25

It was my birthday a few weeks ago. I turned 25. A quarter of a century. Yep, I'm getting old... It was a great birthday though. Doug worked from home so I woke up to 2/3 of my children already up and fed. And they held up signs that said Happy Birthday Mommy for me to see when I came down. I got to open my presents right after breakfast. My visiting teachers came over and visited for awhile. My sister Michelle and her kids spent the day with us. We played Just Dance a lot (our very fun new Wii game that my cousin recommended). Then we went to Cheesecake Factory for dinner with my family. We ate a yummy dinner and a delicious dessert. Then after the kids were in bed Doug and I played Donkey Kong all night and stayed up too late.

Me with the kiddos.

Jordan is very excited by my new container that keeps my fruit and vegetables fresh.

This is what I cam downstairs to. Aren't they cute? When I came down Jordan wasn't cooperating though. He was trying to walk away. I thought it made it all cuter...

Jack and Kenzie.

Jack and Kenna wanted to help Doug frost the cake. Kenna helped first and she stuck out her tongue while she was doing it.

Next, Jack help. He also stuck out his tongue.

Doug finished up the frosting and he also stuck out his tongue. I guess that must be the best way to frost a cake :)

The kids loved licking the spatula.

Kenna's turn.

Jack helped me blow out the candles.

Random Stuff

It's been kind of awhile since I blogged. I have a lot of posts I'm planning on doing today to catch up on what we've been doing, but here's a random update of things not worthy of their own post. Mostly it will be pictures of the kids and husband, and stories of this kids and maybe husband.

Cute Kenzie. She can sit up now. She's almost 8 months old now and wishes she could crawl. She's been my only kids who hasn't been scooting by now. Both Jack and Jordan did by 6 or 7 months.

Doug with his kind of fro-y hair. It's not even as close to as bad as it once was, back in the days I call Pre-Stephanie. He had some crazy hair. Maybe someday I'll post pictures of it.

Jordan sharing his puzzle with Kenzie.

Kenzie looking adorable. As always.

Jordan's curly hair. Isn't it cute? I love it.

Jack and Jordan giving Mackenzie kisses.

Cute Jordan...

And another of cute Kenzie.

And so I remember them, here's some cute things they do (mostly of Jordan because at the everything-I-say-is-cute phase. And even if what he says doesn't seem the cute, how he says it is really cute)...

* Jordan says "Jackson Dance, no, no, no!" and "Jackson Dance, come here!
*In the car Jordan hates the windows down, even a little bit. He stares at the window and says "stop doing that" over and over and over again, until I roll up the windows.
*Jordan will repeat things over and over and over again, even after you respond to him. My sister Ashlee said that when she was watching him her husband was mowing the lawn and Jordan stood at the window the entire time he was out there and repeated "Konrad doing?"
*Jordan loves swimming lessons. He's not taking them. But he loves watching them. Ashlee took him to them when she watching him and Jack and he just sat there the whole time watching the kids and looking for his cousins. He still gets excited when I mention swimming lessons.
* This isn't a funny or cute thing, but it's important so I thought I would mention it. I'm going to try to potty train Jordan this week. I tried awhile ago and that didn't work out well, so we're going again. Hopefully he'll overcome his fear of the big potty soon. He used to not be afraid of it, but once he fell in so now he is.
*Jackson has picked out the clothes he's going to try to wear everyday this summer. He got them on his birthday on Thursday, wore them Friday, Saturday, and just put them on again. Thanks grandma Dance :) Hopefully, though, he'll realize that his other clothes are cute too.
*Jackson sang in Sacrament last week for Mother's Day with the primary. He was really cute up there. You could barely see his head above the wall-thing he was standing behind. He was singing and smiling and waved to us a couple times. And he told me the walk was really long on the way back and he didn't know where we were because it was so long.
*Jordan says super duper duper duper duper duper to describe things.
*In the car either Jackson and Jordan will ask me turn the music up sometimes then one of them will often say "It's too loud." So then I turn it down. Then sometimes the other one gets sad and wants me to turn it up again. Once Jordan asked me to turn it up and after I did he immediately said "It's too loud."
*Another non-funny, non-cute update: I'm doing a Zumba class every Monday afternoon at the church. The ladies who teach it are real Zumba teachers that are offering their time and talents to teach me and others. I really love Zumba. It's incredibly fun. Doug even comes home early every week so I can go without the kids. A few kids the first few weeks but since then there haven't been any.

