Kids, Kids Everywhere

Here are some pictures of the kids playing last night.
First, this is the face Sophia whipped up just because I pulled out the camera :)
Arianna was playing with the little toy laptop and having a great time with it.



Faron decided to teach the kids how to play soccer, trying to get them to burn off a little energy. At first they were all going at once, then we had to clear the field cause there were too many accidents.




I just loved this face, he was trying to decide if he was going to throw it, or obey and put it down. He did eventually put it down...

Ari even got to kick it a few times.

Scrappy stuff

I don't have any cute kid pictures right now, or anything interesting to say, so you get to see pictures of what I've been working on with this month's kit from The Paper Pixie

Valentine's Day Tea Party

We had our Annual Cousin Tea party last week and it was cute as always! It still boggles me that with my family of mostly girls, we have only 1 girl cousin! Everybody else has a bunch o boys, so my girls like to get together with Ella and have a girly tea party for Vday!
This year we made heart shaped pizzas
Then we drank our lovely red juice out of Grammy's nice little tea cups.
Ari was diggin the pizza

After we ate we shooed the boys away and the older girls got to decorate a "crystal" (plastic) tea set. It came with tiny little paint markers and they had a great time decorating it.


The boys entertained themselves in other ways, here's Lane sporing a mask
Grandma tried to keep Ari out of the painting
After our activities were finished it was play time. Can't have a trip to Grammy and Pop's without dressing up with some glasses, they are everywhere after all!
Then Sophia and Xander styled Ella's hair.

Piano

The girls and I started taking piano lessons a few weeks ago. The girls are having fun with it, I knew Isabella was ready, she's been playing around on the piano a lot lately, but I wasn't sure how Sophia would do, she still has cute little baby hands. But she is doing great. The complain about having to practice every day, but once they start going it's fun.
I haven't played in a long time, so I'm kind of starting over, but it's been fun. I need the motivation of knowing I have to practice before my next lesson :)

picture play

I got a backdrop set for taking pictures! I am very excited about it and today we broke it out of the boxes and played with some pictures.

Ari thought it was great fun crawling all around the fabric!Xan and his eyes!

These cracked me up, cause they are fighting over this doll. Ari is screaming her lungs out at Xander ( he had stolen the doll from her).
The look on his face cracks me up, like, geesh, what's up with this chick!




Ari loves to find crayons or pens, and then walk around til she finds some paper, and go to town. Today she found a crayon and a piano book!

our week

This picture pretty much sums up our week. Laying in bed, being sick, watching movies. From Tuesday til this very moment this is pretty much what has been going on. Sophia, Alexander and I are feeling pretty much better now, not totally , but mostly. Ari, Isabella and Faron caught it later, so they are still sick!These are some cute pictures of Ari from before she got sick. She got the binoculars and was walking around looking at things through them, but usually only got one eye covered. Once I grabbed my camera she started laughing and took off running down the hall, so I had to chase her down to get these pictures!