A Bunch of Gerrits: April 2009

Not much. We've just been excited about the nice warm change in the weather, so much so that even this yucky cold hasn't held us back too much. We've gone to play soccer, Jeremy biked, we went to the Earth Day Celebration, planted some of the garden including flowers this year! The kids are amazing us every day with what they are learning and how big they are getting.

Madelyn and Jonas are both very fond of Hudson. They still both always want to "be with him" and as Jonas says "I wanna keep him"

Jonas is very much a Momma's lil Buddy. He likes to cuddle with me whenever he isn't playing with his big sister. He also likes to practice everything we do. If I am making dinner he is right there helping and he also likes to help with all the chores!

Check out Madelyn's page for the latest pics of her at 4.5 years old including this one! She is really loving dance class and it is so adorable. There is something very relaxing about watching a bunch of 4 year olds in pink tutus dancing around and giggling. Her recital is June 6th, let me know if anyone wants a copy of the tape!

Here is the garden update:
I transplanted my lettuce spinach mix, green onion, sugar snap peas and garlic and planted some broccoli. My tomatoes are still going strong indoors and I just seeded my peppers too.

I also am planting a flower garden of wild flowers for Madelyn to be able to pick. We started the Sunflower and Daisies indoors a few weeks ago and a couple days ago I spread some seed. So far so good!

I've been keeping busy trying my hand at creating things from knitting to sewing to culinary surprises. And of course running after 3 little ones LOL

Here is a dress I made for Madelyn and her Raggedy Ann

and tonights dinner - Shrimp and Andouille Sausage Jambalaya...verdict - it's a keeper!

Jonas finally let me take some good pics of him, they've been on his page for a week or so now, but if you haven't seen them I highly recommend you do! He looks so much more like a little boy and less like a baby now.

And of course little Hudson has some cute pics of him on his page too. He is really enjoying his first tastes of nice weather and literally tastes of grass LOL He is trying to put everything into his mouth..toes - his or one of his siblings, grass, dirt, food, clothing...anything within grabbing distance and we've had to learn the hard way not to put glasses of water near him.

I'm trying to keep this updated as much as possible and hopefully I will be able to get a lot of good photos as we get out of the house more often. YAY winter is over!!!! **knock on wood**

Today we had a very busy day. First we went to an Easter celebration where the kids played on a giant blow up castle with a slide, had the quintessential egg hunt and Madelyn got her face painted. Then went to a park for Jeremy's tune-up bike race.

Ready, Set.....GO!

Meanwhile....Hudson and Jonas sharing a swing

Playing

This is how Madelyn makes friends...she walks up to some poor unsuspecting child and seizes their hand for holding, willingly or not, and then drags them around the playground. Seriously tho, she is so sweet to younger kids and always helps them on the slides and equipment. Too bad she uses up all that sweetness before she can share it with her own younger sibling. LOL