Spring Fair

We went to the Spring Fair in Puyallup about a month ago with some of our friends. We saw animals, did crafts, ate lunch, enjoyed the nice weather, and just had fun.

Jordan with the chickens. He loved the fair and looking at animals. He still asks if we can go to the fair sometimes.

Mackenzie actually got to sit in the stroller and not in her car seat for the first time. I'm sure she was very excited.

We watched a dog show where the dogs jumped into a big pool. Jackson even got splashed a little bit. The kids loved it.

Jackson and Jordan got their face painted. Jordan got a dragon. He didn't like getting it done and tried to move away at the end.

Jackson got a horse.

Jordan and Jack with the tortoise.

Jack the Bug crawling through the bug tunnel.

Jordan the Bug. He didn't want to crawl through the tunnel.

Jack decorating his potato head. It was interesting how different he was this year than last year and the fair. This year he could do things much more on his own with only a little help from me whereas last year I had to help him with pretty much everything.

Jack with his finished potato head.

Jordan with his 4-eyed potato head.

Jack with his friend in front of a fountain.

Jack fell asleep on the way home. He must have had a fun day.

Puffs

Kenzie got some baby puffs for Easter. Being the paranoid mom I am, especially about choking, I usually hold off giving my kids chewing foods until they're 9 months or so. But I decided to try them a little earlier with Mackenzie since my sisters have told me numerous times the babies can eat chewing food at around 6 months. And I'm happy to report that they were right; she did not choke on them.

But she also didn't like them. She made this "what are you putting in my mouth" face every time we put one in her mouth.

Then she would sit there doing all she could to get them out of her mouth. She has become quite good at this.

And after it was out, she was happy Kenzie again.

Easter!

Jackson was really excited when we told him it was Easter. He loved looking for the eggs the Easter Bunny hid.

Jordan loved finding them too. They loved playing hide the eggs for awhile after.

The kids got bubbles in their Easter baskets. They got a no spill kind, which is great for Jordan. He got some non-no-spill bubbles for his birthday and the first time he used them he spilled it all.

Jordan trying really really really hard to get that egg open. He had to have Jack help in the end.

Kenzie in her clothes from the Easter bunny. He also got her glasses that match the cute outfit.

She also got these glasses.

I think this is one of the cutest pictures ever. Look how Jordan has his arm around Kenzie. Both are looking and smiling. It's pretty much perfect.

This one is pretty cute too.

The kids with their Easter stuff.

After breakfast we filled up their bubble containers with bubbles and let them go outside and blow bubbles.

Jack's outfit is pretty nice huh?

Jordan blowing bubbles.

Jack got a little cold so he put on his jacket. I was happy to see his new glasses matches his jacket.

After Jordan's nap we went to my parents' house for dinner and the Annual Egg Hunt. Jack loved finding the eggs again.

Kenzie and Doug.

Jordan found a lot of eggs and made a lot of money. When the hunt started all the little kids went one way except Jordan. He went the other way and found a lot of eggs.

Here he is with his egg.

After dinner we played an egg roll game my cousin Julie taught us. It was really fun. To play, you have 2 people each choose a hard boiled egg and they sit across from each other and roll the eggs into each other. The person whose egg doesn't break wins. Then you keep playing until there is only one winner. And this time that winner was me. Jackson absolutely loved the game. He wanted to keep playing it and chose to play that game the next night for our activity for family night.

Later that night the kids played with my dad. They'd sit on his back and then he'd knock them off. They loved it. Actually, Jack kind of loved it. He's kind of scared of this game. But he likes it better when he gets to sit in the front.

Here's Mackenzie in her incredibly cute Easter dress.