Adventuresome eaters.

Brady is by far the most adventuresome when it comes to trying new foods.  He is always willing to try it out and most of the time ends up liking it.  The other two boys are not as easy to convince but they do find they like some new things when they give in and try.  Aubrey, well she is harder to convince to try things than here momma...I swear I don't know how this girl functions on so little food.  She never wants to eat, unless it's chicken drumsticks then she out eats daddy!

I am scared at the thought of our grocery bill in 10 years!  The other night at dinner Brady ate his macaroni and cheese, some hot dog, some of my baked potato and prime rib, tried shrimp, scallops, haddock and clams then topped it off with a strawberry shortcake.  Cameron has been putting away 2-3 breakfasts every morning!

Bowling Ball Boo Boos!

The kids were so excited to go to the bowling alley for Makenna's birthday.  First up was Aubrey, she went to step up onto the bowling floor, tripped, the ball went up in the air and came down on her hand.  Breaking two of her fingers.  She was a sad girl at the ER until the doctor told her that the boys would have to do her chores for the next 7 days.  That put a smile on her face and you better believe she made sure they followed doctor's orders!

The boys had fun bowling...

This is the face she made when I reminded her the boys were doing her chores!

The Human Couch

I tell the kids all the time that I feel like a human couch.  No matter when or where I sit at least two of them are piled on my lap at a time.  Some days all four of them will pile on and hang out.  This wasn't bad when they were little but now that's 140 lbs of love sitting on me!  I swear they will be lap babies until they go to college!

Quad Quotes of the Week

Brady was mad at the other kids about something and didn't want to talk to anyone so Ben told them to leave him alone.  Matthew said "He's my best friend and I am not giving up on him!"

We went to get Tonya flowers for her birthday and on the way Cameron said "I want to get Auntie some beautiful roses."  So when we got there I showed him the roses and he said "Nah, these are Auntie's favorite roses."  Nice assortment of many different types of flowers...none were roses.

Brady asked me if he could buy a new game for his Leap Pad.  I told him not right now.  He said "How about when I am five?"  I said sure and he started to walk away when I heard him mumble under his breath "I should have said FRIDAY!  Not when I am five, that is too long!"

I put up their chore charts and asked them each to name a goal they were working towards.  The boys all made pretty good goals and were excited to start earning their stars...Aubrey on the other hand told me her goal was to "only get two stars because I don't want to do chores and I already have an Ariel doll soooo".

Favorites at 55 months...

Aubrey's Favorites:

Drink: Milk, Water, Orange Juice

Food: Apples, Grammie Cereal, Shepherd's Pie

Game: Duck, Duck, MOUSE, Puzzles and Hullabaloo

Princess: Ariel

Thing to do: Play Princesses

Best Friend: Girl Kam

Color: Pink and Purple

Show: Doc McStuffins

Movie: Little Mermaid

Song: Part of Your World

Matthew's Favorites:

Drink: Water

Food: Little Smokies

Game: Checkers, Angry Birds

Animal: Horses

Thing to do: Ride horses

Best Friend: Luke

Color: Black and Yellow

Show: Transformers

Movie: Land Before Time

Song: Payphone

Brady's Favorites

Drink: Milk

Food: Chinese Red Meat

Game: Checkers and Ants in your Pants

Animal: Puppies and horses

Thing to do: Puzzles, Coloring and Painting

Best Friend: Mylee

Color: Blue, White, Yellow, Black, Green, Red and Orange

Show: Mickey Mouse and Doc McStuffins

Movie: Lady and the Tramp and 101 Dalmations

Song: Call Me Maybe, Hear me Roar

Cameron's Favorites

Drink: Sneaking Daddy's soda

Food: Cantaloupe

Game: Hullabaloo, Lion King

Animals: Tigers, Lions, Zebras and all the animals in a zoo

Thing to do: Snuggle with Daddy and Mommy

Best Friend: Mommy

Color: Green

Show: My Little Pony

Movie: Land Before Time

Song: Hear Me Roar

Aubrey's Kingdom

Aubrey and Brady tend to fight...A LOT!  So I wasn't surprised to hear them bickering once more but I did get a good chuckle out of part of their conversation.

Brady:  "I can't wait until you realize you aren't a real princess!"

Aubrey: "I can't wait until you realize I am and you can't come my kingdom!"

Mommy and her little men

Since Daddy and Aubrey had a date the boys and I decided we would have one too.  They thought the candy store was the best place to go!

Daddy got a quick pic with his guys before leaving!

Love these little men...each one is so different and together they make our lives complete.

Whoa!!!!

Brady was a little excited!

Playing it cool!

a half a pound of candy and 3 pieces of fudge later we headed home.  They loved it!