Monday, April 21, 2014
Monday, April 14, 2014
Busy Spring Days
We have had the craziest spring. It might slow down a little in about two weeks. At least, I hope or I might pass out! Even Autumn is tired. I don't have a picture of it but after she came home from Mike's parents yesterday, she had been there most of the weekend, she passed right out in her bed. When Mike went to check on her she was on top of the comforter, flat on her back, spread eagled. Ha! I don't have that picture, but I do have this one:
And then a happy wakeup!
I am not a big fan of April Fool's Day. Some stuff is pretty cute, like the funny items places like ThinkGeek will put online but I'm generally not a participant. But for some reason, I decided to do this to Autumn's lunch. I think Autumn took after me because she was more baffled as to why I'd do it than anything else!!
Autumn's class had some major Accelerated Reader success this last grading period. Everyone who met their goals got to have a mismatch day. This time around, everyone got to have a day because they all met their goals! Autumn went all out this time around! A braid and a ponytail, two different shoes, different socks, many colors and patterns.
They also got to have a pajama day because they had the highest percentage of correct answers on their tests. I'm the AR mom so I help them track their goals and talk to them about their favorite books so I brought them milk and cookies on pajama day, their reward for their accomplishment. While I was there, I did this with some printing help from one of the room moms. I'm going to put this on the pinwheel blog and pin it since most of the versions I see of this are pretty vanilla:
And at the end of that day? Park time with Papa, Linday, Kyle, and Ellie! Papa was feeling perky so he climbed a tree.
And then a happy wakeup!
I am not a big fan of April Fool's Day. Some stuff is pretty cute, like the funny items places like ThinkGeek will put online but I'm generally not a participant. But for some reason, I decided to do this to Autumn's lunch. I think Autumn took after me because she was more baffled as to why I'd do it than anything else!!
Autumn's class had some major Accelerated Reader success this last grading period. Everyone who met their goals got to have a mismatch day. This time around, everyone got to have a day because they all met their goals! Autumn went all out this time around! A braid and a ponytail, two different shoes, different socks, many colors and patterns.
They also got to have a pajama day because they had the highest percentage of correct answers on their tests. I'm the AR mom so I help them track their goals and talk to them about their favorite books so I brought them milk and cookies on pajama day, their reward for their accomplishment. While I was there, I did this with some printing help from one of the room moms. I'm going to put this on the pinwheel blog and pin it since most of the versions I see of this are pretty vanilla:
And at the end of that day? Park time with Papa, Linday, Kyle, and Ellie! Papa was feeling perky so he climbed a tree.
I hope everyone has a great week and a great Easter! See you next week!
Monday, April 7, 2014
March Mobile Moments!
Why do I keep forgetting to do this on Sunday?? I might have to change my update day to Monday!!
Some of you may have heard: I HAVE A GRILL! I am soooo excited about it even though it means I get no birthday, Christmas, Mother's Day, Anniversary or miscellaneous gifts for the rest of the year! Mike surprised me with it and I have grilled something at least once a week since it arrived.
I don't even remember what Autumn did but at some point this month, she got in trouble. That resulted in these awesome notes. "I'm staing in my room furever!" "I'm rilly rilly sorry that I did somthing rong!" I shouldn't laugh but, seriously, how cute is that?
When Autumn wasn't punishing herself, she was helping out. We don't get to go to the store together much anymore so this little trip was fun. She's a good helper.
Magic shows are still happening! I need to come up with some new tricks for her because she's getting pretty good with the ones she got for Christmas. Autumn's presentation is getting better, too.
The grill box has gotten some fun play time. She was in there this day with a flashlight, a blanket and some pillows, reading to her stuffed friends.
Last Saturday, Autumn had a playdate with Aunt Penny while I was in aikido. After I got out of class we met up for lunch and I got to hear about all their super fun adventures.
For example, Autumn tired out Ace and Conan that morning so they all took a break to watch some cartoons! Too fun! Autumn is still talking about how fun her Penny time was.
Last one for today! Sunday we got together with the neighbor kids to watch Frozen. They only got about 15 minutes in and decided they'd rather play. Everyone had a good time playing with the leftover lips and mustaches from the shower I gave for Tamara and Landon which I still need to blog about.
Some of you may have heard: I HAVE A GRILL! I am soooo excited about it even though it means I get no birthday, Christmas, Mother's Day, Anniversary or miscellaneous gifts for the rest of the year! Mike surprised me with it and I have grilled something at least once a week since it arrived.
I don't even remember what Autumn did but at some point this month, she got in trouble. That resulted in these awesome notes. "I'm staing in my room furever!" "I'm rilly rilly sorry that I did somthing rong!" I shouldn't laugh but, seriously, how cute is that?
When Autumn wasn't punishing herself, she was helping out. We don't get to go to the store together much anymore so this little trip was fun. She's a good helper.
