Kids...

"Kids are definitely the boss of you. Anyone who will barge into the room while you are on the commode is the boss of you. And when you explain to them that you're on the commode and that they should leave but they don't? That's a high-level boss." ~Tina Fey

We made some brownies...licking the spoon is always the best part!

I forgot to mention a couple months ago that Hudson graduated to a booster seat in our cars as of January:

London has had a few more teeth come through the past week.  Her bottom right tooth (next to the front 2), her upper left tooth (next to the top front 2), and her upper right molar.  Poor thing!  No wonder she wanted to hit and bite!  She now has a total of 8 teeth poking through.

Here she is saying, "Cheese!":

Putt-putt with Gigi

My Mom decided to come down and hang out with us for a few days!  While she was here, I realized my Groupon for Shankz was about to expire so we went and played some indoor, blacklight putt-putt!  The ballblaster game was also included on my groupon so we started out with that.  Then we had fun putting our balls through the mouths of sharks, around gorillas, and under sunken pirate ships! 

I happened to leave my new iPhone out in the rain over night so went spent an unfortunate amount of Sat. morning dealing with that.  However, it may have turned out to be devine intervention...we'll soon see!

We have a small little sand pit on the edge of our patio left over from when it was poured not too long ago.  As the sunny days have driven the kids to play outside, they soon discovered this small treasure!  I mentioned it to my mom so she brought some sand toys for them to play with.  You wouldn't believe how much fun this tiny spot of sand has supplied.

Attitude

We have a fiesty one on our hands!  Ms. London has got some attitude!!  She is a little parrot and copies EVERYTHING!!  I gave her "the look" for the first time back around Christmas time and ever since, she will give it right back!!  She has learned that it gets lots of laughs so most of the time she just does it to make us giggle.  We love her and her big personality. : )

Lips pursed and hands on the hips:

London's 1st Time Out (Feb. 27th)

Lately, we've noticed London's choice method of expressing her anger is by hitting.  She gets so mad when she doesn't get her way and she hits anything and everything.  She and I were in the grocery store one day and she was mad because my hands were on the cart.  Of course my hands had to be there so I could push the cart but she just wasn't having it.  She tried to hit me several times and she became so angry that I was dodging her hits that she decided to bite her arm instead.  So we decided it was time for a little intervention and some anger management and put her in her very 1st Time Out. (She knew exactly how it worked after watching Hudson so many times!)

A Plug For My Daddy-O

My Dad is an amazing artist but he and his talents are tucked away in the mountains of Oklahoma with little exposure.  His speciality is doing portraits of people because he loves to connect with the people he paints/draws.  However, he can really do anything, with any media.  He always goes that "Step Beyond" with all of his work and the end product is always so life-like that you feel like you could reach out and touch the person.  You will be amazed!  Please take a moment to check out his website when you have the time and don't hesitate to contact him if you are in the market for some excellent artwork!

 www.georgebramlett.com/

Valentine’s Day

 We had a fun Valentine's Day this year!  It started off on the Friday before with a fun package arriving on our doorstep from Papa & Gigi!!  Hudson was so excited to open it up and show London what was inside!  I know a lot of kids don't really care to much about cards but Hudson loves them and makes sure I read each card multiple times to him.  So he started off with handing me the card that was for Jason and I.  He waited to continue digging in the box until I was done reading it.  Then he found some things that had his name on them!  He got lots of fun things to do art with.  He is VERY into art right now and wants to make art for someone every night.  There was a book full of stickers so we were all covered in stickers before leaving for work/school for the day!  Next, he found London's gifts and was so sweet to show them to her and help her open them.  London got a super cute Mommy & Me book and a magnetic paper doll set!  I have fun playing with that myself! 


Saturday night, Primrose had a Parent's Night Out so all of the Mommy's and Daddy's could enjoy a Valentine's Date Night!  Hudson was very excited to have a pizza, movie, & pajama party with his friends at school!  Jason and I started the night out on the roof top of a wine bar called Crush.  It overlooks the Waterway dancing fountains and the cityscape.  After enjoying a tasty glass of wine and some good conversation, we went to Guri do Sul to stuff ourselves with yummy Brazilian food!  We had a great, much needed, evening together!!


On Valentine's Day, Hudson and London had a party at school. They exchanged Valentine's with their friends and teachers. Unfortunately I didn't take pictures of their Valentine's as usual because I was up too late trying to get everything finished in time! Hudson gave out Ironman cards that came with magnets and we attached lollipops to them. London had Disney Princess cards and I attached homemade baby friendly lollipops to them (made out of baby washcloths and baby spoons).
When we came home on Valentine's Day, we gave the kids our little gifts of love to them.  We got Hudson a little heart filled with chocolates and the old version of Alice and Wonderland.  Unfortunately, he's not too fond of the old animation and music on the movie but he loved the chocolate!  Maybe London will like Alice when she gets a little bigger!  We got London a really good book about rainbows and colors.  She was thrilled with her gift because she is VERY into books right now!  She also liked dancing to the music from her card.

Happy Valentine's Day to all of my Sweeties!