Friday Fun with Friends Day

We were excited to have our friends over on Friday - Sommer and Maddie, and Kisha, Tayler, and Logan. We had a fun time doing lots of Easter activities in anticipation of the coming holiday. One thing we did was finger painting with colored pudding (just vanilla pudding with food coloring in it). The kids had a lot of fun, even though most of their papers didn't dry well. (Thanks for the idea, Amy Buskard!)



Caleb with a finger-full of edible "paint."



The finished artwork. Caleb's is first (in the front), then Grace's, then Maddie's, and then Tayler's. Good job, kids!



The kids decorating some Easter eggs.



Tayler stuck her blue Easter egg in her mouth. Can you tell? : - )



A plate of pretty Easter eggs.



Ava Joy and her friend Logan - 3 days younger than her and probably 3 pounds heavier!

More pictures!

Happy Easter from the Rumley family! We're celebrating Christ's sacrifice for us this weekend.

Happy Ava playing with the Resurrection Eggs.

Smiley Caleb, almost 2 years old.

Beautiful Grace, 3 years old, but looking like she's 13.

Picture post

We had a fun time visiting the Liabenow side up north last Sunday. The Sunday evening church service was done by the youth group, and Alonna was the main actor in the play. It was really well done! Alonna did an excellent job with her part; she knew all of her lines and delivered them very convincingly. Maybe I'll have a famous sister someday! : - ) Oh, if you're curious about the box, it was the main prop for the play. Alonna was sitting in it during most of the drama.



Melissa and Karl were supposed to be in the box picture, but they were already headed home by the time I tried to find them for the picture. So, this is them! Good looking family, huh?



And good news! Caleb's a real boy again! He had his appointment with Dr. Ringler on Monday, and it turns out his arm is perfectly healed! Praise the Lord!



Here's the moment the doctor took the splint off. Caleb was a trouper. He got the red plate that night to celebrate his freedom.



On Tuesday, the kids helped me make pizza crackers for lunch. (Basically crackers, sauce, and cheese baked in the oven until the cheese melts.) I did the sauce, but they still had fun. Can you see Caleb's mountain of cheese that he's working on? What a funny kid.



We also made cookies that day. While I made the cookie dough, I gave them their own mixing bowls and utensils to pretend with. They started to get bored, so I put some water in their bowls, and that entertained them for the rest of my cooking time. It was fun, and they actually didn't make much of a mess! Good job, kids!



Ava Joy - what a sweet baby! I've been meaning to post a picture of her for a while now, to commemorate her milestone of being 5 months old. She's getting over her sickness and back to sleeping well at night for us. She's been rolling from her back to her belly for quite a while, but she started rolling from her belly to her back last night. So, now she can go both ways. She still can't sit up on her own at all, but this rolling ability gives her the potential to be mobile!

That's all for now. I actually took over 70 pictures of the kids today. (Good thing we have a digital camera, huh? That'd be way too much film to develop.) So, maybe someday I'll get around to posting a few of those.

Gotta go. Happy Maundy Thursday.

Quick, pictureless update

I would love to post pictures today, but I think it'll have to wait. Our computer has been acting sick lately, so I'm going to do a quick little update before it crashes...

Ava is 5 months old now. She is the sweetest child in the world, I think. (Don't tell our other two, haha.) But she actually has a cold now, which is so sad. She's only been in the nursery twice now; can I still blame the cold on that? : - )

Caleb gets his splint off on Monday, or at least that's the plan. He's doing well with it, though. And his talking has taken off in the past week or two. He's saying so many more words and phrases now - how fun! I guess our pediatrician was right when she guessed he'd start talking more right around his second birthday.

Grace is learning more and more all the time, I think. She's doing such a great job with memorizing her verses for Cubbies - and that's thrilling to me! She's even starting to write letters on her own. She'll be coloring, and just say, "Look, Mommy, I wrote an "S!" Isn't that cool? Oh, she's also doing a great job with potty training. Night time dryness might take a while, but she's pretty much trained during the day. Praise the Lord!

Luke's busy as ever at work, almost too busy. He feels like he has so much to do but can't get it all done.

And I'm also busy, but my work involves cooking, cleaning, and changing diapers. I know, for a fact, that it'll never all get done. Trying to sell the house also throws a wrench in my fire, because it has to be absolutely, perfectly spotless for showings and such. I dare you to try that with three kids under three years old!

That's all for now. Maybe I'll get to post pictures sometime soon. Until next time, take care!