One of Owen’s teammates (surprisingly, there’s not too much of this with his team):
Katie’s same friend was there with her purse—and an Elsa/Anna doll—again today which kitty quickly co-opted as her own. The mom had no problem with it because she was just happy her daughter was sharing. 🙂
Katie off playing with her:
Our little catcher!
Owen’s two at-bats:
It was raining on our way home in the car.
Owen: Everyone has windshield wipers on…except the ones that don’t have windshield wipers.
Katie: I don’t want to be a mermaid.
Me: You don’t?
Katie: No. I just want to be Katie.
As Maggie was at the door for the 40th time today wanting to go outside…
Me: Maggie, you are driving me nuts.
Katie, letting Maggie out: Maggie, you are driving mama nuts.
Mama! Look at me on my tippy toes!
Mamaaaa! I’m wearing your shoes…!
As Owen and I were walking home from the bus stop:
Owen: Mom, I dont want to live here anymore.
Me: Why not?
Owen: This hill makes me tired!
During dnner:
Tom: Owen, what did you do today?Owen: I don’t remember.
Katie, to me: What did you do today?
Me: What did you do?
Katie, matter-of-factly: The iPad. Daniel Tiger.
Owen was so excited to show me his project from art class—I had to stop him from trying to unroll it as we walked home!
Do all moms love their kids’ artwork as much as I do? Or maybe I’m just super excited drew something not video game related. 🙂
Facebook friends saw something else.
I see a ninja turtle.
If that’s not a ninja turtle fighting a giant spider, I’ll be really disappointed.
So I told Owen people thought it was a ninja turtle—thinking he’d be thrilled because he likes ninja turtles—and he said incredulously “It’s a butterfly!” 🙂
Cheyenne and I try to get together at least once a week at either house. Since we have grass and a shade tree, today was here so the kids could play in the water table.
Surprisingly, it took a good half hour before this happened. (Notice the 4″ wood block under the right leg to level it.)
And then this happened.
Look at this cute little bundle! Isn’t he just so stinkin’ cute?! I get my fill of baby time with him…then he goes home with his mom. 🙂
And then the girls found some Frozen birthday party hats (and Cayenne is in Katie’s rain boots). 🙂
Cayenne forgot her flower barrette here so Katie was keeping it safe.
Katie put her own shoes on (the wrong feet) and is doing tippy toes…in a new hand-me-down outfit.
This is literally the only thing on the floor and she HAS to lay on it.
Owen wanted to cuddle with both of us. After we all cuddled, this happened:
She went in to go potty while I was picking out her clothes…when suddenly I heard crying. I ran in there to see this.
She was not happy. But of course I took the extra 10 seconds to snap a pic before helping her out. 🙂 It was only pee water but I figured I’d better at least rinse her off—and she didn’t like that, either.
What a way to start the day. Poor Katie.
I thought we left this insanity behind when we left North Carolina…
I helped with the actual times of things, but he did everything else.
I just can’t resist taking her picture when she’s sleeping. I think I’m making up for not taking as many of her when she was a baby (via the monitor like I did with Owen). 🙂
As we were leaving the restaurant, I saw a rainbow.
Owen was excited to go find the leprechaun and pot of gold! We told him it was very hard to do—daddy and I had never in our whole lives been able to catch one! So of course as we were driving home the rainbow kept moving. 🙂 And then suddenly I noticed that it had moved somewhere I completely didn’t expect it… And it turns out it was the other end of the rainbow! So we could see the entire arc! It wasn’t super bright, but there was actually even a double rainbow on part of it!
We kept “following” it all the way home, and it one point it really looked like the end was on the highway and we were driving through it. And when we got home—surprise! We could still see the whole thing from our driveway!
We got Katie a real bike with training wheels tonight. She did better on that in the aisle then she ever did on either tricycle! (So now I have two tricycles to sell.) I do feel a smidge of guilt for not getting either the Frozen or Doc McStuffins bikes, but those had a premium price ($20 extra).
She also got a purple ladybug helmet. She wanted the pink cat princess with the crown but it was for ages 5+ and was just too big. 🙂
We also got Owen a 20″ bike (up from a 16″) but we need to buy training wheels. He fit on the 18″ bike but the seat was already all the way up! So we’re hoping to future-proof a little bit!
