Heading out to celebrate Evan and Aiden’s 8th grade graduation with dinner at Primo!
Just a normal Sunday
Category Archives: Laughing
Gabby’s Graduation!
Gramma and Grandpa were headed to Gabby’s graduation party on Moccasin Lake in the U.P. (near Munising) so it was a perfect time to make the transfer. They got to spend the day with their cousins and had a great time!
Owen’s first raft ride behind a Jet Ski!
Waiting patiently.
First time in a hotel with them. We were tired enough, we all slept!KITTENS!!!
I took the kids to visit Brianna’s kittens as they’ve never seen kittens (I know, right?! But ours were already cats when the kids were born!) and oh man did they love it! Laughs and giggles and soooo much happiness. It was wonderful after the recent loss of Charlie.
She wanted to start the fire!
So she got this all ready herself!
Last day of school and eLearning (2nd and 5th).
Katie picked out this fancy dress to go to school supply pickup. Of course she hadn’t showered in three days.
She missed her last class Zoom meeting where they were going to share their goodbye posters so I posted it to the school’s page and sent it to her teacher.
School supply pickup was more emotional for me than I anticipated. I might have gotten a little teary-eyed as we drove away. I asked Katie if she was okay and told her I was sad so it was okay if she was. She said she was a little sad but she was okay. Leave it to Mom to be overly emotional.
Then we had to go through a huge garbage bag of Katie’s stuff…including…a lunch bag. Thankfully it was empty!! We were all thinking we’d have to just toss the whole thing. Phew! Oh, and we had an outfit change!
Then it was time to take Owen’s pictures—-and he hadn’t showered in awhile, either. But Tom had given him a buzz cut.
Normally last day of school pics are just me and the kids…
…but since Dad is working from home, he got in on the action. #gonnamissthisbench
Let’s take a nice one and a silly one.
Their words, not mine!!
A little goofiness before heading to the water park!
Thanks to Allison for the pics as I was off getting stuff ready for the pool party!
Waterslide!
Uncontrollable giggling
After the movie the kids were playing downstairs. First they came up to show us some dance moves they’d been working on. Later we heard them giggling and laughing uncontrollably and we wondered what on Earth could possibly be happening. And then they came crashing upstairs, giggling all the way.
Oh. My.
They were dressed in each other’s clothes—Owen in Katie’s new pink jacket, pink kitty hat, and her Beauty and the Beast Belle heels…
And Katie in his hat and oversized coat.
But the sight of Owen in those shoes hobbling across the floor (obviously only his toes fit in so it was nearly impossible for him to walk!) and listening to them giggle made Tom and I both lose it.
This is what happens when both kids have dirty feet at bedtime.
Gramma to the rescue… Giving them both a quick bath. There was a lot of laughing and shrieking. 🙂
Our last Friday night swim!
Our last swim…and I only got a picture of Katie on a borrowed floatie.
Pool, Day 11: Pizza dinner
Everyone at the pool is really nice—everyone plays catch with Owen (we have no idea who this is but it wasn’t the first time he’s played with it Owen).
Owen pushing a bunch of girls around the pool. 🙂
Playing with Daddy!
Proof I’m actually there!
And tonight we surprised the kids and ordered pizza for dinner at the pool. We do it once a summer…so we had to get it in quick this year.
Screeching flying worms!
So, Gramma Jean had these many years ago when Owen was maybe 2-3 and he hated them! She kept them all this time and brought them down. The first one busted as she was blowing it up. The second one made no noise whatsoever. Then one finally worked.
Wrapped around her finger.Â
I never take Katie in this cart because it’s huge and a pain. But she has daddy wrapped around her finger.
I think she’d stay all day if I let her.Â
As it was, she was in for about an hour today.
Owen’s 8-year well-visit
Yeah, we’re a little late this year. For some reason I was thinking we didn’t have to do yearly visits anymore… I tell you my brain is NOT the same these days. 🙂
The kids kept busy playing I Spy and messing around. I’m not exactly sure what they were doing here but they were having fun! The best part was when they thought they heard someone coming to the room, one would yell POSITIONS! and Katie would run to the chair and Owen would hop up on the table. 🙂
Height: 55″ — was 53″ at 7y
Weight: 85# — was 85# at 7y
Hide & Seek Queen
This is where Owen found Katie. He thought it was so cool he made her hide again and had Gramma come find her. Then Gramma thought it was so clever she made her hide again and had mom and dad come look for her. Of course, she gave herself away with the giggle. 🙂
Then we had her pose for us. 🙂
Gander Mountain Escapades
Happy to be Facetiming with daddy!
Tom is in California for a few days so he tries to talk to the kids when he can. Katie gets positively giddy because she misses him sooooo much.
Crazy Cart Katie with Daddy
Every time we go to the grocery store she asks to ride in the car cart. It’s a big ol’ pain in the ass because it’s so big and awkward so I always say no. But daddy was with us today and he’s a big ol’ pushover. So they played while I shopped. You could hear them halfway across the store, I swear, with as loud as the cart is and her screeching like crazy!
Daddy and Katie shenanigansÂ
Daddy came home early today and that usually means some shenanigans.
Katie wanted to take some pictures…
It kinda looks like I’m strangling Maggie but I promise I wasn’t. 🙂
Higher and higher, we have a happy girl!
Daddy didn’t need to use his iPad.Â
Goofy kids going a bit stir crazy on this rainy 4th.
Other than a nice Saturday, the holiday weekend has otherwise been a bust—it’s been 65° and rainy for two days. Blah. Yes, the kids are still in their PJs at 4pm. 🙂
And a few minutes prior—I came downstairs to see this:
Two silly gooses having fun before swim lessons!
And then I pretended I was taking a picture and got this video:
They’re getting better at this.
I don’t get as worried anymore that he’s going to drop her.
Owen loves texting me.
This is the run of messages I got today. The blue shirt business is because I took a stained blue polo of his and attempted another bag (like the tee I transformed the other day).
And he just giggles and giggles when he’s texting me. 🙂
She loves hats!
We weren’t going anywhere, she just wanted to wear her hats!
Two hats even!
Snow Day 7.5
If you can believe it, we had a 2-hour delay today! On a day that’s supposed to be 63°! I think you could hear the collective gasp throughout the county as the text came in!
Following an assessment of roads and sidewalks throughout the county, despite rising temperatures today, a significant number of sidewalks and crosswalks remain impassable. In order to provide additional daylight for morning travel, including more than 40,000 students that walk to school, all Fairfax County public schools will open two hours late Monday February 1, 2016.
We watched a neighbor kid because his parents had to go to work…and Owen and Katie were in heaven. You’d think we never had friends over before!
