Author Archives: Jen
Katie drew this for our friends.
Katie drew this a few days ago for our friends. We were going to run errands with them this morning so she remembered she drew it and ran and got it.
Can you tell which is the mom, which is the oldest boy, and which is the youngest boy? 🙂
Owen’s teacher says he’s all-around awesome.
This morning was the first P/T conference of the year. We were a bit early so I took advantage and got some pics.
Overall, Owen is doing awesome. She said he’s advanced in reading, ahead in math, and is probably the most respectful kid in class! She also has no concerns with his spelling—he got 95/100 on sight words (the ones he missed were words like WHERE and WHICH [forgot the h] which are very common)—and he behaves in class. What blew me away is his writing assignment—it was done over a few days, but the handwriting was excellent and the story was involved (it was about one of his xbox games)…and he wrote SIX PAGES! It doesn’t all make perfect sense, of course, and there are some errors but WOW. JUST…WOW.
And then a few pics from around the classroom:
And as I was taking pictures I was telling the teacher why (because I make a Shutterfly book each year) so she told me to hang on and she’d stage the Class Jobs list for me (it needed to be done before class anyway). 🙂
And then I took Katie to the playground for a few minutes since she always begs to go there but we’re usually there during school hours. She says “Mama? You remember the last time we were here and Gramma Jean was swinging with me?” 🙂
First footie PJs of the season: 2010 and 2016.
Seriously, how does this happen? Owen picked his PJs tonight like he does every night…and I thought footie PJs were an odd choice since it was quite warm today…and then I open Timehop and see this from 6 years ago:
So of course, me being me, I had to do this:
And then this:
Four Jens
Mirror Fun
Tracing Owen
Katie’s new favorite thing to do is be traced in the street…or trace someone else.
We’ve been wanting to do this for two years.
Be gone, huge overgrown tree and nasty cedar bushes!
Now we have to get the landlord to purchase the agreed upon replacement stuff so we can get it planted!
Just wow.
After a rough night parenting, this makes me so very happy.
Elsa is playing soccer this chilly morning.
A Boston burrito
Bingo night!
Owen and Colton
We didn’t win any of the bingo games, but they were giving away free pizzas at the end of the night so both boys got one!
We were literally the only ones there!
We went to Flight with a neighbor. We were literally the only four people there for most of our hour. It was awesome.
Owen was poetry helper this week.
Heading back to class…on the second floor!!
It’s fun putting outfits together.
I think I am most excited about being able to fit into boots. They’re wide-calf boots, but they’re boots. 🙂
Kids at play
I have my wedding ring again!
It’s here! It’s finally here! A completely new ring direct from the jeweler where I initially bought it! Thanks a million Wheat Jewelers for taking care of me and my ring from 500 miles away 17 years post-purchase!! :heart: 💍
(That said, I did have to pay for it but they made it super easy! And really, the local jeweler here who screwed it up paid for it!)
Hopefully this is the end of my resizing saga!
Charlie hugs
I asked for the cuddles today!
Sometimes it’s this kind of morning.
At least it gave me a laugh. What’s almost funniest is I didn’t even notice it all morning until she went to give Owen a hug as he was leaving for school! 🙂
And even though I asked her multiple time throughout the day to change them, she never did. 🙂
The perks of Naturally Slim: dinner is pasta…and cheesecake.
Pasta with beef and shrimp…and Devils food cheesecake. 😯 :heart: :p
Soccer Sibs
Cat-eye girls
She wanted to sit on “the driving side.”
We went to a friend’s house to stay with her napping kid while she had to make an emergency run to school. Katie immediately took to the car. I instantly felt guilty again about selling theirs. 🙁
Today’s new puzzle.
Today’s ballerina.
It’s chilly today so we broke out the long-sleeved leotard and the leg warmers.
And more dancing with ribbons at the end of class!
I want a rooster but not quite this big.
We were at Marshall’s when I got a text from Tom: HOLY SHIT. Of course Marshall’s is a dead zone for sending pics so I didn’t know what was going on. I finally found him and he took me to this:
LOL Holy shit is right. 🙂
Katie is 4 years 3 months old today!
No, she’s not trying to drown him. Or vice versa.
It’s just them playing before their swim lessons!