This week

I'm really going to try to post weekly, even if nothing exciting is going on and it's just a few pictures.

Matt had a busy week at work and spent more hours in the office than at home. This was also the week the girls had nasty colds and pink eye in all four eyes! So, they had to miss school one day. And then I got pink eye. Ahhh, such fun times. We learned Morgan loves eye drops and Avery acts like I am pouring acid in her eyeballs. She hides at the mention of eye drops and cries the entire time I'm trying to put them in her eyes. Ugh! Anyway, I got these super pretty flowers at the end of the week and they definitely put a smile on my face! :)

The girls really enjoy doing crafts, especially Avery. I bought a few craft kits for Christmas for them and she wants to sit and do them all at once. We hit the Home Depot kids workshop every month. We are starting to accumulate a lot of pins! This time was a toolbox project. Since there was painting involved, the girls loved it even more. The girls like to call themselves superhero names for everything. So, for example, if Avery is wearing stripes one day, she'll say she's "super stripe girl". At the Home Depot, she's "glue girl" and I'm "hammer girl" because she doesn't want to hammer nails in, but she loves gluing things.

Painting their toolboxes at the kids' workshop
(these things have held everything except tools!)

We went to the library to exchange our books. The girls love spelling right now, even though most of the words they "spell" don't actually spell anything.

Spelling their names at the library

We found out they have craft days at Michael's, too. So, we stopped by there to paint a little snowman canvas. We absolutely love shopping at Michael's. There really is a wide array of crap there! We get lots of craft supplies, but they also have ballet costumes and jewelry and face paint! And the last time we went, we found this plastic snake that if you put it in water for 5 days, it expands in size! We've had that stupid snake in our mudroom sink sitting in water now for over a week! The girls check on it every day.

Craft time at Michael's

There was glitter involved, so they had a blast

We got together with everyone at the Wilken's house last weekend while my parents were in town. We took over the face paint we bought at Michael's. Aunt Erin and I painted the girls' faces. The cousins had fun playing together.

Face painting at Aunt Erin's house

Rainbow face painting

The cousins (minus Hunter) playing a game together

The older cousins playing Hungry Hungry Hippos

So, we got a new bathmat this week. Yep, such an exciting event at the Plothow house! Avery decided she would use it as her stage and put on a show for us. Notice there is actually no music playing for this show, but she just keeps on dancing! :)