It's a bird, it's a plane...

NO! It's Super Zeke and Super Ben!  I had been eyeballing these super cute capes on pinterest for awhile now.  I finally just grabbed a couple of Spence's shirts and went to work cutting them.  Ben's was my first attempt and it works pretty good, but I made some adjustments to Zeke's and his looks more like a real cape.  I plan to remake Ben's but for now he is happy with what he has. 

what do you do with 1 3 year old, 3 2 year olds, and 3 babies...

Join the rest of the crazy masses at Pullen Park on a Friday morning!  This was our first visit to the park.  It has been closed for a while now for renovations.  I went a couple times in college and even have friends who got engaged at the park.  There are the typical park features with swings, play structures, sandboxes, and even see saws.  Then there are the extra cool features: the train, boats, carousel, resaurant (that has LOCOPOPS!), and tons of pretty areas just screaming "photo op!"

We met up with Matt and Alicia with their boys Brantley and Brayden, and also Jason and Leslie with thier boys Max and Charlie.  Max, Brantley, and Ben were all born in the same week so they have a neat friendship.

 We were all haveing flashes forward to about 13 years to a car full of boys

 Alicia and her boys

 Ben cried everytime the train pulled away until we got on it.  EVERY.SINGLE.TIME

 Aaaand Brantley cried when they had to get off the boats

 This sweet chubby boy did not make a peep the whole day.  He was so pleasant and happy

 Silly Ben

 Sweet daddy/son moment (or Zeke being disciplined for acting a fool)

 Douglas family

My big boys 

 The carousel is inside and these boys were in awe

 Ben was excited... Spence was more excited

 Zeke refused to ride an animal, so he Ellie and I chilled on this

(I ended up being happy he did, this is the fastest merry-go-round I have ever been on and Zeke began saying "wow, I'm getting dizzy, this is sooo fast" about half way through)

 Leslie and Charlie

 Our lunch spread

 My sweet girl

 a little bubble action

 Ben's fave mode of transportation lately

Soulmates!

 Finally on the train!

 Attempting a family pic (btw this is the only pic of the 5 of us since the hospital, might need to remedy this)

Ben and his buddy Max

Zeke reads

Zeke is so interested in reading.  He loves identifying letters and their sounds.  He asks me what words say or asks me to read those words all day long.  He even attempts to sound words out and has done a few on his own.  I have decided to casually start teaching him some reading.  We made an "I see ___" book with Cars stickers.  He enjoyed helping make the book and has enjoyed reading the book to everyone that comes through our door.  We are so proud of our boy!



iPhone dump

Alright, let's get real for a minute.  I have been pretty bad about taking picures with our camera.  For one thing, it doesn't want to come on half the time, you have to physically put the flash up from where some clumsy girl dropped it (too early to blame Ellie on being the clumsy girl I guess), and often I don't even know where the darn thing is.  I have been taking pictures on my phone though.  I always know where it is and although it doesn't take the best of pictures I at least document stuff with it.  Here's some pictures from my phone over the last couple weeks.

 My 3 kids!

 Ellie was especially chatty this day (and oh so edible!)

 on a walk the boys kept finding and throwing pinecones

 snuggling with her blanket

 tummy time turns into sleeping time (also check out that hair!)

 Trip to Petsmart (aka we gotta get out of this house and the pollen is out of control so we can't play outside)

Ellie realized her hair is falling out and she is left with a nice old man receding hairline

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Friday Funday

Friday is Spence's day off.  We typically try to do something as a family out of the house.  This past week we ventured out to the museum.  It started raining while we were in the catch the wind section (if you don't know the museum, this is as far away from being inside as you can get).  We threw Ben in the back of the stroller and Spence, Ben and Ellie took off.  Zeke and I ran as well.  Of course the rain stopped as we got inside.  We decided to not risk it and hung out in the play area inside for the rest of our trip. 

 "Weeha!"

 "Ride like the wind, Bullseye!"

 Ben says this hat is his "football team" hat

This is what she did the majority of the time on her first museum visit

At the carwash

The weather has been insane!  I'm talking 80's before spring actually hit.  If it's this warm in March, I'm a little afraid of July and August.  Anway, the boys and I set up a carwash in the backyard for their toy cars.  They had a blast!  It did turn into them dumping the water, running inside to refill the buckets, and then dump it again.