She licks all the frosting of and then eats the cupcake.
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Katie’s turn on the video camera
The only help I get.
Of course they both say they’re going to help make cupcakes, but this is about all they do. 🙂
Dancing at baseball practice
Tom wasn’t home in time to take Owen to baseball practice so I had to take Katie. She didn’t want to use the iPad…but wanted to dance! We really need to get her in a dance class soon!!
Katie’s Barbie reward
After our initial potty-training experience went well, we’d been having a rough few weeks with Katie having wet underwear A LOT. So we decided a bribe was in order.
She found a Barbie she wanted at Walmart and she had to be dry for seven days to get it. We put up a chart and she put her daily stickers on…and damned if she didn’t do it the first try!
The kids discovered the motion-detector camera this morning.
We have a new video-monitoring system in the house that has motion-detecting cameras. Since I’ve been wanting to keep track of Katie after I put her to bed (she’s been getting out of bed this week), I moved one of the cameras to the upstairs hallway.
These are the videos it recorded this morning. They didn’t know it was recording them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34GQkpbOYyE
This is how Katie does bingo.
She can’t quite play for real yet so this is what she does while Owen and I play.
Minecraft Story Mode
Owen was so excited to show me this story he wrote today.
Once there was a boy named Steve.
He was mining at night and zombies
came hunting after him and Creepers
came out too. And he found a village.
Throwback Thursday—One of my all-time favorite Owen pictures.
From 2010…
We donated a new Box Tops collection container!
At the last PTO meeting I went to, the principal mentioned that the current Box Tops display was getting a little ragged and needed to be fixed again. The Box Tops coordinator said she had tried to find a replacement but the company no longer offers them for sale. I immediately got the idea to see if we (me and Tom) could fix it—like maybe Tom could build the same thing but out of wood to make it more sturdy…
But once I got home and dove into Pinterest, I had better ideas! Once I got the okay from the principal and we actually decided what we were doing, it didn’t take too long. We ordered a mailbox from Amazon and Tom used wood that we already had…and this was born.
Once Tom got it painted and I got done designing the sticker and logo placements (a chore in itself considering how anal I am about this stuff and how perfect I wanted it to be), it looked damn good if I do say so myself.
So this morning I delivered it to the school.
And here it is right when you walk in the school. 🙂
(Jamey Chianetta is the principal.)
So now there will be a small part of our family at Halley for many years to come, even after we’re gone. 🙂
Owen’s note for daddy
Owen wrote this for Tom before I got up today.
I miss you and Katie misses you too we love you dad. Love Owen & Katie to dad
How you wear a hat when it’s 28° but you’ve spiked your hair.
Charlie gets a dual checkup
December photos are online!
Katie is 3 years 6 months…and 1 day old.
Yep, I forgot yesterday. 🙂
BEFORE & AFTER SILLINESS
Cuddling with Daddy
Helping me change her sheets.
She actually did very well…probably better than Owen, actually. 🙂
She wanted to watch TV in our room.
I had stuff to do in her room so I allowed it. 🙂
She had to tuck in her barbie.
Lil’ Headbanger. Kinda.
Perfect song for it, but not quite headbanging. But still cute. 🙂
Three sounds Owen likes to hear.
You can tell our house is full of technology: Xbox, iPad, and Alexa. 🙂
WANTED: The Grinch
This came home from school today.
TRANSLATION:
WANTED: The Grinch has
a dog Max. He is green. He acts mean. He stole Christmas.
He has green fur and he is mean he is not nice.
He does not like Christmas. I am looking for him because
he is mean. He has stinky breath.
If you see him please call Owen at school 800-555-1000.
First grade school picture!
Once again, Owen rocked his school picture! I love this kid! (I would have preferred a blue background, but you had to pay extra for that!)
And his first three years (the fall pictures only):
And if you include the spring pictures as well:
Are you sensing a trend in the outfits I pick? 🙂 I can’t wait to see how many years I can do it!
One wear only + dust catching
I was packing up clothes to go back to the Beson cousins and realized she hadn’t worn this dress! So, we changed outfits so I could snap a few pictures. Of course, she had no issues putting on a dress!
Uncle Rob was behind me, hence the funny face.
Catching dust!
Super gecko muscles!
Yeah, I don’t know, either. That’s a 6yo boy for you. 🙂
I bought these new footie PJs at Target today (and actually washed them!) so he found them when he got home. I wish you could see the hoodie—it’s got Dino spikes on it! Anyhoo, he put it on and I think daddy or Uncle Rob called him a gecko and then Owen came up with the super gecko muscles bit.
Kidisms 22
Owen was working on Legos at the table. I heard a piece hit the floor.
Me: Something just hit the floor.
Owen: Not something. Someone. [Smartass grin]
Tom was tickling Owen before bedtime.
Owen: Stop, you’re making me wild!
Uncle Rob: Owen, watch your Legos.
Owen: Why, are they going to run away?
Katie and Owen were playing catch with her new baseball mitt.
Katie: Owen caught my ball into my mitten!
Tom and Rob were speaking with an English accent.
Owen: Stop speaking Harry Potter!
A cat in Katie’s house.
So this happened while I was cleaning out their toys and rearranging things.
We’re REALLY ready to have our minivan back.
The dealership has been a comedy of errors trying to get our van fixed. So, we still have the rental Highlander.
And we didn’t even think when grabbing a 5′ plastic storage bin at Walmart…yeah…no room in the car! Well, no easy room. This is how we had to get it home.
She still loves the Elsa hat.
She wears it randomly all day long—along with the Anna hat, too.
Owen’s Ramadan lantern
They studied all the holidays and did art projects for most of them. It came home days ago but we’re just getting a picture today.
Legos with Uncle Rob
