He’s pretending to fly a ship from the Star Wars movies. 🙂
Year: 2014
Katie’s Easter Ears
She did it herself!
Happy Easter 2014!
So Owen was up early with Tom as usual and told Tom that there was an R2-D2 downstairs. That’s one of the “eggs” we hid, and Tom knew he hadn’t been downstairs so was perplexed as to how he knew about it. So he had a talk with him about lying. But Owen claimed he wasn’t lying so Tom finally said “Okay, show me.” And Owen took him to the landing which overlooks the entryway…and part of the toy room where Katie’s changing station is…where Tom had, in fact, placed an R2-D2 on the corner in plain sight!! Mr. Eagle Eyes strikes again!!
Then, surprisingly, when we headed downstairs, he completely missed the egg on the windowsill on the landing…Katie actually saw it as she was coming down (in video).
Owen sharing his eggs with Katie because we warned him not to grab all the eggs before she could see them!
He loved the R2-D2 containers!
She found about three eggs and then she was done—she was opening them and eating the candy as fast as she could!
We tried to get a double bunny ear picture but it wasn’t happening. This was all we got. 🙂
She wanted her bubbles right away!
Dinosaur apron from Grannie Lin!
Chocolate bunny and Lego from Grandma Marsha and Uncle Rob!
Some of the eggs had barrettes and hair ties for Katie! She’s putting one on her wrist here.
Owen REALLY LOVED his chick!
Both kids ate a package of the Despicable Me gummies Grandma Marsha sent!
“Open please daddy?”
Now watch me as I try to shove all four eggs in my mouth at once!
This is daddy laughing at how piggy Katie is being.
A full mouth!
“Bunny!!!”
The aftermath!
You can see her hoarding her Robins Eggs. 🙂
Overall it was a great success! I think they missed a few eggs so they’ll find them throughout the day. And while candy and chocolate was their pre-breakfast snack, they didn’t do too badly!
Easter baskets and eggs
Thanks to the grandparents, I didn’t have to buy much (we had the baskets and I bought bubbles—everything else is from grandmas)! No, our kids aren’t spoiled! 😉 The only bad part is the eggs are hidden inside since it’s rainy.
The kids helped me make cookies!
Nothing intensive…just a quick sugar cookie bag mix that I got on clearance at Target. I figured that was our speed. 🙂
I gave Owen the option of making colored cookies and he wanted blue (his favorite color)!
After we finished the first tray, there was still a bit left, so Owen made these four—“One for each of us!” 🙂
Passing the time, waiting for the cookies to bake.
Enjoying the spoils!
EEK! Our first showing!
Long story short, we didn’t know our house was actually listed…so were spurred into a frantic cleaning frenzy when we got a call asking if an agent could be there [in about 20 minutes]. EEK! But of course we said yes.
Man, if we only cleaned at that breakneck pace all the time… 🙂
My guys are talking!
On the way home from errands, Owen was playing on his phone. But he needed to put his Legos somewhere… He said his Battle Droids were talking. 🙂
And a closer view so you can see it better.
Woooow x 2
We took the kids down the fish aisle at Walmart…and both of their reactions were “Woooow!” 🙂
I really hope we have a good spot for a small aquarium at our next house (we already own it).
40 Bags in 40 Days—Day 20
I haven’t been keeping great track since the brunt of our sorting and organizing is done…but we have still been tossing stuff here and there, adding to the donate and garage piles, and deciding what to sell.
But today Tom got rid of the raised garden bed (and burned the wood) and I sorted my bedside table top drawers. I forgot the actual Before picture, but I did take this picture of everything that came out of the drawers…
Proof they were actually empty!
And then back in, somewhat organized, with a bunch tossed.
It still needs more paring down but it takes baby steps—and I have two drawers to go!
It’s my bed!
When I was with Owen in the bathroom getting his teeth brushed, I saw Tom sneak by into Owen’s room, turn off the light, and shut the door. I wasn’t quite sure what he was planning, so I started recording. 🙂
I love hearing him laugh!! Especially as lately he’s been having a rough time…he worries when we’re out of his sight, he wants to know where we are in the house, most of the time he’ll come running (and crying) if he looks for us and doesn’t immediately see us…
And bedtime is the worst. He’s always been a great sleeper—but recently he’s been crying at bedtime, getting up out of bed to come find us, etc. We’ve asked if something happened to make him worry more and he says no… We feel bad, but it gets old.
