Not so Tiny Bubbles...

Lately I have had a few more trials with my children than I have really cared for. My troubles mainly stem from red headed twins toddlers. Cami is one that only needs a blink of time to find trouble. As she demonstrated with a WHOLE bottle of dish soap in the sink. We do have child locks, but they mean nothing to her so since this we have now double locked this cabinet from her.

The real sad part is this was only the precursor for her to dumping a WHOLE bottle of bubble bath on our bathroom floor and then dancing in it the next day. The floor was so slippery when I discovered her I could barely stand.  Please tell me this too soon will pass...my blood pressure can't take many more of these days & weeks of this.

April Daddy Dates

For April's Daddy Dates the kids a chose what they wanted to do. Phoebe chose to ride her "motorcycle" at the neighborhood park and then get ice cream with daddy. Before this night we have tried to teach Phoebe several time how to pedal and it has taken, but Cory said to night she sat down and took off like she has been doing it for years; silly girl has been hiding this new found skill from us.

Cami really wanted to go to the farm and see the animals like Josh had done the previous month. She did get a bit to close to some geese, however and they gave her a bit of a fright, poor girl! I completely understand that one, when I was 5yrs old I got chased & bit on the bum by a goose and to this day I am still nervous to get near them. Cory said Cams true love was the big green tractor; she hopped right on and steered forever. Cory said he stood their for a long time as she played on it was afraid he was never going to be able to leave. 

Josh's date was bit last minute this month and so on the last day of April Josh got to go on a special lunch date with daddy to Chic-fil-a. Cory said Josh cared little to nothing about the food but instead was completely engrossed in their awesome play area.  Too bad the date was so short, Josh had a hard time coming home, but maybe next month this little dudes can have a longer daddy date.

End of April Happenings

Man, it seemed like April lasted only but a few seconds before it was gone. We did manage to get some random pics of the last few day it was here. Cami set up a lounge are of her own in the backyard which included, a bowl of split marshmallow maties, a moldy old chair cover and our soft but non functional electric blanket. She layed out back for one who morning soaking up the lukewarm April rays.

In hope of exciting our kids for morning family prayer we decided to grow a plants for each of the kids to coincide with it. Every morning when we say morning prayers we will water the flowers, unfortunately the flowers are turning out to be a bust, but we haven't given up yet!

In the end of April we had a Cub Scout carnival and had TONS of fun activities for the boys & families to do which included getting their faces painted.  Phoebe chose not to get a crown or butterfly on her face, she just wanted pretty make-up done. In the photos her colors are much more subdued than they were in person so yep that's my girl the one who slightly resembled a lady of the night.  

Lastly for Sophie's birthday I got sombreros and a week or so before the party the kids discovered them in the garage and really wanted to were them. Phoebe called them her "cowgirl hats", I didn't want to keep correcting her so I just let her keep playing cowboys with Joshie. The two pictures of Josh below were actually taken by Cami who got in my purse an found my camera...not bad actually, she shows real potential for a 2yr old!

Churro Chex Mix

Almost a month ago now a few of us Fergys pooled our food storage bins to come up with the ingedience for a recipe we found on Pintrest, Churro Chex Mix. We had all the kiddos participate, which means two things, 1. they had a blast & 2. we saw dozens of health codes violated.

After only a few minor melting mishaps we were sucessful in complting our Chex Mix and all the kiddos LOVED it; even Sophie got in on the action. Us adults enjoyed it as well, but we all agreed the strong cinnamon taste definitely made it so you could only enjoy a limited amount.

The real reward of the morning morning for the kiddos of course was the fact that they were able to play with their cousins. Phoebe LOVED finally having someone to play princess Barbies with.

Signing in the Rain

Earlier this week is was pouring outside and usually that means we just stay in and destroy the house, but this time Phoebe requested that they still get to play outside and since it was still warm I gave them each an umbrella and sent them out to play. You may note that at almost no point in time does Cami actually have the umbrella over her head.

(Don't you just love Josh;s new pjs they are reminiscent of Where's Waldo)

While he olders were outside playing Sophie found some creative fun of her own learning to climb in and out of the laundry baskets.

...I've trained them well

I had to laugh earlier this week when Josh spilled his milk, I was annoyed because I JUST had fished mopping the floor. Before I could say anything, however, Josh had hopped of his chair and picked up my mop and began to clean up his own spill...I have trained them well.

Easter Time Fergy Fun

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On Easter morning this year we were in a bit of a rush since we have 9am church so the Bunny didn't come until after naps. Instead, we ate our waaaay yummy resurrection roll with turned out perfectly hollow just as they were suppose to!  Phoebe insisted on eating her Eater breakfast with her bunny ears on to celebrate.

After eating we were able to get a few pics in before we left,  we were 5 minutes late, but worth it to get some cute pics before hair inevitable gets messed up at church.

After church Sophie unfortunately had to immediately go down for a nap, but the older 3 let me take a few more photos.

We then planted our magic beans to grow while we took naps. It was so nice this Easter I was thrilled to plant them outside. On a side note, Cami took the Phrase a little dirt don't hurt to heart as she quickly dug up a few of our magic beans and ate them before running off to naps. I LOVED having the bunny come at nap time because everyone was so eager for naps that they RAN to their beds (I told Phoebe the bunny won't come if anyone is awake). Even that wasn't fast enough for Phoebs she kept telling the twins they needed to go faster because she could, "Hear the bunny skipping to our house...it is by the garage so we need to HURRY!"

This year the magic beans grew FISH!

The bunny got bubble bath for the 3 older and their own binder of file folder games. Sophie got a sippy and a book.

The kids of course LOVED their bubbles and after some instructions were amused with the file folders.  I told Phoebe the bunny brought fun stuff and she quickly corrected me and said, "No mom, you just made this stuff." Ahhh, smart kids are annoying; she didn't press the issue any further so I pretended I didn't just hear what she said.

After seeing the digs the Bunny brought, each of the kiddos got to see their GINORMOUS stash Grandma&pa Potts sent them for Easter, which I laid out on the grass outside. You will note Josh & Cami both zeroed in on the candy before I could even take the picture.

While we made calls to grandparents and great grandparents to wish all a happy Easter & finish dinner, the 3 olders fished and fished to their little hearts content & Sophie read her new book with daddy.

Cami once again attempted to shovel as much candy in her little mouth as possible, I am sooo glad she only had a little bit of it and didn't even miss it that much on Monday morning mommy bundled the rest up to go find a new home.

We then had a way delicious Easter dinner with our little family.

(Yes most all of our kiddos are naked because we didn't want to risk Easter outfits getting ruined.)

As a special treat, we got dressed in our pjs got to go and enjoy a long wonderful evening walk as a family before bedtimes.