SpLaSh LaGoOn!!!!!

For spring break this year I really wanted to do something fun. One of my friends gave me some advice that I really want to listen to. . . she told me to plan something fun or go on a little trip EVERY chance you can while your husband is in school! Who knows how long we'll live in the East! While we're here I want to experience it! So I planned a little trip to an indoor water park in Pennsylvania. I was nervous that it would be super busy because it was spring break but dental school's spring break is not the same as everyone elses! We picked the best time to come! It was totally worth it! It was even fun for the adults! Kwynne was such a good sport to go on the slides with me even tho she is pretty close to her due date! We had so much fun. We also discovered Steak and shake. AMAZING. SERIOUSLY! We might have stopped there twice on our trip to get a milk shake :)

The day before we went to the water park we drove down to Pittsburgh to go to Ikea and on the way back to Erie Kwynne spotted the biggest outlet mall I have ever seen. It was awesome! We shopped till we dropped! Literally! Well, shopped until Brody dropped :) Gotta love the good prices at the outlets!!!












I'm glad I found this pic on my camera . . Doug must have taken it. The day we got home me and Krew crashed on the couch together. Nothin like a good long day of play!

The rest of spring break. . .

It was so nice having Doug home for an entire week! He worked on a few house projects, and spent lots of qt with me and the boys! Thanks to Doug working with him, Krew graduated from his trike! He's loving to ride his big boy bike around!


Yes alot of this took place during spring break as well. . . . Our poor neighbors probably wonder if Krew ever pees in the toilet. Not while the grass is showing! He REALLY likes to take care of his business outside.

Krew had lots of fun playin with his daddy over spring break. Needless to say that Krew didn't really think it was a good idea for Doug to go back to school on Mon :) . . . We love you Doug! I can't wait until you retire and we can spend all day everyday together :) :) :) . .. . that might be a while.

Opening Presents

Since we didn't have Krew's party on his actual birthday his birthday seemed quite like any other day. . . Until we got packages from Grandma, Aunt Ash, and Aunt Meg! Thanks guys! The gum was prob. his fav. present lol.

It took him a min. to warm up to this spiderman mask from aunt Ash . . .

But now he LOVES this mask. He even HAD to wear it to the grocery store. Lucky me, I got to go to the grocery store with spiderman! He even flicks his wrist down and pretends to shoot webs at people! I felt very safe :)

Krew also loved his "learning letter" color book from grandma Terrie!

Krew's Birthday Partay

I wasn't planning on throwing Krew a party this year but a few of my friends let me know that Krew definitely WOULD remember this birthday so I went ahead and planned a party. Ok, my friend Carolyn pretty much planned this party. Krew LOVED IT! He deserves it to that good boy. This past year hasn't been easy on him but he's been a trooper. We love this little guy!

I made the kids cardboard cars from the movie Cars.

We hit a Piniata. . .









The loot . . .




Krew sportin the adorable glasses he got from his "grills" of girls :) aka: Ragan, Keannady, and Tate.

A close up of the cake. Big thanks to my friend Rachel D. for making it!

Letters: D & E

Krew and I have been working on learning his letters. He is starting pre-school in the fall and I'm not super concerned that he knows them perfectly but I would like him to at least have a taste for them. I learned when I potty trained this boy that when trying to teach him something- especially something important- its go big or go home :) So I prepared, (much more than I did for potty training) I got a coloring book with letters in it, my wonderful mom sent me a dry erase book with letters in it, I got crayons and markers and away we went. I went over a letter per day with him and It just wasn't sinking in. I'd ask him Krew, what does A say? and he would say "DUH" or what does O say? and he would say "Aaaaa" So I decided that we needed to spend more time on each one and perhaps do some activities that he would remember. I decided I would take pics of what we did and make him a book of everything we did associated with that letter. Last week was the letter D. Krew learned how to get Dressed, We went to lunch with Doug, our Dad :), Krew wore his Dinosaur shirt around:

We went thru all of Krew's toys and picked out the toys that started with the letter D because I realized there was quite a few.


After we picked out all the toys Krew said "hey momma- I want the D-D-diggers to D-D-dig!" I was quite impressed and knew that I needed to make this a "big deal." So as I was racking my brain of something to do I remembered that I saw this fun thing to do- Fill the tub up with snow! After 5 heavy shovelfulls of snow our bath tub was full, Krew was happier than a lark, and those diggers dug until they were dead! :) - such a great idea to keep him occupied all day long!!


We did some Dancing. . .

This is one of Krews' fav. treats. . . He likes to Dip.

This week we're working on E and I have lots of great ideas for this letter! -NOT!- All we have done so far is make some eggs! wahoo! Hope he remembers the fun he had doing that :)

Just some fun we've been having. . .

We haven't done anything crazy exciting lately but we have been having a little bit of fun. . . .
For playgroup last week, we went roller skating! IT WAS SO FUN! Even tho it was spring break it was suprisingly not busy at all! There was only a handful of us there! The kids could bring anything that rolled to ride around the rink so we brought krews trike and I pushed Brodster around in the stroller. Some of my friends and I decided to put skates on our boys which lasted not long and then we put our skates on and I'm not gonna lie it was pretty fun :) :) Kinda felt like I was in middle school again! LOL!

Krew wanted to go shovel the snow with his dad the other day but he DID NOT like the snow flying in his eyes- so, dad found a great alternative: snow glasses! aka: sun glasses! . . . shoveling in style . . .

Our friend Ragan decided to show me and Krew her dance poses the other day, they are amazing! She tried to teach Krew some of her moves but he just doesn't bend/ jive like Ray can . . .


She showed us how she can do a bridge. . .

. . . . and then Krew said look at my bridge momma! I can drive some trucks under it! This is the male version of a gymnastics bridge. Much more useful, you can drive trucks under it!

Brody has been LOVING his baths lately! When I put the boys in together he gets so excited! Krew is such a nice big brother to just sit in the bath with him and dump water on his feet so they don't get cold.



This is what I can down the stairs to the other day- he couldn't even make it to his bed he was so tired! LOVE it when nap time presents its self this way!