Our House...

In the middle of our street.  I don't know why I have that song in my head but I do.  I also have 'I am slowly going crazy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 switch' stuck there as well.  That one explains my day a bit though.

Here are my kiddos playing something together the other day.  I am not sure what but they seemed pretty happy doing it.

Kimber keeps wanting to be like Mom, Dad, and Benson and wears these sunglasses from the eye Dr's.  I got sick of putting the lenses back in so I just threw them out.   Her smile makes it even better!

McKay has been acting like a cool dude lately.  He loves wearing his baseball cap, especially backwards.

Kimber after having a breakfast of champions, long john donut, chocolate chip banana muffin and a smoothie.

McKay switching from cool dude to studious.  

So as I was about to start this post Benson came up to me bawling, consequently sounding like at dying cat.  Being the loving mother I am I mocked him before asking what was wrong.  Turns out he hit his mouth on our DVD shelf.  I, once again being loving, told him to get over it.  He continued to cry until I looked at it.  Yes, my 5 year old Benson has a loose tooth.  I proceeded to tell him what was going to happen.  He got more and more scared as I told him we would pull the tooth out but was delighted at the end to hear he would get money from the tooth fairy.  Now he won't stop touching his tooth and even has toilet paper stuck on his mouth to catch any blood that comes.  Well hopefully the next couple of days won't be too rough.

Baby Shower

Last Saturday I helped host a baby shower for my Sister and her sweet little Sylas.  It was pretty low key but lots of fun.

I made the cupckakes and supplied candy for the candy bar.

I went a little overboard with the candy.  I went to the Bulk Barn and got tons of blue candy.  30 something $ later we left the store.  Most of the candy here (the jeans have a bowl in them as well) I left for Brooke and Aric to enjoy.  We are still working on our share here at our house.

Robin made the appetizers and drinks for us.  I over ate and had little room for dinner that day!

Brooke showing off her presents.  These are Sketcher socks that look like shoes.

An outfit that came with the 'shocks'.

Mom, I didn't take a picture of your present to Brooke and Sylas but I think you may recognize it.  Brooke opened it and said it was the exact same one you gave Naomi.  Brooke loves it so she is keeping it.  They will just have to label the baby album well and look at the pictures before putting new info into it!

It was a nice afternoon.  Benson came with me and was my special helper.  I think he liked it because he got full reign on Brooke's iPad.  Lucky boy!

I just realized I didn't take a picture of the man of the hour.  I have yet to take a picture of him at all.  Well if you want to see the cutie you will have to look at Brooke's blog and see him.

May begins...

Finally I am putting pictures up of Bensons birthday!  For some reason this picture was loading sideways, so just turn your head!  Benson remembered what he wanted for his cake from February.

Do you think the cake resembles this?  I tried to get him to want something else but he wanted his snow monster.  But really this was the easiest cake we have made yet!

I postponed Benson's party a week as there was a lot of family that couldn't make it on the original date and there was NO way I was going to be ready.  It was really low key but Benson had a great time which is what matters.

Kimber is so beautiful when she eats cake.

Benson wanted his video taken too.  Amazingly enough Benson makes more of a mess eating than McKay does most of the time!  This also has the only clip of McKay this post.

Kimber came up to me the other day wanting pretty hair and handed me the wig.  It goes with her shirt so well!

I braided my hair a couple of weeks ago and Kimber has been begging me for them ever since.

Yesterday she came out of her room with the biggest poopy mess I have dealt with since Benson painted his walls in his nap.  After having to bath her to get it out of her hair etc, I braided her hair to keep it out of the way!  Today I tried to take them out to give her wavy hair and she just about lost it so in went the elastics again.  She has major frizzy bed head now.

Now back in March I tried to upload a video of Kimber singing and it didn't work so I finally got it on Facebook today.  Check it out!

Benson is doing really well with his glasses.  Ok, he is doing well for a 5 year old with glasses.  We got them 2 weeks ago today and we have already had to take them in to be adjusted and get a nose pad adjusted once.  We need to go in again and have the exact same thing done again though.  Brooke even adjusted the glasses when she was here for the party.  Ok, maybe he hasn't done well but he is getting used to them and keeps them on most of the time now!

