The joys of Joy School

I must admit I really enjoy Joy School. I tell my husband I do it for the kids but I sometimes have more fun than they do. Today was my day to teach and we worked on the letter P. We played Pick the Pair, which is my version of Memory but using only pictures of things that started with the letter P. Then we played Princess and Pirates. Evan had a lot of fun trying to capture the princesses. After all the princesses were saved we sat down and read this book:

By the time I was done reading the book I had all of the kids sitting on top of me. To finish the activities we painted with our pinkies. Fun I know. It was messy but the kids had a blast! And to top the day off for snacks we had pretzels, popcorn, peaches and a big bowl of this:

Yummy pudding! What a good day!

I'm full of excuses. Well, full of fries at least

As I'm making lunch for my younger two I find that nothing looks good enough to eat. Being that I'm pregnant, again, my wonderful husband reminds me constantly that I need to eat healthy. Not like I need the reminder. Besides, this baby hates everything! No Dr. Pepper (my life source), or chicken or broccoli or chocolate. My list can go on and on. Well I spy in my freezer a bag of sweet potato fries. Yum. I figure since I'm 9 weeks and have lost 7 pounds I need the extra calories. So as my kids eat their pb&j, I devour a plate of fries, not sharing (of course) because there just isn't enough or so I told them. And if I did share their tummies would turn orange.

Do you think they believed me?

I think I'm going to change my name

I think Fertile Myrtle suits me so much better than Amy. What do you think?

Mmmm, mmmm good

Apparently Evan gets hungry if he's in the car for longer than five minutes.

So Overrated

That's what I keep telling myself anyway. We live in the one square block in Chandler which is still unserviceable by cable Internet and my wonderful husband refuses to dig a trench for qwest. So, I've been living without Internet since we moved here in February. Mankind has lived without the Internet before so I can do it again. But I must say it really, really stinks not having it. Now that my mini rant is over now for the updates! As you can see from my updated pics I cant keep my kids from growing. I've tried but I can't make them stay little. So let's see...

Evan turned 1.

Grandma Thompson passed away. Sadly I don't have a photo of her at the moment but I will look for one. She was the sweetest lady. But since we were headed to Ontario, CA anyway whats another 40 minutes to Disneyland?!!Leah turned 6 and started 1st gradeand has developed a love of reading, for which I am very grateful. But now I always find her like this:Dr. Seuss is her favorite and any trip to the library is incomplete without at least 3 of his books. And finally my Makayla, my ball of energy. She is always getting into anything and everything just like her brother, kind of like the little engine that could but wouldn't stop. And after her reign of terror ends, I seem to always find her like this:

I can't help but love them.

Yes I am alive!

Shocking I know. Lots of things have been happening. Holidays. Makayla turned 3 last Saturday. Evan crawls everywhere and is now standing attempting to cruise. Yeah. Oh and we are moving. Arizona here we come!!! I promise I will update once I have more time. I'm a little bit distracted by packing. Fun stuff.

I'm a Daisy Mom!

Yep. Leah is in girl scouts. We had our first meeting yesterday and the girls just loved the get together activities planned. We've already started talking about the activities we would like to do, the fundraisers and the patches. I want to do the build a bear patch especially since Build a Bear now has girl scout uniforms for the bears. So cute! Leah can't wait for all of their activities!!! Girl Scout Cookies in 100 days and counting!!