We were at the library yesterday and Kacen was walking at story time. It of course helped that the theme of story time was "listen", the other children had instruments that he wanted. So he walked to each child trying to take their instruments. His own was not good enough :}So Cute. And then I tried to record him today, it worked! He went right for the maracas! And my batteries to my camera cut out right when he fell, perfect timing.
Over Thanksgiving weekend I lost my drivers license, I am afraid that I will need to get a new one. Thanksgiving was good. We stayed at my sisters and watched "Santa Clause 3" and "License to Wed". Abbi went and stayed the night at Grandma's house all by herself, she seemed to have lots of fun. I am glad she was able to enjoy that. Alona was fine staying at Aunt Crystal's playing with her two boy cousins. Kacen went to bed some time around one and woke up a little after 3:00 a.m., so I decided to go to the day after Thanksgiving sales. I went to Kohls, got there twenty minutes after it opened, looked around for about half an hour and then stood in line for two hours! Kacen was really good while there and really awake and alert. He enjoyed playing with things along the aisles and wandering off into the clothing racks, he would laugh as he ran away. They had everything half off or more! It was awesome. I got away with some bead blocks for Kacen and a Tonka Truck thet talks and Elmo and Grover cars, oh yeah a "Cars" rug that will go on his floor and it came with two cars to go on it. Abbi will be getting her Dora "Bike" and a piggy by fisher price and a my little pony. Alona her cash register, a my little pony and a dora toy. The girls get Christmas dresses and I got them all character plate, spoon, silverware sets. Hopefully I can find Kacen a Christmas outfit. Thank you to our anonymous helper this season!! We LOVE YOU!
I got back a little after 7:30 and Alona was still asleep. After breakfast I took my sister's kids and mine to Toys R US to look around while she went Christmas shopping. She was able to do a lot without her kids, even get home and put her loot away.
30 November, 2007
17 November, 2007
its been a while
Paul and the girls made snowmen ornaments yesterday. They turned out really cute and they all enjoyed their time doing it. Shaking the snowmen afterwards was probably one of the more fun parts.
Alona pretended her "baby snowman" was sleeping and kept shushing her brother and sister.
I tried taking pictures of the crafts that I did today at church, but my camera batteries died on me. There are six blocks and different sayings when you turn the blocks. It says Christ, Santa Joy and I was thinking of adding Noel on to one of the sides of them. On the side that has Santa Claus there is a red and white striped candy cane on the end and the one with Joy there are two white snowflakes, one on each end. The blocks are red and green with white lettering. And I shall be working on a Christmas tree skirt crocheted from ripped up fabric. We rearranged furniture too, I love how our living room is more open.
Kacen is weaned. And now he takes a bottle. I would have never guessed that would have happened. Alona went to library kids Jr. at the library this week, she went there kicking and screaming and came out not wanting to leave. She enjoyed making her crepe paper turkey.(its really cute)
We were playing in the sand box and making "Ice Cream". Abbi puts on her toppings and tells me, "this is just pretend" ! We were just pretending to make and eat ice cream. She was so aware of this and wanted me to be too.
Paul got a raise! Which of course included a promotion. This is the first time ever that he will be working Sundays, long story. I am so proud of him waking up for school this week! Helping out and really being there for me.
08 November, 2007
07 November, 2007
Baby Birthday Books
Today was definitely a test of patience...
We woke up got ready and the girls wanted to read books before we left for the store. So we read a few books! And then I went to go start the car to move it out of the way for the van to barrel through the driveway. And the car wouldn't even turn over. I really did try my best, but ended up getting Paul up, he got it revin with only two tries! So he gets out and I ask him, "so whats your trick?" "The ignition's broken!" Well I certainly don't feel incompetent about not getting the car started knowing that.
So Paul went back and layed down while the children were in the kitchen and I moved the car. I ran across the street and started up the van, left it running and came inside to get the kids. Lo and Behold I came in the front door only to find my children covered in RED!
"Mom, Mom! Abbi put paint all over!" Alona lets me know when things happen. Kacen's head was covered in red paint meant for decorating faces for Halloween , Alona and Abbi's clothes were caked. I picked up Kacen and took him to the bathroom sink. Rubbed him down with baby shampoo and ran the tepid water. Tipping his head back I scrubbed and rinsed his head until the shampoo ran all out of his hair and then added two more layers of shampoo one at a time until the water from off his head ran clear and was no longer red or pink. Even though it ran clear, his head was RED!
