Thank you Becky

Thank you Becky for Sydney's new Left-hander Glove - she refuses to take it off when we play - even when she bats! She's not that great at catching with it yet - but she looks cool:)

The girls love playing wiffle ball - we finally found the bat - it was hidden in the garage somewhere. We can stop using Greyson's little wood bat. LaBarge's - we are ready for a wiffle ball game this summer!

Greyson likes the outfield - he covers his position well -never gets into anyone's way, but has not made any outs yet...most importantly, he leaves his Tigers hat on!

Oh, here is proof that Sydney will not take her glove off (now that I think about it - it is probably because she does not want Raleigh to use it...now that make sense!)

My Michigan Potato

Not a whole lot going on at the Kuipers' house so I am just posting a few random pictures...
The other day Greyson found a new favorite thing to do...walk around the kitchen dragging a bag of potatoes...he thought he was so funny...and he was...

And then yesterday, I realized that Greyson was way too quiet - I went looking for him and he had found a blue candy robins egg and had sucked all the blue right off it. I took it out of his mouth and he was MAD! - I washed up his blue hands and his blue face. Today I found a weird blue mark on the carpet and I blamed Sydney for it - she blamed it on Greyson - I was mad at her for blaming someone else until I realized she was right - it was Greyson's fault!

Cabana de Troncos

Raleigh had to build a "shelter" for a school project. She picked a Log Cabin - Cabana de Troncos. (I am not sure if I spelled that right, and Raleigh is sleeping or I would ask her). We worked on it together - Sydney and daddy even got to help. Raleigh had to write a report about her shelter - who would live there, where her shelter was and why it was a good place for her type of shelter, what it would be made out of, etc. She wrote the whole report in Spanish. We had to call a friend of mine to help with some Spanish words but 95% of it was from Raleigh's own brain! I did look over it to make sure sentences started with capital letters and ended in punctuation but that was about all I could do to help. I hope she was really writing stuff about the Log Cabin and not something else - I guess I will never know for sure:)

She did a great job - and, she turned her project in right before Spring Break so we didn't have to worry about it all week - it is due tomorrow. I have a feeling this is going to be the first of many, many projects to come!

Easter Crazy

We enjoyed a great Easter Sunday...just us this year...great weather (so sunny that Raleigh had her "sun in the eye so take a bad picture" look on her face) and even a family bike ride in the evening.

Raleigh woke up the earliest as usual and I made her stay upstairs until Sydney woke up. Once Sydney got up, the girls came downstairs to find their baskets. For some reason, Littlest Pet Shop was their favorite.

By the time I got Greyson up, he was jumping up and down in his crib, like he knew something fun was going on. The girls found his basket for him and he had a great time tearing into it.

James and I made Easter lunch and we ate it - just the 5 of us! I can't remember the last time that has happened on Easter. The girls had colored eggs with the Roberts cousins on Saturday so we had egg salad for dinner later which James wouldn't eat because the dye had turned some of the eggs blue - luckily Daryn showed up to eat our blue egg salad! We went on a bike ride in the evening down to a playgound - Sydney has gotten a lot stronger on the tag-a-long this year. She is a much better help for me on the hills. I threw out my back somehow right before the bike ride - so that was interesting. Riding was fine - so is sitting...but I still cannot stand up straight. I feel like an 80 year old walking. So much for the spring cleaning I was going to do today:)

And of course, we enjoyed Easter because of what Jesus has done for us. Raleigh read the Easter story in the kids bible after lunch and we talked about how thankful we are for what Jesus did for us and for our little boys who have already gotten to take advantage of what Jesus did for them. Another Easter in Heaven - had to be great!

Happy Birthday Greyson!

Greyson's First Birthday is Today! We celebrated on Sunday with my family. Greyson loved his cake - he tried to put the candle out with his finger - he got a little scared when he touched it! I don't think he burned himself - I am sure he will try it again:)

Sydney told me today..."Don't put fire on Greyson's cake today!" She is really afraid that he will burn himself.

I can't believe how fast this past year has been - Greyson surprised us by coming over 3 weeks early - he has been a wonderful, easy baby - we are so blessed to have him as part of our family.

At 1 year old, Grey is still not walking but likes to walk around furniture. He also loves to crawl over and under things. I find him crawling through the dining room table all of the time, over and under the tressles, over and under the picnic table...

He can give high-fives and wave bye-bye. He is a great sleeper and a pretty good eater. He LOVES his sisters. I love seeing him when we pick Raleigh up from the bus stop - he gets so excited - like he has missed her all day.

We love you Greyson - we pray that this next year of you life is as great as the first. We pray that you will come to know Jesus at an early age and that you are safe and healthy always. YOU ARE A BLESSING!

I participated in a mom-2-mom sale this weekend. I had a bunch of baby clothes to get rid of as well as a few other baby things that I no longer use or didn't use for Greyson. Since I am saving some baby clothes (for just in case) most of my items were priced pretty low. Anyway...I got home and James took the money I made, counted it, and then told me, "after paying the seller's fee and the babysitter (James had to work on Saturday)...you BROKE EVEN!" AAAHHHHHH!

Either way, I had fun, Sydney was able to help me set up on Friday, Raleigh was able to help part of the time at the sale on Saturday, I got rid of lots of clothes, donated a bunch of clothes and formula. Overall a fun day! And...I bought a toddler-backpack-carrier-thing. Greyson LOVES it! He does not want to get out of it...I am wondering why I never had one for the girls.

Greyson's First Haircut

Greyson was in need of a haircut...

My mother-in-law offered to cut it for him...

He sat pretty well on the counter during the haircut...

And...now he looks so much older! It needs to grow a little in the front - I am sure this is the first of many, many haircuts for him!