Atlanta Fun

Matt had to spend a week in Atlanta a couple of weeks ago. We went to spend Friday night with him. Friday we went to the Children's Museum. The boys LOVED exploring and playing with all the exhibits. This was the first time they have gone and done something like this. They love running free and playing.

Here are a few (ok... A LOT) pictures from the fun two days!

Sophie was loving watching the boys play!

They loved the mini shopping carts!

This was their FAVORITE part!! Fishing!! or maybe just getting wet...

Love the different personalities on the unstable bridge

Working together

There were balls everywhere and you would put them in these machines and they would drop or shoot them. SO fun!

There was a little show at the museum about Clifford the Big Red Dog and fire safety. The man asked for volunteers and Spencer hopped up and didn't even think twice about it. Shep sat there for a little bit then followed after his brother. I love how they participated so well. Here is a video of them doing stop, drop, and roll.

On Saturday before we drove home, we went to the Atlanta zoo. It was such a beautiful day and the boys loved all the animals!

My little meerkats.

Love the picture of the family of giraffes. My boys (and Soph) love giraffes.

Pointing at the birds while walking through the tree house.

My little monkey

We were very excited about the Panda exhibit!

There was a petting zoo and we loved seeing the goats up close!

Shepherd loves animals and I love this picture of him bending down to pet this sweet goat.

No zoo experience is complete without a ride on the train! ALL ABOARD!!

SPRING HAS SPRUNG

No Fort Friday tomorrow because we are going to Atlanta to spend the night and go to the children's museum. Matt has been up there all week and we have missed him! Last weekend we took some pictures with animals. The kids loved the animals!

I love this sweet picture! My 3 little love bunnies!

This is my favorite! This was taken right before Sophie fell forward squishing the chicks. Then Spencer didn't realize he was squishing one with his hand... the poor chicks.

SO.. right now I have taken 887 pictures in the month of March and it is only March 22....yea I love to take pictures of my children!

FORT FRIDAY

I saw a blog where a mom builds a new fort for her kids every Friday. I thought WHAT FUN and I knew my boys would love it! So Happy Fort Friday!!

Today's fort!

Last weeks fort. Sophie loved playing with her brothers.

I'm not very creative when it comes to my fort building, I may have to google ideas for weeks to come! :)

I should be folding laundry...but we play instead

MARCH is here! I love this time of year! It really gives me spring fever...of course we have had spring like temps around here, so winter hasn't been that bad.

Here is a QUICK update on the kiddos...

Sophie is now 6 months old!! She weighed 14 pounds and 2 ounces at her 6 month check up and is 25 inches long. She is a petite little girl! :) She is so funny! She loves her brothers and watches everything they do! She is rolling everywhere and will be scooting before we know it. A few weeks ago, I would have described her as quiet. Well that is not the case the past few days! She is squealing all the time and grunts to get your attention! It is hilarious! When I am nursing in the mornings, she knows Matt is getting ready for work in our room. She will stop eating look at our door and grunt, trying to get him to peak his head out. We are practicing sitting up and I am hoping she will become more stable before Easter so we can get cute pictures of the 3 of them. :) She discovered her tongue last week and is now sticking it out all the time. It's so adorable! When the boys were this age, they never watched tv but occasionally a Baby Einstein. Well since the boys LOVE to watch Disney Junior and we watch it some in the morning, Sophie loves it! Whenever Mickey Mouse Clubhouse comes on, she stops and looks at the tv. Oh my! Oh well! It isn't going to kill her! Last week I put her in the boys' play car. She LOVED it!!

We went on a walk the first day and Shep wanted to push her. What a great big brother!

They all love to watch cars on our walk.

All she wants to do now is be in the car and chase Shep and Spence around. Of course the boys just eat it up!

(Excuse the mess, my children are making memories)

The main thing that has changed with the boys is their speech. It has really taken off the past 3 weeks! They are saying 7-8 word sentences. Shepherd is talking NONSTOP! He can tell you anything and everything! I love it! He keeps everyone is line! Spencer can say just as much, but just does what he wants instead of talking about it. I love the different personalities.

Last Friday we celebrated Dr. Seuss' birthday. We read Green Eggs and Ham before breakfast and then ate green eggs. After I read the book I asked the boys if they wanted to try some green eggs. Spencer looked at me and said, "No Mama. Yellow eggs." I made them anyway and he gobbled them down!

For snack time we made Dr Seuss hats after reading the Cat in the Hat. They were yummy!

The week before we played with the color white and read books about snow.

More playtime...

These two love to play together!

Coloring

HANDSOME!!!

The bees are out and the boys have been chasing them around the yard. I think they found one!

HERE IT IS!

Day to Day

Shepherd and Spencer love to learn. Every morning we spend time reading and learning. The boys have picked up very quickly on their letters and numbers. I use a lot of different sources in my planning for their activities. I love pinterest and have recently discovered the ABC Jesus Loves Me website. This summer I hope to spend more time organizing a curriculum to start in the fall for them with 3 year old preschool.

We found these rocks outside and painted them to study the letter "R r".

We have been practicing identifying our lower case letters. b, d, p, and q are tricky!! Here we took paint pens and they would place the paint on the letter I called out.

This was the first time doing an activity like this and they did a great job! Spencer sometimes got carried away and did more than one letter at a time, but that's ok!!

Other news...

Happy Valentine's Day from our Love Bug!

The boys are talking nonstop these days. I may have to start a funny quote section on each blog update. Shep is really cracking us up with his talking. Last week I told him to drink his milk and his reply was, "No Mommy, it's nasty!"

Oh, how our days are filled with so much fun!

Winter??

We have all been sick at our house over the past 3 weeks. It has come and gone through all of us. I am tired of all the coughing and snotty noses and just feeling crummy... The bright light through all of this has been the weather. I am not one to stay inside and when I do for more than a couple of days, I get cabin fever bad! We have been so lucky to have beautiful days in the 60s and even low 70s. Through the coughing...we always make it outside at least for a little while. That has gotten us through the tough days. Now that we are all on the mend, the weather has turned cold... go figure! We may just have to visit the Chick-fil-A playground this weekend!

Picnics outside

Mommy's jasmine is starting to have some blooms

But not for long...

Sweet boys

Cutie pie!

Glad he saved the flower :)

Silly Spencer

They are so lucky to have each other to play with!