Life with the Bussis'- 5.27.15

It's been a fun week over here:

The twins eating their first meal at the table! They definitely are enjoying feeling like big boys at the table, along with the ability to get in and out of their chair all by themselves :)

 

We had our last Play 'N Learn of the school year on Thursday. We've come a long way since the first time we went and I had to sit by them. This time they jumped right in with the singing.

 

And got up close and personal when it was time for the story :) (That's David standing right in front there)

 

Micah practicing swatting flies (this came in handy on Saturday when we had the doors open a lot getting furniture in and out of our house and many flies decided to make themselves at home in our home)

Of course, their favorite station, the "sandbox"

Making some butterflies

 

Lunch at McDonalds afterwards with friends

 

After McDonalds we needed to go to Costco. Mental note, don't let David have any free samples containing chocolate! He's been drooling a lot lately (no idea why, he has the same amount of teeth as Micah so I don't think he's suppose to get any more any time soon) and so drool combined with chocolate mean a very messy shirt that unfortunately would not get clean even after 3 times of trying with stain remover! And of course this is the one shirt that all 3 boys have to match. Thankfully I was able to find another one online and it was now on clearance! :)

They were very good at Costco (and all morning), so they got treated to some frozen yogurt

 

Just chilling with Mommy

Steve had a Classis meeting Thursday so I let Micah pick what he wanted for dinner, he picked pancakes :). The boys thought it was pretty cool to get to eat breakfast for dinner

Getting a checkup after dinner from Dr. Micah

The boys are very into wearing sunglasses these days. I think it's just adorable :)

We decided it was finally time to replace our couches. They were the couches I had bought 9 years ago when I moved into my apartment at Providence Christian College and they had definitely been abused in the past 4 years (by our boys, not Steve & I :)) so it was time. We went to a furniture store that was having a great Memorial Day sale and found some nice cheap couches that will work well for us. The boys did amazingly well while we looked at couches and paid for them, mostly thanks to the balloons a worker gave them. :)

 

Our new couches!!! And now the fun begins, retraining the boys that they're not suppose to jump on these couches :)

Jonathan insists on wearing his sunglasses upside-down 

 

We decided to stick our old couches out by the road with a for sale sign on them to see if anyone would be interested. If they didn't sell by after lunch we were going to just bring them to Good Will. About 20 minutes before we were going to load them up into a truck the mail came and the substitute mail lady decided to buy them!

One last picture on the love seat!

Sunday night we were going to have a hot dog roast at our house after church. So we brought our little picnic table up from the basement to put out so they younger kids could eat on it. These 3 were very excited to roast hot dogs, and especially do s'mores. Unfortunately it started raining during church and was still raining after church, so we had to move our hot dog roast to the fellowship hall with no fire :).

There was still threat of rain on Monday, but we decided to chance it and went to the Whitecaps Game (minor league baseball). It did rain a couple of times, but only for 2 minutes and never very hard, and we had come prepared with umbrellas.

Micah wasn't going to let a little rain ruin his fun

And the twins could really care less if they got wet, they just liked climbing on and off the chairs :)

And like I said, the rain never lasted long, and then the sun would come out (Steve described it as the weather was schizophrenic :)) 

Since the game was during naptime, these boys fell asleep in the car after the game on the way to Steve's parents :). After a quick snooze in the car they got to spend the evening playing at Grandpa and Grandma's. All in all, they had a very fun day!

Micah loves to help with "the brothers" as he refers to them. Here he's getting them their syrup for their waffles.

We went to JoAnn's this morning and we had to wait a little while while they tried to find what I wanted that it had said on the internet they had :) David obviously found it too sunny inside for his liking :)

They never could find what I wanted to we had to wait some more while they called another store to see if they had it. As you can see they just made themselves right at home (eventually Jonathan also had his shoes off and David was trying to get his off :)).

Never a dull moment with these guys!

Life with the Bussis'- 5.20.15

Since I'm sure so many of you are curious how my painting turned out :) I thought I'd start with that.

Here's what it looked like before (I never actually took before pictures, had to search through my many pictures to find one :))...

 

After (painted doors and trim white, the walls Woodlawn Blue)

 

 

Before (again, had to scrounge, best I could find, ignore Micah's funny face :))...

After

I am very happy with how it all turned out! I had all the doors and trim and taping done by Friday afternoon so Steve and I could just jump right in with painting Saturday morning (Steve's parents took the boys overnight so we could paint without kids in the way) and we were all done with the painting by noon! There's still a few things to be put back on the wall (I'm not super ready to start putting holes in the walls again, so I'm taking my time in deciding what to put back up), but the hard parts done.

