My funny kids

I still have some pictures of Collin's birthday to post. My parents gave him the cutest Buzz Lightyear dressup thing that he carries around in the Buzz Lightyear suitcase my sister gave him. There's a funny story about all that that I will share when I get the pictures.

In the meantime, some other funny things going on. Collin has moved into a toddler bed which hasn't been to hard of an adjustment. He goes to bed really well. Doesn't do the whole in and out of bed a million times before he falls asleep. However, he does like to get up several times during the night now. Well, as some know, I am not a very good sleeper, especially when I am startled awake by a child thumping his way up the stairs and then screaming our names. Mark was convinced that it would pass after a few days. So Mark got to find out if it would pass, while sleeping on the couch. After about a week of that, even Mark was tired of it. We tried putting a child gate over his door so that we could hear him but he couldn't come wandering up. That worked for one night until Collin figured he could push things over to the gate and climb over. The best was when we found his dirty clothes hamper emptied and pushed over. He's resourceful if anything else at 3 in the morning. So we finally put a child door knob thing on the back of his door and shut his door. It's seems to be working for now. He doesn't yell or get out of bed. He doesn't like those door knob things though. We have one on our food pantry so he doesn't rummage and snack on chips all day. Below is him trying to open up the door with his large, plastic tools. He tried several of them including a saw and screwdriver. As a last ditch effort, he tried the wrench. It didn't work, much to his annoyance.




Clara has written some rules for her room and proudly displayed them on the door. This was prompted by Collin tromping on a very elaborate dollhouse she had created for her playmobile figures. She really has no patience for Collin and his antics. He is in kind of a destructive phase right now.

0. (Obviously added after she wrote 1-9) Don't make faces.
1. Put the things you got out away when done.
2. Don't reck eney thing.
3. Don't take eneything off of my dresser without asking.
4. Don't hide in my closet or under my bed.
5. Don't get eneything of a shelf without pramishen.
6. Don't try to get the fish or it will maby Die.
7. Plese don't get my dressups out without pramishen.
8. Make sure my brother dosn't come in when I made something.
9. Daddy needs to snugle every night.

Easter

Just a quick post on our Easter festivities. We had the 3rd annual Ohran family glow in the dark easter egg hunt with Mark's family. Plus we did a traditional egg dying/easter egg hunt with just us. Minus the fact that it snowed Easter morning, we had a good time.




We used to make these bunnies when I was a kid, and they were fun. So Clara and I tried them this year. They're kind of and orange roll. Clara had a good time punching the dough and forming the bunnies. Collin helped roll the tails.

Before the baking.

The final product.

Collin's BD

I can't believe Collin is 3! It has gone by so fast. Collin is such a sweet little boy. Although he is starting to be more independent and throw more and more fits. Normal 3 year old things. He currently loves anything airplane or rocket ship. He's starting to get into super heroes. Big surprise being an Ohran. He loves Buzz Lightyear and got Buzz shoes and kite for his birthday. We took him to his 3 year checkup and the doctor is surprised that he eats so much because he is so skinny. He is the 25% in height and 3-5% in weight.
Anywho. We had a small birthday celebration. I always envy my friends or family who have these extravagantly themed parties. I don't have the creativity to pull those off. So there really were no decorations and we didn't do any games. We just had dinner and cake and ice cream and opened presents.




One of the presents we gave Collin was a spiderman scooter. He loves it.

I tried and tried to find a Buzz Lightyear topper or cake decorations of some sort and there were none to be found. So I made his cake myself. I really have no cake decorating skills but he liked the rocket. He didn't eat any of it but was upset when we cut into it and ate it. He wanted to later know where his rocket cake was and when I showed him the nearly empty pan, he was sad.



Good thing it was fairly warm the next day so he could try out the new scooter.

Clara's fashion sense

Collin's BD was on Monday and I have pictures to post but haven't downloaded them yet. I'll get to that soon.
But Clara just said something so funny and I have to write it down before I forget it. She is constantly running late in the morning because she spends a lot of time picking out just the perfect outfit. I tell her that I get to pick out her clothes once a week just so on one morning we don't have drama. Tonight I told her she had to pick out her clothes before she went to bed so she's ready for the morning. She was getting in the shower so she told me I could pick out her clothes. "But pick out something cute" she yelled from the shower. Pause. Pause. "My cute not your cute" she punctuated. So I went and asked her what she meant by that. "I am fancy cute. You're just normal cute" I was speechless. I couldn't even come up with a response to that.

Collin

Collin is sick right now. He has a cold and an ear infection. But he is the sweetest guy even when he's sick. The other morning I asked if I could suck his boogers out with the sucker thing, you know. He immediately started crying but in a sad little voice said "No thank you mommy". Can he stay this age forever?

Our cat makes us laugh

We have had Tinkerbell for 3.5 years now and she is constantly making us laugh. We find her in the weirdest places. She likes to crawl into little spaces or perch somewhere unusual. If there is an empty floor with a small piece of paper on it, she'll circle around the paper and then plop down on it. Who knows why? She's so funny with her food. She refuses to eat out of her food bowl if it's less than half full. If it's getting low, she'll constantly meow and circle around our feet. We usually refuse to fill it because it's not gone. She'll continue to bug us but then resign herself and finish eating. She doesn't like her water bowl and only drinks out of the toilet, or she'll jump into the bathtub after we've showered. Or she'll drink out of the fishbowl. Our fish is going to be eaten one of these days. Here are a few funny pictures. They make us laugh.


Sitting in the window sill when we first got her. We'd always find her there basking in the sun.



She's always climbing into things. One time we caught her trying to squeeze herself into a shoe box. This is Collin's laundry basket.

Lounging in Clara's house she built for her Polly pockets. I'm sure there's one underneath there. That can't be comfortable.

Just hanging out in Collin's high chair. Collin looks so little sitting there in the background.


We often catch her in unusual sleeping positions. So comfy.


She won't go near Clara's bed until Clara is asleep. Usually because Clara mauls her. But as soon as she's out, kitty loves to snuggle.

This one was one of the funnier ones. Mark's mom gave Clara a little tutu skirt for Christmas. Clara had been dancing in it earlier and had left it on the floor. We're not sure how Tinkerbell got so nestled in there. But she stayed there for a while.

Ohran Family photos

We had family pictures with Mark's family done over the holidays. My sister in law's brother is a photographer and he made it surprisingly painless for as many kids as we had. Our individual family picture turned out cute but I didn't get a blog copy so sorry you don't get to see that one. They turned out really cute and will be nice to have since we really haven't had the family pictures done for quite a while.



Mark and all of his brothers. How his mother ever raised six boys, I'll never know.

Brothers and parents.
All of the grandkids. Collin would not smile. He's not smiling in any of the pictures. I think he was just confused as to why the photographer was hitting himself over the head with a plastic hammer. They're all looking at the camera so I guess that says something.
The whole family.