Thursday, January 17, 2013

First Dance Recital

Rachel and Olivia took ballet and tap from September to December. They loved being at class and learning their new moves! It was kind of a pain to actually get there but I loved watching them do it. Their recital went great! Livy wasn't nervous and was just ready for it where Rachel kept saying she was really nervous to be up there. They had seen their cousin Savannah on the big stage a few months earlier and I think Rachel was a little overwhelmed. I was kind of nervous that we might have a bolter on our hands, but luckily she was very brave and did two excellent performances!




Metals to honor their dance class!


Livy is right in the middle and Rachel is on the far left. They did so good I was so proud of them and so happy to see them up there!

Colt loved every performance and was so attentive, he loved it and clapped loudly for each dance. In between each performance the announcer would tell you what the song was called and which class it was. Once there was a song with a Hispanic name that we couldn't understand and right after the announcer and the whole auditorium was quiet before the music started Colt lets out "what she said?" Everyone around us was cracking up. You got it right Colt, none of us had a clue!

So proud of you dancers!

So happy Grandma could come to watch them!

Flowers from their daddy, that made their day, even though they put that request in before the show! 


Great first dance recital girls, now they want to move on to gymnastics!

A Group Shot

Not a great one in the bunch from my camera but they all have some entertainment value so I thought I would throw them up here. April managed to get one with a good percentage of them looking at least so it made a good grandparent gift!









Williams Cousins December 2012
Ages 9 years-2 months

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Colt is 3!

Who can believe it! Colt is 3 and I am so proud of the fun, loving, passionate, always up for a good time kid that he is! I have been wanting to do a post on him for a while and I am regretting that I didn't make the time because he cracks me up constantly. If you could just hear his tone and look at his face when he says all these funny and entertaining things you'd wish I would have wrote one too! He drives me nuts on the days he doesn't take naps because he only screams by the end of those days, there is no calming him to a talking voice, but still he can change my mood from frustrated to laughing in just a minute. 
He loves the park and laughing. He loves doing everything the girls do and sleeps in their room on the floor at night. He wants Livy-Rachel to be his best friend he says.  (Yes they are one hyphenated word in his language, and it is more like Wivy-Rachel) He loves going to his school and church classes. Everyone says he is so good at class-I don't know how that happens! He likes to boss Ellie around and push her around too sometimes. He loves running and especially riding his bike. He loves to be a pirate, Monsters Inc., Calliou, ketchup, cantaloupe, watermelon, "ba-sketti", cheese and crackers, Chinese food, diet Pepsi, every candy and gum. He loves to be the winner at finishing his dinner when he actually eats. 







Colt's pre-school group. He loves having his own friends and having someone over to play. 


We had some issues with putting his hand in his dirty diaper.........so he had to wear a leotard for a while. He didn't mind at all, but Eric on the other hand wasn't thrilled! I'm sure Colt will hate that I have this on record but it is what it is growing up with all sisters.........he never wanted to wear a shirt with it because he would say "no, then you can't see my ballet!" I guess the girls ballet classes were wearing off on him! I'm happy to say this didn't last that long :)


Still loves doing stickers and stamps and cutting. Loves collecting acorns. He loves shredding papers and will do it for an hour strait when I have enough paper. Won't give me a kiss on my face, always on my shoulder, back, leg. He cracks me up when he quotes movies already. And he is awesome at Temple Run on the Ipad. He does it while watching a show too which really amazes me. Believe me he has put his time into that game but he really is good.


