Mary Beth's last time having "share bag" in her preschool career. sniff sniff... Contents: Suzie in her new yellow dress, a white zhu zhu pet dressed in a tutu and a tiara, and in honor of letter X week: a real x-ray of her abdomen. Bet the teachers didn't think we could successfully pull of a show and tell that starts with an X!
This is Mickey and Jeffrey's good buddy Shia. They have been friends since they were 2 years old. We lived near them in Bismarck and then we all moved to Fargo at the same time almost 2 years ago. Shia is the sweetest little boy and can do the BEST monster noises. He and Jeffrey love to "snuggle-wrestle" and all the kids have the greatest time playing together. 
Hard to tell here but it is REALLY uneven. The right side is way longer than the left- I'm going to have to fix it after I'm over being traumatized from the last hair-cutting escapade.
She saw a picture of herself at the age of 2 with these "piggies" and now it's the only way she wants to wear her hair everyday. :)
Here is the before picture(from the back) and in the front... we have...
Mary Beth's attempt to begin the haircutting process! It doesn't look as bad as it was because she is slouching and tilting her head but she took a lot off!!!! I screamed(of course) and started hyperventilating. Her hair, her hair, HER HAIR!! Mary Beth is known for her crazy long hair! John LOVES her long hair(even though he's the one who combs through it after her showers/baths while she screams and cries).
All she had to say for herself was "but this is how short I want it." Well, that was how short it was going to be then. Stay tuned for the after picture tomorrow...
As usual, the pizza was questionable and the germs were plentiful but the kids had a BLAST and that's what's important. (I repeat this in my head over and over while I'm there.)
She's probably wishing for more tokens.
The Webster kids just 1 week before their baby brother arrived... they are so adorable! Boy, Annie is really going to be spoiled now with all those brothers! At least she has Mary Beth and vise versa.
mmmmmmmmmmmmm....
Paul took a picture so I could be in it for once. It's so weird seeing myself in a photo. It reminds me why I don't like it. Ugh.
Little sweetheart. She's always so happy and quiet. I've never heard her cry or whine. Ever.
Jacob loved this game.
Jeffrey and Jacob look like they are brothers- always have. It's uncanny.
Jeffrey deligently spent lots of time hoisting Annie up into the tunnels and then traveled with her through them and then down the slides. Over and over. Mary Beth and Jacob helped too. It was so cute and they all loved it. Jeffrey is such a good helper and patient with little ones. He always tells me he's practicing for when he is a daddy. :) He is going to make a WONDERFUL daddy- just like John. John's sisters told me that when he was young and someone would ask him what he wanted to be when he grew up he said "A Dad." :) I love that. And him. He's the best dad in the world.
I love taking Isaac's picture. He gives me this huge smile every time.
Here come the girls!
See!?!? That smile again! So cute!
Auntie Jenny made Mary Beth this adorable tutu. She loves it. 
SHE IS 4 YEARS OLD NOW!
SHE IS SO CUTE AND FUNNY...
WE HOPE YOU HAD A WONDERFUL BIRTHDAY!
HAVE A SUPER FUN PARTY ON SATURDAY!
Welcome precious little Seth Matthew!
I meant to get this posted last night but John and I were up till 11 making 80 zillion paper beads for Jeffrey's school project(grrrrr....) and then I totally forgot to blog!
Anyway- John's sister Katie had their baby on Monday afternoon and here he is! What a cutie! I think he looks like his brother Isaac. Guess this means 1 more try for a sister for Annie, huh Katie?!?!?! :) Best wishes to the baby and family- we are so excited to come and meet him!
Saturday morning I was going through a pamplet that listed upcoming fun events and noticed that the zoo was having an Earth Day party on the 24th. So I got everyone all excited and we got ready fast and headed to the zoo. The only problem was it wasn't the 24th- that's next Saturday. Huh. Oh well- it was still super fun since it was our first time at the zoo this spring and the weather was REALLY nice. Guess we'll head back again on the 24th!
Jeffrey wore his racoon hat. I love that. A lady had a bearded dragon out for touching. Salmonella anyone?
Checking out the fish in the pond.
There were baby goats and Jeffrey was in seventh heaven. He wants one soooo bad.
Right after I took this picture the goat kicked Mickey's arm and he literally DROPPED the baby goat. I screamed. Everyone stared. The zookeeper didn't seem impressed. Mickey kept crying out "but he kicked me!"
Mary Beth loved them too. I think every single animal is adorable when it's a baby, don't you?
These two kept playing "king on the mountain" as the boys called it. They were butting eachother off the rock. It was hilarious.
Look at that cow's tongue!!! Gross. Jeffrey HAD to feed it so I said he could drop the food onto it's tongue without touching it.
After the zoo John and the kids began digging the hole for my pond in the backyard. John was convinced it was going to be a 2 day project(just to dig the hole) and it actually only took an hour.
The kids only cared about all the worms they were finding. Ewwwww. I remember loving playing with worms when I was little too but now they give me the willies.
Mickey started a colony in his green bucket.
Digging, digging, digging.
John and I always say that out of the 3 of them, Mary Beth is BY FAR the grubbiest kid. She always gets FILTHY when she goes outside- which is fine- it's just funny because she's the only girl and always looks like a wreck compared to the boys.
Hello worms.
I love this hand-spun/hand-dyed wool I got off etsy. The only problem is I only got a little bit(I'm not good at picturing how much such and such yards is in my mind) so all I could figure out to make was a little doll blanket for one of Mary Beth's doll's. Hopefully I'll have enough for that!! Look at those colors! I'm really getting into knitting lately. I taught myself to bind off using youtube so I was able to finish 2 projects that have been sitting in my knitting bag for months. What a relief!
Jeffrey and I had "craft time" together tonight before bed. He is working on making paper beads using cut up magazine pages and tacky glue. He won't tell me what the finished project is going to be though- he says it's a secret.
I kept doing things to make him laugh. Isn't he adorable???
Oh little Feffy- I love it that you still want to wear jammies that have baby dinos all over them.
You are so sweet and kind and happy all the time. 
I can't wait to see the special project when it is finished!
Of course Mary Beth had to come down and check things out.
So careful and precise.
paper beads.
" the tacky glue must be applied with your fingers mom"
billions of cut up magazine scraps
ta-da! 