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Woodland Spirit Week Day 3
I can’t believe I couldn’t get one with her eyes open!
So I got one by herself!
Woodland Spirit Week Day 2
Day 1 was PJ day for Owen and the color green for Katie. I didn’t get a pic before he left and she wanted to wear her pink hip hop outfit… Day 2 went a little better with sports day for Owen and the color white for Katie.
We don’t have many white clothes since they get dirty too easily, but this was the gym shirt I made for her before learning she didn’t need one. 🙂
Our little hip hopper!
Katie and Sophia are taking Hip Hop and are super excited about it.
Warming up!
Owen loved watching Katie!
Freestyling at the end of class!
There’s that goofy face.
And the drawing he did at school today that he was very proud of that he wanted me to take a picture of.
They wanted a campfire.
Guess how long they sat there? Yep, just long enough for me to request a picture and eat one toasted marshmallow.
Owen and mom shoot arrows!
Practicing their positioning and stance.
During the last five minutes of class the parents were invited to shoot. Owen immediately wanted me to try and I totally wanted to! I initially grabbed and held the bow the wrong way and Owen helped me out. As I typically do, I had beginners luck and hit the board on my very first shot…then missed the next four (but only by a smidge). It was fun!
She actually sleeps in sometimes!
Katie is pawsome!
And this was in the class’ weekly newsletter.
You’d never know they were two little drama queens.
Katie loves the ATV, too!
Of course as soon as I tried to get a video of her she stopped riding.
Our very first note from the nurse.
Katie got bonked on the nose on the playground.
Sophia before school!
Sophia comes down before school a few days a week since her brother has to get to preschool at the same time and they can’t be in two places at once. Katie thinks it’s playtime but we literally only have five minutes so I had them wait on the porch. 🙂
The baby is going to school.
Katie set up the lunchbox and baby saying they were going to school.
Daddy at the bus stop!
Since he was home, he came to surprise Katie at the bus stop! She loved it, of course!
Sometimes I have to sneak a peek.
#honestfacebooking #parentingsucks
Yeah. So today was supposed to be mostly fun with the kids. But I asked them to pick up their rooms first (while Tom was at work for a bit) and you’d have thought the world ended. The amount of rudeness and sass and disrespect that came out of their mouths was unbelievable. They’ve already lost today’s planned bike ride and they’ve been threatened with losing all their yet-unpacked boxes of toys. #imdone #parentingsucks #arewehavingfunyet #honestfacebooking #tellmeimnotalone
Owen being Owen
That is a back support for a chair that had been unpacked and just sitting there. So of course it became a hat.
Cat cuddles and kid cuddles
Half-time break!
Maggie loves the front yard!
She especially loves being out with us.
Sparty’s opening day means…
Owen is trying archery!
We let him choose what class he wanted to take at the community center and he decided on archery!
Our first family cuddle here!
I think he loves his ATV.
Remember me saying we wanted to try to give the kids experiences instead of stuff? Yeah, well, we also agreed that bigger things instead of lots of little junky stuff would be good, too…so we let Owen decide if he wanted to spend his birthday money to pay half of an ATV. (We had wanted to get them the power wheels but Owen is too big. A neighbor has an electric ATV that Owen loved so that’s how we got the idea.) He immediately agreed so he gave us all of his remaining birthday gift cards and still owes us about $100.
He was ABSOLUTELY GIDDY.
Unfortunately, it arrived like this so Tom had some work to do.
Checking out mom’s shades.
This is how she was playing outside before school.
The school gang.
They ride separate buses but arrive at about the same time so everyone is always at the stop together—or at least together in Stacey’s yard as we all head to our houses.
Shirt Twins!
The shirts say “We go together like macaroni and cheese.” I couldn’t resist buying them—they were perfect plus they were on clearance.
The neighborhood squad car wash.