April Showers!

So I have had a lot of posts lately so I feel like April Showers is appropriate.  Not to mention all the rain and snow we have been getting lately.

Here is Kimber after church on Sunday.  We finally got her some new clothes which we are saving for her birthday in 2 months but we gave her one new dress to wear in the mean time.  Her dresses have become more like long shirts.

It took me a while to get a decent picture of her standing an kind of smiling.

What took even longer was a decent picture of these two together.

This was the best picture I could get of Benson smiling.  He takes after his Uncle Jordan in the picture arena and likes to make silly faces instead.

For some reason my kids liked getting piggly wiggly's from Auntie Brooke.

Kimber's turn for a piggly wiggly.  I gave her one then she asked for Brooke to give her one.

Naturally from giving piggly wiggly's we moved on to giving wedges.  Kimber started this trend but hers is not on video.  My kids like piggly wiggly's better than wedges though.  Yes my sister and I like to tease the kids a bit.

We have my niece for a few days while my sister is re-cooping in the hospital from her c-section yesterday.  I gave Naomi a ponytail and I think she looks just so cute with her hair up!

Most of you have heard the horror stories of Kimber bar fight attacking Naomi in the past.  Lately they have been getting along better which is better for me!!  They ate breakfast together yesterday at the kiddie table.  They really do like each other.  As Brooke mention on her blog, they have been holding hands when they are walking around outside and stuff like that.  I feel there is a light at the end of this tunnel!

McKay has really liked feeding himself lately, to the point of giving a blood curdling scream if I even try to even help with a different spoon.  I am not ready for him to not be my baby anymore.

As I mentioned earlier I have my niece right now which means I have a new nephew!  Sylas Alexander was born yesterday at 5:56, if I remember that right, and weighed 9 lb 13 oz.  Daniel and I took Naomi down to see Mom and Dad last night and to meet Sylas.  He was eating the whole time we were there but seemed like a great addition to the family.  Hopefully later today we can go see him again and hold him.  We will see.  I don't want to overwhelm Brooke with my kids in the hospital so we may wait a bit on letting them meet Sylas.  Benson was pretty excited that he gets to share his birthday with Sylas.

Well that is about it.  I have run out of things to say and must face the facts.  I have to go do dishes, clean the house, make and cake and look after 4 kids today even though I am beat and want to watch 90210.  Yes I am watching that on Netflix and enjoy it.  One of my guilty pleasures is sappy teen drama soap operas!

Our Happy Birthday Boy!

Here is our big 5 year old boy!  I can hardly believe it has already been that long!  He has already been spoiled today and has more presents and a party to come!

As a special birthday gift he got new glasses!  That is right he is taking after his Mommy and getting glasses at a really young age!  I think he looks so handsome in his glasses.  He is having a bit of trouble understanding that he has to wear them all the time.  He got his case out and put them away because he didn't feel like wearing them.  So I went into iPhoto and found some lovely pictures of me when I had my first glasses.

Can I just say it was the 80's?!

Well we have lots planned for our birthday boy.  We are going to Grandma and Gramps' to do hot dogs and hamburgers as per the Birthday Boy's request with a birthday apple crisp for dessert.  On Saturday we will be doing a family party for those that can make it.  I think it will be quite small as it is a busy weekend.

The Fun Times at the Bateman's

Here are a few of the crazy things that we have been up to lately.

Princess Kimber with all her pretty jewelry!

Cakey wearing his awesome wig!

Cakey sitting in the middle of the laundry!

Benson's special blanket boots in naptime!

What is better than shirtless dance parties?

Easter 2012

The kids sure enjoyed Easter this year.  The Easter Bunny made a special stop at our house on Saturday before we went to Grandma and Gramps' for dinner.  Auntie Rachel came by to see the kids do their egg hunt.  Good times!

The kids baskets.  Bensons is the woven one he got from school and he really wanted to use it.  We bought McKay and Kimber some new pails as we got rid of what we had when we moved.  I was in a bit of a purging mode!

McKay enjoying his spoils!  We eventually put a bib on him like we did Benson's first Easter.

Benson finding all the 'difficult' hiding spots.  He may have started the hunt last but he sure did clean up the most!

Well that was our Easter this year!