite outfits. She liked it when daddy told her she looked like an '80s girl and then she had fun looking at my yearbooks for proof on what an '80s girl looks like.

Boys and mud

At our house, there is plenty for a boy to do, especially if they love the mud. Here they are just having fun digging and watching for things coming through the culvert.


Another meaning to the word "mud boots". When there is a boy and mud, he is not too particular on what he is wearing. He just needs to get dirty.