Year: 2015
Candyland!
They each won one!
Cool. I’m a Unicorn Mom!
This was shared on one of my favorite mommy blogs today. I thought it was perfect.
Through the years with Christmas Bear
This ornament has been around a loooong time… It started on Grauntie Marge’s tree in Grayling.
I’m guessing this was 1974, as I wouldn’t have been standing at three months. 🙂
2009 – Troy, MI
2010 – Troy, MI
2011 – Jacksonville, NC
2012 – Jacksonville, NC
2013 – Jacksonville, NC
(She LOVED the bear!!! And somehow I missed a pic with Owen?!)
2014 – Lorton, VA
(Somehow I completely missed both of them!)
2015 – Lorton, VA
Owen’s Skeleton Teeth
Owen had to go back to the dentist this morning to get his 6-year molars sealed. Yeah, I didn’t know that was a thing, either.
They also had to take a panoramic of his mouth. They called it his skeleton teeth and he LOVED it.
I’m surprised she didn’t sleep in it.
We split a Lego set.Â
It was on sale at the Lego store so I told Owen we’d split the cost. He hasn’t built something big in awhile so he was excited!
Kidisms 21
Katie: Mama, I broke my foot.
Owen: Mom, I told my friends I had two special things today. One, Uncle Rob is coming. Two, I had a ham and cheese croissant.
I’m glad he was that impressed with his hot lunch today.
Dentist: What kind of dog do you have?
Owen: Maggie.
Yep, they wore their hats to the dentist.Â
They love their new hats!
And sharing them, too!
We Skyped with Gramma Jean and Grandpa David today to have the kids open their presents! They loved everything, but the hats seemed to be the big hit!
Family Walk
Katie dressing herself sometimes makes me laugh.
This is how she came downstairs this morning.
Pony Painting
Tom stole a Melissa & Doug painting Kit in the white elephant gift exchange at the party last night since there wasn’t really anything else we needed (or could steal). We knew Katie would love it. (On a side note, who puts a kids gift in an adult exchange? Really?! The other part of the gift was a huge rubber duckie…which the kids also got.)
The boys waiting for Star Wars
95
I was down 1.2 for the week. Not much…and I likely won’t make my goal by Christmas…but a loss is a loss and I’ll take it!
Kidless Adulting Party Time!
Not to toot my own horn, LOL, but I thought I looked damn good and I felt amazing in my $20 size 14 dress. 🙂
Everyone I saw at the party that I knew (a small handful of the 40-odd people) told me I looked amazing. I honestly felt like a fairy princess and didn’t want the night to end. I can’t remember a time—EVER—when I’ve felt that good about myself and/or how I looked. Not even at my wedding (though that was an awesome day!).
I see the dress on a hanger and think “Man that looks small. There’s no way I fit into that.” But I obviously did. And I killed it. 🙂 (And I still have about 40-50 more pounds to go! I cannot even FATHOM that.)
Also tonight? Wearing a winter coat I last wore…in high school. Yes, I’ve kept it for 24 years because it was an awesome coat and dammit I was going to fit into it again someday!
How she watches a movie with Uncle Rob.Â
Promise them candy and look what cute faces you get.
And the comparison photo from 2012!
This gets me excited for two reasons.
Three if you count that it means a kidless night out at a holiday party.
If you can’t guess the two reasons, it’s 1) size 14 and 2) a good deal!
The backstory? I needed something to wear for a holiday party. I had NOTHING holiday-ish in my closet at all. No dress slacks, no khakis, no skirts, no dressy sweaters even. I had one dress that would have been okay, but I kind of wanted something new that was a bit more holiday-party-appropriate. So I went shopping at Ross and was looking at 16s. 16s!!! (I now wear size 16 jeans so thought a dress would be the same.) I haven’t bought a size 16 dress in…since maybe high school? So I picked four and tried them all on—and they all fit. Wait. What? I’m used to maybe one thing fitting and hoping it doesn’t look awful, LOL. So I was able to pick the one Iiked the best. And it was on clearance! So imagine my surprise when I got home and realized it was a 14! Holy crap! I never would have looked at the size 14 section! 🙂
Little Girl Pouts
A little bouncing.Â
The place where the kids have swim lessons (and Owen had his summer activity camp) had an Open House today so people could swim and bounce for free to test it out. The kids have been asking to bounce, so we thought it would be a fun thing today. Owen loved it, but Katie was pretty much a mess. There were A TON of kids there (including a lot of rambunctious and NOT well-behaved ones which made everything worse) and she had a fit on every bounce house because there were “too many people” — except it was mostly her fault because unless she was the only one on the ladder, she would stop wherever she was and then as the kids would try to get past her and she’d get upset (and if she’d just have kept going up the ladder, they would have gone up behind her and things would have been just fine). So…we didn’t stay quite as long as we anticipated.
2015 Videos from Santa!
We got these from Santa about a week or so ago. The kids were very excited to watch them! Do you think they both made the naughty or nice list? The kids LOVE these videos SO much and get SO excited about them it’s worth the $12 I pay to make them. 🙂
Owen – Secret Places
Katie – Tour the Post Office
And surprise! Tonight we got these two new videos! Uncle Rob and daddy were able to watch along with us!
Owen – Movie Star
Katie – Elf House
Katie playing bongos on Uncle Rob’s head
Morning Program Poetry Helper
Every week, 10 students help read a poem during Morning Program. This week was finally Owen’s turn! Daddy didn’t think he was going to be able to make it…but he did! And Uncle Rob was there, too!
We couldn’t hear him, of course, but his lips were moving and he wasn’t crying or hiding so it was all good!
Minecraft in the morning.Â
The last day of the year is Pajama Day!
And of course Katie didn’t want to wear PJs on the one day she technically could…
How she watched a movie today.Â
Clutching her purse… 🙂
Cute & Comfy Charlie
I love that paw wrapped around her face.
I fell off the wagon.
Phew.
I fell off the wagon at lunch. Too many Biscuits and Gravy potato chips (probably the equivalent of a single serving bag) and about 9 peanut M&Ms when making pretzel/Rolo/M&M treats. Then two pretzel treats.
Since I felt the day was already a bust, LOL, I splurged on a margarita wine cooler while getting dinner ready.
Then we made a batch of garlic toast (amazing stuff) and I had the equivalent of two slices of bread over the dinner hour (before, during, and after)…while still eating dinner, of course.
Overall, today was completely unlike 99.9% of my NS days. Too much sugar plus too much food plus alcohol. EEK.
But.
BUT.
It was still light years different from pretty much 90% of my pre-NS days—today’s consumption would have been a light day. I probably would have eaten half a bag of chips with lunch, two handfuls of M&Ms, a handful of finished pretzel treats, had two drinks, at least three pieces or more of bread/toast…plus twice as much dinner as I ate. Plus I wouldn’t have walked a mile during the day.
So I still call today a win. And that’s why NS is the bomb.
Katie LOVES swinging.
She still swings the entire time I’m taking my walk (which is about 18-20 minutes). I usually still have to get her started with a big push, but today she started all on her own! She was waiting for me to come push her and was just swinging her legs back and forth…and she started moving. I saw it happening and procrastinated getting over there…and soon she was swinging as high as ever! I love her hair in slo-mo!
With her friend Cayenne.
Another great slo-mo on the slide.