spring surprises

for some reason it won't let me move the pictures, sorry!!

the kids enjoying a movie and popcorn

on the $3 per person merry go round that i can't believe we actually paid for

cody after sucking on then smearing 1 oreo

the ducks we found in our pool

jonathan, carson and jaden at the preschool recital

you know it's spring when...
you wake up to find 12 ducks swimming in your pool (1 duck and 11 ducklings). we woke up sunday morning to see the cutest ducklings swimming in our pool. "how did they get in there?" you might ask. the answer is...we have no idea. they are too little to fly but i guess they could have squeezed through the back gate and the mom duck could have flown over. they were stuck in the pool. the duck could get out and the ducklings did try, to no avail. so we put a little "ramp" aka a piece of wood in the pool. only two of the ducklings got out via said ramp. every time the duck got out, two ducklings got out using the ramp. the others swam under it, around it, but still did not understand how those other ducklings got out of the water to follow their mom!! i was quite cute and entertaining to watch!

anyway, you also know it's spring when...
you are in your backyard with your kids when all of a sudden there are about 5 million bees around you and your have to grab your kids and run for cover!
ok, so i'm being a little dramatic, but seriously i did grab my kids and run inside. the bees then swarmed around our tomato plant in a tight bee-ball. jonathan took a food storage can and it's lid and went out there and swept them inside!! it was quite an eerie sound to hear them buzzing inside of the can. yep, i just got the willies. and again, just thinking about them!!
so for the past couple nights, cody has woken up at 2 or 3 in the morning screaming bloody murder. no matter what i do to calm him, he won't go back to sleep. if it were my house, i would probably let him scream for a little while, but alas, it is not my house and there are 3 other people who need their beauty sleep to be refreshed and revived the next morning for work and school. (personally, i thing sleep is overrated....just kidding) so i lay in the twin bed with him for like a thousand hours until he is asleep and usually end up sleeping in there with him perpendicular to me. last night the time came for bed. we picked a lovely story about a frog who lost his hop and everything was good. i told him after the book was over, he was going to go to sleep and not get out of his crib. he said okay. so i left after the book. about 2minutes later he comes trotting into our room all smiles. jonathan put him back to bed. after screaming for about 15 minutes, i finally went and got him and brought him back to bed with us. we were waiting for the kids to go to sleep so we could watch marley and me. we started it anyway with cody in the room with us. he stayed up until 11 o'clock. at first i was a bit annoyed. but then, he was being so cute and was indicating that he wanted me to sit by him by patting the bed next to him. he kept wanting to be tickled too and would laugh the most adorable laugh that i never wanted to put him to bed! finally it was time and we were all exhausted. he gave kisses and j put him in bed. this time he stayed put with no screaming the rest of the night. i had very sweet dreams with baby smiles and laughter!! i am so blessed!! here are some random pictures!