Magic shows are still happening! I need to come up with some new tricks for her because she's getting pretty good with the ones she got for Christmas. Autumn's presentation is getting better, too.
The grill box has gotten some fun play time. She was in there this day with a flashlight, a blanket and some pillows, reading to her stuffed friends.
Last Saturday, Autumn had a playdate with Aunt Penny while I was in aikido. After I got out of class we met up for lunch and I got to hear about all their super fun adventures.
For example, Autumn tired out Ace and Conan that morning so they all took a break to watch some cartoons! Too fun! Autumn is still talking about how fun her Penny time was.
Last one for today! Sunday we got together with the neighbor kids to watch Frozen. They only got about 15 minutes in and decided they'd rather play. Everyone had a good time playing with the leftover lips and mustaches from the shower I gave for Tamara and Landon which I still need to blog about.
Monday, March 31, 2014
Cold Days at the Beach
I fully intended to do a post last night annnd then I forgot. I have no good reason--Mike, Donnie, Liz, and I just played Diablo longer than we should have, hahaha. I've been bad about posting to both blogs but hopefully I'll be better. Last week I had my black belt test and I passed!!! I spent the whole week tired, thirsty, and out of sorts but I woke up this morning feeling pretty perky if a bit pollen-itchy. Anyway, I have a few beach photos! I need to get some of Mike's because he has some cute ones but these will do for now. It was pretty cold most of the week so it was pants and jackets out on the beach. Autumn and Mike went out to play a little paddle ball game. I wasn't about to go play in the wind so I used my zoom lens! I mean, really, if the always hot Mike and Autumn have on hoodies, I'm pretty much going to freeze to death.
Autumn made a little friend who was there when we were there. Her parents were, um, chill. They were quite far away and facing away from us while the girl just kind of wandered the beaches! Kyle and Lindsay were side-eying the situation, too, so I know it wasn't just my "studies too much about kidnapping/abuse prevention" paranoia! At one point, they disappeared entirely so we all kind of looked around and were like, "I guess we, strange people you haven't even seen less than 100 feet away, will make sure she doesn't drown or get kidnapped??"
We also got to go to the little amusement park we've visited for years now. And, you know what? Autumn is just about too big for the kid area. T_T
But not yet.
One last thing...Autumn took this picture of Ellie before we left. How sweet is this??
Autumn made a little friend who was there when we were there. Her parents were, um, chill. They were quite far away and facing away from us while the girl just kind of wandered the beaches! Kyle and Lindsay were side-eying the situation, too, so I know it wasn't just my "studies too much about kidnapping/abuse prevention" paranoia! At one point, they disappeared entirely so we all kind of looked around and were like, "I guess we, strange people you haven't even seen less than 100 feet away, will make sure she doesn't drown or get kidnapped??"
We also got to go to the little amusement park we've visited for years now. And, you know what? Autumn is just about too big for the kid area. T_T
But not yet.
One last thing...Autumn took this picture of Ellie before we left. How sweet is this??
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Of Birthdays and Ice Days
We had a great week at the beach!! I haven't uploaded my pictures from the trip yet BUT I do have some other fun ones! Here are Autumn and Tyler at Hudson's birthday party last month. Hudson was a lot luckier than I was with party planning. Whereas my ice cream social got an ice storm warning, he had a crazy pleasant day!
Birthday boy and his candles.
The ice storm did a whole lot of nothing around our neighborhood but further north people were hit pretty hard. My mom came to visit that Wednesday and said she couldn't believe the difference a few miles made! We made the best of the sprinkling of snow. Autumn and I piled up what we could and threw a few snowballs but that's all the winter fun we managed. We did get out of school for 3 days which was fun.
When school was back, the kids got to do their rescheduled Dr. Seuss dress up day! We all had a lot of fun. Autumn was one of the only blue fishes at the school. I was trying to think of something fun but she was all, "I am going to be a fish." No deals. Ha! Her friend on the left there was a "new fish" and her other friend decided to be a blue fish, too, since he had a blue shirt on.
I also knew that Autumn was the only blue fish in the school because I took photos of every child in costume in the entire school except for 24. There were only two cameras and one stopped working so I got to take ALL THE PICTURES. I didn't mind but I might have planned my day differently with a little warning! They were all super cute. I saw a ton of Cats in Hats, Loraxes and Things! Too fun!
Birthday boy and his candles.
The ice storm did a whole lot of nothing around our neighborhood but further north people were hit pretty hard. My mom came to visit that Wednesday and said she couldn't believe the difference a few miles made! We made the best of the sprinkling of snow. Autumn and I piled up what we could and threw a few snowballs but that's all the winter fun we managed. We did get out of school for 3 days which was fun.
When school was back, the kids got to do their rescheduled Dr. Seuss dress up day! We all had a lot of fun. Autumn was one of the only blue fishes at the school. I was trying to think of something fun but she was all, "I am going to be a fish." No deals. Ha! Her friend on the left there was a "new fish" and her other friend decided to be a blue fish, too, since he had a blue shirt on.
