Summer Fun with Dirt

Summer time brings out the dirt in my kids. Ryan and I were planning to build a sandbox this spring, but our backyard neighbors tore down a shed at the end of the summer last year, and this made a perfect pile of dirt. The kids have enjoyed it so much that we haven't had to build the sandbox yet, maybe next year.
Here you can see the kids are makeing and pretending to eat dinner on my little table that I keep outside. Even Brooklyn was getting into it.
Aby is making a dish of some kind for the others to eat.
Here are Josh and Kenzie playing with more dirt.

Brooklyn jumping

Soon after we put up the trampoline at teh beginning of summer Brooklyn decided that it was a spot to play and have fun. She learned how to get up the ladder and onto the trampoline without any help at all. (this is a little scary for mom) She loves to have the girls jump softly and bounce her, but gets upset when they bounce too hard. The girls are pretty good, and they will let her have a turn. Really Brooklyn doesn't jump, she runs around and falls down and then grins like she has accomplished a major feat. It is so funny. (you can see in the video at the bottom.)

This is how I can tell when she wants to get off, she will lay down by the ladder, and either cry or scream for me to come and get her.

Enjoy the video!

My little Tiger

Aby has finished her Dance class, and this was her final costume. She was a tiger in the zoo, I have a really great video of her part of the performance, but it is too long for the blog, sorry. I thought that the performance was really great, but Ryan didn't like it at all, he thought Aby was cute, but hates dance in general. Luckily Aby didn't want to do dance anymore.

She really wanted to take some pictures at home, she was trying to be scary, but I don't think that it worked.
This is the only picture that I have to the performace, and it shows all of her class, they really did a great job, and I am glad that Aby stuck with it until the end of the year.

Childrens museum

Lately my kids and I have been spending a lot of time at the new children's museum at the gateway mall in Salt Lake city. These are some pictures of the first time that we went. When I go Mckenzie always askes that we take Brynn. I love that they are such good friends, and they play so good together. The other fun part is that we usually will take the new frontrunner train into the museum. (the girls call it the fastest train.) they love to watch out the windows, and see how fast we are moving.
This is my little Brooklyn being a fireman. The girls like to play in the usptairs theater where there are costumes that they can put on and pretend play.

On the main floor there is a "kids world" everything in the back 3/4 of the main floor is kid sized and the kids can play in a small house, a construction site, on a farm, grocery store, or a water area. Kenzie fell in love with the little house and spent a lot of time in the kitchen.
If only she was this happy to clean the dishes at my house.

In the front part of the main floor is a ball zone, this is really cool becuase there are a million things to do with ball that are different and fun.
Brooklyn loves the balls.This is Aby in the construction zone.
Maybe I will have engineer in the family yet.

This is in a special area for 0-3 year olds, Brynn and Kenzie have fun in there also.

This is another fun things for the girls to play at, Brynn and Kenzie had a great time moving the tubes to creat a fun path for the ball to go down.

silly Brooklyn

Brooklyn likes hats, at least funny hats that she finds and puts on (not the ones mom chooses). On this day she found a diaper and started parading around the house. She had such a big grin, and was so proud of herself that I just started to laugh.

Here she is putting is back on after it fell off.

painting fun

The girls had been begging me to let them paint, and so I finally gave in and pulled out the poter paper, and crayola paint. They had a great time, and my bedroom has two origionals hanging up now.

This first one is Kenzie's paper, she liked the color pink the best, later she switches to blue. It was just fun to see them being creative and having so much fun.
Here is Aby posing by her picture, it was only half way finished, and later she added a pictue of herself and mom. It really did turn out very cute.

Funny picts of Brooklyn

Lately Brooklyn has taken to putting everything and anything into her mouth, I have even teasingly called her my little dog. This was a really warm day, and the kids had been out playing in the back yard with their swim suits on. Brooklyn decided that she wanted to join the fun in another way.

I guess that her hands were needed for other things so of course the mouth is the next best place to carry things.
mmmmm tastes yummy.