The Portrait Project | Weeks 170-172

I have no idea how three weeks have already passed since I last posted the Portrait Project!  

Week 170
Daniel had fun making a candy spider at school, Teddy enjoyed moving rocks around our front yard in his dump truck, Ruby Scout tried her best to not skin her toes and knees while brothers played outside and she also enjoyed threatening to play with her brothers' toys (they would yell at her every time she got close to them).

Week 171
This week was Easter, so it was all the obligatory Easter pictures on the front porch... all were happy to do it excepting Teddy :)

Week 172
Last week, the kiddos all enjoyed the beautiful weather and played outside.  Ruby Scout loves to play catch now and her brothers think it's pretty cool that she can walk around (she only does so when she feels like it).

The Portrait Project | Weeks 161-169

Week 161
This week, we played inside, tried to convince Teddy to eat new foods (hah!), Ruby Scout loved hanging with Coco in her kennel, and D started trying to use his Darth Tater light saber as a curling iron on Ruby Scout's hair in the bath.

Week 162
Daniel prepped Valentines, Teddy practiced running "Soupa" fast, Ruby Scout enjoyed playing hard-to-get while she ate her morning breakfast, and the kiddos invented a new game where the brothers played "catch" throwing Ruby Scout (in her car) back and forth to each other.

Week 163
Daniel turned 6, Teddy enjoyed playing with D's new birthday presents, and Ruby Scout enjoyed the warmer weather and got to crawl around outside.

Week 164
D wanted to take his birthday pictures in front of our friends' neighbors' new house construction, Teddy fell in love with our neighbor's toy gun, Ruby Scout got really good at climbing up the stairs, and her brothers got really good at notifying me when she was climbing up the stairs.

Week 165
We took the kiddos to Chattanooga to celebrate D's birthday.  We stayed in the Chattanooga Choo Choo hotel and got to sleep in one of their train car rooms, so of course the boys wanted pictures in front of our "room".  D wanted his picture by the connector and every time we would go into our room, Teddy would stand out and yell, "All abowd!" so that's his picture :)  Ruby Scout enjoyed riding the incline rail road and all the kiddos were underwhelmed at the view at the top of the incline- haha :)

Week 166
This week, the boys finally broke into their water colors, Ruby Scout ate her birthday cake (sort of) and Ruby Scout enjoyed having her brothers and friends sing "Happy Birthday" to her.

Week 167
This week D started soccer, Teddy had fun playing catch with Ruby Scout and Ruby Scout got to break in her first pair of Converse.

Week 168
This week we got to go away to our friends' lake house for the weekend.  The boys loved fishing and Ruby Scout loved to explore around.

Week 169
This week all the kiddos seemed to age- and in Ruby Scout's case she added some attitude for good measure.
 

The Portrait Project | Weeks 159 & 160

We have felt better the last couple of weeks, so that has been nice!  D enjoyed constructing a space ship out of his blocks, Teddy fell asleep with his cones, Ruby Scout is now at the fun age where she's standing waiting for me in the mornings & the kiddos enjoyed some time outside playing with their vehicles.  This last week, D got to get his energy out outside, Teddy got to try his "paper jet" outside, Ruby Scout discovered the joy of emptying her hamper (she's also gained four teeth the last week, so she sticks her tongue out all the time) & the boys realized that if they want Ruby Scout to leave the iPad alone while they're on the floor, they just have to put cheerios on the ground next to it :)