Getting Ready to Race!

Two weeks ago I had no photos...it was the first week back to work after Christmas break...it started with a snow day...and ended with one of my co-worker's 5 month old in the hospital.  So it's easy to say I was otherwise occupied!  Bryce was able to celebrate his birthday with his daycare buddies, which he really enjoyed!

 

The birthday boy at Jo's!

Trucks and cars!

Monster trucks!

Puzzles!

Hanging out with his buddies!  Darn fingers in the mouth!

Bryce LOVES to try to scare people.  He has a monster hat that he says "RAR" every time he puts it on.  Jo says he tries to scare her with this every day too!  The best thing is he does it then smiles and giggles.  It's too cute!

Painting penguins.

Working in the "kitchen"

Friday night we had the Ottis girls over.  They even spent the night!  We barely get to see them anymore so the boys were very very excited to have them over!  We started the night by going to Pizza Shoppe, where everyone looked at us strangely with our five kids!  It made me laugh!  After that we headed home for some leftover cake Mary brought us from a celebration at her school.

 

Bryce, Nora, Mason, Madelyn, Zane

The only one without an Ottis buddy...sadness...

Nora & Mason

Madelyn & Zane

After jammies were on, we had a dance party, played hide and seek, and then settled down on the couch to watch Alvin and the Chipmunks.  Mason was the first one asleep, Zane second, and the girls were STILL AWAKE when I checked on them at midnight and finally turned the tv off so they would go to sleep!  The next morning everyone was up early.  We got some donuts and took the boys to get their haircuts.

 

Finally all asleep!

Next weekend is Zane's second Pinewood Derby!  He (okay, really Matt) has been working hard on the configurations for making a winning car!  I'm excited to see how it goes next week...especially since this year they have a little bit of a clue about what to expect!

Sanding

Mason sanding a block of wood

Zane sanding his car

Matt imparting his wisdom upon Zane...

And Bryce loading paint cans into his four-wheeler!

Loving his play time in the garage!

In recent news...Mason is quite the popular boy at school.  Nora and another girl at school have been known to argue about which of the two of them would marry him.  Each morning when Matt takes him to school, there are girls at the doorway saying "Hi Mason!" and announcing to everyone that Mason has arrived.  He looks straight ahead and "ignores" all of the attention...it's just too cute!  The other day one of the "said girls" said "Hi Mason!  Ooh la la!  Ruff ruff!"  Oh my.  I'm not sure I'm going to be able to take this when he gets older! 

And...two amazing things to be thankful for!  We now have another family member!  Wes and Abby (Abby is Matt's cousin) welcomed Kendal Kate to the family this week!  She lives far away, so we won't see her for awhile, but can't WAIT to meet her!  And another family I've been praying DAILY for is the Zellmers.  They have been in the hospital for 4 months as Jase was born at 23 weeks.  They came home today!  Woohoo!  God is good!

Have a great week!!