Mother's Day

I had a wonderful Mother's Day which started with the kids coming in my bedroom, after letting me sleep in until 9 am, with breakfast for me. The first thing I heard was Brody yelling "Happy birthday!" wearing his sister's gymnastic shorts on backwards and inside out. The kid's heated up the pancakes I made the night before for dinner. I think they thought what was in the fridge was what was left over, however I actually froze what was left and the ones in the fridge were what was left from all the kid's plates that they didn't eat. My meals usually consist of their uneaten left overs so it is only fitting my Mother's Day breakfast would be that as well. It was so sweet of them though and most of them kept me company in bed while I ate.They kind of look like they are each wearing one part of one outfit...Later in the day Kain had a party to attend so I took the rest of the kids to the wild life sanctuary since we didn't get to do everything they wanted to the last we were there since Brody ran into the pond.However we don't have much luck this year around water there since this time Aubriel slipped on a rock while feeding the ducks and her foot got soaked.At least it happened near the end of our time there anyway.That evening Dave took me out for dinner while my parents babysat.But the best present, which I got a LOT of super sweet ones, was that my little baby took his first steps! I of course missed his very first which he took towards his big sister but when we got home that night I got to see him walk a few times back and forth between my parents. But of course he was done by the time I got the camera out.So this morning I tried to get some more shots of him walking...Which didn't really happen...But he tried really hard...His sis was so worried about letting him go though...

Random Pictures From the Last Few Days...

And of course we had to start it off with some Brody pictures... We were setting up for the rummage sale we had this last weekend and some how he managed to tag himself for a buck...Which was such a sight to see complete with the toes sticking out of his socks because he wouldn't wear any shoes...Then we had our first broken window. That is right my kids have yet to have broken a window that is until this weekend when Gage put their football through my parents window. Luckily it was only the first pane...One chilly 40 degree morning this is what Brody picked out to wear outside to play with his brothers...He didn't last too long before he was in looking for new clothes...My posing baby...This is just a fun picture even though it is blurry... They were racing!

Cabbage Tossing, Pond Jumping and Table Eating...

Just another day in the life of the Martens' Family...

Only Brody could make a sport with a head of cabbage...I forget why Dave bought a head of cabbage but after it sat in our fridge for about two weeks it was only fit for the critters that run through our backyard.So when Dave saw it sitting in the yard he told the kids to go out and play with their new head of cabbage, as he told them "that it brought back memories of days growing up on the farm having endless fun with his cabbage heads as a boy..."Somehow Brody got out of this that he was suppose to try to throw it OVER the fence into our neighbor's yard...Luckily for our neighbor's we have a very high fence but I think he enjoyed himself anyway...Last week for Earth Day I took the kids to the Wild Life Sanctuary. We had a nice afternoon... until Brody ran into this pond...Just moments after this picture was taken he got off of the dock to which I assumed he knew was floating on water and ran from the shore full speed into the scum filled pond. It does not surprise me that he did not heed his mother's screams but the fact that he continued into the water even after his feet hit and then stopped dead in his tracks when it got up to his butt does kind of surprise me. Now I only wish I had taken pictures of it because it was quite funny...Then our little table biter... we have been trying and trying to give him different "first" foods to which he wants NO part of but he does enjoy gnawing on the table at dinner time...His new trick is that he has not quite mastered the make shift baby gate we have set up since he can only get into the cradle and then wait or sometimes cry until someone rescues him again...I think it must be getting old though because the last few weeks he hasn't even bothered getting into it...