Family Mariners' Game

We went to the Mariners game with all my family (except Richard since he was back in Texas). It was fun night. :)

 Mackenzie spends most of time at games begging for food.

 Coleman looks so big to me in this picture.

 Michelle and Jordan.

 Kenzie, Nati, Jordy, watching the hat trick.

 Mackenzie and Natalie eating Dippin' Dots after grandpa took all the kids (minus Coleman) to get snacks. Michelle went with him. She claimed she wanted a snack... but thinking back I don't remember her getting one.

 Jordan with his Dippin' Dots.

 Coleman ate some fries.

 Grandpa and Alli.

 Grandma and grandpa and the grandkids.

 Kimber, Camryn, grandma, Nati, Alli, Jordan, Grandpa, Jack, Coleman, Sam, Kenzie, Kenna.

 Kenna pulling out the bunny ears.

 Grandpa and Coleman. Coleman really like sprinklers.

Grandma and Camryn.

Coleman's Stats

We took Coleman to the doctor a couple weeks ago. I used to hate taking all my kids to the doctor. It used to be stressful because my kids would try to get into things and would be loud or try to talk to me when the doctor was talking to me. Now they do great and I don't mind doing it. It also helped that it was a really fast visit without much waiting between the nurse and the doctor and then the nurse again for shots. 

His stats:

25 lbs/25th  percentile

33in/25th percentile

I think those are the right numbers :)

Update without Pictures

We had a few big firsts this week and I forgot my camera so I couldn't capture either of them with pictures. I'll just have to settle with words for now :)

Jackson swam for the first time with no floats on at swimming lessons! He was really excited to not have to wear them and he did great. He said it's much harder to float on his back without them.

Today Coleman rode the rides at Wild Waves. He was really excited to try them and loved them. He rode the car ride and first and was squealing and laughing most of the time. And waving and saying "Hi mommy!" every time he saw me. He loved the cars the most, but also liked the boats.

And 2 cute stories:

Yesterday Jordan used his popsicle stick from the popsicle Ashlee had bought him from the ice cream car as a magic wand. Then he said he was going to cast a spell. He said "Abracadabra make me love mommy super much!"

Tonight we went to dinner at Ashlee's house and when we got there Coleman looked out their back sliding door and yelled "jumpy toy!" when he saw the trampoline : ) That's what we call our baby jumperoo (that we have set up still...) and Jordan's Jumpsmart.

Sleeping

 For the last few weeks my kids have been wanting to sleep in the same room. We let them do it in Jordan's room a few weeks ago and they did great the first night, then bad the next night so we hadn't let them until this week. I thought it might help Jordan go to sleep better if he wasn't alone so we tried having him sleep in Kenzie's room. They didn't do well and he ended up in his own room. The next night we let him and Kenzie try sleeping in Jack's room. Jordan did great, but Kenzie had to go back to her room. Last night and tonight they're all in there again and have done good. They have been really tired too from all the playing they've been doing with their cousins :) Last night they decided they want to all sleep next to each other on the same blanket. Doug's was wondering why we needed a 6 bedroom house :) I'm wondering why we need beds.  :)

 Doug was afraid the flash was going to blind him.

 Coleman woke up when we went in his room. He usually doesn't. But this night he did and stood up, then immediately fell over. It reminded us of when Kenzie used to do that almost every night. It was always so cute. She didn't always stand. But she would usually try to sit up. 

 We laid him back down and put his blankie on him, like he likes it to be.

And he went back to sleep :)

Park with Cousins

Michelle wanted to go pick some raspberries. She knew of a place that is pretty far away from my house, so I suggested that we go to a place near my house that we went to last year. But I didn't call and see if they were open or anything. And they weren't. And we drove to a couple wrong farms on are way there. I still feel bad that she didn't get her berries... But since we didn't do that we decided to get 

Little Caesar's Pizza and go to park. 

 Kenna, Alli, Sam, Kimber on the spinning thing.

Cute Kenzie. 

Cute Kenzie and Nati. 

The cousins! Jordan, Jack, Kenzie, Kimber, Camryn, Jack, Alli, Kenna, Nati, Sam. There was a little boy that had been playing with them and he wanted to be in the pictures too... Luckily he sat at the right spot and we could take the pictures without him in it :)  

 Funny faces.

Alli, Kenna, Sam, Jack 

 Alli, Kenna, Sam, Kimber, Jack.

 The cousins minus Camryn.

 Nati and Camryn.

 Ashlee was very nice and splurged on popsicles from the ice cream car.

I wanted to take a picture of Nati, but she only wanted to smile for her mom.  

After the park Shell and I went back to my house. The kids played outside for awhile. 

 I didn't really think Coleman would get all that wet and hadn't put his swimsuit on. But he just climbed in the pool and sat down.

Pool Time

We finally blew up our pool (that Jordan told Ashlee was as big as Doug's brother, Jason's, pool in Arizona).  The boys were excited to finally play in it. Kenzie had gone upstairs and taken a nap so she didn't play in it the first day.

Jordan has been doing awful at bedtime lately. He gets up many times after we put him to bed and  is just trouble. Nothing we do seems to make a difference. Unless we think of something new that he really really wants. Then it might work for one night (like when I told him that he wouldn't be able to use Grandma and Grandpa Crabtree's zipline if he got out of bed. He did great that night.) A few nights ago when Doug got home much later than normal from work, I was putting the kids to bed alone and tried to sit in with Jordan until he fell asleep (like I had the couple nights before about an hour after he had gone to bed) and so I asked Jack to read books to Kenzie and Colie while I was with Jordan. He did it for 15-20 minutes. It was pretty cute when I came down and he was reading to them. Too bad Jordan hadn't fallen asleep. But he was sleeping in Jack's room and still stayed in bed since he didn't want to be sent back to his room. That was a long story for one picture :)

Reading and Funny Faces

I've been working on reading with Mackenzie. She'd doing really well and usually loves doing it.  

She really loves praise and like to do things that people will praise her for doing.

And here's the funny faces: