VIDEO: Punch it! At the break-a-boardathon fundraiser for St. Jude's

VIDEO: Kick it!

This weekend, Connor's new karate school had a "break a board-a-thon" to raise money for St. Jude Children's Hospital. Connor broke eight boards...with a combination of punches and kicks! Pretty impressive for the new kid that never did this before!

Saturday golf practice

Trouble...

 Standing on top of her toy car to get a better view outside of the baby jail!

 Tissues...she's obsessed with boxes of tissues just like Bonnie bird!  She loves to pull all of the tissues out of the box, and then as you can see, she likes to shred the tissue!  Tissues have become off limits and she is not happy about that at all!

She came running out of the kitchen (yes, she runs and is really fast!) yelling, "ball!"   And as she yelled "ball,"  all I could hear was a big thud!   She found an onion in the pantry and proceeded to throw it all over the house...I was laughing too hard to get a good picture or video.  But boy was she excited with the onion ball!!!

A few more zoo pics...

 She insisted on climbing up the slide...which proved to be really challenging as kids were trying to slide down...she's not ready to take turns and share the space apparently!

 Connor was excited to wear the zookeeper getup!

Amelia loves to make a mess and be messy...however, she also loves to clean up toys if they go into a box!  They had these legos out and she helped Connor clean them all up! 

totally bummed that this phone pic is blurry : ( But you get the idea!

looking at the guinnea pigs

Being a zookeeper at the zoo...well...being a silly zoo keeper!

I took this pic so you could see how tall Connor is and Amelia too...and my mom noticed how dirty Amelia was...I intentionally put this outfit on her for the zoo bc the knees are all stained anyway...and she likes to get messy at the zoo!

Breakfast w baby Stella

Feeding the baby

It is Connor's 1/2 birthday today! He wanted to use some money in his piggy bank for some new prehistoric creatures...a tylosaurus and dunkleostues...and a yummy Cookie Corner cookie too!

We asked Connor if he wanted to go out for a special 1/2 birthday dinner...he said no.  How about going out for ice cream or dessert?  No.  How about a special dinner at home?  No input...food is just not his thing.  He is not motivated by food in any way.  He will even say no to birthday cake at parties.   All he wanted to do was to go to the this pet store that sells all sorts of little plastic animals...all the way at the Windward Mall!  This mall is the farthest mall from our house...closer to the Marine Corps Base.  Since we do live on an island, far is a relative term.  But after living here for a few years, I now complain about going all the way over there just like the locals...when really, it's only about a 35 minute drive without traffic. 
So he bought his dino's...sorry, prehistoric creatures.  Since it was his money that he was spending (minus the $10 reward/bonus we gave him for finding and returning $50 that he found inside our house!)...the least I could do was to transport our little guy to the store to do a little prehistoric shopping!
 I talked him into the cookie because I really wanted one! 

Pajama day at school! Connor was excited to wear his policeman pj's!

Apparently, Connor won the Pajama contest for kindergarten!  Not sure exactly what the criteria was for this contest, but I guess for the coolest pajamas?  They are pretty cool!   He won a pencil...not just a regular pencil...a golden one! 

We tried on flower girl dresses for Auntie Bean's wedding! This was just for size...they had only one style in an 18 month size...so we had fun playing a little dress up...she insisted on putting her crocs back on to walk around the store...she is too funny! The wedding is in June so she'll be 20 months old then...thinking this size will be just right! Still have to shop around for the perfect little dress!