Yard Sale Finds!

Our neighborhood has a yard sale every other weekend. Today I decided to head out with E in the stroller and see what we could find. I think we did pretty well! We spent $29 and got all of this:

2 reversable hats for E

2 long sleeve shirts and a pair of jeans for winter for E

2 dresses for E

This mail toy

the ball sipns and sings the ABC song

a barbie kitchen with a TON of food, an apron, a ches hat, a potholder, pots, pans and plates!

I got a new book to read!

look what daddy built!

Keith found a table witha  book with directions on how to build different structures out of the wood pieces. Here is what he attmepted! At the very end it tipped, but he trued and alost did it!

Evelyn at the Childrens museum

Evelyn had so much fun at the museum. This was the first time she really got to explore in her own.

magnates

climbing to see the skeleton

microscope

giant peg board

putting the scarf in the suction thingy!

in and out if the mirrored room!

An Early Birthday Celebration!

The boys wanted to celebrate their birthday while Yaya and papaw were here. So Friday was the day! We got a cake, balloons, presents from yaya and papaw and nana and papa and planned a fun afternoon! We let them open their presents early in the afternoon after lunch at Panera Bread. They got legos from everyone and were (and still are) in heaven! The boy along with daddy and papw built all of the sets they got! Then we went to the Children's museum for free family Friday. After playing we went to the Cheesecake Factory. They kids all love it and are so well behaved there. The best part was when the waiters sang happy birthday to them. They were both exhausted and both fell asleep at the table before we were done! I think they had a really great birthday. Little to they know, the best present is yet to come....a trip to DISNEY!!!

cake

Yaya and Papaw's presents

Nana and Papa's presents

All of the sets put together!

riding with the skeleton

riding with the skeleton

playing in the water

birthday ice cream for the birthday boys!

all tuckered out!

all tuckered out!



Laundry basket fun!

We finally had all of the clothes folded for only the 4th time ever!!! So all of the baskets were empty. The kids thought they were the best toy and had a ton of fun with them. The made mountains out if them and jumped off of the chair onto them and them onto the floor. They had an obstacles course with them. Then they used them as chairs to watch TV! E loved this one!

Then Henry pretended he was a dog and was in a cage! E thought this was a lot of fun!



Daddy's Car

A few days before Yaya and Papaw got here the power steering went out in Daddy;s car. He had a friend look at it and we thought it was fixed...it wasn't! So when papaw got here, we had him look at it. He had a few helpers too!

It ended up that it was the power steering and lucky for us it was part of a recall, so we got it fixed for free!!

Henry Earned his Gold Belt!

Henry has been taking Tae Kwon Do at the base since we have been in Newport. He loves it! Yesterday he had a belt test. I am not exactly sure what it is, but I guess he has to show that he is learning and know the "moves"?! He did it and earned his Gold Belt. He was so happy to get it and it is all he has talked about since! I am so proud of him!!

The Price Is Right!!

When I was a kid, I loved game shows. Oh, so I still do!! :-)  The best part about the few days we did not have school was getting to watch them all day. My favorite was the price is right and press your luck! This last month Tyler was in summer school, so Henry and I (and E) were home every morning. I had the price is right on one day and Henry loved it. Now we watch it together everyday! He keeps saying that one day they are going to say "Henry, come on down, you;re the next contestant on the price is right!" It is so cute! The other day Henry found that we have the price is right for the WII and he wanted to play it. We for Keith and Tyler to play too, so it was great! Henry beat the pants off of all of us! The funniest part was when Tyler won a car in his game and was so excited because now he can go to college!!! Keith won a bedroom suite and Henry told him we needed a bigger house for when it gets delivered! Apparently they think they are actually getting this stuff!! I am having so much fun watching the kids love something that I loved at their ago too!

Back in Cloth

Since I am on a quest to save money, and since we have been here, we have not saved as much as I would have liked, I decided to put E back in cloth diapers. I loved then when she was younger, but stopped when she started solids. Swishing diapers in the potty was just too much for me! This time is different! Keith built me a diaper sprayer that attached to the potty, so no more swishing, I just spray the mess off of it and throw it in the pail! I LOVE IT! What I did not have him do this sooner is beyond me! She seems to really like them too! When she has a new one on, she runs into the living room and shows the boys and Keith. I had a box of diapers that I did not sell before we moved, so we cleaned the garage (only to realize when we were done and had not found them that they were right up front with my sewing stuff!) Oh well, now we have a nice clean garage and we got rid of a lot of stuff, so it was a good thing! I was so happy to find that most of them still fit her, which is a good thing financially, I don't have to buy a lot of new ones, but a bad thing because it means that she has not grown much in the last 7 months! Now I just have to figure out what I want my stash to be! I have Fuzzi Bunz pockets now, and still love them as much as I did before. They are great for around the house when all she has on is a diaper or with a dress. But with pants/shorts on, they are a bit bulky and she would need a bigger size for her booty! I have one swaddlebees and it is super trim! I would love to have more of those, but they are more expensive than some of the others. I have been looking on diaper swappers, but have yet to find some. I ordered some nanas bottoms and bum Genius all in ones, so we will see how I like those now. I loved them when she was newborn, so I hope I like them now too! She still sleeps in huggies, but she is not a really heavy night wetter, so I may try a fuzzi bunz with an extra insert tonight to see how she does. My favorite thing about cloth....they are so cute and I can get them in such cute prints! I just have to restrain myself from buying a ton! So far so good, though! Here are a few pics of her in the fuzzi bunz. I could not get her to be still, so they are the best I could get!