I help out in Sophie's classroom and for Christmas we made little photo holders for the kids to give their parents.  I went in and took pictures of all the children.  This is Sophie's picture.  How cute is she?  :)

 Three kids at the National Zoo. 

This is Sophie on her first day of First grade. 

 It took me forever to find the cable for our camera when we moved, so I am just uploading pictures here now.  These are of the kids playing in the backyard (on the river) when we first moved in the house. 

We really liked eating a picnic dinner on our dock when the weather was nice.  This is us after dinner one evening. 

I took Henry to Panera after his Christmas concert and this is a quick pic of us! 

Stella found a creative use for my mascara while Daddy was watching her! 

 Sophie passed her belt test today!  She's now an orange belt! 

Ice Cream to celebrate! 

Bath Time!

I made a quick trip to the Dollar Store this weekend and picked up two bottles of shaving cream for the kids to play with in the bath.  They had a ton of fun! 

You can see a picture of the cell made from a watermelon if you click on this text.

You can see a picture of the cell made from sugar cookie if you click on this text.

Mom and Noah!  I have to update some of the settings on this blog - it has been a while since I posted anything!  Give me a few more minutes! 

Blogspot only allows me to upload really short videos, so I'm goign to use youtube. Let's see if this works! Here's a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHc3LwIJR4s

April Fool's!!

We sent this in to Sophie's school this morning. It looks like a pitcher of fresh lemonade...

Sophie got such a kick out of this!

You can see when you try to pour it that it is actually a huge pitcher of Jell-O!! April Fools!!

Henry is a trouble-maker!

While the little guy was supposed to be in bed he opened his window again in his room! I put him in our bed so at least he wouldn't plunge to his demise on my watch. Instead of sleeping he took the opportunity to try out our new camera. He took about 25 one second videos before he switched it to just normal pictures. Here's a wide shot of the bedroom.

A close up of the bed with his toes in the shot for perspective I guess!

Mug shot of the trouble maker!

Estelle

Look how pretty and precious she is in her spring dress and coat! I thought you would be happy to see that she is being dressed properly while you are away and not just wearing her 'gym clothes' :)

She's so adorable Dave! Don't you just want to eat her up? This was her favorite toy all afternoon... the FISH FOOD! She would find it and get her little baby hands on it! She even put it in her little stroller and walked it around! Of course she spilled it a dozen times! Poor Charlie!

She wasn't so sure about this swing! We'll have to try it a couple more times!

This is one of the gifts that your mom sent down with Emily. I set it aside to open up with them when it warmed up a bit - but now that I have had a minute to think about it I think I am going to exchange it. I know the kids love mud, but I know I am just going to have to tell them "No" all the time. I actually can't think of when would be a good time to play with this toy! Not even by the pool, because I'm sure you don't want mud in the pool. I know I am being a real stick-in-the-mud...

We made a mailbox today out of an old apple snacks box. We're going to put it upstairs between their two rooms and we'll wait and see if they get any mail. :)

- They worked diligently while I emptied the dishwasher & while Stella napped. I was happy to see them get along for the entire project. (2.5 minutes!)

Henry playing with his little puzzle town that he painted while we were up at Grandma's. He is really going nuts for puzzles lately!

Singing Happy Birthday to Stella!

Happy Birthday dear Stella!

Big news from the Bauer House

Estelle Viola is 1 today! Happy Birthday baby girl!

Sophie Pearl lost her first baby tooth!

She was so happy!

We miss you so much Dave!

I sent Sophie downstairs to pour herself a bowl of cereal and when I came down she explained that when she tried to eat it her tooth hurt, so she put it in the fridge for Henry. She put a note next to it so he would find it. How cute is that?

One of the moms who visited this week brought over a little box of munchkin donuts. I went into the kitchen and found the box taped shut. Henry explained that he did that because you are not supposed to eat too many of them and he had enough!

He spent the whole day in these red jammies.

Sophie doing her homework!

This is a picture of the ladies that came over tonight. Cheryl, Kimberly, Kathy, Kristen, Terri, Susan (who can make chicken) and Becci. It was a really nice night, totally worth picking up the toys off the floor for! We talked about that documentary that you started to watch last week. The kids stayed upstairs too!

Sissy @ TKD

She got separated from the other kids because she is only a white belt, but in her little group the teacher kept using her as an example for the other two kids to learn from. She did great!

This is sissy getting black tape for having the best balance out of all of the students in the class. The teacher had them balance on one foot and when they fell over he made them sit down. She outlasted everyone. She was a rock! It was awesome!

We passed the time in the waiting room by singing songs while tickling his belly. We'll have to show you how we do '5 little monkeys jumping on the bed...' He made me do it 10x

Estelle just waited patiently in her little stroller, munching on yogurt melts. What a sweetie!

Poor Henry didn't feel good. This is us at the doctor's office waiting for Dr. Idris.

Isn't he so precious?

A bunch of the kittens in front of the Enterprise Space Shuttle. If you look at Sissy's hand you can see the little yellow cards that all the kids had. I printed out pictures from the exhibits and the kids had to try to find them in the museum. They had so much fun!

Henry wanted to take a picture in front of this 'shiny' plane. He was wearing his 'bi-nock-lee-ers" and searching for the planes in the scavenger hunt.