Since we preferred to save $25 per bike, Daddy gets to put them together this weekend!+
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During the game, Katie made a friend with a furry pink purse. She was in HEAVEN carrying that thing around. 🙂
And this is how she came down. As a bonus, she did get the socks!
More hand-me-downs from a neighbor girl. I cannot tell you how much she loves dresses. 🙂
Let’s try again. 🙂
Both kids wanted to go ride bikes. I knew it would be a challenge because Owen has not ridden his bike since last spring before we moved—and at that point he was still just learning and wasn’t that great at it—and because Katie has never successfully ridden either of the tricycles we have for her.
And that was it for Katie. Grand total of time spent on the bike, 95% of it whining that she couldn’t do it while being pushed by daddy? Five minutes. However, she did love running! She spent the rest of the time chasing after Owen or running ahead of him or just randomly through the parking lot. 🙂
Taking a break to stretch…and take a drink.
Owen was a hot mess for most of the time. He’s grown so much that he is really way too big for the bike we have and we obviously didn’t have another one for him so he had to use that one. And it’s been so long since he’s ridden that it was, in essence, starting over from day one. I’m glad Tom was there to deal with it because I DO NOT have the patience. That said, by the end of our time, he had started to get the hang of it again.
So now I’m on the hunt for a cheap used bigger bike.
After bikes, the kids wanted to go to the “playground” even though I knew they hated this playground as it’s not a real playground. It lasted under five minutes.
Owen was excited to use his new bat. He had a bat that Papa had bought him, but he’s grown a lot since then and it was too small—and all the other team bats were really too small as well. Daddy said this bat should last him through actual baseball (if he stays in that long).
(In t-ball, when the last batter hits, you just bring all the runners in.)
We were looking at mistinted paint and I turned back around to see this:
Then while we were outside waiting fir a propane tank exchange, this happened:
For some unknown reason, Owen really wanted me to come to his Friday morning program. So we did. This is some of what happened: getting the sillies out and then dancing along to a video. Owen’s dancing is hilarious.
He says he saw me when he walked in, but I didn’t even get a wave until the very end when they were filing out.
Afterwards we went home, but I had to be back in a few hours for a luncheon the teachers were throwing for the classroom volunteers…and I was going to time it so that we’d be able to go see Owen at lunch!
Katie looking at her pretty headband.
The luncheon was nice. I knew a few people there so we were able to chat for a bit. Katie knows the library well so she kept herself busy playing.
Then it was off to see Owen. Katie loves visiting him. 🙂
Then I heard him say something about he had to do his job at 55. I had no idea what he was talking about…but he kept watching the clock and at 1:55, he started his job: Floor Sweeper! (The other jobs are table washer, line leader, door holder, etc.)
Then it was time to head home…and deal with Katie’s typical tantrum because she desperately wants to play on the playground but I won’t let her whole school is in session (and kids are outside)…
We got Owen’s second period report card today. He did very well, maintaining the majority of scores while actually increasing his score in 25% of the categories! (He only lost a point in one category, which we’re not really concerned with: Demonstrates appropriate skills playing instruments.) So, he has all 4s with a few 3s.
Achievement Levels:
4 – Consistently demonstrates concepts and skills
3 – Usually demonstrates concepts and skills
2 – Sometimes demonstrates concept sand skills
1- Seldom demonstrates concepts and skills
This was his reaction when we told him he did a good job—followed by throwing his fists in the air!
She doesn’t want to move when I need to change Katie’s diaper. She used to, but not anymore.
I literally had to push Charlie out of the way in order to have room to lay Katie down. If you look closely, you can see Charlie’s tail poking out at Katie’s waist.
Katie got hold of the tail. 🙂
Charlie really relaxing—stretching her leg out on top of Katie.
I helped a bit with the idea, but all the spelling is his.
Since they were soaking wet from the water table, I just had them go straight into the bath.
We tossed their old water table when we moved since it was old and gross. We managed to get by last summer without one, but I know the kids missed it. So I got another (actually identical) one. And both of them LOVE it.
Katie got to play first as Owen was still at school.
But as soon as Owen got home, they were right back out there.
A bunch of classes from Owen’s school went to The National Zoo today. I really wanted to experience it with him (and—who am I kidding?—be there to document it) but I would have had to take Katie and then it wouldn’t have been quite as fun since I’d be corralling her the majority of the time.
When he got home I asked about it, and this was what I got.
