More birthday fun!

We celebrated Joel's 5th birthday, which was double the fun because it was a welcome break from painting :) He is now enjoying keeping his sisters in submission with his foam dart gun and water guns, and enjoys his little $1 jack-knife so much that he snuck it into church this morning and we caught him licking it!?!

Now I see that Marie made "armor" to protect herself from the dart gun with winter coats wrapped all over and under her clothes. She's definitely ingenious; a few weeks ago I told her she was going to get a spanking and a few minutes later when I was ready to spank her, I discovered about 10 pairs of underwear layered on each other for padding. Wow, it was hard to keep a straight face when I made her take those off!

Joel was more than a little bit hyper

Trying out a 3-D movie
Peek-a-boo!
Holly loves her new car; plus it has bonus spots to stash her pacifiers and "treasures".

Are all little kids stashers/packrats? All of ours sure are.

Spray-painting the house was a fast but nasty job.

Steve helped out for a day with the cabinet installation and they also moved in some heavy stuff. Thanks so much Steve!