Beave's artistic side

Our January break from snow is over, the storms have started again. With the last one Beave took some cool pictures. He likes to experiment with the camera, I am more of an "auto" kind of person...
sunrise

night sky


OK so this one is mine, how can you tell? KIDS!!

DONE!!! for now...

I took over the kitchen table and the kids were slightly neglected but I finished John's scrapbook!!! Well up to Jan 2009, I am already a month behind... I think if I do each kid's book in 6 month chunks I can keep up. It will probably take me the next 6 months to get Kyla's caught up, I have a year and a half of pictures to do. I went through our pics to print Ky's and noticed the older they get the more pics I have of them... I guess I am not into pics of babies laying around. :) She is anxious to "help" me, we can finally use all those cute girlie stickers we didn't use in Johnny's book.
It was fun to look back at all the things we have done in the last year and a half. Johnny has, of course, changed so much in that short time. When Steve was looking at the book he said he didn't remember Johnny being as happy as he looked in the pictures... Johnny was a BIG mommy's boy!!! He didn't smile too much for Steve for a long time. Now they are best buds and Beave thinks John's smile can fix just about anything! I love this little guy, so full of personality!

IT'S A...... MONKEY

I had my ultra sound last week... Going into it Kyla was betting on a girl and I thought it was a boy. Johnny and Kyla came with us, Johnny was pretty quiet taking it all in until halfway through when he yelled "monkey!!" Ky and I both lost... it's a monkey. The little one may get called monkey a time or two but the doctor says it is a... BOY!! Kyla was OK with that because she has the baby girl in her tummy.
So the end of June we will add another boy to our bunch and Ky and I will be out numbered. Steve says Kyla is girlie enough to out girl 5 brothers and is excited for John to have a brother to counter act it all.
The baby is developing well and everything checked out, which we are grateful for. A healthy baby boy... monkey.

the warm Phoenix ZOO

It is crazy to me that I can drive 2 hours and go from freezing to HOT! Saturday we left our snow and cold at home and went to warm up in Phoenix, it was high 70s! Kyla and Johnny loved the zoo, it has been awhile since we have gone to one. Johnny called everything a Zebra, until he saw the real ones! Kyla liked the Wallabies the best, you can go in with them.

Kyla hitching a ride from Beave. By the end I was wishing for someone to give me a ride, maybe not a shoulder ride though...


This mommy orangutan kept one long arm on her baby while she slept, he wasn't too into sleeping but his choices were limited... you can learn a lot about parenting from the wild... :)


Kyla doing her best lion roar!


The real guy was far less fearsome than she was...


Johnny and mom.


This flamingo cracked my up, I didn't know their legs could bend that way...