St Patrick's Day

We had a great St Patrick's Day! We tried to catch one of those sneaky Leprechauns, with our high-tech Leprechaun trap. Carson was Really excited about trying to catch a Leprechaun and imagined up a trap with nets and gears, but in the end we kept it simple with a box and a Twix candy bar as the bait. We did catch the Leprechaun for a moment, but he managed to escape by cutting a little door in our box. For our efforts he left us some chocolate gold coins and dyed our milk green. Just for fun I got the boys socks with green toes, but made sure they were wearing green where it would be seen so they would avoid any pinching. Carson is sure that we will get that Leprechaun next year. I guess we'll see ;)

Day to Day

Things have been low key around here lately, which is good. I like low key. Our daily routine includes lots and lots of smiles out of our Lily girl who seems to have become exponentially happier since getting tubes in her ears. Lily also loves to pull herself up onto this little musical toy and plays with it almost daily. Lily, being the youngest, has to watch her brothers have fun without her. When the boys go outside she will plant herself by the sliding glass door and watch the boys play for long periods of time and make little noises trying to get their attention. This little display is both cute and sad. Lincoln likes to get out the magformers everyday and "muild" (Lincster has a hard time with his b sounds). He builds anything from supersonic jets to bathrooms . . . whatever tickles his fancy for that day, and has to leave his creations built until Nate gets home from work so that Dad can see his creations. Carson plays Wii most days (for a limited period of time only), but we always counterbalance that with reading. Carson is becoming a great little reader. And we have been reading a lot lately for school so that he can complete his 600 minutes of reading this month and earn a Roaring Springs pass. I Love reading with him! It is so exciting seeing him catch on to reading. The low key life suits us. We love our day to day routines.