Time Flies

Yes, time flies. I haven't posted in three months and there are too many pictures to chose from! The main things that have happened since February are that Kate turned one and John and I took a trip to Kauai! I went to a Wilderness Medicine Conference in Kauai to earn a little CME credit, and John as the dutiful husband that he is didn't let me travel all that way alone! We had a great relaxing trip. Gam and Pops stayed here with the kids and I must say, Kate didn't mind one bit. While Mark loves to wrestle and read books with Pops, Kate sure loves her Gam.

This is inside the Grand Hyatt where we stayed.  The weather there is so nice that everything inside is actually outside half the time.  Even the walk through the airport from one terminal to another leads you outside, only, you're still really inside.  Oh how I would love the weather here to be like that!

John on Secret beach with the lighthouse in the distance.  There was a very high surf warning that day so no snorkling for us!

This ia a spectacular view of some of the west coast from our helicpoter tour.  Breath-taking, amazing, beautiful, but ultimately I think that money would have been better spent at the spa.  Especially since I vomited my way through the 60 minute ride!

She's one!!!  And walking!  Kate is still our little sweet pea. We keep waiting for the terrible toddler-ness to hit but so far she is still a happy little squirt.  But don't worry, she lets you know if she's mad!  She can fight back if Mark is bugging here and throw little fits here and there too!  Kate LOVES to be outside.  In fact that is most often when you hear her whine, if she thinks you are going outside without her.  She loves the dogs and hugs on them a lot and giggles when she sees them.  She loves sidewalk chalk and she loves to dance and sing.  She shakes her little booty anytime she hears music!  She is a picky but good eater.  She loves all fruit, life cereal, cheese, and water is her favorite drink.  She is a champ napper and night-time sleeper.  Sometimes she giggles and jumps up and down in your arms when you tell her its nap time.  She grabs her minky bunny, inserts the right thumb, and she's out.  She has loved Mrs. Kathy's but tomorrow is her last day.  She starts at Riverfied in the Butterfly class next week!

She ate a LOT of her birthday cake.  And rubbed it in her hair, on her face, and on her clothes!  She had to go straight to bath to get all that greasy icing off!

Mark and Leyton are playing soccer again and this season they do little scrimages and for the first time wear shin guards and soccer cleats.  I think Mark looks soooooo much like John did when he was younger.

Easter Sunday!  They dress up pretty nice I think!

Tomorrow is the last day of school.  This is a pic Mark's teachers took of him at the beginning of the year.  He has really grown up!  He looks so much older to me now!

Field-Trippin' to the ER!

Yesterday the Purple class at Riverfield took a little field trip to St. John Broken Arrow ER! It was fun riding on the little bus with Mark and his friends and teachers. I think they had a great time. They got to go in an ER room, get blood pressure taken, watch how splints are put on, look at some x-rays (hands and feet), and then at the end we went outside and toured a police car and ambulance!

Mark got to sit in Mrs. Smith's lap at circle time that morning to tell everyone what to expect on the field trip.
Sitting in the waiting room with Isa, Kaelin, and Will C.

They put two gurneys in the exam room so everyone got to sit on a bed. There were 20 kids.

Putting a cast on Molly's arm. They thought it was really cool. =)

Really great BAPD officer let the kids hold his handcuffs and climb through the back seat of his car.

Then he turned on the lights and sirens! It cracked me up that all of the kids stood still and held their hands over their ears but Mark started jumping up and down and running side to side he was so excited for the LOUD siren!

And the BAFD paramedic with the ambulance. They liked those lights and sirens too.

Sissy

So I wonder if anyone with two kids, a boy and a girl, doesn't call them Sissy and Bubba at some point. We can't seem to get away from it! I think Kate actually responds better to Sissy or Sister than she does to Kate! Ahh!

I thought I'd post a few of little miss since she really wasn't in the last post at all. Can you see her two little bottom teeth in this one? You might have to zoom in.
Sometimes her hair looks striaght up red. I think its actually just a light brown and her pink scalp shines through!

Yes, we do a lot of standing nowadays. And pulling up on everything. And crawling everywhere. And attempting to climb the stairs. I really did enjoy that non-mobile stage! Well maybe this way I'll lose some weight chasing her!

Oh, you can definitly see those teethers in this one. She's such a smiley little thing!

He's finally 4!

Mr. Mark Thomas is finally 4! I feel like he has been 3 forever! I think he had some great birthday celebrations. On Wednesday the 25th we celebrated at school. We got to read one of Mark's favorite books to his class (Snow white is what he chose), we provided snacks for his class (Gogurts and goldfish by Mark's request), and he marched with his birthday totem his friends made for him. On his actual birthday we met John for lunch at Incredible Pizza. We thought it was great! It was clean, the pizza was good, and Mark was old enough to enjoy some of the games. That night we went to Osaka steakhouse for dinner (no pics) and came home to have cake with Gam and Pop and Aunt Brenda. THEN, Friday we had his birthday party at Tulsa World of Gymnastics. I think we had 25 friends there. Praise the Lord it wasn't at our house!

This first picture just cracks us up because of the angle. John says Mark looks like the Tulsa Driller! =)


Marching with the birthday totem. Did I mention it was pajama day at school that day?
His new Bronco pillow pet!

Super hero costume from Gam and Pops. I have already been saved from many a villian!
Like my candles?
My new all-time favorite picture of Mark!
Barrett Dean
Gracie practicing her gymnastics finish pose already!
Leyton jumping in the pit!
The pirate cake

PJ is just one of the kids! Playing with Jackson Wilks

Disney World!

So we went to Disney World for the first of many (I hope) trips just last week. We had breakfast at the castle with the princesses and lunch with the Winnie the Pooh and friends. The pictures speak for themselves!