Ethan started working on his “+1″ math facts today. If only all days were this easy! After we finished our school work, I let the kids watch an episode of Liberty’s Kids on netflix. It’s an animated show set against the American Revolutionary War. They enjoy it and it’s a little break for me. Swimming lessons were canceled for the evening because of a power outage. That meant that I could get my run in earlier.

Nathan and the kid finished their evening by playing outside and pulling weeds from the rockbeds!

They filled up the wagon a couple of times.

Earlier this afternoon, while Isaac was napping, I worked on some things on the computer. When I got up to do something else, I found Audrey napping in the middle of the den.

She was wearing her “princess” mask” and was fast asleep.

And, a bonus photo from the other day:

We call this the lion princess. I can’t believe she pulled this costume out and then put her princess dress on over it. That’s our girl!

If I’m feeling good, I may try to do the nickle dickle race in Waconia in September, but I’m not training for anything right now. It’s just in the back of my mind as a possibility.

We spent some time at the park this afternoon and I was able to get some good photos:

I think we’re going to do a beach morning tomorrow! With Nathan along it’s always more fun! I do less calling out, “Don’t go out so far!”

So, we spent the morning at the beach and the weather was perfect. I’ve never seen my kids happier than when they are playing in the water. It was an added bonus that we ran into some people we knew from our church. We shared beach toys and they helped watch the boys when I took Audrey to the bathroom (so much easier than having to take all three when they would rather be playing).

We did school this afternoon and wrapped up the day with swimming lessons. Ethan has lessons at the same time as the Baker kids. Audrey looks forward to seeing “Erica’s sister” when we go. Poor Audrey was a little confused when I explained that is was Tim’s sister, not Erica’s. I got to hear all about the Warrior Dash that Kristen did. Crazy! I can’t even imagine a race that had enough people that had starting times all day for 2 days.

I got out and ran a tiny bit tonight. It was mostly walking since I’m trying to be patient with increasing running. I’m basically starting the Couch to 5k over again. I know that I have the endurance to run farther than I am now, it’s just the physical part I want to be careful about.

How about a photo? This morning, all three waving to Nathan as he left:

A few minutes later, we were greeted with this sight.

Nathan and I laughed so hard. I was still chuckling as I tucked the kids in their beds even though they were already changed back into their own pj’s. I can’t believe my kids are old enough to have secret plans. In fact, Ethan had several secrets. He was a bit sad last night. He tried to sneak out of his room for a secret meeting he had (apparently) set up with Audrey. Unfortunately, I said, “no” to secret meetings and he discovered that Audrey had forgotten and had fallen asleep.

The 5 hours was broken down into three different times of playing outside. Nathan took over for most of tonight’s shift! I was doing the dishes and I looked up and saw my family going down the road. So, I ran after them with a camera.

Now I’m dreaming about moving to a place where we can do this sort of thing for more than half of the year!

That’s pizza on his face. It has since been washed off!

Supine Hamstring Stretch

These work best when your toddler isn’t lying on top of you. It’s perfectly acceptable for him to join in on his own though. You can even make it a family event and have more children join in on the fun.

The gang’s all here. The boys let Audrey enter.

Finally, here’s Audrey looking so pleased with herself. Notice that she has given up most of her bed to her stuffed animals. In fact, they get to sleep under the sheet. Audrey is choosing to sleep on the end of the bed where the sheet is tucked. So, she’s just under the top cover.

]]> http://www.thefritzes.net/2011/04/isaacs-bed-and-a-few-other-shots/feed/ 3 http://www.thefritzes.net/2011/03/room-shuffle/ http://www.thefritzes.net/2011/03/room-shuffle/#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2011 01:04:35 +0000 amy http://www.thefritzes.net/?p=2052 When I’m feeling “stuck” I find that I like to change things around in the house. It’s kind of a strange coping mechanism. Since I found myself in that state of mind yesterday, I decided we would change things up.  I could have picked a minor change, but I didn’t feel like doing something minor.

Yes, Audrey has her own room now.

That meant a few other things had to happen.

No more changing table in that room because our baby (who isn’t much of a baby anymore) has a new room with an awesome roommate.

No photo of Isaac’s bed yet since it wasn’t made when I took the photos this morning. You can see Ethan’s new bed though. The bunk bed is disassembled so that their boy room is toddler-proofed. The crib is in pieces. No more crib in our house! Now, we just need to figure out how to sleep well with these new arrangements.

From the beginning of the day (it snowed the rest of the day)

Front view:

Proof of Nathan’s attempt to drive up our hill:

Hard to see out the back with the ice on the window:

Hutchinson, which is 20 min west of us, got 9.5 inches of snow. I’m not sure what our official numbers were, but it was probably something close to that. We got tons of rain last night before it turned to slush and ice and then the snow started. The roads were horrible this morning. There was so much snow, that the roads had huge piles of snow down the middle for several blocks. The pictures don’t really do it justice.

Nathan decided to call this a vacation day. That was the silver lining. It has been nice to have him home. He made caramel popcorn with oil pop popcorn. The kids were amazed! (Bonus that you can actually see the length of Audrey’s hair. It’s a little wild since it dried with the pony tails in it.)