A was a scientist for career day at school. Once the costumes were out, M spent a week in his lion costume and the boys started dressing T up whenever they could.
A and M spent almost an hour while we were out in the backyard one day, picking beautiful flowers to put in my "beautiful" hair.
While listening to conference Saturday morning I let the boys use watercolors and markers to color a few eggs, as long as they tried to listen a little and decorate them according to what they heard. This is what K came up with and I was pretty impressed.
A also drew a church.
And a watermelon....I'm sure this must correlate with being fed and nourished spiritually, right?
During snack time on Sunday I suddenly realized that it was April fools day so I gave every hard boiled eggs for a snack, except for N and K. I gave them raw eggs. They loved it and went and friend them up on a pan to eat. Little did I know that A would be very sad and offended that I didn't play a joke on him, too.
I LOVE general conference. This year Travis wasn't here with us and I imagined pure chaos and frustration. But everyone was so good, and Noah sat down in front of the the computer with me and listened to EVERY word. It was so amazing....I don't think he has even listened to one entire talk in the past (well maybe one). But he was so riveted and laughed and remembered all kinds of things I didn't even remember. And he was so sad when there were only two speakers left and it was almost over. It was such a great feeling to see the fire light a little.
T on Easter Sunday and I cannot believe I didn't take a better picture of her than this. I will have to dress her up again soon and redo...
The day after Easter we had a little neighborhood Easter egg hunt at our friends' house down the street. I love having wonderful and fun neighbors.....please please let us live by someone nice when we move!
Everyone who has seen Kaden running around in the past month has wondered about his mother for sure. The bottom of his shoe has been flapping and we DO have another pair of shoes but he just kept putting these ones back on and I never noticed until we are out and about. They finally got so bad that his feet actually poked out so I threw them in the garbage so he would not have a choice to put them back on...
T loves to stand on things, especially anything unsteady and dangerous. She is crazy. And tipsy to start with. In fact on this very picture I can see a small mark on her left cheek that is road rash caused from this very problem. She loves to step on and off the curb over and over and over, but she is NOT good at it. Sigh.
But this box we got in the mail for M's bday was the best thing ever for her. Set it in the middle of the living room and it was hours of entertainment and joy for her without the road rash and constant vigilance on our part.... 
And the big day finally arrived for little man Micah. He seriously has asked almost daily for the past year, how much longer it would be until his birthday. He came into our room in the morning and I hugged him and said "Micah! Happy Birthday!" And his face little up and he went running into the kitchen announcing to the others that it was his birthday. A few minutes later he came back and I said "Did you know you are 4 years old now?" and his face and smile got even bigger as he gasped and said "What?!" And then went running into the kitchen to announce to everyone that he was 4 now. I'm waiting for him to start the count down all over again, but it's been like 5 days, and he hasn't asked about his next birthday yet. This kid has been so much fun for us. Someone from church was telling me the other day that the only one of our family he was going to miss was Micah...he was just being mean and sarcastic of course, but even in his meanness he had to admit he would miss Micah. Somehow he just makes people happy.
When Micah says he wants a birthday, he mostly is talking about the cake (mostly things are about treats and food with him). Since he planned this cake for a year, he has gone from wanting a volcano to a dragon, to a castle, to a few other things, and at the last minute decided he wanted a flower cake with pink and purple on it. I thought that was hilarious. I think his choice was influenced by Easter a few days before and by T's bday cake last month. But it was a fun cake and the flower cookies were a huge hit with everyone. 
Happy Birthday to my big boy. And please don't get any bigger.... 
Every since these 3 babes were born (in our ward) I have been thinking we need to line them up and take their pics together. I final did it at our last playgroup, and saw why maybe we hadn't bothered to before. It took forever to get anyone to sit still for even a picture this awful. But at least I can see them all and remember them...
