Reds Opening Day Parade

We always really love the Reds Opening Day Parade!  This year Josefine was off school so Josie, Charlotte and I took the bus downtown to enjoy the sunny day at the parade!

 

Happenings Around Home!

 We keep getting glimpses of spring and it is making us want to do all the things outside!  

We have focused on more days home in 2024 and lots of fun family nights and cozy nights hanging out and playing games.  The kids give up TV and sweets every other week throughout lent so the no TV weeks make for lots of creative moments and game nights - helps reset us a bit!

Charlotte has a couple great toddler friends and we have gotten to spend lots of mornings hanging out with them and their Mamas.  I am just forever grateful that I have a few days off a week to just do Mom and kid outings and spend time with friends - I will never forget these moments and have the fondest memories of outings and cozy mornings at home/other's homes sipping coffee and letting the kids play!

We love spending time with the Ricks.  Their 3 girls and our 3 girls perform shows over and over and are just the cutest of friends!  Always dancing and singing

Mother Son Bowling for Nativity.  I never want to forget this..I asked Jack if he wanted to go out to lunch with me before the event and he asked if just the 2 of us could grab sub sandwiches and take them to the park to play on the playground together.  It was just the best day with my boy!  Also, for the last 3 years he has been putting all his raffle tickets into the gorilla glue diy basket and this year he WON!  He was so darn excited and has been gluing lots of things!!

These 2 LOVE to wrestle 

We enjoy walking up to Goodfellas on Monday evenings for pizza and board games!  We take this back library room for just our family and its so sweet and relaxing!

Hanging out with Baby George!  And getting to visit with Ellie!

The 4th graders celebrated Pi Day and Jack designed and made this shirt to wear - super cool!  I love his passion for Art!

I play pickleball on Friday mornings with friends while all the littles run wild - great fun!

We found a cool Bike Co-Op that has workshops for kids on Monday nights.  You can drop your kid off with a bike that needs fixed, or they can adopt a bike from the shop, and for free the volunteers teach them how to fix their bike and get it working.  Jack learned so much and he had previously found this bike in the garbage and now its good as new!

Jack got glasses!  We let him pick them out and he picked out a great pair! He looks so handsome and when he first put them on he said "I didn't know you could see the separate blades of grass!"

Coffee mornings after long runs! I have the best running group - Super Fast Moms!

The girls spent all afternoon one Sunday preparing for me to get home from work and made banana muffins all on their own and brewed tea and had this adorable table set up for me when I walked in the door!

Charlotte and I got Newport Aquarium Passes for this year and we have gotten to go a few times already and have enjoyed it!  We like to park on the Cincinnati/Ohio side and walk through the park and across the bridge to get to KY and the aquarium for a nice outing!

Charlotte joined me for my lifting workout the other day and used these little cans of beans - she was so into it!

We have just had some really great months this year so far!! I can't believe I get to be the Mama to these four awesome kids - the best!