Friday: “Unity Day!” Wear our Halley spirit wear/ school colors (black/yellow).
I completely forgot to take a picture, but I did snap this one as they were playing Minecraft together. 🙂
Category Archives: Kids
Katie singing Jingle Bells
Throwback Thursday—This day exactly.
12-10-2009
12-10-2011 (I was about two months pregnant with Katie and feeling yucky.)
Katie is 3 years 5 months old today!
Inclusive Schools Week—Blue Day
Thursday: “I am Blue-tiful” Day!” Wear blue.
Morning Dancing
They were eating breakfast when this song came on and both of them had to get up and dance!
Inclusive Schools Week—Hat Day
I missed a picture on Tuesday: “We are all UNIQUE!” Wear crazy socks to express yourself. Owen wore my sushi socks. 🙂
Wednesday: “Hats off to inclusion!” Wear a favorite hat. Also, for Owen, picture retake day.
Pure joy.
“I’m doing it all by myself! I’m going high!” (She swings by herself the entire 20 minutes I do my walk around the playground!)
And then when I was done and pushed her higher: “YEAH BABY! That’s what I’m talkin’ about!”
A quick visit to Owen’s classroom.
Long story short, he had been missing his daily folder (we’d looked everywhere) so since I had to drop off some stuff at the school, I took him to school and had him search his classroom. We didn’t find it, but he enjoyed showing me a few things in the room.
The treat bag they all decorated—they get small treats at the end of the day if they had good behavior.
I liked this and am going to start using it at home—it’s one of Owen’s major issues when writing!
They had to do an acrostic poem:
Oreos are my favorite
West Virginia football team is not my fav
Eating chicken is my fav
New Years Eves is my fav
Hugs are my favorite
U_____ is cool (he doesn’t even know what this is)
Duny [Dunia] is my friend
Summer is fun
Olives are not my favorite
Nuts are yummy
I promised her we’d go see the train.
We have seen the train at Wegman’s twice—the last time being months and months ago. Yet she remembers. We were out running errands today and she was being really good so I told her we’d stop and see the train. She literally started running through the aisles as soon as she saw it!
Inclusive Schools Week—Wear a bow/tie
Technically it’s National Inclusive Schools Week but for basic conversation, it’s a type of spirit week. 🙂
Inclusive Schools Week is an annual event sponsored by the Inclusive Schools Network (ISN) and Stetson & Associates, Inc., which is held each year during the first full week in December. Since its inception in 2001, Inclusive Schools Week has celebrated the progress that schools have made in providing a supportive and quality education to an increasingly diverse student population, including students who are marginalized due to disability, gender, socio-economic status, cultural heritage, language preference and other factors. The Week also provides an important opportunity for educators, students and parents to discuss what else needs to be done in order to ensure that their schools continue to improve their ability to successfully educate all children.
Monday: “Your talents are a gift!” Wear a bow tie or bow to show what a gift you are to our school.
Katie’s first hibachi!
We had errands to run after swim lessons then we were hungry so we found a coupon for a hibachi place. Owen had been to one years ago but this was Katie’s first time.
She liked the chop sticks.
She was freaked out by the first big shot of flames (which of course they START with) but overall she thought it was cool.
Of course she didn’t like ANYTHING on her plate.
He liked all the showy stuff; tried the soup, salad, shrimp, and scallops (the soup and salad were okay, he didn’t like the others); and actually ate quite a bit of his chicken and rice. He decided he liked Tom’s filet better than his chicken so he wants that next time. 🙂
Trying to get a pic of my swimmers
Cookies with Santa
The local high school hosted a huge craft fair that I wanted to check out (we missed it last year) and they also had a “Cookies with Santa” portion that we wanted to take the kids to. We got to the North Pole shortly after it opened so we didn’t have to wait too long. While daddy held our place in line, the kids worked on bead candy canes:
Can you guess which was Owen’s and which was Katie’s? 🙂
Santa! (They had someone taking pictures, but it wasn’t anything really posed or official—she was just off to the side snapping so we had NO idea what we would get. I was taking pics the whole time.) Katie wasn’t eager to sit with Santa, but she didn’t turn away…and she talked to him but didn’t get excited about the hug.
Owen’s turn! He’s too big for Santa’s lap!
At the end we had Katie go back up. I snapped about six quick pics and this one actually turned out great!
This was one of the ones the student elf took—I was impressed that it turned out as well:
On the way out, Katie decided she wanted to make antlers:
Zerberts and twirling
Kidisms 19
I love Owen’s phonetic spelling attempts. Zebras? Z-E-B-R-E-R-U-S
Owen got home from school.
Katie: Daddy, come down. Owen’s in the house now.
I was cooking in the kitchen, making a marinade with honey.
Katie: Is that syrup?
Me: No, it’s honey.
Katie: I love honey.
Me: You do?
Katie: Yes.
Me: Are you sure?
Katie: Yes!
I gave her some to taste. She makes a face.
Me: You don’t like it, do you?
Katie, shaking her head: NO.
Owen: Mom, when Katie is older and gives birth?
Me: Yes? [Intrigued as to where this is going to go.]
Owen: I’ll let my kids stay up until 9:30.
Sparty green day!
Even Maggie!
Gov. Snyder proclaims Friday ‘Spartan Green Day’
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has proclaimed Friday as “Spartan Green Day” in honor of the No. 5 Michigan State football team.
The celebratory day in Michigan is one day before the Spartans play No. 4 Iowa in the Big Ten championship in Indianapolis.
Spirit Friday—Decades
It was Through the Decades at school today. I don’t have much of an imagination so we did an 80s collar and pegged jeans.
