We were all on our Sunday morning walk and Owen, as usual, talks about his video games the entire way. Stuff about zombies and poison shields and earning gems and potions for magic sticks…and when we got to this point on the trail, it was “WELCOME TO MINOTAUR FOREST!” 🙂
Then as usual we stopped at the bridge to throw over some sticks and stones.
And then we told them this was a zombie house and they should go check for zombies (it’s an old prison building).
We have fun on our walks. 🙂
I came downstairs this morning with my hair in braids.
As soon as Katie saw me: Mama! Your hair! It’s…
Me: Who does it look like?
Katie: Put them back.
I pushed the tails behind my shoulders.
Katie: ANNA!
Tom is watching the MSU game, Katie is watching a movie on the iPad, Owen is watching the game and Katie’s movie, and I’m writing the blog (with Maggie on my lap).
I’ve had a simple/inexpensive Cuisinart ice cream maker on my Amazon watchlist for awhile now, and it hit it’s lowest price ever the other day, so I finally bought it. I figure we don’t eat that much ice cream anymore, so why not be able to make whatever flavors we want in much smaller quantities when we want it?
So we made peanut butter Oreo tonight. The kids helped me get the mix ready (no pics of that because I was too busy helping hold the mixer) and they were EXCITED.
She would have spent the entire 15 minutes like this if we let her. 🙂
I didn’t get any pics of the end product or of us eating it because we snarfed it down pretty quickly. (Also, we all had very small portions—maybe 3-4 spoonsful—with the rest going in the freezer.) It was quite tasty—and a soft-serve consistency which I really really like (similar to a DQ Blizzard!). So it was a success!
Seeing Katie play with Owen’s bank, we realized she didn’t have one of her own so we’ve been on the lookout for one. We finally found one last night so we had her move all her money to it.
Owen’s teacher emailed me last night to let me know he was getting the award this morning and that he didn’t know about it—so she left it up to us whether or not to tell him. We opted to keep it a surprise—and Tom was luckily able to make it, so we kept that a surprise, too!
He doesn’t see us…
Doesn’t see us…
Then sees daddy!!
Such a happy little boy!
Owen’s part is about at 2:11.
Mrs. McLenigan and Mrs. Stulman did a great job with the kids—all four 1st grade award recipients were from their kindergarten class!
Tom was home this morning…because he was going to surprise Owen at school for Morning Program (Owen was getting a Good Character award—which was also a surprise for him!). So I took advantage of us all being home to snap a new pic! It turned out great!
These were the other pics I snapped beforehand. You see what trying to get a picture of the kids together can be like? Not one “good” one in the bunch. 🙂
The first official game was rained out last Saturday, so tonight’s game became the first actual game! It was held at a field in a neighboring city (if you wonder why it looks different). As usual, the first game has many more pictures than I’ll post for subsequent games! 🙂
Tom is the Assistant Coach this season! The fall season isn’t as big as the spring season, so no official shirts for the coaches (boooo!)—only hats. (The kids also just get plain colored tees with the name of the little league county on it instead of a team name and logo.)
Once more, he’s a head taller than everyone else on his team!
Of course she doesn’t ever really watch the game, and tonight she was exploring a new park—throwing stones in the river.
(No, he didn’t have to go potty. Apparently he’s a natural at the baseball moves.)
Me: Katie, don’t play in the dirt.
Katie: Mom–it’s sand!
How did she get to be such a smart[ass] little girl? 🙂
They’ve been trying to teach the catchers to tag out the runners (it still doesn’t count as an out since it’s t-ball) so Owen is doing his best…
And actually CHASING them down. 🙂
This is a 3T (bought last year and didn’t wear) and it’s a little tight.
Gramma Jean sent Katie some Frozen-themed underwear to hopefully get her interested in her upcoming potty training! Katie loves them, of course…so fingers crossed it helps!
Holding my sunglasses while I tried something on.
Katie and Owen were playing with the checkers when she says “Mama! Look at my toes!”
Yep…like mama, like daughter. 🙂
Our local town center was having a small fall festival so we took the kids since it was a gorgeous day. When I saw small, I mean small—there were about 10-12 booths on the outside edge (cotton candy, face painting, Pampered Chef, jewelry, etc.) and there were a few kids projects in the center island. It was perfect—the kids had fun and things didn’t take too long. 🙂
Eating his special chocolate-covered Oreo treat once we got home.
Pllaying before lessons started.
Then Katie had some successful jumps…
…and she graduated to Turtle 1 (red cap)! (It took her 11 classes, or just under 3 months of classes!) Unfortunately they were out of red caps, so hopefully she’ll get it next week and then we can take her official photo!
Now I just hope they can rearrange some students so that their classes are more convenient—there’s no Turtle 1 classes adjacent to Owen’s Shark 1 class so we have to be there from 11 (when his class starts) to 12:30 (when her class ends). They said they’d try to get us something better so we’re keeping our fingers crossed.
After the challenging day we had with her yesterday (she had a major tantrum when she didn’t get to do something she wanted because she didn’t listen and follow the rules), it felt so good to have her be happy and smiling and cuddly. 🙂
Owen didn’t want me to take the picture.
Sometimes I just get tired of fighting it.
Owen noticed it within about a minute of coming home: J-T-O-K. Jen and Tom okay!
Me: Really? Who is O?
Owen: [Brief pause] Ohhhh! Me!
Katie: And K is me!
She had wanted to wear the purple ballet outfit first thing but I said no since we were going to Owen’s school (and I wanted her to dress in red/white/blue for Patriot Day). But I promised she could wear it when we got home.
She didn’t forget. 🙂
And from the school’s Facebook account (back in class):
This is what she has started doing now whenever I get out the camera.
We ran an errand, went to the playground, then ended up going right to a friend’s house for [what ended up to be] four hours! The girls did pretty well, and they were both in these for at least an hour. 🙂
School doesn’t start until 9:20—so we don’t go to the bus stop until 8:40-8:45—which leaves enough time for the bounce house before school.
Katie was super excited to have Owee home! (The buses usually run late the first week, so it should be way earlier than 4:45 from now on.)
Owen told me someone asked about his pink lunch bag and he told them he liked pink and he loved his mom! 🙂
