January fun...a few firsts

Roller Skating...

Early in January Favorite boy was invited to 2 birthday's on the sameday. First he went to a local indoor swimming pool to celebrate Charlie's 6th birhtday and then went to a sleepover at his buddy Hunter's house to help him celebrate his 5th birthday! So much fun.

The week after that, Favorite girl was invited to Ellie's 4th birhtday party at Happy Joe's! Lot's of celebrating! The kids are thinking up some great ideas for their birthdays this SPRING!

We attended our first High School basketball here in SE IA. Kind of funny to me that this was our first game since that is all I had to do when I was younger. We used to attend every sporting event!

Last Saturday we went roller skating for the first time. The kids did so well. I was really amazed at how quickly they caught on! I was really afraid that I wouldn't be able to do it anymore. I am so thankful Carrie and Adam invited us along!

We had so much fun last weekend, that we decided to do it again this weekend. Favorite Boy called Grandma at 8am on Saturday morning and begged her to join us for the fun. And she did! She drove 2 hours just to go roller skating with us! We went out for dinner at Gator's and then enjoyed the movie Up! at home. A very nice relaxing weekend.

Favorite boy is already asking if we can go again next weekend!

GyMnAsTiCs!

Both kids are in gymnastics at the YMCA and really loving it. I can't wait to capture pictures of their somersaults. They really want take swimming lessons but I don't want them going out in the cold weather with wet hair. Hopefully they are still as excited to participate next session when the weather warms up. I hope to post some recent pics very soon. FG accidentally dropped my camera in September and I finally replaced it! I have been going crazy without a digital camera for 4 months!!

We got the bug!

CAUTION THIS IS ABOUT VOMITING YOU MAY NOT WANT TO READ THIS POST...

Favorite Boy woke up Sunday morning around 2am vomiting in his bed, yuck! Every hour or so he had another episode, poor guy! This lasted until 11am. I really can't complain because we have been so fortunate this year. Other than a few sniffles and coughs we have been very healthy!

As soon as dad was up for the day he was off to the gas station for 7UP. Both kids enjoyed sipping soda for the day. Favorite Girl was happy as could be all day so we sort of wondered if FB got sick on Saturday at his first ice fishing trip with dad, grandpa, and uncle Chris because uncle Chris was very sick on Sunday as well...but we could be confusing his with brown bottle flu...you can never be to sure???

We couldn't be so lucky, Favorite Girl came to my room at 445 Monday morning and in her most excited voice said, "Mommy I throwed up in my bed just like broder!!!!!" I could hear the glee in her voice even at 445am. Aaron and I jumped out of bed to go clean up the mess and we asked her why she was happy to be sick. She said she was happy to be sick like her broder. She remained happy the whole day. She also was sick until 11am and then took a five hour nap and woke up feeling good. Aaron stayed home with her and when I got home from work he told me she was the happiest puker he'd ever met. She even made it to the bathroom every single time (unlike her brother who insisted on having a bowl right by his side the whole day).

Seriously, do they do this stuff on purpose?

Aaron was on his way home while I am home baking away. We are serving refreshments tomorrow at church and I am trying to get things made so I am ahead of the game for the holidays. I called and asked him to pick up more butter, eggs, chocolate chips, vanilla, sweetened condensed milk and brown sugar. Okay now that I have typed that you are probably wondering what the heck I started with, but it's been a baking marathon day so I've made a lot and obviously ran out of a lot.

I love my husband dearly and I am happy that he stopped at Hy-Vee for me but he brought home Double Strength Vanilla, Dark Brown Sugar, and Fat Free Sweetened Condensed Milk.

Last week I added mascara to the grocery list because I kept forgetting it when I went to Target...I showed him the tube, wrote the exact brand and exact color on the list and specifically said, "it is expensive, so don't buy it if you can't find the exact one"...what do you think the outcome was?

I think he does this on purpose just so he's never asked again.

I am really on-line looking up a good frosting drizzle recipe, got to go.

First Early Out due to Snow

Nicholas woke up yesterday (Monday) at 6am, he bounced into our bed excited to give an update that it had snowed! I am not sure what prompted him to pop out of bed at 6am and look out his bedroom window because we had not discussed the possibility of snow but he was SO excited! He told me that he had to wear a hat, gloves, snow pants and boots or he wouldn't be allowed to play in the grass for recess and that his leg might turn red and fall off. I laughed and asked him who told him that. He told me that his teacher told him his leg might get bitten and turn red and fall off if he didn't dress warm.

Needless to say he got all bundled up and stood around in the hallway patiently waiting for me to get ready for work in hopes that I would give him permission to wake his sissy. When I finally gave in he jumped up in her bed, said sissy, sissy it SNOWED! He opened her curtain and let her look outside. They both squealed with delight and begged to play outside after school.

Today was favorite boy's first early out day due to the snow. He was so excited to get to leave school early and eat an afternoon snack at daycare.

Unfortunately, Favorite Girl's Holiday program was scheduled for this evening and it was postponed due to the yucky weather. We are patiently waiting to hear when it will be rescheduled for. We are excited to watch her and her best buddy Adam perform on stage.

I can't post any pics because FG accidentally dropped my camera in September and I still haven't replaced it. I hope Santa is good to me!

My son is a kindergartner who sits with a first grader!

One of the very first pieces of paper to come home off the bus said,

POOP and PENS

FB was very proud.

He said mom do you know what that says?

I said yes, poop and pens.

He said no it doesn't say Pens!

I said oh well what does it say?

It says poop but it doesn't say PENS! Mom guess what it says!

It says PENS, and then I use Jolly Phonics with him to sound out the word (fully aware that the little stinker left the "I" out of the word he was so proudly trying to write. He dropped it and went running off to play. My heart broke into a MILLION pieces! Of course I made him tell me who taught him how to write those dirty words.

Master Manipulator

So Favorite Boy has not been the best (lunch)eater since he has started school. He tells me he doesn't have enough time to eat his school lunch. His dad has been kind enough to pack him a lunch every single day since the third day of school. FB says this allows him time to go directly to the lunch table and eat instead of standing in the long lunch line. Great except, all that was eaten out of his lunch box each day were carrots and ranch dressing...We had to bribe him with a reward, so we made an "I ate my lunch chart". FB puts a sticker on it each day when he eats at least 3 items out of his lunch box. When he earns 15 stickers for his chart he gets to take a friend swimming at the indoor water park here in town. Perfect solution, accept the poor boy still comes home ravenous every single day? I don't think he's quite smart enough to throw the food away (or give it away) YET. And besides the empty wrappers are in his lunch box.

One particular day we had breakfast for supper. This boy ate 6 pancakes (normal size pancakes, not the little silver dollar ones), a whole helping of scrambled eggs, and five pieces of bacon, he probably would have ate more but I stole a piece off his plate. My stomach would have hurt so bad if I would have ate that much food. He jumped down from the table and begged to go down the street to play with his buddy.

A little while later I receive a call from my friend Joyce who proceeds to tell me that when FB arrived at her house they were just sitting down for supper. FB decides to stay and eat supper with their family but specifically tells Joyce, "let's just keep this a secret from my mom, okay?"

Joyce says, "well now FB, why would we need to keep it a secret if you eat with us?"

FB, "my mom would be very upset if she knew I ate supper again at your house"

Um, Yep!

But Joyce laughs and says he must be growing! Must be, he ate a full size soft shell taco at their house in addition to his full size meal at our house. ORNERY!