What I Did Over Spring Break

according to Emma: "Go camping, make a robot, and . . .i don't know."

according to Morgan: "Camping." (me: What else?) "Um, nothing else i think. . . .Oh, made a robot" (not a "really alive one", just out of our recycling).On a wonderful, warm Sunday walk with our family

We had a great spring break. Morgan was out of school for a whole 10 days! We didn't do anything really big but i tried to make it special without being too crazy. We ate at the "rest-aur-ant" (McDonald's), went on walks, watched movies, and played skeeball and whack-a-mole at the mall arcade. And of course we went camping. It was really fun. We just went to the State Park near our house and had a wonderful time. It was alot of work getting things ready and camp set up but by the morning i was so happy to be there. I am so thankful to have a husband who knows how to camp and is happy to do the work it requires. It was the first trip with our new tent and the maiden voyage of our canoe. Exciting stuff.

Happy cute Talmage all bundled up for a cold night. He did great! Out on the lake in our very own canoe. (Come on Grandma Chele, you know you want to come out with us!) Tired Talmage in a floatation chariot. After breaking camp we went on a hike with some friends who came up for the day. We found two old rusted out cars along the trail. Morgan got a tick on the hike which was one of his most "exciting" things that happened. As i looked at our pictures i realize that there is nothing that makes me feel more like a real live family than camping does. (did that sentence make sense?) Maybe because camping was such a wonderful part of my growing up life. It feels fabulous to be a family on a camp-out. (You can ask my friend, Sarah, if you want to know the 25 reasons why this is true.) What a cute family!

Anyway it was a great week, but it was fine to have it over too. By the end, Morgan had decided that school is more fun than Spring Break so i guess it was time to go back and our house needed a little attention too. Hope you all had/are having, or will have a great Spring Break too.

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He wore these giant gloves for "Glove day" at school.

Morgan loved his Dr. Seuss week at school and has been begging for green eggs and ham every day . (We made blue french toast but it just wasn't good enough. He is developing a little boy sense of humor. He thinks burping and underwear are hilarious. (He doesn't often burp himself but thinks it is pretty funny in a book or from someone else.) Morgan will happily listen to Magic Tree house books for hours (if i let him). He often tells us new facts that he has learned from them. He and Emma are planning a trip soon. According to them we are going to paddle our canoe across the Atlantic ocean so we can go see the Eiffel tower. Anyone want to join us?

Here she is wearing pajamas from her cousin that are two sizes too big and because it is hard to decide which pink jammies to wear, she put an extra pair of pajama pants on her head

What do Angelina Jolie, the octuplet mom and our Emma have in common? Full, pouty lips. Emma has developed a pouty lip face. Most often she uses them to pout but sometimes it is just a deep thinking face. It is not flattering. The other day she asked me if we could go live by the "Hoowas". I was racking my brain to figure out what friends she might be talking about until she said, "Yea, so then i could learn to do a "hoowa" dance. Ah! She wants to live in Hawaii and dance the hula. Fine by me. Anyone have a job for us there?

What a cutie! Just look at those eyelashes.

Talmage is now four months old. Wow! He is now rolling around quite a bit. He is not a big fan of the hardwood floors in our house. He continues to be very social. He is so smiley and loves to laugh. He loves being tickled and thinks getting his clothes off for a diaper change is very funny. He still isn't sleeping very consistently but we have hope that this stage will pass one day (if it doesn't we may have to send him to live with his non-sleeping cousins). The kids sure love him and always want to hold him and talk to him. He gets ample attention around here.