Missed a week but I'm back. We've been busy as always. Evelyn's had a hard couple weeks, just a real rough go of it. It started with her trying to stack two 24in play ground balls on top of each other, then jump on them, trying to balance herself on top...like playground ball airplane of sorts, and ended like this...

Serious facial rug burn. She was extra upset because Caden laughed at her before he run upstairs to get help....But really, I mean, that had to be a little funny to watch, but so sad. She also had her first real bike crash. We were at a play group at the church where everyone brought their bike to ride in the gym. There were only like 3 kids but Evelyn splayed herself within 5 min

Minor injuries but not minor screaming....Then...She was having some trouble with playing basket ball at home. We figured out how to lower the hoop in our dive way and the kids have so much fun out there, but for some reason one night Evelyn just couldn't keep her footing. It went from this...

To this...

And then of course there was the day of utter boredom...it was awful for them..

They got over it though. Nothing a little paw patrol can't fix. They got to stay the night at grandma's that night and I forgot Caden's night time diapers but found an old one of Evelyn's. He did his best to show and tell me all about it...

We've also had the remainder of our branches chipped and taken from our back yard and even got some lilac trees transplanted into our front yard. Caden was a big help in the removal process and Steven dug in the ridiculously rocky dirt at our house to get them in while I pulled up grass and tried to give our front yard some kind of shape.

 

Now that the branches in the back are gone, we've got a lot of raking to do and I mean A LOT. The pine needle back there are nearly knee deep in some spots, and that's not even an exaggeration. good thing we've got lots of help though...

 Caden gets it done one dump truck load at a time.

And Evelyn occupies her self with other things..

She did get a nice picture of her daddy working hard

And even a good one of Daisy...Doesn't she look majestic...

Evelyn and Caden have come up with a new game that keeps them busy for nearly an hour or more. They pretend they're going to Japan (like in Toy Story 2) and pack suit cases and make the "couch" in to an airplane with a bench and Caden's booster seat. It's a mess afterward but they get along so well in Japan!

There getting along and actually playing together has increased a lot lately. I think it's because of Caden's newly acquired mad hide and seek skills...

and also their mutual love of Jake the Pirate. This is on of about twenty pictures like this from they're camera.

 

 We had a freak sunny day hail storm so I sent them out with an umbrella and they loved it

It really is funny how much they've gotten along this week. I went to mutual last night but apparently they went to bed on good terms because when they woke up they couldn't stop hugging each other and Caden wanted to give her a big kiss, so hesitantly she kissed him right on the lips, then wiped her mouth of, tipped her head to the side and said, "Huh! I thought it would've been a lot more slobbery."

We got new game this week at the goodwill. Jumpin' monkeys. Gma has this game so we had to get it. We've been playing it nearly every night and Caden's developed a strategy.

I also snagged some pictures of play time here and there this week.
The first being taken by Evelyn...he likes his privacy (or pry-see! as Cade says)

 We scored a cars blanket at a yard sale. Caden LOVES Mator

 Caden was the dino/dragon and Steven was the knight

 Then Evelyn made Steven be the dinosaur and he was not too happy about it

 Evelyn saved this screen shot of her coloring on the Ipad so she must have thought it was pretty good...and she wasn't wrong

And Caden has discovered the many fun things you can do with a fly swatter. You can also hear how happy Evelyn is in the background...

 

 

 

Caden's also been really helpful in the kitchen. I caught him licking all of the grape tomatoes then putting them back in the fridge and then I found this when I went to make tacos

He took full bites and a couple test bites then put it back so when I found it, it was fully molded.

Today Evelyn proved yet again, that she is just like her mommy. We get home from the gym and she run straight to her room yelling, "Can I take my jeans off! I gotta get some sweat pants on!"

Caden has also proved he is much like me and Evelyn like her daddy one day when we were out on a walk and Evelyn ran ahead yelling back, "Come on Cade! lets run!" and Caden responded with, "No...Hard."

Caden is also nearing the end of his speech therapy. He's doing so well. Our latest big success is that he's started saying 'excuse me' instead of  'beep beep!'

 

And lastly, again, I just love how these kids sleep, or in the case of this first picture, grab every toy and a cowboy hat where they're supposed to be sleeping