Wow, has it really been 3 months since the last blog entry?? I've been catching a lot of heat about it recently so I thought it was time to get on here and do the deed.
So what's been happening to the Colorado Tepen's for the past few months? Well, we had an extremely mild winter out here this year. Besides the last blog post, I think we only had measureable snow like one or two other times. The mountains on the other hand have had a record snowfall season. Crazy how that works out here.
Spring has been on the cool side so far. In fact, the Easter bunny had to make an early visit this year for the egg hunt as we are actually expecting snow tonight - yikes! Wes and Mia had a pretty good time finding eggs in the backyard this afternoon. Although they have been going through a pretty rough time in the behavior department recently. And they were in rare form when they got up from nap today. Almost lost the couple of new things that the Easter bunny brought them because of the fighting. So my question is, who the heck named the "two's" as being so "terrible". I mean, the two's were a breeze for us.......the three's on the other hand........I don't even know what to say about the three's. It's like one minute they are laughing and having a great time and saying funny things, and the next they are hitting each other and screaming and crying. I'm sure all of you out there with kids can relate......just picture those moments with 2 kids at exactly the same age......just trying to catch a little sympathy here.
Wes and Mia have been really making leaps in the vocabulary department. A couple of weeks ago we enrolled them in a phonics program through their daycare. They have lots of 1 on 1 time with their teacher and they are learning all the sounds that the letters make. They are especially good at recognizing other words that have any of the letters of their names in it.
The kiddos have been pretty healthy this year. We had a short bout of the throw up's in December, and then nothing until last week when they decided it would be fun to have Strep throat. Chris and I managed to avoid it, and they are feeling back to normal now thank goodness.
Chris and I have been doing pretty good too. Chris has been trying to finish up the bar facing for a few weeks now. He is almost ready to hammer the new facing in place and then I'll be able to get down there and stain it. We will post final pics of the basement once it is all finished. It has turned out even better than I had thought so far.
Well, I'll put a few pics on now and I promise to try and not let the blog go for so long with out a new post. Happy Easter everyone!
So what's been happening to the Colorado Tepen's for the past few months? Well, we had an extremely mild winter out here this year. Besides the last blog post, I think we only had measureable snow like one or two other times. The mountains on the other hand have had a record snowfall season. Crazy how that works out here.
Spring has been on the cool side so far. In fact, the Easter bunny had to make an early visit this year for the egg hunt as we are actually expecting snow tonight - yikes! Wes and Mia had a pretty good time finding eggs in the backyard this afternoon. Although they have been going through a pretty rough time in the behavior department recently. And they were in rare form when they got up from nap today. Almost lost the couple of new things that the Easter bunny brought them because of the fighting. So my question is, who the heck named the "two's" as being so "terrible". I mean, the two's were a breeze for us.......the three's on the other hand........I don't even know what to say about the three's. It's like one minute they are laughing and having a great time and saying funny things, and the next they are hitting each other and screaming and crying. I'm sure all of you out there with kids can relate......just picture those moments with 2 kids at exactly the same age......just trying to catch a little sympathy here.
Wes and Mia have been really making leaps in the vocabulary department. A couple of weeks ago we enrolled them in a phonics program through their daycare. They have lots of 1 on 1 time with their teacher and they are learning all the sounds that the letters make. They are especially good at recognizing other words that have any of the letters of their names in it.
The kiddos have been pretty healthy this year. We had a short bout of the throw up's in December, and then nothing until last week when they decided it would be fun to have Strep throat. Chris and I managed to avoid it, and they are feeling back to normal now thank goodness.
Chris and I have been doing pretty good too. Chris has been trying to finish up the bar facing for a few weeks now. He is almost ready to hammer the new facing in place and then I'll be able to get down there and stain it. We will post final pics of the basement once it is all finished. It has turned out even better than I had thought so far.
Well, I'll put a few pics on now and I promise to try and not let the blog go for so long with out a new post. Happy Easter everyone!
Wes and Mia after the hunt.
Wes' new dump truck and Mia's new fairy dress from Grandma and GrandpaTepen.
Police woman Mia and Fireman Wes to the rescue!