We get to the store, what do you know child #2 has wet pants, no I don't have a change of clothes, silly me. The cart strolled past the bakery, "Mom, I want a FREE cookie." "We are having these free samples of apple pie",I tell them. "This is gross", "I don't like it", "Yuck!", simultaneous reactions from two of my children that vocalize quite well. So I find a garbage can located in the bakery and they proceed to spit out the partially chewed pie. We keep walking, " I want a donut! Just one donut!" They proceed with the I wants throughout the store(of course), they don't want to be in the cart any longer and so they are informed of where they can safely be while mom is pushing the cart and moms requests aren't what they want, so they find other places to be, and feet get ran over. And children go running down the aisles, both children take off their shoes. Child #1 throws her shoes into the cart, child #1 was placed down on the aisle floor and informed that she could continue to shop with us when she decided to put her shoes back on. And what do you know this works! "I have to go potty" Child #2 tells me and so we go and she goes!
We get to thecheckout and realize that hey, we still need to get a new toothbrush. Down we go, to the dental hygiene aisle. The toothbrush that she could have which was age appropriate for was pointed out and she was ecstatic. Of course the other child Needed a toothbrush too, she grabs one and hides it behind her back. We get to 20 items or less checkout, and child #2 has these toothbrushes in hand and animal crackers in the other, neither of which we are getting! So tantrums flare! Everything gets rang up and the items that we are not getting are given to the cashier.
I check my planner, I check my bag, I check my pockets, No debit card. The only money that I have is Kacen's birthday money from Grandma's that we are going to get books with. I tell the lady I don't have my card and calmly walk away, while child #1 is screaming that we didn't get her toothbrush. The cashier seemed more distraught about having to deal with twenty items left at her checkout than I was about going through the time at the store and leaving everything that I worked so hard to get, and having to come back later and shop for it again.
It is now 90 minutes later and twenty items less than we were supposed to be going home with . Much effort, much effort for what...Mom borrowing some of Kacen's book money to get nuggets at McDonald's. We get a #9, it saves money, it saves sanity, so I thought. No toys to debate over with kids meals. Just one package of nuggets and one thing of fries that we can split up evenly. And then it begins, "I want the bee toy." "I want chocolate milk, I don't want this drink." A mother cannot be perfect. A mother cannot make her children happy all of the time, but she can try.
I put the root beer in the cart that I put for me to drink in one of the girls cups and noticed 75% off Halloween candy at the entrance to the store. We got gobs of pretzels for fifty cents and Butterfingers for 50 cents! And Our Root Beer spilled over at the nice cashier's checkout and she willingly and kindly cleaned it up.
We then were on to our last stop! Barnes And Noble! I changed Kacen in the car before we went in and what luck, he pees on his pants! So here I am taking a half naked child in to a store. And there with Child #2 in her peed in pants, needed to go potty, yeah! We then went to look at the children's books! Kacen found some he liked and also some that were in piles that he pulled down, child #2 found quite a few to look at and left spread all over the floor.
So Here is what we made away with...
We woke up got ready and the girls wanted to read books before we left for the store. So we read a few books! And then I went to go start the car to move it out of the way for the van to barrel through the driveway. And the car wouldn't even turn over. I really did try my best, but ended up getting Paul up, he got it revin with only two tries! So he gets out and I ask him, "so whats your trick?" "The ignition's broken!" Well I certainly don't feel incompetent about not getting the car started knowing that.
So Paul went back and layed down while the children were in the kitchen and I moved the car. I ran across the street and started up the van, left it running and came inside to get the kids. Lo and Behold I came in the front door only to find my children covered in RED!
"Mom, Mom! Abbi put paint all over!" Alona lets me know when things happen. Kacen's head was covered in red paint meant for decorating faces for Halloween , Alona and Abbi's clothes were caked. I picked up Kacen and took him to the bathroom sink. Rubbed him down with baby shampoo and ran the tepid water. Tipping his head back I scrubbed and rinsed his head until the shampoo ran all out of his hair and then added two more layers of shampoo one at a time until the water from off his head ran clear and was no longer red or pink. Even though it ran clear, his head was RED!
