Funny kids and Cats

Kara has been pretty crazy the last few weeks. She has started being obsessed with shoes, and wants to wear them to bed and all day long and trade them throughout the day. She has stopped napping early in the afternoon, so she is very randomly tired and falls asleep in the late afternoon in weird positions and places. We basically did nothing exciting during Spring Break because, frankly, I was scared to take them all somewhere by myself! The only place that we went that was out of the ordinary, was to Noble Woods park about a mile or so from our house. There's a little wetland, some forest areas, and trails throughout. We walked around for about an hour.

Kara's craziness led to her falling off a table onto the corner of the bookcase and giving herself a black eye. It happened on Saturday afternoon about 10 days ago. She had a big goose egg, which gradually went done to puffiness until Tuesday, when all the swelling went away. It looked like she was wearing purplish/black eyeshadow with a greenish yellow up into her eyebrow and out like a triangle on the side of her face.

Now, it is just a dark red line in the crease of her eyelid! I'm just happy that it didn't do serious damage to her eye!

Cassie is just SO cute! I hope her eyes stay blue!

Spencer wanted in on the picture. He thinks he looks so awesome like this...

Then Derek started doing his "bottom dancing"- that kid can really move his hips!

In other news, Derek had his first Pinewood Derby. He put all sorts of Star Wars dudes on the top. Larry was quite anxious to try to do it right. Anyway, something must have worked because he placed 1st or 2nd in all the races he was in. He had a really fun night.

Derek also got 2nd place in his school's 1-5th grade Spelling Bee! He won a pretty sweet-looking pencil.

4 kids in a tub! This was Cassie's first time in the big tub with her siblings. She wanted out pretty quick. The water sure got high after everyone got in!

Yesterday, Intel had a special Blazer night. We got to meet Patty Mills, wander around the Rose Garden, eat tons of food, get airbrushed with Blazer symbols, and play games. It was very fun!

Miranda is SO psyched for her birthday. We made this dog bags with her invitations inside. It's going to be a dog-themed party. I'm going to be face painting all the girls as dogs, we're making ribbon collars, eating dog-bone cookies, and doing other dog-related stuff.

Kara and Cassie are sure growing up so fast. Cassie is crawling now, and her first tooth just broke the surface. She's 9 months old and the most content baby ever...

This video was taken after Cassie had been playing with Shadow's tail for at least 5 minutes. Every time that she grabbed his tail, he would swish it around and she would giggle. I think he finally got fed up with it.