Grandma

Ellie wrote a poem about her Grandma Sullivan this morning that is so sweet I had to share.  We had just finished reading Fancy Nancy Poet Extraordinaire.  I told her that I had written a poem about her as a baby and so we read that and she decided that she needed to write one too.  So here is the poem that she told and I wrote down.

Grandma

Grandma is nice to me.

Me and her have lots of fun.

She is a good Grandma and a good babysitter.

She likes to play games

Grandma has lots of flowers and green grass that is greener than ours.

Grandma is sweet like sweet lollipops.

Poem by Ellie

So here is to you Mom.  Thanks for being a great Grandma!

Mud Mud Mud

Brandon tells me all the time that Ellie and Ethan get their love of playing in the mud from me.  Which is probably true.  Just ask my mom about Crystal and I playing in the mud in the lot next to our house in Bluewater.  I still remember being sprayed down with the water hose in the backyard.  Well my kids have been making mud almost everyday lately.  We didn’t re-seed the backyard and the grass has died out.  So any water and you get mud. 
 
Maybe I am crazy to let them do this, but they are happy and I get time to do something I want before I have to clean them up.  I do miss my grass because then mud would only happen sometimes not all the time.  I know they had to get some of this mud craving from their Dad.

She is growing so big

Everyday I say to Marley, “Stop you are growing to fast.”  I love her little smiling face and she is growing so fast.  She is crawling everywhere.  She follows Ellie and Ethan around the house and just thinks that they are the greatest.  Ellie is such a little lover to her.  She wants to hold her and carry her everywhere.  I am really trying to get her to stop carrying Marley because Ethan wants to carry her now.  Scary!  This is her new dress that I made her and I think that she looks so cute. 

She is pulling herself up on everything and I have a feeling we wont have to wait very long before she will work on walking.  She is still working on getting her legs to move with the rest of her.  Give her a month or so and she will figure it out.  Marley truly is a joy in my life.  I am grateful for her smiles.

Easter

We had a great time at my parents house for Easter.  Ellie and Ethan had their pick of eggs at the hunt because they were the only ones.  Next year hopefully they will have more kids to gather eggs with.

 

While there we had some fun climbing a tree that is in the lot next to my parents house.  Ellie loves to climb trees and had so much fun.  We went back about four times before we went home.

Ethan got a really cool Dragon kite form my parents for Easter.  He had to wait  a whole day before we had enough wind to get it up.  They had so much fun flying it.  We even had about six kids show up on a four-wheeler with their dad to check it out.  Some of the kids thought it was a real dragon.