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Katie at my dentist!

Posted on May 18, 2015 @ 11:00 am by Jen — No Comments ↓

Katie was amazing at the dentist today during my appointment! Terribly cute, too. 🙂

Sunday morning iPad

Posted on May 17, 2015 @ 7:40 am by Jen — No Comments ↓

Katie loves her some Emily. 🙂

Like mama, like Katie

Posted on April 15, 2015 @ 6:50 pm by Jen — No Comments ↓

I was holding my phone up to take our picture, so she was holding up her phone, too. 🙂

Haircut, Katie, and cool spoons with ice cream!

Posted on March 18, 2015 @ 8:16 pm by Jen — 1 Comment ↓

Okay, a bit of randomness that I didn’t feel like composing separate posts about… 🙂

We decided to give Owen a haircut. We had asked him before we left if he wanted it cut or if he wanted to try and grow it out (with the condition that if he wanted to grow it out, he had to let me put gel in it for school) and he said yes, he wanted to grow it out. Okay, fine. Fast forward a few days and he decided yes, he wanted it short. That was fine by me, so Tom cut it. I didn’t get an actual after picture, but stay tuned until later in this post.

More cool color-changing silverware from Grannie Lin!

And notice the haircut!

And notice Katie in her ballet shoes that she HAD to put on after her bath. 🙂

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Showing Gramma Jean how to play a game

Posted on March 17, 2015 @ 8:22 pm by Jen — No Comments ↓

Trying to get Katie to smile for a picture…

iPad cousin buddies, Part 2

Posted on March 15, 2015 @ 4:00 pm by Jen — No Comments ↓

iPad cousin buddies

Posted on March 15, 2015 @ 9:26 am by Jen — No Comments ↓

How Katie watches the iPad.

Posted on March 8, 2015 @ 1:35 pm by Jen — No Comments ↓

Sometimes I think we have too much tech.

Posted on February 17, 2015 @ 7:45 pm by Jen — No Comments ↓

I walked by the couch and saw this. And this is missing my and Tom’s phones. And the actual computer contingent of desktops and laptops.

Opening presents via Skype, part 3!

Posted on December 23, 2014 @ 5:10 pm by Jen — No Comments ↓

Tonight was presents with Gramma Jean and Grandpa David!

The kids loved everything, but Katie really loved her Olaf hat and tea set (they’re having a tea party in the picture) and Owen picked the Magformers as his favorite! We ALL loved Owen’s MSU PJs and he was thrilled with his Lego Movie PJs, too!

Opening presents via Skype, part 2!

Posted on December 21, 2014 @ 12:00 pm by Jen — No Comments ↓

Today we opened presents from Grauntie Marge!

They got to see Katie dance around with her dolly in their new matching outfits (I didn’t get a picture of it because they were watching live and I can’t take pictures at the same time!).

And Katie loved her new Frozen sheets!

And Owen LOVED his Robot Turtles game. We watched some videos online about how to play, then we played, and after we put it away he kept running around the house playing a full-sized version. 🙂

Opening presents via Skype!

Posted on December 20, 2014 @ 2:20 pm by Jen — No Comments ↓

It’s at times like this that I love technology!

Tom’s world shattered at Home Depot.

Posted on December 20, 2014 @ 11:15 am by Jen — 4 Comments ↓

This is what can happen if you are hurrying in the bathroom and aren’t paying attention.

He has been wanting a new phone but didn’t want to spend the money on the newest upgrade…so we headed directly to the Apple store to see about getting the glass fixed. Unfortunately the fix was almost half the price of upgrading to the newest phone so he just upgraded.

Merry Christmas to him!

We definitely have techy kids.

Posted on December 20, 2014 @ 7:40 am by Jen — No Comments ↓

Hanging with Owen

Posted on November 2, 2014 @ 9:45 am by Jen — No Comments ↓

Owen has two days off for teacher prep/conferences.

Katie showing Papa the iPad

Posted on October 21, 2014 @ 6:50 pm by Jen — No Comments ↓

Miss Smartypants

Posted on September 6, 2014 @ 2:57 pm by Jen — No Comments ↓

I have a Kindergarten app on the iPad that was for Owen but he’s way beyond it now, so I tried it with Katie. I was amazed at the stuff she knew (nouns).

ABCMouse Level 4 Graduation

Posted on August 31, 2014 @ 12:35 pm by Jen — No Comments ↓

He has had an on again off again enjoyment of ABCMouse this summer, but lately he’s been ON again so he’s almost finished with Level 4. We told him he’d get a prize if he finished the level before school started…and as he saw his percentage complete increase, he got more and more excited. Earlier in the week he was at 77%. Today he was at 99%.

And then moments later…

Congratulations, Owen!

I never get tired of finding this.

Posted on August 19, 2014 @ 11:30 am by Jen — 1 Comment ↓

Two going on…12?! It feels like I can see the future.

Posted on August 14, 2014 @ 10:40 am by Jen — No Comments ↓

I think he’s teaching himself to read.

Posted on August 11, 2014 @ 9:13 am by Jen — 1 Comment ↓

Because we certainly aren’t doing much with him—he rarely wants to read books with us anymore and I don’t see him ever reading books…but the other night, I opened a sight words app on the iPad just to see if he knew any…and he BLEW through most of them with ease:

run up can she the you he red go my this like
look and said move to come is play will big
on funny little ran good of are three down not
one have away at saw yellow here

So then I opened another sight words app that actually had sentences…and he got most of them right, too. Sentences like:

Do you want to play with me?
I saw Santa Claus.
The girl gave the kitten a hug.
I know how to cut paper.
I don’t like to drink milk.
My toy is here.
The rabbit will eat the grass.
What shall we eat this morning?
My dog ran away.

Of course he had a few stumbles on some words, but overall he impressed the shit out of me. (The app gives grade levels for the sight words/sentences and there were a variety of K-third grade level.)

How is he doing this? He mostly plays games on the iPad but we do make him do ABCMouse—so is the 15 minutes a day he’s been doing that responsible?! We’re just flummoxed.