Eli at a tea party???

Well this was one of the funniest adventures we've been on latley. This just shows how all boy ELi is...and totally Jakes child. He was invited to a friend from preschools birthday party, Ashley. I was very excited for him because this is the first year that he's made his own friends outside of our family and friends, through his preschool class. So when Eli was invited to Ashleys tea party theme birthday, I was happy but will admit I went into a little panic. What do boys wear to tea parties??? So we dressed him up in a nice shirt and daddy's tie and off we went to the party. Luckily Ashleys mom had even more dress up additions, and gave him a hat and funny glasses. The tea party was adorable. Her mom set up little kid tables with proper table settings and all. The girls sat at one table, and the boys at another. This is how the conversation was at the girls table: "well, how are you doing this beautiful day?" "oh, Im fantastic today. Isnt this lunch so delicious?" "why yes it is!"....such seasoned girly tea party talk! But here is what you could hear at the boys table "watch Im going to chop off my finger with my knife...haha!" "hey lets drink our tea with our spoons!" "Im going to burn my face with my tea its so hot!" ....oh, boys...definatley NOT tea party seasoned. Then they moved on to some games, and dancing...or should I say, all the girls danced but Eli and the other boys crashed around into everyone being loud and crazy and spanking their own bottoms like they were horses. Luckily Eli wasnt the only boy from school there, so I was able to laugh off my embarrasment with the other really embarrased mom. But overall, it was a fun experienc, super cute, and he's so happy to have his school friends.

Our baby frogs.

Well its been a while since our latest frog update, thanks to our computer issues and downloading of the pictures. Anywho, our babies are growing! They dont quite have legs yet, but are so close. In this picture, you cant really see details but you can see how much bigger in size they are since the last posting. This was taken about 2 weeks ago...so I will take more pictures today after my camera is all downloaded and I have more room to take more pictures. The mamma and daddy frogs have moved on, and we dont hear them at night as often. But the tadpoles they left behind have been a huge hit. We even took a few out of the pond and put them in the boys' scensory table so that some friends could see them swim. They've been so much fun to watch grow.

Mothers Day program

Eli's preschool class put on a Mothers Day program for us Mommies. It was adorable. They sang us some precious mommy songs, yes I got teary. They made us some really cute pictures, and filled out surveys about each of us mommies. According to Eli: Mommy is 10 feet tall, 10 years old, loves the color pink, favorite food is vegetables, all I do all day is clean and watch tv, and I love to go outside and play with him. Not bad hu?...well other than the cleaning all day part! haha The local Thriftway also kindly donated cute little heart cakes, one to each kid, along with frosting so the kids could decorate a cake for each mommy. It was REALLY yummy too!

Becoming a mommy was the best path Ive taken in life. Im so blessed.

computer..or camera...issues galore...

So Ive been asked why there hasnt been updates in a while...well I cant get our camera to download the pictures of the last month or so. And this is to no fault of my wonderful camera..but instead it all lies on the bad karma our computer is having Im sure. I have many a stories to blog, so as soon as I get my hubby to get our computer to quit throwing tantrums like a third child in our house...you'll get your updates on the Waibel family. :) Until then, I hope you all are doing great! We've been busy busy this month, with birthdays, field trips with Preschool, and so much much much more...blogs to come soon!

The Ghost of Treasure Island

Arrrrrgh Matey! (Poor Zachs eye patch kept squishing his eye!)

Yesterday we suprised the boys with a trip to the Keller Auditorium where the Oregon Childrens Theater was putting on the play/musical The Ghost of Treasure Island. This is what the flyer said "Land lubbers young and old batten down the hatches, put on your eye-patches, and set sail for The Ghosts of Treasure Island! This rowdy and raucous high seas adventure sails forth with original pirate rock songs and the theatrical debut of Portland's own Captain Bogg & Salty." Well when we saw that Captain Bogg and Salty were the music group there we HAD to take the boys. For Eli's 4th birthday the theme for his party was Pirates. Aunt Alisa and Uncle Ben got him a really fun pirate cd that the boys (ok ok... Jake and I too) just LOVE to listen to in the car. There is one particular song that we all get really crazy on and laugh alot. Once we got so caught up in the song we realized Jake had started driving faster and faster and was doing about 75 mph and freaked me out. hehe So we packed the boys into the car and headed to the play. If you were to show up early they had some music to dance to and also kids could "walk the plank". Well unfortunatley for us, we WERE on time to do so, but tons of the surrounding areas were blocked off and parking was a mess...apparently there was a guy on the 14th floor of the Marriot right there blocks from the Keller, who was threatning to jump. So because of this guy and the millions of swat trucks/fire trucks/police cars/ambulances/etc, it took us longer to park therefor we missed the before hand activities. But we were there with plenty of time to get in our seats before the play started. When the play started, it went dark ...there was thunder and lighting and bright strobe lights like it was a storm. Anyone who's been around Zach durring fireworks or anything that makes loud noise or flashes knows he isnt too fond of that. So he kind of freaked out some. But once the storm stopped and the pirates came on stage and the music started...I looked over at him and he was laughing and bouncing his head to the beat. Pretty cute. Eli had a great time through the whole thing, laughing at all the crazy pirates. When it was over, he asked to go to see more. So I guess were going to have to start looking into local school plays and such to fill his new found drama interest. Every day he becomes more and more like his Daddy...man am I in trouble! :)

Our sunshine boys

We're definately a warm weather family, the boys were too excited about the sun coming to visit this weekend and were out the door before I could even feed them breakfast. We cant wait for full blown summertime.

Eli showing off his "flip kick dance swing jump"...thats what he calls it.
Zach has a new game made up now, baseball tether ball....and wasnt too happy about me taking a picture of him. Mr attitude.

More on our froggy friends...

Eli is getting really fond of our frog friends. He learned that if he is patient and quiet, he can catch them out of the water.And then lets them jump all over him." I dont want to put him back mommy, I love him!!" is usually the response he gives when we ask him to put them back in the water. Then we have to convince him they have to go back or the baby frogs will miss their mommies and daddies.
Eli decided that maybe they like our pond because our frog fountain is their "hugest mommy". :)

And last and definately most exciting...we captured the sound for you all of our froggy friends. You can just slightly hear me talking over them but Im not sure you can even understand me they are so loud. What Im explaining is that this picture is in the dark so they dont see the flash, and that this was taken outside Eli's bedroom window. Enjoy!