but the pictures are mostly uploaded already :)
I am a little mad at myself for being so behind again, but seriously we have a had a TON going on lately so I guess it is OK...I just know we are going to miss mentioning so many wonderful things the kids have done and said.
I think the biggest accomplishment is their language...no not adding Spainish to the mix...although I have told Alex they are soaking it all up now and he better do it. They are speaking in sentences and surprise me daily with the words they know. I heard Alyssa say Your Welcome the other day...and just this past Monday when I moved the couches to vacuum the living room...Logan put his foot in one of the ruts in the carpet and said...Mommy, my foot in a hole. Probably about a month ago Logan changed from saying pick my up to pick me up. And their prayers are even more exciting now...now they say thank your for this day and thank you for ...then they name a few things...and at the end they say in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen...all on their own. They each have to say their own in their beds each night as well.
We are down to 1 nap a day...don't recall how long ago that happened, but in reading over the blog I didn't see it mentioned anywhere so here it is...probably near the beginning of the year. We usually go down around 2 PM-4PM. I am just glad they are still taking one...It is a wonderful time for Mommy...although with her new calling a lot of that time is spent in the scriptures. I have been trying a lot of new recipes lately...I guess I got tired of the same old from the past 10 years. I guess we are switching gears for a second and talking about what all I have been up to...I did some major spring cleaning...some file purging, moving baby gear to the attic, updating our 72 hour kits, and updating our important documents binder, valuables inventory with a lot of receipts...all kinds of fun stuff...oh and my friends will prbably not even believe this, but after watching the Hunger Games movie (they probably wouldn't believe that I went to the movies either) I READ both Catching Fire and Mocking Jay. Church we had a Family Relations class during March & April and we really enjoyed it...lots of reminders of things we are not doing that we need to be doing like...dating (each other of course :) I need to get some babysitting swapping going on.
Back to the kiddos...they are more exciting anyways...we have expanded our list of movies that we will watch...Grandma brought us The Muppets (frogs) and Lady & the Tramp (doggies or puppies) and we have also started watching Kung Fu (Panda) and Incredibles and How to Train your (Dragon) and we can not forget Treasure Planet (pirates). Monday night A bugs life was on too so Tuesday we had to watch (bugs). On a sad note the monitor in the truck died earlier this year so that stinks, but Aunt Jenny gave us her portable DVD palyer...so we can use it in the car or truck...but on our recent trip we brought (puppies) and wanted to watch, but Mommy forgot that is a Blue Ray disc. I think Daddy is less about getting a TV in our room since we fixed our old TV and put it in the office and have let the kids watch in there while Daddy watched his TV. I can not let them in the guest room anymore since they have started climbing to the top bunk...b/c that would shortly be followed by jumping from the bunk...and getting hurt.
Over St. Patricks weekend most of the Ruske family came up and while the guys golfed the girls and kids went to a magic show...it was fun...and even better FREE :) Some other fun things we have done lately are went to the driving range with Daddy & Doug...in preperation for said golfing outing. We also helped Daddy (and thankfully our wonderful friends helped as well) move our fence form the retaining wall to the ground...lots of hard work, but it is behind us now. Our garden is in so they have been helping water with the hose and their cute little watering cans from Target a duck and hippo. We bought some alpha magnets so we have done some tub fishing...no wonder Logan was able to catch a real fish. Last week we went with Daddy to Camden Arkansas...nothing really exciting to report there other than we got to go with Daddy. And surprisingly we have only been out on the boat a few times this season...I am sure we will make up for it very soon. We had some friends help us weld some extra wheels and the wheels broke so we will see how the second set of wheels do next time we take it out.
We love toys...Alyssa is really mothering her babies and belles and puppies now even setting them at the table and lying them down for naps on pillows with blankets...and she is loving her kitchen...she packs up all of her dishes into her backpack all the time and wants to take them when we leave the house...and she is as fast as can be on her bike now...pedaling all over the house and the park and the gym...wherever we take her bike.
Logan is all about cars, cars, cars...and much to his delight on Monday I found his Big Lightning while super cleaning in the living room...really I was looking for my new shades the kids already lost, but I found it between the desk and the wall, behind the curtians...suspended above the electrical outlet...no wonder it was missing for 3 months...when he woke up from his nap I expected to hear...Big Lightning! nope I heard KA CHOW! over and over again. This little boy has a crazy memory over the 3 months it was lost randomly every 3 weeks or so he would ask me about his big lightning...we are glad to have it back. Logan however is getting a little lazier on his bike...scooting along the floor with his feet...maybe we need to raise the seat so he can't reach the ground.
The tracks on our train table have been removed a few times so that bigger cars and planes could play on the table. Which is fine, but hopefully we don't lose any pieces or we will not get the track back together again...I hate missing things...we are still missing 3 puzzle pieces from 3 different puzzles. ANNOYING!!!! Maybe they are hiding out with my sunglasses and Alyssas slipper. That is all I can think of off the top of my head that are missing at the moment. Logan got a new puzzle about a month ago...16 pieces maybe, but this one does not have the picture in the background so we though it might be too hard for him...nope he did really well with it...and is looking forward to the Lightning and Mater one Aunt Cyndi is bringing for him next week...Alyssa has a tinkerbell one on the way as well.
Daddy broke down...no let me rephrase that...Daddy finally broke Mommy down and he got an i-phone. I thought Alyssa was a whiz at them before, but now that Daddy has one...there is no stopping her now.
