Snippets from our Day

I haven't had one of these in ages, but today was the kind of Saturday I really like. Nothing to do, nowhere to go, so we stayed home all day. Hate to see the day end, but it's already tomorrow and I really must get some sleep! Here are a few snippets from our day together.

performing surgery on our sub woofer to extract a ping pong ball that someone thought would be fun to stick inside... crazy college kids!

Geof played chess with K&A - I think we may have found something A could really get into!
We assembled our pre-lit tree. Didn't smell as nice as a fresh one, but zero needles to vacuum and no watering. Can't beat it.
Then, of course, we decorated. EB didn't quite know what to make of it, but she said tree a lot and she was fond of the Sesame Street ornaments.

K&A worked together to assemble and decorate a gingerbread house (again, not fresh, but prebaked and ready to go - can't beat that either!)
Spending the evening listening to K rock out in the basement on his new stage with stage lights. Doesn't get much cooler than that!

Melting Down to Ice Cream and Cake

This song is stuck in my head now. And I want some ice cream. And some cake.

Preschool Thanksgiving

Papers that came home in A' preschool tote bag today:

"How to Cook a Turkey"

by A

You mix sauce and put it on the turkey.  You put it in the oven for 1 minute and then put it on the oven to cool down and you eat it.

(now, this may be quite helpful to me.  It turns out I will be cooking Thanksgiving dinner for 15 on Thursday and I have NO IDEA how to cook a turkey.  This sounds like a good starting point and it sounds like much less prep time than I had anticipated!)

What she's thankful for:

"I am thankful for Ellary, my mom, my dad, Kellen and stingrays."

her sporty new look

Yay! Her hair is finally long enough to do something with! Actually, it's starting to look a little mullet-ish, so I pulled it back this morning and she has left it all day. She brought me the bow, which I think looks like a gift bow just stuck on the back of her head, but cute nonetheless!

Birthday

Last weekend we went to Virginia to celebrate my grandmother's 80th birthday! It was a beautiful day in the valley, and we had a fun time visiting with my brothers and sister, my parents, aunts, uncles and grandparents. EB and A were usually to be found in the trampoline - are they REALLY as dangerous as they say? They had SO MUCH FUN and got SO MUCH EXERCISE that I made me want to run right out and get one. But I didn't. Oh well. Here are a few pictures from our day.

my siblings and our "significant others" - minus one significant other

bouncy matchy-matchy

static head

K&A bouncing with Auntie Ashley and Uncle Phillip

Fun Day

On Tuesday before K came down with pneumonia, he and A were off from school, so we took advantage of a day together and went to the kids museum with a buddy. We had a great time! K is really into maps right now, so the weather maps in the new weather exhibit were a big hit. EB really took it all in this time, and managed to show me just how big she's getting by throwing her first "fall down face first on the floor kicking her legs and pounding her fists and fake crying" tantrum when a little boy dared encroach on her precious steering wheel. Oh, we have some work to do on that! But despite the few sharing difficulties, we had a very fun day together, and as the weather gets colder I'm thinking EB and I will spend much more time hanging out there.

Sick days

I am not quick to take my kids to the doctor - I think experience has taught me that it's usually "some virus that's going around. S/he'll be feeling better in a few days." Poor K has been coughing for a while. A few more days, he'll get better... A few days has gone on for quite some time, and finally the fever, headache, tiredness and general grumpiness set it and we headed to the doctor this morning. Pneumonia!!!! I feel bad for not taking him before, but the new symptoms just set in this week, so perhaps it all came on very quickly. Anyway, the instructions from the dr. are to stay home and rest for a while, and the instructions from kindergarden are to stay home, rest and watch lots of cartoons. He's slogging on the couch watching Noggin, so mission accomplished!

Here he is at Marbles earlier in the week. Am I a great mom or what - dragging my sick kid to the museum to give himself a check-up? (to my credit, he had the cough, but not the other symptoms yet). Wonder if he could hear all the fluid in his lungs with the toy stethescope?