Family Traditions

Many of you know that the Currey's have a family tradition that involves markers. It began when Emma turned 2. She started using any marker that she could find and coloring her tummy. It was almost constant. We would go to our friends house and they just knew that if she showed her tummy it would by pretty and colorful.

The tradition continued when Kadin turned 2. He loved to mark on his face...all the time. I tried desperately to hide our markers. But it was inevitable. They would find them...anywhere! It became a running joke. The Currey's should not own markers and the Finnestad's should not own scissors.

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tradition lives on!

Mayla did this herself and she was about 2 feet away from me. I looked away for about 10 seconds.

(Okay PPC- You can stop laughing now!)

movin' and grovin'

Mayla started creep crawling a few weeks ago and she goes anywhere she wants anytime. Her big sister and brothers even taught her how to climb one stair so she can get out of our living room. She learned how to pull up on furniture this week, so it's only a matter of time before I'm chasing her around the house.

She is like a little vacuum and puts every thing in her mouth and keeps me on my cleaning toes (which would make you think that my house is clean, but strangely, it's not! I must be too busy keeping her from eating everything...)

Just look at her cute little crawl....

Did you hear what Kadin is asking for in this video? I know your just shocked, right??

Camping in March

Over the last several months we have heard the question; "when do we get to go camping?" over and over and over again.

We thought that it was time for us to join the kids in their excitement and pulled our old tent out and have a good old fashioned campout together.

They were so excited and we stayed up late enjoying our time together. We told a couple of our old camping stories and they loved hearing about our life with this tent in the olden days, you know...before we had children!

It's here!

Mayla has her FIRST TOOTH!!!!!



(I haven't been able to get a picture yet...hopefully soon.)

I dare you not to laugh...

I found this video on my camera. I don't even know when it was taken!

Is the sun really out?

This morning after Kevin graciously let me sleep in for a few extra minutes we enjoyed watching Austin's great B-ball game. It didn't take long for Kadin, Emma and Mayla to need a break and we decided to go outside for a few minutes.

You will never guess what we saw...

the sun!

I quickly ran back in for the rest of the game and presented 2 options for Kevin.

1. Go home and clean the house (our original plan for the day).

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2. Head out into the sunshine. After he thought about it for about 5 seconds a decision was made...

We will take our crew to the Zoo!

We quickly realized how long it has been since we have been out on a trek in the wild. The fresh air was wonderful. Grandma and Grandpa were able to come too! Austin helped us by taking responsibility for the stroller. He pushed Mayla for a while and even Kadin was given a ride or two...

We found out that they give camel rides now. They were already closed today but I can see a visit in the near future just for a ride. Boy those camels are huge! I had no idea they are that big.

We only lost Kadin once. He is a quick little boy! Thankfully it only took us a moment to find him.

Senor Don Gato

We went to watch Austin's second grade choir performance last night. He was so cute sitting front row with a cute smile on his face and singing his little heart out.

Then came his big surprise. He was cast as Senor Don Gato! He didn't even tell us and we were shocked. We giggled when he was given the love letter and I could see him laughing behind his mask. Our hearts swelled with pride as he climbed to the roof top to read his letter and proceed to fall down and break his knee, ribs and whiskers. Then we laughed (with everyone else) when he cried "Ay Caramba!"

Great Job Austin!