Paygisms

Playing with Payge today, I pretended to be a large carnivore: "roar!!!"

"Daddy, you not a rawr, you a piggy!"

More Spring Break! The Zoo.

Riding the "plane" to Africa.  The kids pretended the tram from the parking lot to the Africa exhibit was a flight.

Yes, mother...

Look!  Giraffes!  But we took photos of the cuter specimen.  You can see giraffes anytime, these kids are growing like weeds.

Elephant tracking helicopter on display.

Life-sized board game.  My darling pea-cess.

Friends.  :)

If only this really were how our children came into the world.

Hatched.

Spring Break!!

Watching ANNIE! while the Mommies went running.

Hanging out in front of the Fort Fisher Aquarium.  They hadn't gone in yet, so they were waiting, uh, patiently.

Zac, spying on the white (albino) alligator, Luna.

Check out the huge frog!!

Ohhhh, poison dart frogs!

One of my favorite photos that Nadine took of Megan.

Zac & Zoë learning about sea animals from the marine biologist.

Helping the littles reach the starfish.

I love this photo.  Chayce trying to get Zac to look at the camera so I'd put it away.

Then we attempted a group photo again...attempted.

Searching for shells!

Found some!

They were "building" a "fire" on the mussels.  With red dirt. 

Mommy and Chayce in front of the Atlantic Ocean.  Sigh.  It was sooo beautiful.

Throwing sand into the vast sea.

Zoë's favorite past time...

See?  She did it again!

Lounging!

Snuggling!

The toddlers, laying in the sand.

He WAS covered in sand...until Megan got to him.

Zac, after Zoë buried him, and Megan dumped water on him.

She laughed and laughed after getting him wet.  So did I.  ;)

More to come...

Three Cuties

Sigh.  I wanted a good photo of the kids, as the girls had a desire to have their hair "match" this morning.  Payge has ponies in too, but she wouldn't sit up and smile for me.  I think she's going to be one of those kids that gets all flustered when we tell her she's cute when she's angry.  :) 

Enjoying Spring

Searching for bugs.

Enjoying the sun.

Ahhhh, bugs, dirt, green grass...did I mention it was in the upper 70s?

Decorating the picnic table with weeds flowers found around the complex.

Letting rolly-polies play on our arms!

I just really loved this photo.  Zac contemplative in the foreground, the girls sitting together (getting along!) behind him.

Chalk Art

Those cute lil' Tuellers.

Look Zac!  I'm going to "help" draw the hop scotch!

Working on a masterpiece.

Masterpiece (Cinderella) complete.

Drawing the sunset.  Once he was done, the mix of pink, blue, and peach was very pretty.

Growing up!

 
It's not her birthday (phew!  We have a few more months!), but I'm constantly amazed at how quickly my kiddos grow.  I am really loving having an older daughter.  She's so helpful and kind to me.  We do butt heads, but it's mainly because we are so alike.  She's learning to cook, has taken on some responsibilities in the house, and L-O-V-E-S to get dressed up.   She's also one of those kids who show me up...for example, I get out some (very healthy, thankyouverymuch) flax seed tortilla chips and cheese dip, and she goes to the fridge, gets the head of broccoli and dips THAT in the cheese instead.  Soon, it'll be her favorite season--play in the pool season (here, that's Spring, Summer, and Fall).