We had another quiet, do-nothing weekend. The mornings were frigid, but both days ended up being warmish (high 40s/low 50s) and sunny. Despite that we did nothing. I felt guilty for not getting everyone out for a lovely fall hike or something, but alas, I’m lazy. And Lex is sick. Again. This time it’s low fever, low energy, and lots of snot. He also has a few weird red spots on his face that had me researching chicken pox, post vaccination, on Google. Best I can tell through self-diagnosis is that it’s not chicken pox since he doesn’t seem to be getting any more of them and they are all on his face, not his body. We shall see what the morning brings though.
Tonight Lex fell asleep on Alan’s lap at 5:30pm. I brought him upstairs and put him to bed. He woke up enough to use the bathroom first and ask why he was going to bed at 5:30. I told him he fell asleep on the couch so I thought he was ready for bed. He said, “Oh, ok. I am pretty tired.” and he fell asleep. Alan went to bed at 6:30 and Eve practically put herself to bed at 6:50. I don’t know if it’s the time change or sickness or just a general feeling of lethargy in the house this weekend. I had a few things to finish up downstairs but I really SHOULD have gone to bed with everyone else as I have eaten a day’s worth of points in about an hour. Ugh!
I hope everyone wakes up happy, healthy, and full of energy tomorrow!
They don’t like to cook with me much these days so I was thrilled this morning when they both eagerly joined me in the kitchen to make Pineapple Sunshine Muffins. I haven’t done much baking lately (safer for me that way, sadly I’ve already eaten three muffins today!) but I am trying to replace their standard “cracker snack” with something more nutritious. If I can control myself, I think homemade muffins and granola bars would be a good substitute.
Today I am thankful for the wonderful Internet. Though I can spend many, many hours whiling away the time, sometimes it does result in a cool new find or a great idea. Today’s idea is a daily “Today I’m thankful for…” post.
That said, I need to turn off the wonderful Internet and connect with my family for awhile. Quiet time is over.
After a super fun Cocktails & Crafts party last month, we decided to do it again this month at my friend Elizabeth’s house. She made fancy cosmos (think Sex and the City, in the country, with a bunch of little ones running around!) and finger foods. The kids (and some moms!) decorated picture frames then ran off to play. The evening lasted to the late hour of 6:00pm when over half of the children were in tears and the moms, though throughly enjoying the party, decided to pack it up and head home. It’s funny how life changes with kids… but that’s for another post.
Now, a few pictures. Someday when my technology curse wears off and my bank account fattens up, I’m going to get a fancy camera. Hopefully in time to get some good pics of my future adorable grandchildren! Or maybe I should just do some reading and figure how to take fancy pictures with my little pink camera. It can probably be done.
This post is linked to the Happiness Is… blog hop on Rub Some Dirt On It.
Eve said the first one wasn't good because she couldn't see her face very well (when she looked at it in the preview screen). She liked this picture much better :)
There are lots of big developments going on around here. Both kids are rocking at their swimming lessons, growing stronger and more confident each time they get in the water. Lex has three wiggly teeth, one of them is super wiggly! Eve can write and spell “I love you mommy” all by herself :) But one little milestone occurred to me this week that made me a little sad. I can’t remember the last time one of them came into our bed at night for cuddles. They used to come in every night, at least one of them, sometimes both. Usually I’d pull them in to bed to snuggle. When I heard shuffling by my bedside I’d reach out my hand and rub their head first. A sweet touch secretly designed to clue my groggy self in as to who’s standing by my bed. A trick that lost it’s effectiveness towards the end as Eve’s hair grew in. Then I’d pull them in for snuggles or sigh and get up and put them back to bed (what was I thinking!) But now I can’t even remember the last time one of them showed up for midnight cuddles. Sigh. A sweet, sad little milestone.
