A big boy now

Now that Grant has turned 18 months, he thinks he is big boy now.  He thinks he can and should be able to do everything that Andrew and Claire can.  He weighs 27 lbs and is fearless.  When not opening up cabinets and emptying them out he loves to hang out with his siblings.  Whether it be watching TV on Saturday mornings or...

piling up on Andrew...

sharing a milkshake with Claire....

or flying away in a cardboard spaceship...

trying to use the computer ON the kitchen table...

playing dollhouse with Claire...

doing the dishes...

and finally, helping to unload the groceries from Costco.

We've got to keep our eyes on Grant because he is a sneaky one!  Messes are his middle name.  He loves to be outside though, so we are looking forward to summer when he can play in the backyard on a more regular basis.  The best part about Grant turning 18 months was that he can now go into the nursery at church.  We will finally get to listen in our classes again!

Sharks game



Back in December for Danny's birthday I got him some tickets to the Sharks game.  We enjoyed a dinner out and the game.  Andrew really wanted to go to a game as well, so asked a friend of mine who has season tickets if it would be possible to get tickets to a weekend game sometime.  Luckily he said yes and we got 4 tickets to the game last Saturday night.  Grant got to stay home with Grandma and Grandpa.  We weren't sure about bringing Claire along too, but she was excited about the possibility that we decided to try it out.  We ate dinner just before the game in the hopes that we wouldn't have to purchase food at the arena, but we were wrong.  We saw an old friend of mine there, who gladly took our picture.  It was fun to catch up with her. 

Claire said she was hungry halfway into the first period, but luckily we had brought a few snacks.  After they ate through those we ended up getting a small pizza for them and that seemed to do the trick.  It ended up being a really good game where it went into OT and then shoot outs. 

Claire wanted to wear her cute scarf because we told her that it was going to be cold inside.

Of course, there were lots of pictures taken on my phone by Claire.  Neither of them complained about how long the game was and they loved cheering when the Sharks scored.  Now Claire wants a sharkie stuffed animal that she saw in the arms of another little girl.

More Leprechauns to trap

Well, I guess we didn't catch all of the leprechauns last March, so Andrew had to build another trap this year.  He was excited to build a trap, but had some trouble coming up with the perfect idea.  It was interesting to go through the though process behind the trap, because he truly believes that the are real.  So, if I threw out an idea he would respond with something like, "no, that wouldn't work because they are very tricky/sneaky/fast and they would get away".  We took a trip to Michael's and the Dollar Store to get our supplies and we were off!  He settled on a park like setting to lure them onto the box.  He found sticks in the front yard and cut and broke them to make the ladder.  He was upset that I wouldn't let him use the hot glue, but he was excited that the glue dried fast. 



The part of this that is the trap is hidden.  You can't see it in the pictures, but before we covered the box in green tissue paper he cut a hole in the top.  The hole is under the whole rainbow so that when the leprechauns try to steal the money they will fall through the thin tissue paper and into the box.  He added the "Do not take" sign because apparently leprechauns do the opposite of what you tell them.

 I helped in Andrew's class on Friday and I got to see all of the traps.  It was really fun to see how creative the kids were.  Apparently when they were at lunch, the leprechauns got into the classroom and knocked some chairs over and took some candy.  They also spread green glitter all over.  Unfortunately, they weren't able to catch on though.  Maybe one of the other classes did.