From Owen’s schoolwork that got sent home last night…
I’ll include Translations/text where I think it’s necessary (after the picture so you can take your best guess first). 🙂
It cant be 4 becue [because] it is to smll it can’t be 400 because it is to big it has to be 40 becuse it is just riet.
There are 6 basketballs. There are 3 playground balls. How many balls are they in all?
I want to go to Furarse [France]. (And then he’s talking to the Frase [French] guy.])
I went trick-or-treating in Michigan i was harry poter my sis was rapunzul for Hallowen.
I am thankful for my mom and dad because they take care of me.
I am thankful for…my mom she is nice and my dad he is responsible for his work. School it is cool. Football is great.
Some art of the back of his schoolwork:
Learning capitalization (I love that they’re learning actual proof marks!):
hide somewhere in the farm. You should play a trick on the farmer. You should make a robot turkey. You should stay away from the farmer.
1. I maked a cake for somwones birday.
2. I jump so higi [high].
3. I am litte [little].
4. I am so funny.
He loved the birthday sleepover he went to:
I went to a sleepover it was so fun! I had a deleshos berekfest [delicious breakfast]. I had pancas wih wit crem and serep [pancakes with whipped cream and syrup].
He loved this birthday party, too!
I had a birday praty it was fun it was ethten and teegan and lemie’s [Liam’s] Birday. it had a Ball pip and a playhouse.
Traditions: This is us decorating the Christmas tree, complete with the reindeer on the top!
- First, you refrost [defrost] in the refuregeer [refrigerator] and rehetets [preheat? reheated?] the oven.
- Next, you shod reed the directions. and ingredients.
- Then, you shod cook the turkey
- Finally, you can eat the turkey!
His favorite thing? He likes to go shopping at Costco. “They have so much stuff.” Complete with the Halloween Cheetos display. (I’m guessing we had just been to Costco when this was assigned!)
Typical Lego mini-build
Start—5:20pm
Finish—5:23pm
“Let me get a picture.”
“Owen, look at me.”
“Look at me!”
“Look at me!”
“OWEN! Right here! Look at me!” 🙂
I love my sweet boy.
Owen drew a big picture for his new friend he made at Thanksgiving. This is the outside:
To: Westin
From: Owen Hudson
I miss you. We had lots of fun. Thank you for inviting us for Thanksgiving Dinner.
Two in a coat.
I wore this coat while I was pregnant with Owen so thought it was appropriate that we still fit in it together. 🙂
Yep. It’s just a big, new bed.
When I came downstairs this morning, Katie excitedly told me that Charlie had been sleeping under the tree.
Nutcracker!
I saw a link on Facebook for VetTix so went to check it out—and ended up getting free tickets for the Nutcracker! (If you are Currently Serving or a Veteran use my link to sign up and earn 15 coins!)
I had never seen the Nutcracker before, so it was going to be a new experience for me, as well (Tom had seen it many, many years ago). Once we told the kids and told Katie she was going to see ballerinas, she was ALL IN. Of course, she wanted to wear a ballerina-esque dress. I didn’t bring out any of her actual ballerina outfits because I am 100% sure she would have chosen that. As it was, this was a brand new dress so she was VERY excited.
I’m thankful I read the synopsis beforehand because otherwise I would have been completely lost. As it was, I was still a little confused, and was surprised there wasn’t more actual ballet. Both kids did very, very well considering the first act was an hour long. After Katie took a bathroom break, she said she wanted to dance, so I told her to go right ahead…and then daddy and Owen came back from their bathroom break and she danced in the aisle!
The second half had MUCH more ballet than the first and was more impressive…and Katie was entranced, sitting on the edge of her seat for almost the whole thing. I, on the other hand, learned that ballet is really not my thing. But overall it was a nice afternoon out yet away from any hustle and bustle of Black Friday!
Time to decorate!
The kids were super excited about putting the tree up (since the bag had been sitting in the living room for a whole day)!
Owen was excited when I handed him two bags of Christmas Legos! He had forgotten about them!
Katie’s placement of her first three ornaments:
They were both really good helpers and I didn’t even have to help them much! Yay! And my OCD-tendencies don’t bother me at all—I don’t much care where the ornaments end up!
Hey! I can’t see!
Taking Katie bug to bed…
I don’t think this is nearly enough food.
We were invited to a friends’ house for Thanksgiving. She and her other guests cook in quantity like we do…so there wasn’t quite enough food for six adults and nine kids. 🙂
Katie’s dinner? A roll, crackers, and cheese. For dessert she tried pumpkin pie, said she liked it, then proceeded to eat just the whipped cream.
Owen’s dinner? A roll, ham, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie with whipped cream.
I did really well overall. I splurged on two glasses of wine throughout the evening…and it was deeelicious. (I haven’t had a glass of wine in probably four months.) Foodwise:
- 1oz deep-fried pork loin
- 1/2oz smoked turkey
- about 3T each of Easter/funeral potatoes, cornbread stuffing, sweet potato casserole, and smoked corn casserole
- 2 deviled eggs
- 1 small Hawaiian roll
Dessert was cheesecake. I took a full slice intending to eat the whole thing dammit. And then about halfway through I said “This doesn’t even taste good anymore.” And that was that. Voodoo. 🙂
This is what she picked to wear. And she was damn cute. 🙂
The kids all had fun playing and the adults ended up watching Planes, Trains and Automobiles. 🙂
Yep, he’s a photog’s kid.
He was sitting there looking totally cute so I grabbed my phone, asked him to smile, and I instantly got this:
A turkey came home today!
Abe made Thanksgiving. (Well, technically, Thankging.) 🙂 I asked what Abe was. “It’s short for Abraham Lincoln.”
We celebrate Thanksgiving because it is special.
Thanksgiving is nice for people.
Just a quick shot before school.