I have kept some funny things he said on my phone the past few months, I wish I had more. 
When we were driving in the car one day he kept staring out the window and telling me that the moon was following us. 
Calls dessert, besert. 
He sleeps on the girls floor because he said that there is a monster in his room who comes and clips his nails at night. Sometimes he says the monster clips his nails and other times the monster clips his own nails. Quite an imagination!
"Oh man, I never _______!" Fill in the blank. Get to eat that, get a turn, have that, etc. Loud and dramatically, flailing his arms.
He doesn't watch sesame street and he might be the only kid in America who didn't know this. He looked at his diaper with big bird on it and said, "Who's on my diaper? A chicken?"
After screaming "I scream like a girl."
Talking about anyone else or what he will do if he is scared "I/They cry like a baby."
Using the phrase "That's never gonna happen."
Sings Justin Bieber "baby" and Taylor Swift "never getting back together (to never he says)"
"That's sissy stuff"
Yelling "Alert, alert!" when Ellie is getting into something. 
"Upidstay or stupid" He likes and uses both equally to drive me crazy. He also plugs his ears when he wants to say it because he says I can't hear him then.
"Do you hear what I hear" about most things he hears.
When he eats an apple he asks me to "take the wrapper off."
"Livy-Rachel and me make the rules."
Always asking for 5 minutes. And if he is waiting his turn for something, he breaks down and starts crying with "but Ellie has 5 minutes again and again and again and again."
And last but not least if you look at a book or animal out side or bug or car or show or anything and ask him what they are doing or why someone feels a certain way his answer is always "they are looking for their mommy." He's a momma's boy and I kind of love it. 


Daredevil, entertainer, little brother, big brother, helper, instigator, sweetie, punk, and made for this family. 



He loves to help me cook, take in the groceries and put them away, get the mail, etc. He is always telling me Jesus made this or that and asking me to confirm it. He is a loving and sweet and comforting brother when he is in the mood and always concerned if Ellie is getting into trouble. And he has an addiction to fireworks already. He wants to use all his money to buy more and says we need to have Christmas again so he can get more money for presents and buy more fire works. Oh Eric, what have you started!


I can't believe you are 3 buddy! You constantly amaze me at all that you know, all that you can do, and keep me on my toes laughing and trying not to scream!! I love you so much and I am so grateful to Heavenly Father for sending you to us. We are so proud of you Colt and I can't wait to see how you love this year too. I love you so much bud. 

Friday, January 11, 2013

A Weekend of Fun

 In the beginning of December we headed to Ft. Worth with Eric for a business meeting he had. We had just planned on going up for the night but it turned into a fun weekend. Friday night we just hung around the hotel room while he was gone but the kids loved it, hotels are so exciting for them I guess! 

They are right down there tiny at the bottom of this huge tree they had right near the hotel. 


We decided the next morning to go to Great Wolf Lodge for a surprise for the kids....it was kind of a surprise to all of us though. I knew it was a water park with the hotel but I didn't know how much other stuff would be going on there too and that threw us for a little loop. 

Eric got some of his favorite fast food, In & Out!

The water park didn't last long once Livy got her sights set on this Magiquest game they have going on throughout the hotel. She was thrilled to do it and loved every minute of looking for clues and going up and down the stairs with her magic wand. 


Rachel was more into getting a stuffed animal wolf!

Ellie was just happy to be along for the ride! I think she was mad that she didn't get to pick an activity like the older kids because she decided not to sleep most of the night so that was awesome. 

Colt chose to play in the arcade and this was these were his two favorites. Luckily he had Rachel there willing to teach him how to shoot bugs with a machine gun, hey, what are big sisters for!


Hard to see but it was snowing in the lobby during story time! So many fun things they have at this resort for kids. 



Happy to finish her quest just before we had to leave! Eric did it with her for a few hours one day and I finished it up with her the last hour the next day. What a good dad you have Liv! He loved spending time with you and doing something you loved!

The car ride home was exciting too. We had those reindeer antlers on our car but Colt's window got opened while we were on the freeway driving home and whoops  there goes his antler. And he didn't take it very well, he had a major break down and we had to swipe Ellie's off her side to calm him down. I didn't remember to take the Rudolph nose off so we had that on the van all December. So if you saw the white van with only a Rudolph nose, that was us :)