This didn’t raise as much as I thought it would the second time… It smelled heavenly while baking but was entirely too dense so I’m bummed. The next time I’ll leave it sit to raise longer than the recipe called for (I was on a timeline tonight so kind of rushed the baking).
Oh, and Owen liked it but Katie didn’t.
(Dakota Bread from Cooks Country)
I bought us a Mommy & Me set of LuLaRoe leggings and gave them to her today. She loved that we had matching stuff and the first thing she said when she put them on was “Wow! These are super comfy!” 🙂 Yes, yes they are. Smart girl. 🙂
I suggested that Owen write his teacher a thank you note for the end of school. I gave him a few ideas, but this is what he came up with all on his own.
Translation (though the writing is much more readable these days):
Thank you for being a good teacher Mrs. Talley. These are my favorite things: recess, lunch, social studies, science, math, computer (MyOn) (Tumble), books, physical education (PE), music, read-to-self, balloons (end of the day popping tomorrow activity), art, library, Mount Vernon field trip.
I was very impressed when I first read what he had written—spacing, spelling, and content. I did, however, give him two brief lessons:
Yes, in his undies. He had been in the middle of getting his PJs on when he got distracted by the outside. 🙂
Katie always asks to ride in the car cart and I always say no because it’s a huge pain in the ass to navigate with and I hate it. But today I agreed, saying she had to stop asking because this was it. She agreed but, yes, I know she won’t stop asking.
The party was at Katie’s favorite park—the goose park. She was excited!
Watching the buses arrive with all the kids!
Happy girl!
Bubbles! (They had the same bubble machine we have!)
Walking to the lake with a classmate, Mason. They held hands the whole way. 🙂
Geese!
With Katie’s teacher Miss Heather, Heather’s daughter (Lola), and Mason.
On the way back!
Katie’s pre-k teacher friend Miss Katie. 🙂
I had a good time as well—I spent the morning hanging out and talking/getting to know Mason’s mom, Carolina. We’re about the same age, we got along well, and we set up a future pool play date!
The only bad thing is that Katie didn’t have school that afternoon because of the party!! 🙂
We were at the pool and they had started the grill for the cookout.
Owen: That smells like deliciousness!
Reading our initials on the wall:
Katie: J-T-O-K! That rhymes with Katie!
Katie wanted to leave her seat at the restaurant. I asked what she was going to do.
Katie: Some ballet on the carpet.
Owen: Katie, where did you get hurt? Your butt cheek?
Katie: No, my leg cheek.
Katie: Mom. Watch. I’m a ninja karate-r.
I was trying to teach Katie how to count from 20 to 30. She was getting the hang of it. Almost.
Katie: …twenty-six…twenty-seven…twenty-eight…twenty-nine…twenty-ten.
I cleaned out the coloring books and whatnot and found Owen’s old pre-K and kindergarten workbooks…and she was somewhat interested! Yay!
Every now and again we go down to visit our neighbors when they’re out playing and today it was about when Owen was coming home from school. So this happened:
The girls were running back and forth bringing Owen pieces and helping attach them.
The finished project!
Heading home.
Her folder was made from the artwork she did a few months ago.
It came home Friday but I didn’t get around to taking pictures of everything until today. 🙂
Tom is in Jacksonville for work so he swung by our old house. It looked empty and abandoned. 🙁 He said they took the shed (which we knew from our neighbor) but saw that they took the stainless steel appliances, too…and the back yard has about 4′ of grass and weeds.
I didn’t love the house but it was ours and we put a lot of money and hard work into it. And to see it just left like this makes me sad. It shouldn’t bother me as much as it does but there you go.
They love riding back from the pool in the back of the car but we haven’t been able to do it with all of Owen’s baseball stuff…but since baseball is over I cleaned it out!
It was crazy hot and sunny for the last game today. Thankfully friends had brought a huge canopy so we all got to sit (or lay!) in the shade!
Owen did super amazing awesome today…unfortunately, I had unexpected phone storage issues (even after I deleted a ton of stuff) so I ended up missing recording a few hits and runs—and a few videos got cut short. GRRR!
And he asked to be catcher today!! He did have some balance issues (see next photo—he kept his feet together instead of using a wide stance so he kept falling over) but he worked through them and did a great job! And looked damn cute!
The coaches actually called the game a half hour early because it was so hot. They had a quick award ceremony afterward.
I had to transcribe what the coach said because it was super awesome and is very hard to hear on the video—the Closed Captions should be turned on so you can read along but here it is just in case:
Due to my phone issues, I missed the first thing he said: I like to call him The Big O!
Come on up! I’ve really seen Owen’s catching progress. Behind the plate as well as catching the ball in the field. Alright, you are certainly catching it like the guys at the next level and very impressive. You’ve had some great hits as well. Alright. I love seeing your enthusiasm out here. Good job, buddy.
Team picture by another mom (since my phone was still acting up):
Then the pizza party!!!
And showing off his award! He had to run and get this T-ball award from last year, too—he was so excited to have two! He said he will put them both on a shelf together! 🙂
An exciting Friday night…labeling shoe boxes with photos so I know what’s in each one. These are obviously the ones I don’t wear very often or are off-season.
So, I have my good ol’ standby bathing suit that I love that I found in a smaller size, so I’m happy about that. But I need more than once suit, so I found a cute one—size 12!—that *GASP* doesn’t have a full skirt. (I’ve worn a full-skirted suit for as long as I can remember.) And even though it fits and looks decent, all I can see when I see myself in it is THIGHS and VARICOSE VEINS. Ugh.
But, since my new mantra is FUCK WHAT ANYONE ELSE MIGHT THINK—I’VE LOST 135#—I wore it to the pool the other day with a friend. She said it looked adorable. Other Naturally Slim friends asked for a picture and I told them baby steps: I wore the suit. In public. To our pool. With other people. A pic would come later this summer. But then I put it on again today and said WHAT THE HELL. So here it is.
Of course my friends all applauded me and said I looked great (and that I wasn’t an 18yo Sports Illustrated swimsuit model so who cares about thighs and varicose veins). 🙂 But, to make myself feel better, I found a Before picture from last March. 🙂
Actually, this was almost our playground. The other house we were considering was about three doors down.
My mom posted these for Throwback Thursday. I love them SO much.
I watched a neighbor’s kid while she had an appointment. The girls had a blast.
Katie found a costume right away and wore it most of the afternoon.
We came back to our house to eat lunch.
It took about two hours for them to reach their limits (and mine LOL) before I turned the TV on. 🙂
This is so simple but I just love it.
