Soccer

Jaxson had his first soccer game on Saturday, the first few games were canceled because of snow. So he was really excited that he finally got to play on Saturday. Nick is the assistant coach and loves it! Jax was the main defender, although sometimes he would get sidetracked and not pay attention or he would be so excited to go after the ball that he would leave his post on the field and chase after the ball with the other kids. But it was so cute to watch and both of the teams scored a few goals. The highlight of the game was a giant worm that Jax and some of the other kids found, they were on the side taking their break and three of them came running over to me and very excitedly showed me the worm...it was slimy and disgusting but the boys thought it was just about the coolest thing ever. Papa Kirk, uncle Colby and Alex came to watch the game too. Jax cant wait for his game next weekend, maybe he will even be able to find another worm!

Easter

This post is a little late, I know I'm slacking on my blogging lately...I don't want to hear it!

On Easter we went to my Mom's house for our traditional Easter brunch, needless to say I ate entirely too much food. I think everybody ate too much, but the food tasted sooo good and none of us seemed to have a full button that day. After we had our delicious food we went outside so that the kids could have an Easter egg hunt. Jax and Gabe immediately started running all over the backyard searching for eggs and after about 30 seconds Ella caught on too. After the kids had found all of their eggs we went to the front yard for the adult Easter egg hunt. Every year my mom usually hides a "golden egg" for all of the "big kids" to find. Inside the egg is $100, for us poor folk that is a really big deal! Although I am ashamed to admit that Nick and I have NEVER been the ones to find the egg! This year Colby found it, and the years before that Dani and Derek found it. I think it's rigged...either that or Nick and I just really suck at Easter egg hunts. After the kids and adults had found the eggs the kids played outside with some of the things the Easter Bunny had brought them, then we went inside and proceeded to eat even more food. Which was totally unnecessary but so good and so worth it! As usual the Easter brunch was fabulous and we all had so much fun.

Daddy's Birthday

Yesterday was Nick's birthday...29, what an old man! Nick had to work for a few hours yesterday so while he was at work the kids got ready for Daddy's birthday. They both made him birthday cards, although Jax helped Ella a little bit with her card for Daddy. Jax even cleaned up his playroom so that it would be nice and clean for when Daddy came home. Jaxson and I made a birthday cake too, he helped me stir the batter in the bowl and while it was in the oven, he made sure he asked me AT LEAST every minute if the cake was done or not...he said that he had been waiting 30 hundred hours for the cake to bake and he was sick of waiting. When the cake finally came out of the oven, he had to wait another 30 hundred hours for it to cool down so that we could decorate it. When I told him that the cake had cooled enough for us to start decorating it he said FINALLY MOM! Jax and I wrote on the cake with red and green frosting, red is Daddy's favorite color and green is Jaxson's favorite color. Then Jax helped me put all of the candles in the cake, he was very proud of the cake that he made. Everytime I turned my back he would stick his finger in the frosting, the he would tell me to check on the cake and make sure that the frosting was ok. When Daddy got home from work the kids gave him a shirt and the special cards that they had made, then we lit the candles, I'm surprised the smoke alarm didn't go off...29 candles is a lot! Later that night Nick and I went and had some yummy sushi, JUST THE TWO OF US!!! It was so nice for us to be able to actually go out to dinner and be able to carry on an adult conversation....thanks to Dani and Derek for watching the munchkins!

Art project

The other night Jaxson told me that he wanted to pretend to be a scientist and do a project. I asked him what kind of "project" he wanted to do and he said "I want to draw circles on a paper, but Mom I want you to cut dem out, and den I want to draw other stuff on another paper and glue da cirles onto da paper dat I draw other stuff on. Ok Mom?" He said that he needed EXACTLY 4 pieces of paper. He got out his crayons and his glue stick and got right to work on his project. When he had drawn his circles on the paper he told me to cut them out for him. He watched me the whole time I was cutting them out, I asked him if I was doing it right and he said "Uhh...well...sort of Mom...well I guess your doing a pretty good job Mom." When I had cut out all of the circles he started gluing them on and coloring all over the paper. Of course Ella had to get in on this project too, so she sat in her highchair and colored too. When Jax was done with his project he held it up and said "Mom, my project is done. I'm going to call it the conductor one hundred forty five." Who knows where the name of the project came from, but he took it very seriously and was very proud of himself when he had finished.

Hide and Seek

Jax thought it would be fun to play hide and seek this morning, Jax has his own rules for playing hide and seek...for instance, from his hiding spot, he yells "Mom, don't come and look under my bed until I say you can." This is because he doesn't want you to find him too soon. He doesn't care that you know where he is, he just wants you to find him when HE decides it's time to find him. Then it was Mommy and Ella's turn to hide, if you could consider getting into Jaxson's tent with Ella laughing and giggling the whole time hiding, then I guess you could say that we found a great spot to hide. Then Jax decided that it was time to play hide and seek downstairs. From his hiding spot he informed me that I could come and find him now, then 2 seconds later, he told me that he didn't want me to find him yet. He started telling me where I could look for him...which was hilarious. Then after a few minutes he told me that I could look under the table in the dining room because that is where he was hiding. Oh how I wish he could stay this young and innocent forever.

Movie time

Last night Jaxson decided he wanted to watch his dinosaur movie in his playroom (he has been really into dinosaurs lately) when his little sister saw him getting comfy on his elmo couch, she decided she wanted to join him. Jax got up to get "Giraffee" and before he could sit back down Ella had plopped herself down right in the middle of the couch. I was anticipating a fight when he saw her on his couch, but I was wrong. He looked at her and smiled and gently moved her over to one side of the couch, sat down next to her and gave her a kiss and said "Is sissy gonna watch da dinosaur movie with brother?" She grinned and then started jabbering something in her own special language...which nobody understands. It was so cute seeing the two of them cuddled up on the couch watching a movie, I knew Ella wasn't going to last long, she isn't too into movies lately so lucky I took some pictures before she got bored.

Lil Mama

Ella has really been into her baby dolls lately, one of her baby dolls has to sleep in her crib with her, along with her teddy bear named munchie, her stuffed ghost named ghosty, a bunny rabbit, and a monkey...oh ya, and her blankie...this doesn't leave much room left over for Ella but don't even think about putting her to sleep without the whole crew! The other day Ella walked over to her highchair with her baby and put her in and looked at me and said "fork fork fork FORK" I think she may have wanted a fork, what do you think? I got her a fork and then she said "bowl bowl BOWL!" Once princess FINALLY had everything she needed she walked back over to the highchair and pretended to feed baby, then when baby was done eating she walked into the bathroom, got some toilet paper, and walked over to baby and started wiping it's nose. Then it was time for baby to get out of the highchair, which resulted in a mini princess tantrum because baby wouldn't come out of the highchair as easily as Ella would have liked. Once she decided to actually let me help her get the baby out of the highchair the fit ended. Not a moment too soon either. After her baby had eaten and it's nose had been wiped, she kissed and hugged the baby, then dropped it on the floor and decided it was time to clean up. She took the bowl and fork over too the sink, stood on her tiptoes and dropped them into the sink. Then she looked at me and said "wipes" which means she wants a wet paper towel. I gave her the paper towel and she proceeded clean the floor for me, then walked all around the house looking for stuff to throw away in the garbage. I'm hoping to have her cleaning the entire house by the time she is two...that way I won't have to do the cleaning anymore!