So anyway, it’s nice hearing his laugh at bedtime. Except afterwards when it was really bedtime, he started getting scared. Tonight it was monsters. So I layed his B on top of him and tucked it all around him, telling him it was magic and would protect him from everything. He liked that…
And he promised to be brave…
Family time at the park!
Tom has a 96 (Friday through Monday off) so we took the kids to the park.
This is as high as he’d go.
“Daddy, how high can you go?” Tom pretty much just jumped straight to the top. 🙂
Tom wanted to help Owen but Owen was freaked out and wanted NO part of it.
After swinging on the toddler swing and the big kid swing, she wanted to try this one.
For some unknown reason, Owen is way more freaked out about slides than when he was little. This was his second time down—after he made me catch him the first time.
On the pole again!
Throwback Thursday—My first mommy group!
From a group play date at our house in June 2009…
Playing on our new bed!
We got the new frame today and Tom put it together. Of course, the kids love it because it’s still low enough for them to get on.
Who knew a PB&J would be such a hit?
We went out for a sushi dinner and I made half a PB&J for Katie hoping she’d eat it. BOY DID SHE EVER! She loved it! She’d take a bite, set it down, have a drink…it was adorable!
She also saw Owen try soy sauce (we dipped a clean chopstick in it) so she had to try, too. Then she dipped it in eel sauce off our plate and LOVED it.
Here she is just being cute at the end of the meal.
Daddy’s Hat
I had hoped she’d come closer but she didn’t so I had to crop—hence the graininess.
The best I could do with the limited apps (and my limited skill) on the phone. In the original his face was so dark you couldn’t see much.
Multitasking
These made Owen giggle!
I have an app on my phone where I can put faces in holes of characters—so I picked some Star Wars ones to surprise Owen. He loved them!
And he liked this one the best
I also did this one of Katie but it’s not that great.
And some fun with daddy and mommy!
It’s addicting!
Edited to add:
I redid this one of Owen now that I understand the app better.
Easter break park play date!
I told Owen we were going to the park and he was really excited. Then I told him who would be there (the core group of moms and kids from my mommy group) and he got EVEN MORE excited and said “My friends!!!!”
The other kids were super excited to see him, too—we really haven’t all been together (on a playdate) since before school started!
Running around with another group of boys who were playing shooting games. 🙂
Then everyone ate snacks/lunch at the pavilion and then it was time to head home for Katie’s nap.
This was the best I could get as we were leaving the park!
I can never read this without getting a lump in my throat.
Thank you, Papa!
The cookies were appreciated by all!
(The rest of the package is being saved until Easter!
He’s loving spelling!
Katie was napping so we got out some spelling puzzles! He did really well!
It still doesn’t feel real.
I told her she needed her shoes on.
Of course Owen was having a fit because she had his shoes. 🙂
Serious bed head
Pretty Pink Princess
“Mama! Look!” 🙂
And then this happens, which usually makes her even happier!
He likes grilled cheese!
After he professed his love for “cheese toast” we explained that grilled cheese was just toasted bread and melty cheese…and he was willing to give it a try!
Of course he dipped it in yogurt! And I know he loved it because he asked for a second sandwich (I gave him a quarter of mine)!
You can see in the vertical picture that he set his Legos up to watch him eat! And he told me they were all jealous of his sandwich!
It’s here! It’s here!
THE BED IS HERE! THE BED IS HERE! Yes, they showed up today after telling me yesterday it would be Thursday. But I don’t care! Look at all the space!!!
No, there are no box springs…because we thought we’d still be using the same frame. But we’ve decided to go the bed frame plus headboard route for awhile. You can see the platform it’s currently sitting on…but the new frame doesn’t require a platform so we’ll be able to get rid of it!
It’s a little strange being so low…but at this point I couldn’t care less.
Lego building day
Last week, Mr. Eagle Eyes saw the Star Wars lego box on top of the fridge where Tom had tried to hide it. And we’re suckers, so told Owen he could have it Monday if he was good all weekend. Well, he did pretty good but on Sunday had a bit of a failing so the reward got pushed to Tuesday (which his reaction almost got the reward pushed to Wednesday).
So come this morning, he was READY. He did 99% of it on his own…and it’s an age 7-12 project!
Someone requested hot chocolate!
Then requested another after breakfast!
Morning chatterbox