The Wissinks: Spring!!!!!

Spring is here! It's really here!! It's always such a welcome sight to see daffodils (and tulips!) blooming, leaves growing on the trees, green grass, etc. Ahhhh, we made it through another winter. :)

So, here's what we've been up to since the end of February!

Jeremiah's class and the 2nd grade class did a Talent Chapel where they had to choose a talent to display or perform during Chapel. There was a WIDE variety of talents from singing and dancing to LEGO building and playing soccer. Jeremiah and 2 friends decided their talent would be........

Driving remote control vehicles!! I mean look at that- between the legs?! THAT is talent!!

Both kids did a session of swimming lessons at the Y.

Neither child passed, but the lessons were definitely a success because I think we're one more step closer to getting J more comfortable and independent in the water. And he only cried like once, so that's definitely progress from the last time! Hope can't move on to the next level till she's 3, so till then she is stuck with the mommy and me (or in this case it was daddy and me!) lessons.

I thought it was so sweet that J brought this paper home from school.

That's him in swimming lessons. And he quite often told me he was saying that verse over and over again to help him through his lessons. We'll keep working on it and I know he'll get there!!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Pregnancy cravings are a benefit to everyone when they include ice cream cookie sandwiches! Baby Thelma loves these!!

We sported our Wiers Warrior shirts in honor of my sister-in-law Cheryl- she went in to the hospital (City of Hope) for her stem cell transplant on March 20. And thankfully she was discharged on April 12 and now she's home! Yay!! Prayers for her continued health and healing are much appreciated!!

Always praying for Aunt Cheryl!!

Jeremiah's spring break was the last week in March. We didn't go anywhere and we really didn't do much exciting, unfortunately! Maybe some day. The weather was also pretty chilly and rainy, which was a bummer.

One morning I took the kids to the Felix Adler Children's Discovery Center here in Clinton. That is always fun for the kids, and it was especially fun this time because most of the kids there were from J's school! So he had buddies to play with.

This cracked me up- I have no idea how she even knew it was a phone! And she was probably wondering why the heck it was attached to the wall!

J had a SUPER loose tooth that he just wanted to fall out on its own (who are these kids who just wiggle and pull their own teeth out?!?! We don't have one of those.) It did indeed fall out on its own..... at 1:00 am!!!! What the heck?! So that was a fun wake-up for Mommy. I'm just so glad he understood why it was best to wait until the next night to put the tooth under his pillow for the Tooth Fairy!

One morning I had a Dr appointment in the Quad Cities and it was also Adam's day off. So while I was at the Dr (for my glucose tolerance test.... which I passed, woohoo!!), Adam took the kids to Monkey Joe's to jump around.

Fun times!

We also got a short visit from Grandpa and Grandma Wiers- they were on their way from CA back to Brookfield, WI and they stopped to see us before driving the final leg of their journey.

The Saturday before Palm Sunday we went to the Easter Egg hunt at Spring Valley Reformed Church. Lots of fun games to play plus the egg hunt!

Also, Hope hated the Easter bunny.

Adam had to buy some new clippers, so that means free haircuts for J now. Woohoo!

I took the kids to the Discovery Center again last Friday to see their baby chicks!

That's not Hope petting the chick. She wanted nothing to do with them! (Also that little girl is way balder than Hope).

When we got home, we found that some friends had "egged" our house and we had to hunt in our yard for 12 eggs! The kids were so surprised and J is still trying to figure out who did it! :)

On Saturday Jeremiah woke up complaining of a sore throat, but since both he and H have been a bit sniffly the past week I thought nothing of it. Gave him some ibuprofen and we went on with our day. By the afternoon his tummy hurt, too, plus he had a fever. He's pretty good at self-diagnosing this now-- strep throat! Adam was home for the afternoon so got J to Urgent Care and got his antibiotics so we could get started with those. J threw up his first dose, but somehow must have gotten some of it in him because he woke up on Easter Sunday feeling much better! No church, though, since he was still contagious.

They found their Easter baskets!

We also did a little egg hunt in our front yard.

Then Sunday night Grandpa and Grandma Wiers came (with more goodies) for a visit. They stayed the night and we spent Monday together- it was such a nice day!

We went to the John Deere Pavilion in Moline, IL (J's choice!).

We walked to Jimmy John's for lunch (and ate outside- the weather was perfect!), then headed home. When Adam got home from work, we picked up dinner and then went and ate it at the Lock and Dam in Fulton. We timed it perfectly and saw a huge barge go through!

This spring it has been so fun to watch our tulips grow!! We did it, they actually grew and bloomed! They are so pretty!!!

Popping up quite early!