Category Archives: Playing
Lego sorting day!
After we sorted them all, we had a few battles (swords and knives vs. guns and lasers, ditto, ditto, girls vs. boys) and played with Gramma Jean.
Hi-yah!
Out of nowhere, Katie picked up Owen’s sword:
Enjoying a warm December day.
And on poop patrol:
Sibling Blocks
She does help build sometimes, but she likes destroying more. 🙂
Happy Girl
Sporty girl! With a bear! And a flower!
In a new 3T outfit borrowed from the Beson cousins! It’s too big, but we don’t have 2T winter clothes like I thought we did…so this will do for now!
Bringing out the bear!
They often play on the bear in Owen’s room, so he brought it downstairs tonight! Oh what fun they had!
Katie is there behind Owen. He’s got his face in hers. 🙂
Owen loves jumping into the bear. He usually says “To infinity and beyond!” (thanks to watching Toy Story and Toy Story 2 recently)! I caught him mid-jump!
She loves the ball popper!
Someone discovered the presents!
It’s sunny so we’re outside!
Working hard—her tongue is out. 🙂
Notice her muddy fingers. She likes to scoop up fallen pine needles and carry them around.
Here, have a leaf!
No I don’t get too terribly nervous about the four-foot drop.
Play date!
Owen and I went to the movies this morning (Frozen!) with friends of ours that are moving next week—Ruth (the one who helped me put up the lights and tree) and her daughter! We’re really going to miss them… Owen did pretty well at the movie—it was a sensory-friendly version which I don’t think he really needs anymore, but it’s at least $3pp less so we do go once in awhile. I think with the lights up and the sound down, he is actually more fidgety and doesn’t get as involved. I know I don’t get as involved because I hear the constant murmuring of all the other kids that aren’t paying attention and talking and running about…
But anyway, after the movie, they came over for sushi lunch (well, the kids had pizza bagels!) and then we went outside. Ruth just happened to have a pink baby swing in her car that she was getting rid of, so we hung it up! (I actually had one I hadn’t put up yet, so I just traded her for the pink one!) Katie liked it. Not loved it, but liked it. For a few minutes. 🙂
Owen getting tackled! He LOVED every second of it and was having a ball. He kept saying “Emily! I’m over here! Come get me!”
Emily tackling and then Katie attacking Owen once he was down!
Then he wanted to play Candyland so we got it set up and just let them play while we were in the other room talking. It apparently went well and soon we heard Owen saying “Congratulations!” 🙂
Where’s Katie? Peek!
She loves being outside!
Carrying her spoon and bucket. 🙂
Ornaments she can play with!
I got out the bag of stitched ornaments that my Grandma Smith made (and got passed down to me after she died). I figured Katie couldn’t really hurt them…and she LOVED them. Getting them out of the bag, putting them back…tongue out the whole time, working hard.
Katie and the wipes
We had an old pack of wipes floating around that she’s been playing with. I noticed today she finally actually got it open… And you can see that she knows how to blow her nose!
The things she does…
So I don’t pick up stuff as often as I should, so for about a week now, there’s been a laundry basket in the living room with odds and ends in it that need to be put away. For some reason, there’s a changing pad in there…which Katie pulled out today. I didn’t pay much attention because, honestly, she’s ALWAYS into something…but when I looked up, I saw this:
She had opened it and was laying on it, playing with an ornament…
A Santa hat this time…
I put it on her normal and then she pulls it to do this:
The bear again…and hat fun.
She stole the bear off the tree again! She thinks I won’t care because she’s kissing it like I asked her to. 🙂
You put a hat on her and this happens:
This is what we do on an unseasonably warm day.
It was 80° today so I got the water table ready as a surprise for after school.
The deck was dry before they started. Katie did most of it.
Soaked girl.
Phone Fun and a New Outfit
Owenisms 31
Owen: Mama! Watch me! He runs around the living room moving his feet really fast.
Me: Wow, that’s fancy!
Owen: Yes! Do you know where I learned it?
Me: No.
Owen: Galloping school!
Me: Galloping school?
Owen: Yes, next door to my school!
Owen just came up to me and said “You don’t smell like the queen.” I had to think a minute. Oh! Yes. He was quoting A Bug’s Life. 🙂 Then he says “You smell like a mom.”
Our neighbors put up their Christmas lights. Owen noticed them at night when they were all lit up.
Owen: Mama, look!
Me: I know—aren’t their lights pretty?
Owen: Yes! Mama, when are you going to put our lights up?
I hung the stockings while Owen was at school today so told him there was a surprise for him at home.
Owen: What is it?
Me: Go look around.
Owen: THE STOCKINGS!!
Me: Is that a good surprise?
Owen: Yes. Where are the two reindeer?
Man he has a good memory. I usually put out two silver reindeer…and he knew they were missing!
Me: They’re still in the garage.
Owen: Mama, you have to put them out.
Surprise mystery trip!
I had dropped Maggie off at the groomers so we had about 45 minutes to waste after picking Owen up so I had planned to take them to the playground.
Me: Owen, we’re going on a surprise mystery trip!
Owen: TO THE BEACH?!
Me: No.
Owen: To the mall?
Me: No. Just wait. We’ll be there in a minute.
In line at the light to turn, he knows where we are!
Owen: THE PLAYGROUND!
He’s now tall enough to reach the bar without jumping! It was just this summer when he couldn’t reach!
Outside and loving it!
The cold weather hasn’t been great to play outside since both kids have coughs (that get worse in the cold) but today warmed up a bit so out we went. Katie was happy!!
“Playing rocks” as Owen says.
More sword fighting
With Aquazookas this time. 🙂
Sword fight!
It took about 50 pictures to capture this without blurriness—they were having a blast!
Laundry Basketball
Owen never did this.
Yes, she’s certainly going to be my little troublemaker.
Unsnapped, unzipped, and more than half off when I walked in to get her this morning.
Cold doesn’t stop them.
Whatcha doin’?
He’s doing something that’s making noise so she has to be right up there. (He’s practicing writing letters on the iPad.)
