Is it summer????

For any one who has forgotten, I strongly dislike the cold, so when Fro was asking in February to paint a bird house I couldn't wait until it started to get warm again. I don't know where she got the idea but every time we passed a craft store, JoAnn Fabric, Hobby Lobby, Michael's she would always bring it up. Well, I finally gave in and we spent a Saturday afternoon skillfully painting the bird house, getting it ready for it's new owner, who ever they may be. Fro had a blast, and thanks to washable and fume free paints, so did I.

My little angle!

Finishing up the roof.

What I thought was the finished project

Now, the finished project.

No one has claimed this as their home as of yet, Fro has to bring it in every night! Just can't let go! :)

Somethings NEVER change :)

So in April, yes last month, my Mom celebrated her ?? birthday and my sister thought what a great idea if we all went to Montana and surprised her. So we made the 14 hr trek to Stevensville to celebrate! Mom, love ya, but never again in April. How quickly we forget how COLD it stays in Montana until July. We left 70 degree weather to spend a week in snow, rain, and 40 some degrees.

While we were there we took all the kids to the park. Ya gotta love small towns! I was looking around at the playground equipment and believe it or not the same slide that I played on when I was around Fro's age is still there, and still the only one to play on. They still had the same tractor (minus a steering wheel) and the same tractor tires, though they have been painted. How funny! The kids had fun. Anyway, over a month later we have thawed out, recovered from the driving and are looking forward to doing it all over again, preferably in Tahiti!

Fro on the tires, I can't believe I didn't take a picture of the slide! I guess I was in some level of shock that it was still standing!

New Bed

So Fro has, from time to time, been obsessed with playing with the laundry basket. Here is her latest design, her new bed!

She insisted on sleeping in it for several nights.

Isn't she just an Angel!!!

I just love her smile in this picture. It's so Cloe!

Cloeisms (Kids say the darndest things)

Cloe's favorite phase lately is "You're silly like an alligator". My only question is, how silly is an alligator?

Like this...

Or may be this...

Who's to really know. I don't want to track one down and ask.

Her latest ...

You're as beautiful as an elephant!

She announced this as she was inspecting her work, she had just "fixed" my hair! I guess I should count my blessings that she didn't announce that I was as big as an elephant!

I'm not beautiful

So this week I was waking Cloe up one morning and as she was coming to I said, "Good morning beautiful." She promptly rolled over and announced, "Mom I'm not beautiful, I'm Cloe!" So there you go! We also got her school pictures back and she is more than just beautiful, if I do say so myself. I still need to get her to say that she takes after her Mom when someone tells her how cute she is! Think it's too late???? Anyway she was quite the ham when the photographer was there to take the pictures last month, she was just coming up with all sorts of posses. This behavior was no surprise to me since she'll frequently go get my camera and ask me to take pictures of her. I was tying to get one of her pictures so I could post it with this but no luck, you'll just have to wait to get one in the mail! :) In the mean time here she is playing dress up with her mermaid tail.

Self Portraits

So Fro decided to try her hand at photography, specifically self-portraits. Here's a sample of her work.

The foot is sooooo amazing

???Checking for flies???
I think I just dated myself!

A close up for good measure!

Yes, it is a hand!