April



We started off the month with a few little April Fool's jokes:

the night before I froze bowls of cereal for each kid, so that when they went to dig their spoon in, it wouldn't work! CJ could tell something was off, and pretty much started crying when I tried to get him to take a bit of it, ha ha. He was scared and didn't want to touch it.

I super glued some pennies to our back porch, because they always love to find and pick up pennies. Apparently Payton got a couple off by using a hammer.

For dessert we had dirt and worms.

I had wanted to switch the boys into each others' beds, but couldn't figure out how to do it by myself, pregnant, since casey was still at work and got home late. So instead I just switched their outfits. Occasionally I'll lay out clothes that I want them to wear, and CJ actually came down wearing the shirt, shorts, and underwear that are Payton's :)

Oh and I did the whole toothpaste in Oreos trick, but Payt was able to figure out which ones were real and avoid the fakes.

Fun! :)

 

 

 

After FHE one night, the boys had a marshmallow gun fight.

Brooklyn was so cute to want to come help me make dinner, so I put her to work assembly the salads on the kids plates. She did great!

There was a lunar eclipse that I woke the boys up to go outside and see around 1am. I didn't have to wake Casey up, but he came outside to see it too. Pretty cool!

Loved the cool evenings and being able to play outside. Payt was shooting hoops, CJ was drawing with chalk, and Brooklyn was trying to be like daddy and practice her golf swing :)

Andy and Bekah went on their pioneer trek, so I watched their kids Thursday after school through dinner time, and then had Parker all day Friday, while Emily and Cherryl had the older 4. Since it was Good Friday and there was no school, Emily and I decided to brave the Science Center, with 11 kiddos. Not only is it pretty crazy to even attempt that, but HOLY COW was the place way more packed than I've ever seen it before. Like I'm talking 2 whole lines wrapped around from the admission desk, to the ramp where you walk in. SO CRAZY BUSY!!!

 

 

But lucky for us, we didn't lose any kids and they all had fun.

When 2 year olds rule the world, ha ha :)

 Brooklyn and Parker commandeered this huge globe for at least 10 minutes, and just kept changing the color, etc on it. It was adorable.

Payton had slept on the bean bag downstairs one night during spring break, and I forgot that CJ never got to. So when Payton spent the night at Beck's one night, CJ asked if he could, and loved it.

CJ had his very first Let's Play Music recital and loved every minute of it.

He did such a great job! He really seems to understand what he's learning (more than me!) and answers questions correctly, plus can sing in tune (which I can't do! :)

I love that he has something that makes him happy and that he's good at. I only wish the other 2 videos I had would upload, but they're not cooperating!

Oh and Payton caught a turkey. Only in Lehi do random turkeys walk around with about 10 babies following them, fly up in trees when the dog chases them, and lay eggs in the driveway. (Those all happened at my parent's house.)