Alan and I signed up for a family membership at the aquatic center. Alan has been going to the gym every morning before work, I make it there sometimes, and the kids just started swim lessons again! They were super excited! They are in the same group again, this time with one of Lex’s classmates that they both like. Good times. I’m going to try and swim laps twice a week while they’re in lessons, though today I managed to chat with several parents and barely even look at the chilly lap pool. Oh well, maybe Thursday! :)
Halloween is here again! There are tons of Halloween activities in our area. You could be Halloweening from Thursday-Monday, with multiple activities each day. You could, but we weren’t, of course! This year we went to a Halloween party at Eve’s school yesterday and trick-or-treating today. That’s enough for this family.
The PTO at Eve’s school held a great Halloween party. They had lots of goodies and games and arts & crafts and tons of fun things to do. It was Sunday, mid-afternoon, and almost all of Eve’s class attended. We had a lot of fun.
Astronaut Lex. Princess Eve would not pose.
As I said, she did not want to pose. Despite his best efforts. (Check out his teeth, by the way. Those front two on top are sticking so far out. Both are loose, but one is super loose. It almost looks like he's lost a tooth but really the wiggly ones are just moving sideways. Funny!)
First things first, a plate full of goodies. The the little bee in the middle is Eve's friend.
Then we made some paper plate bats. It was a fun project. Lex also made a spider, but I don't seem to have a picture of that.
Lex likes craft projects. He worked hard on his bat and spider.
Eve got a butterfly painted on her face.
Proud boy with a black bat.
They had a huge piece of paper up and they were asking everyone to sign it.
Lex worked hard on this too.
While Lex concentrated on just a few projects, Eve tried her hand at everything, including painting blue frosting onto nondescript sugar cookie shapes. She took one bite and left the rest on the table. :)
Don't all princesses eat powdered donuts off strings? (there were a lot of princesses at the party!)
We ended the afternoon with some pumpkin bowling.
Tonight, after force feeding the children a healthy(ish) dinner, they donned the costumes again for some chilly trick-or-treating. They were both SUPER excited for it this year!
Laying out the costumes
Halloween - 2011 (Posing for the camera was a requirement for trick-or-treating. Eve obeyed.)
Alan went trick-or-treating with them. He was dressed as Johnny Bravo, but I think he looks more like the terminator in this picture :) Alan's bare arms and Lex's helment didn't last long!
A Lego pirate! :)
The loot!
We all dug in! :)
They lasted for about a half hour before coming home. I think they had almost as much fun at home, watching for trick-or-treaters.
Eve loved doling out candy to the trick-or-treaters. This guy took off his mask and started chatting with Lex. I guess they go to school together.
Do you like my costume?! :)
Now it is late, my house is asleep, and I am chilly and eating candy. I think I need to go to bed. Happy Halloween!! Tomorrow starts my favorite month (if only it was warmer!) and swimming lessons. Busy, busy. Good thing we have plenty of candy to help us power through!
We had our first snowfall Wednesday night but it was mostly a dusting. Saturday night brought the real stuff. We got about 4″ but other parts of the state got up to 18″. Wet, heavy, powerline downing snow. We lost power twice Saturday night but were part of the lucky crowd that got it back quickly. Other parts of the state were out for a day or more. We woke to a beautiful winter wonderland. Beautiful if you don’t mind the fact that it’s still October.
The kids were thrilled, of course. We went outside and shoveled off the porch, made snowmen, and played on the swing set.
Lex wrote his name on the tree with snowballs. You can sort of see the E and X here. He was so proud of his idea :)
I thought my quince tree was a goner. Turns out it just needed a good shaking out :)
After lunch we went to a Halloween party at Eve’s school. When we got home the snow was mostly melted and the snowmen were looking sad. Eve and I shoveled the porch again and then she decided to finish off the snowmen with the shovel! Then her and Parrish spent a good amount of time trying to rebuild them. Crazy kids.
October snow, you decided. Trick or treat?
(Not that it matters what I think, as I’m pretty sure mother nature doesn’t give a hoot about my opinions on winter. When I was buckling the kids into their carseats Lex complained that he was too cold and I said “Get used to it. We’ve got six cold months ahead of us!” Seriously, six months! Sheesh!)
