Collins Clan: Happy Spring.

I know I have been slacking so this one will be full of pics for all of you to see. The kids are doing great. They are enjoying the warmer weather we have been getting. Let’s hope it is here to stay after this week.

Christopher has joined track and field at school. He now understands a little more that he has to keep his grades up. He is doing much better in school than he was a couple months ago. I think he realizes that his life will be easier if he does the work. He is growing like a weed and we are going to have to knock him down a bit. He is still very active in Boy Scouts. He is looking forward to going to summer camp again this year. He will also be going to confirmation camp, on a canoe trip and helping out at the Cub Scout camp. He will be busy this summer.

Kyle is learning so many things. He loves, and I mean loves, to play outside. If he could, he would be out there all the time. He will now play at the park instead of just sit and want Mommy or Daddy to play with him. He loves to go and see if his friends, Riley and Connor are able to play. If he hears them outside, he has to go out. We have signed him up for preschool in the fall. He will be going with his cousins and a friend to the church down the street from us. I think he will love it.

Morgan is going to be a year old next week. I cannot believe my baby has already been here a year. She is babbling up a storm and trying to talk more and more each day. So far we have figure out that she says Mama, Dada, hi, cat, Daisy, and something that sounds like meow when she sees Sneakers. She is even starting to do, Hi Mama or Hi dada. She loves her brothers and chasing after them. It will only get better when she learns to walk. She is cruising and starting to stand on her own. Before I know it, she will be running out the door to go play with her friends. Her tube surgery was a minor success. She has had two ear infections since she had them put in. We are waiting until next month to see if we need to go back to the ENT to get the fluid vacuumed out. Keep your fingers crossed that it does drain on its own.

Here are the latest pics of the kiddos.

These next couple are from the restocking of the local pond. They give the kids a bucket with fish, and they dump them in the pond.

Kyle doing and egg hunt at Dominick's.

Kyle is very happy he found an Easter egg.

Little Miss Mo found hers.

Kyle did not want to have his picture taken.

Chris and Mo.

My three all dressed and ready to go.

These next few are from a children's museum by us.

The little grocery store. They have little carts and baskets, cash registers and tons of fake food.

Are these on my list?

In the car area.

Cool, look at these.

Mo and Daddy on her baptism day.

Morgan before leaving for the church for her baptism.

Kyle LOVES to clean the floor. No, I am not joking. He "helped" me scrub it.

One of my favorite things, the two little ones laughing at each other.

My little stud.

Here are some of Kyle's recent works of art. He loves to create anything he can. He uses every type of tool he can to make them.

This is Mickey Mouse and Goofy, at least it is this week.