I also knew that Autumn was the only blue fish in the school because I took photos of every child in costume in the entire school except for 24. There were only two cameras and one stopped working so I got to take ALL THE PICTURES. I didn't mind but I might have planned my day differently with a little warning! They were all super cute. I saw a ton of Cats in Hats, Loraxes and Things! Too fun!
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Spring Break!!
It's spring break so no blog post tonight but head over to passing pinwheels and check Autumn out in 3d glasses. Too cute!
Sunday, March 2, 2014
Ice Cream, Ice Storms, Evil Kitties, Nice Kitties, and Sinking Ships!
What a day! I planned an ice cream social couples wedding shower annnnnnd there was a winter storm warning. It was about 34 degrees and raining! We had a good time, though, and I'll have some fun photos soon on the Pinwheel blog! Autumn was pretty amazing. Everyone who usually babysits her was out of town this weekend so she just kind of hung out and entertained herself for 2 whole hours. As a reward, she got an ice cream sundae with anything she wanted on it. Autumn has more self control than I do because she got chocolate (coconut milk) ice cream, chocolate sauce, ONE mini oreo, three marshmallows, and five chocolate chips. No one ask what I had...
Anyway, I forgot to upload our photos from Hudson's party and I am, once again, too cold to go get the camera. But I have some fun stuff for you. We've been feeding our friend's cat and she's a great kitty. Autumn loves seeing her because she's an indoor/outdoor cat who may or may not be around when we get there. We've seen Holy(field) more than they've seen Molly.
How many times in, like, a year have our friends seen Molly? ZERO. No matter how much they look or when they come, no Molly. Hopefully one day she'll show up for them. I do think Molly is rather losing her mind. She's been extra weird about lights and shiny things and she follows me everywhere lately. Molly even lets Autumn brush her. I mean, she's still demonspawn but maybe demonspawn lite in her old age!
The above picture? She crawled on my lap when Mike and I were watching a movie. AND THEN SHE LET ME HOLD HER TAIL. Here's the next picture, though:
Ohhhkayyyy. Moving on...let's banish Evil Kitty with Fun Autumn. She dumped all the clothes out of the laundry basket a couple weeks ago and embarked on a boat journey. That cape is the ocean. It must have been a rocky journey (perhaps Frozen-inspired?) because she spilled over in this crash I caught. Later, her boat crashed so hard into the sofa that Autumn had a bruise across the bridge of her nose!
AND I just got word that there's no school tomorrow! On one hand, I'm happy. On the other, I'm hoping it isn't so icy I don't get to teach my class tomorrow night. It's my first day as the new Monday kickboxing teacher at Germantown Athletic Club. The instructor who handed the class over and I are going to alternate this month, I think, in order to ease the transition. :) People get attached to their teachers which I understand. Oh, hey, Mike just emailed me a picture of Autumn from today when they fed Holy. This is what she changed into after church!! And check out how cute and non-demon eyed this kitty is in her heated bed...
Stay warm and dry, all!
Anyway, I forgot to upload our photos from Hudson's party and I am, once again, too cold to go get the camera. But I have some fun stuff for you. We've been feeding our friend's cat and she's a great kitty. Autumn loves seeing her because she's an indoor/outdoor cat who may or may not be around when we get there. We've seen Holy(field) more than they've seen Molly.
How many times in, like, a year have our friends seen Molly? ZERO. No matter how much they look or when they come, no Molly. Hopefully one day she'll show up for them. I do think Molly is rather losing her mind. She's been extra weird about lights and shiny things and she follows me everywhere lately. Molly even lets Autumn brush her. I mean, she's still demonspawn but maybe demonspawn lite in her old age!
The above picture? She crawled on my lap when Mike and I were watching a movie. AND THEN SHE LET ME HOLD HER TAIL. Here's the next picture, though:
Ohhhkayyyy. Moving on...let's banish Evil Kitty with Fun Autumn. She dumped all the clothes out of the laundry basket a couple weeks ago and embarked on a boat journey. That cape is the ocean. It must have been a rocky journey (perhaps Frozen-inspired?) because she spilled over in this crash I caught. Later, her boat crashed so hard into the sofa that Autumn had a bruise across the bridge of her nose!
AND I just got word that there's no school tomorrow! On one hand, I'm happy. On the other, I'm hoping it isn't so icy I don't get to teach my class tomorrow night. It's my first day as the new Monday kickboxing teacher at Germantown Athletic Club. The instructor who handed the class over and I are going to alternate this month, I think, in order to ease the transition. :) People get attached to their teachers which I understand. Oh, hey, Mike just emailed me a picture of Autumn from today when they fed Holy. This is what she changed into after church!! And check out how cute and non-demon eyed this kitty is in her heated bed...
Stay warm and dry, all!
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