 

While I was taking the after shots these two just had to have their picture taken :) and who could resist that request. And yes, they are now at the age that as soon as you take a picture they say "Let me see" :)

 

Notice the pants and long sleeve shirts, yes, it just doesn't want to stay warm here. Yesterday it never got above 55, it's not much warmer today. Very thankful I hadn't put all the winter clothes away (I had planned to, just never got around to it).

 

Thursday we got to go to the Zoo with friends of ours that have a family membership where they get to bring 4 guests every time. We started with the wallabies who were fighting like crazy, really reminded me of how my boys sometimes play :)

 

Notice the stroller, yeah, that didn't last too long :). But the twins did great even when they weren't in the stroller. They are at a very fun age to take to the zoo. They loved the freedom of getting to walk, but stayed close.

 

 

Petting the goats

 

The twins weren't too sure about that (although they did eventually pet them).

 

The tiger, however, they really weren't sure about and didn't trust the glass between them and the Tiger and stayed way back from him :). Micah however thought it was pretty cool to be up close and personal

 

I think their favorite of all the animals were the penguins. This one penguin seemed like he wanted to play with them. He kept tapping the glass by where they'd put their hand on it. It was pretty cute.

 

Telling Grandpa and Grandma how exited they are to see them in 4 weeks! :)

 

Since I had the kitchen all ready to be painted by Friday afternoon, we decided to go on a date after dropping the boys off at Steve's parents. After dinner I asked Steve what he wanted to do and he said that Maple Hills (a golf shop where he's gotten most of his clubs) wasn't far :). I asked him if he needed any new clubs and he said "no, but I don't have any hybrid clubs" :). So we went and he tried out a hybrid club (not totally sure why you need a hybrid club but it's something about adding 20 yards to your irons or something like that :), the pros have them). So he tried one out, but he didn't get one, he just wanted to see what they were like :).

While Steve and I were busy painting Micah got to go fishing with his new fishing pole he had gotten for his birthday with Grandpa. And he caught a fish! Actually he caught a few fish, this was the biggest one. He was pretty excited about it!

Enjoying some of the nice weather (since we knew it was going to get cold this week :))

More enjoying of the outside. You can't tell on this picture, but it was incredibly windy here. Micah was riding his bike up and down the driveway and at one point he was going to the grass hill in the back of the driveway and the wind all of the sudden picked up and sent him flying. His eyes got huge! Thankfully he was able to stop before he went flying down the hill :)

Monday morning they predicted thunderstorms, but they were wrong, thankfully :), so we headed to a park with a Frisbee golf course so Steve and Micah could play that and the twins could play on the playground

And who wants to use the steps when you can climb up this thing instead?

 

The Frisbee golfers

 

 

If there are swings, my boys will be on them

 

Micah didn't last very long on the course, so he joined us on the playground

 

 

David thought this sliding thing was pretty fun

 

 

Love these 3 so much!!!

 

Micah loves to ride his bike, but he's still too little to ride it on the bike paths so we decided to try out a ride-along bike. He's a big fan of it. I thought it would be easier than pulling him in a trailer, it's not :). The bike is a bit heavier and he's not yet to the point where he's contributing much to the pedaling process :), but it's way more enjoyable for him

 

He just keeps following me wherever I go :)

I forgot my list on Monday so we were back Tuesday for the things I missed :) The twins didn't mind, that meant cookies!!

 

The twins took horrible naps yesterday (as in I went up there a little after 2:30- they had gone to bed at 1:30- and found the lights on, Jonathan sitting up in his bed reading and David hiding behind the rocker. I put them back in bed and Jonathan never went to sleep and David slept an hour, after getting up before 7 that morning), so they both went to bed early, and Steve was gone to his softball game, so Micah got some Mommy time and decided it's be fun to beat her in Trouble :).

His prize for beating Mommy, brownie and ice cream (okay, I would have let him have it anyway, but it's fun if you think it's your prize :))

This morning I let the boys watch Sheriff Callie in the basement while I exercised upstairs. Jonathan went down, climbed in that foot rest and said "Mommy, I sit in my bucket to watch Sheriff Callie" :)

 

We just got a new (used) table this afternoon. Now that our walls are nicely painted I was ready to be done with our 2 high chairs (we have to fold up the one every time it's not being used and it bangs against the wall and chips the paint) which meant we needed a bigger table and more chairs. After many searches on craigslist I found this one and the price was right! I think the twins will be pretty excited tomorrow morning when they realize they get to sit at the table for breakfast!