Lazytown Club Dance!!!

It's been a while since our last blog entry, so I thought we'd make up for it with a quick 3 posts. Let's begin with the most recent, shall we? And what better way to begin than with the official

"Lazytown Club Dance."

What's that?

Well, the other day the girls tell us that they have a surprise (they had been working for quite some time.) And what we found is this...

The girls and T had numerous songs that they sang and danced too. We had some ballet, some splits, tons of moving, and the littlest one loved it as much as his sisters. Because they had worked so hard on this performance, their dad did not let them know his true feelings seeing his son in a sequined dress.


They were so proud. It was awesome. We were privileged and thrilled to be their audience!

Peppers, Pottys, Lions and Freeze Tag!

For the second entry of the day I share with you my new hobby...gardening. Goal for 2008 = to make gardening hip. I'm really quite smitten with it. Here's some of my latest handiwork!

Here's our lion. He's in love with roaring. We've had to teach him to be a "quiet lion" inside, because we really fear for his throat he yells so intensely.

And here's the lion just certain that he's going potty. Nothing happened, mind you, but he loves his "potty" movie and loves even more sitting on the big boy toilet.

Here we were traipsing around the house with our towel just perfectly resting right below our bottom. It was great!

While I was in the store apparently the girls and daddy had an intense game of "car freeze tag." I don't know who was more entertained, the girls or Jason.

Now I sometimes walk into a room and see my little goobers 'frozen' in some crazy pose. They think it's so funny, which it really is.

This is T-bone's "baff"...or bath. He thinks he's taking a big bath and the more people in the pool to entertain him the better.

Here you see our makeshift barrier at the end of his big bed. He laughes at our attempts of safety!

The sassy's loved to wear the dresses Nanna and Papa brought them. I think they would always be in dresses or skirts or anything girly if they could.

So the girls were positive that they could run 10 miles. Seeing a golden opportunity, Jason and I bet them that they could not. If they could, they got extra candy. If not, they had to rub our shoulders for a long time. Papa tried to warn them and tell us we were not being fair. But, you know how we do...free back rubs!!!

We don't tend to walk around in leotards as a habit. The girls just finished gymnastics. Just thought clarification may be needed. Impressively, the girls both did over 3 miles before stopping. We've still yet to call in our back rubs.

Spagetti, Spelling Bees, and even Easter...

And to continue on trying to catch up the blog, here are a few pics from even further back. After watching Akeelah and the "Bees" the girls decided they wanted have a Spelling Bee. So gram gave them some words and they studied very hard...it was very serious business. But before the actual event, we had a spaghetti dinner at gram and pop's.

Here's T-bone enjoying his meal...as always. The boy can eat like a man!

Truly, fingers are the best utensil for this meal.
The competitors....
Sela listening to her word

Obse got it right...she's so proud

Man, this was so much fun!

T was their biggest fan!

The girls with Hunter...Nana and Papa's baby

T getting his first Easter basket

The girls loot from the Easter bunny!

Ready for Church

Meeting Amah (Jason's mom) for Church

Smiling...as usual!

Unfortunately, her snowman pillow did not survive the washing machine.

Note: we did not switch over to Boston Terriers - we're babysitting

This is "Doot." What T loves to do..."cook" in his sister's room.

Certain he was hilarious scaring daddy with his lion impression!

A Busy Start to the Year!

2008 has started out as an extremely busy year for the Williams. Poor children have hardly even had any pictures taken of them. What are some of the explosively exciting things we have been up to, you might ask?

Donuts anyone? Well, we actually lost money in this marketing scheme, but the girls had fun. Who doesn't want donuts at a community yard sale, that's what I want to know!

The $$$ was in very safe hands with these two watching over it.
Seriously, protecting money is a lot to ask of a 1 1/2 year old...he's absolutely exhausted.

Although she once believed the best way to stop on a bike was to quickly try to pedal backwards, she has now mastered the true art form that bike riding is.
Double Dutch anyone?
The girls just had their school performance. Each class had about 55 seconds to perform. Although Obse (tallest child in the back) was extremely excited to perform with her peeps, she was too shy to perform for a few family members. Sela, however, would gladly perform a solo of her song and what she knew of Obse's in front of the entire neighborhood.

This baby girl was thrilled to be at a small amusement park. She would still be there

if we let her.

Their dad was thrilled with how easy the girls made contact with the ball.

Bring it on!

Waiting in line with 2 of their cousins to drive the go-carts.

We should all breathe a collective sigh of relief that it is still many years until they are 16.

Anyone see anything wrong with this picture?

Mr. Not-so-Sneaky found one of his sister's sleep caps (to keep their braids from fuzzing,etc.) Man, did we think we killed the big one with this. Perhaps mama can't tell I have something that's not mine?

Come'on Mama, you know I'm funny!

Last weekend I completed my first 1/2 marathon thanks to my friend Meghan. My goal was to not come in dead last...which I didn't. Although I was certain I was at death's door, especially after going over and back the Mt. Everest-like bridge, super-runner Meghan turned around (after placing 2nd in her age group) and helped me complete my run!

Don't let me fool you, all 400 of us got a metal.