Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Easter and other stuff

After celebrating Creed's birthday, we've been keeping busy. The kids have activities everyday after school. I got a little wise and started having Brodie's bus drop him off at Tae Kwon Do instead of coming home and having the opportunity to not want to go. He knows that he's going straight after school and seems to really like that. Me too!!

Jenna lost her third tooth. It's the same tooth Brodie had to have pulled out this past summer. Now I have two children with that tooth missing. Jenna will get that tooth a lot sooner than Brodie though.

We had an Easter Egg hunt here. It was me with three kids....BY MYSELF!!! I'm a very lucky person to have friends here to help me out. They had the egg hunt sectioned out by ages...0-3, 4-6, 7-10. How am I supposed to be in 2 places at the very same time??? Luckily my friend Laura took Jenna and Brodie with her and her son Andrew for their egg hunt. I took Creed for his. After the hunt, they had these huge blow up bouncy things for the kids. My friend Amey watched the kids for me so I could put everything in the car. Then she helped me get in line for food and got a hot dog, chips and drink for Jenna. This is what the Army calls our "military family". Without them, a lot wouldn't get done. I'm so very thankful that these friends were so willing to help me out! Bill had just returned from going out to the field and had to stay at work while they finished getting everything accounted for.
After the egg hunt, we came home, decompressed from all of the activities and then...GOT TO DYE EASTER EGGS!! All of the kids had a wonderful time. Creed's hands were completely blue by the time we were finished. Jenna and Brodie shared the stickers and the egg holder like good friends. Of course after all of the fun activities of the day, bath time.
Easter morning was early for us. Brodie got up around 6:00 wanting to know if the Easter Bunny came. We tried to hold him off for as long as possible, but then Jenna got up shortly after that. Creed on the other hand, was sound asleep and didn't want to get up. Needless to say, he was quite a "cranky Creed" as Brodie told Mimi. We went to our good friends house for dinner and it was so delicious. We all had a very nice Easter.
The next day when I took Brodie to his bus stop, this cute little Korean lady gave Creed these two Easter eggs. She always has a smile and a "Anyahasaeoh" each morning for us. I'll have to get a picture of her with the boys. Creed kept telling me these were "his" eggs.
Of course we can't finish this post without a picture of this. This is what happens when your 3 year old finds the camera and drops it. Ouch!!!

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Guess who turned three???

It was Creed's birthday Sunday. We had a small party for him on his actual birthday, because Daddy was gone and then he got back home, then he's leaving again this Friday. He had a good day, but we think he was a little embarrassed by everyone paying attention to him. Maybe being the third child does this??? Out of all of our children, he didn't want to blow out the candles on his Cars birthday cake. Jenna had to come help him out. He did enjoy eating the cake and ice cream.
I made the cake myself with some ideas from the web.

The birthday boy!Eating cake...yum.Opening presents with help from Avery.