We get to the store, what do you know child #2 has wet pants, no I don't have a change of clothes, silly me. The cart strolled past the bakery, "Mom, I want a FREE cookie." "We are having these free samples of apple pie",I tell them. "This is gross", "I don't like it", "Yuck!", simultaneous reactions from two of my children that vocalize quite well. So I find a garbage can located in the bakery and they proceed to spit out the partially chewed pie. We keep walking, " I want a donut! Just one donut!" They proceed with the I wants throughout the store(of course), they don't want to be in the cart any longer and so they are informed of where they can safely be while mom is pushing the cart and moms requests aren't what they want, so they find other places to be, and feet get ran over. And children go running down the aisles, both children take off their shoes. Child #1 throws her shoes into the cart, child #1 was placed down on the aisle floor and informed that she could continue to shop with us when she decided to put her shoes back on. And what do you know this works! "I have to go potty" Child #2 tells me and so we go and she goes!
We get to thecheckout and realize that hey, we still need to get a new toothbrush. Down we go, to the dental hygiene aisle. The toothbrush that she could have which was age appropriate for was pointed out and she was ecstatic. Of course the other child Needed a toothbrush too, she grabs one and hides it behind her back. We get to 20 items or less checkout, and child #2 has these toothbrushes in hand and animal crackers in the other, neither of which we are getting! So tantrums flare! Everything gets rang up and the items that we are not getting are given to the cashier.
I check my planner, I check my bag, I check my pockets, No debit card. The only money that I have is Kacen's birthday money from Grandma's that we are going to get books with. I tell the lady I don't have my card and calmly walk away, while child #1 is screaming that we didn't get her toothbrush. The cashier seemed more distraught about having to deal with twenty items left at her checkout than I was about going through the time at the store and leaving everything that I worked so hard to get, and having to come back later and shop for it again.
It is now 90 minutes later and twenty items less than we were supposed to be going home with . Much effort, much effort for what...Mom borrowing some of Kacen's book money to get nuggets at McDonald's. We get a #9, it saves money, it saves sanity, so I thought. No toys to debate over with kids meals. Just one package of nuggets and one thing of fries that we can split up evenly. And then it begins, "I want the bee toy." "I want chocolate milk, I don't want this drink." A mother cannot be perfect. A mother cannot make her children happy all of the time, but she can try.
I put the root beer in the cart that I put for me to drink in one of the girls cups and noticed 75% off Halloween candy at the entrance to the store. We got gobs of pretzels for fifty cents and Butterfingers for 50 cents! And Our Root Beer spilled over at the nice cashier's checkout and she willingly and kindly cleaned it up.
We then were on to our last stop! Barnes And Noble! I changed Kacen in the car before we went in and what luck, he pees on his pants! So here I am taking a half naked child in to a store. And there with Child #2 in her peed in pants, needed to go potty, yeah! We then went to look at the children's books! Kacen found some he liked and also some that were in piles that he pulled down, child #2 found quite a few to look at and left spread all over the floor.
So Here is what we made away with...
03 November, 2007
I'm seeing spots
Halloween pictures! Kacen r
eally didn't like his costume when it first arrived in August. He was in tears about the hood and having this dreadful spotted thing on him. On Halloween, he was great! Much happier and totally excited about reaching into the bowl of candy and grabbing a stash of sweets to hang on to.There were some bowls left out on the porch, they picked out what they liked. Kacen reached into one of them and pulled out a handful of suckers. Another one, the lady let them pick from her bowl and kacen grabbed a fistful, she commented, "It's okay, he can have more than one."
He would only let go of the candy when I traded him for something new!He loves sweets, he crawled into my room today and found where the candy was stashed and crawled out with some in each hand.
One person couldn't figure out if he was a boy or a girl.
Abbi was the cutest little Minnie Mouse. When we went to story time in our costumes, the story teller asked her if she went trick-or-treating. She said " I went trick-or-treating at daddies work!" That was one of the most memorable parts of the day for her.
We went to our church Halloween activity. Abbi got a ring over a pumpkin at the ring toss game! It was real fun watching her try to eat a donut in mid air.
Alona was a pirate! One lady said "Oh what a cute little gypsy you are!"
She was excited for more than a week about Grandma coming and spending Halloween with us. She is a natural now at trick-or-treating. It has been delightful watching her through the years. Her first year that she went, she couldn't walk yet. She was thirteen months and it had started to snow, she let me carry her around to our apartments to go trick-or-treating and has loved it ever since.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)