Having Fun @ Lemme

We had a great time playing at Lemme tonight. Corrine & Ammon were busy building a fort in the forest, while Rebecca was exploring the playgrounds.

Rebecca noticed that I was sitting under a tree while they played. When she saw me she ran to me with open arms to give me a giant hug. This sweet girl loves her mom. She brought me presents-grass, a special stick and pine needle "flowers".

 Rebecca and I went to play at the kindergarten playground. She mastered the rainbow arch years ago and goes up it so confidently. She was going down the twisty slide, so I decided to climb up on it and capture her bright smile as she came down. She kept asking me to take her picture as she came down. She has such a love of life.

The Fort they built has 3 rooms in 1 house for each of the kids. They found sap to help hold it together.

The many faces of Ammon.

I'm so glad we live so near to the school so we can go play. 

These sweet kids of ours can find so many ways to have fun.

Knight Battles

These brothers love their little sister so much and she adores them. Today they dressed her up as a knight and had a light saber battle with her. There were so many smiles and so much laughter. 

Ammon was letting Rebecca hit him hard and she won the 1st battle. 

And the 2nd battle. 

But she got hit and tears were shed. Ammon came to her rescue and hugged her until she was better.

These kiddos have so much fun together. 

Siblings are awesome!!

Capturing Rebecca in a time bubble

Today I tried to capture our sweet 3 and a half year old with her bubbles, babies, absolutely adorable freckles on her checks and nose and her fancy high heels. She loves all these things especially when she's outside enjoying them. 

There's only a few more weeks while she's 3 and we'll be telling people our baby is 4 years old. Man time really does fly by when your having fun and when your busy.

This Cabbage Patch kid was mine when I was about Rebecca's age. I LOVED baby dolls just like she does, and Corrine did before her. When my mom gave me my Cabbage Patch kids, diaper bag and clothes I was so excited for our kids to play with them. They have stood up to so much love and clothing changes over the years! Rebecca was so sweet helping her doll roller skate today.

Still loved after all these years

When Simeon was about 2 years old a toy store went out of business and all their Thomas Trains were half off. That started our collection of these awesome wooden trains. We've added to our collection over the years.

Rebecca asked to get them out and make a track to play with. We used almost every track we had and made a really big and fun track. When the big kids came home they all gravitated to the track and started playing on it together.

I love how all the kids play with them and have such a fun time together. Simeon and Ammon made the longest train they could. Rebecca was being as patient as she could be with their train that was getting in her way and braking because it was so long.

These cute trains will be part of our family for many years to come. They've already earned a spot in the "Keep for the Grandkids" collection!

Mom & Rebecca having some fun

This afternoon Rebecca and I rediscovered the remote for the camera. We had some fun taking pictures. 

 Her latest game craze is Uno. We play it in Spanish. Since she's already learned her colors and numbers it was easy to play in Spanish. We work on saying 'me tengo', and 'no me tengo'.

Then we got silly and started taking some more posed pictures of us together. She loved being in charge of the remote and taking the picture.

This was totally Rebecca's idea to be silly behind me. She asked me to sit and then went behind me. I could tell she was doing something behind me.

I tried to be silly and give her bunny ears, but I wasn't fast enough so now I get to see what the back of my hair looks like!

The days of Rebecca and mom time during the day are coming to a close real quick. I'll be so lonely when I don't have a little one to play with during the day.

A cold week in Iowa

It's been cold here. Really cold. Too cold to be outside playing. 

So there's been alot of indoor playing going on.

We've had some electronic game time. Some cooking time. Some movie watching time. Some reading and cuddling time. Some game playing. Some warm baths and pj time.  Some sickness. Some cookie time.

And some piles of blankets to keep the frozen air out and the warmth in.