Monday, October 31, 2016
Sunday, October 30, 2016
October Fun
FALL BREAK:
- Visited dad at work and drew on his windows
- Cornbelly's
- Boomshakalaka at BYU (basketball scrimage night)
- Lehi Fun Center
- My mom has been busy training Milo. I am so grateful that she is doing this for the grandkid's benefit. I could not handle having a puppy in the house right now! The kids love him so much!
KENDALL:
- Most mornings, I am greeted with her at the side of my bed saying, "Mom, can you play with me in the basement?"
- One day we were looking at her baby pictures and she said with a very concerned voice, "Mom why do I not have hair on the top?" Ha ha! So true! She had such grandpa hair.
- Says, "surprise!" so excitedly, every time I go in to wipe her bum.
- I had to take a picture of her 80's outfit she picked out - pink socks, tucked in shirt - looking good, girl!
ANDREW:
- With half-day Kindergarten, we have lots of play dates to fill the afternoon. He has lots of options for friends and gets invited to birthday parties almost every month! The girls sometimes get a little jealous of all his play dates and parties.
- Andrew doesn't like to go upstairs or downstairs by himself, so he convinces Kendall to go up with him.
- Rachel wanted my old iPod touch, so we told her she'd need to pass down her leap pad onto Andrew. It was a tough decision for her, but she did it, and Andrew is finally able to play on the leap pad without her telling him how/what to do with it.
- Andrew earned tickets by sleeping in his own bed, and when we discussed various prizes he could earn if he slept in his bed for approximately 7-10 nights. He told me all he wanted was for me to get out of his baby clothes an old pair BYU pajamas (they kind of fit - more like capri pants). It did the trick, he earned his tickets, got his prize, and he was a happy boy!
RACHEL:
- Wrapped up her soccer season, and we thought she did a pretty good job! Not many girls wanted to be goalie, so occasionally, Rachel would volunteer. I didn't like her as goalie - too stressful!
- Entered the Reflections Contest at school in the Dance Choreography Category. She choreographed a dance to Justin Timberlake's, "Can't Stop the Feeling" and then taught it to her cousin, Brynn. There were quite a few shimmy-shakes - can't be too sure where she got those moves from! :)
- Rachel got mom's old iPod touch, which is basically a crappy camera with a couple games, and it does not hold a charge for very long at all, but she was thrilled with it.
Friday, October 28, 2016
Kendall turns 4
Kendall is such a sweetheart and so easy to please. She wanted a butterfly birthday and we found all the decorations and party favors at the Dollar Store (the kids all got wings and a glow in the dark butterfly wand). For her cake, she asked for plain vanilla ice cream. I had this great idea of doing flower molds of ice cream, but that flopped big time and didn't work at all. Yikes! Another pathetic cake hack - I opted for individual ice cream cups and stacked them into the shape of a cake. I need my cake maker back out of retirement! Wah!! I fancied it up with some chocolate strawberries, that Kendall usually likes and will usually eat (we never know when she stops liking something).
For her birthday, we went to Cornbelly's for the afternoon with friends and cousins. Then we trick or treated at dad's work and the kids scored with an entire bucket full of candy in an hour. Some of her gifts included her very own leap pad, new pink blanket, super girl barbies, stamps and pink ponies. She was so happy and grateful and pleasant!
For her birthday, we went to Cornbelly's for the afternoon with friends and cousins. Then we trick or treated at dad's work and the kids scored with an entire bucket full of candy in an hour. Some of her gifts included her very own leap pad, new pink blanket, super girl barbies, stamps and pink ponies. She was so happy and grateful and pleasant!
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Andrew turns 6
If I have learned anything about Andrew and birthdays, it is to celebrate it ALL in one day!! So we partied all day on his actual birthday.
In the afternoon, Nana took him on a date and they stopped at Puppy Barn. Nana had spotted a puppy there earlier in the week that she was thinking about buying. She ended up buying the dog (Milo) for her and my dad with Andrew on his birthday, and he was so excited to be part of the process! And now, because of this, Andrew and Milo have a special bond (much to Rachel's dismay).
He requested an ice cream cake, and Brandon has retired from cake making - NO!! So the week before, I practiced by doing an ice cream cake with two ice cream layers with oreo cookies and homemade fudge in the middle and the outside had a whip cream frosting. Andrew was not impressed with all the extras. He said, "Mom, I just want mint chocolate chip ice cream and the white frosting and that's it!" So while I was checking out the ice cream, I saw that the big containers were shaped almost like a cake, so I got a big tub of mint ice cream and flipped it over onto my cake pan and stuck it in the freezer - it took a total of 5 minutes. Then I frosted it with whip cream frosting and he said it was "perfect". Ha ha! Best cake hack ever!
For Andrew's friend party, we had ninja training and if they made it through all the ninja tasks, then they'd become ninjas and earn a sword and mask. They took it super seriously, which made it so fun! We had a balance beam (balance), balloon fighting (self defense), wii dance (focus), ninja says (listening), laser beam course (agility), obstacle course, etc. Brandon helped a ton with the party, which made it a lot more fun! Some of his buddies took it very literally - we saw our cousin, Cole, at the soccer game the next day, and he hadn't taken off his mask! And Sawyer, scared his parents half to death in the middle of the night with his mask on and sword acting like a stealth ninja!
Andrew loves clothes, so Brandon and I game him all clothes for his birthday ... and he was ... THRILLED! He was so grateful and happy! We also gave him a few coupons - two 10 minutes of jumping on the trampoline with dad and one night's sleep in mom & dad's bed, which he redeemed that very night! These gifts are Andrew in a nutshell. He also got a big boy bike from Grandma/Grandpa and he has been riding it every single day. Andrew also was thrilled with the alphabet transforming robots from Nana/Papa. The backstory is that Andrew found the letter S robot in front of the school weeks ago, so we turned it in to the school's lost and found (after a lot of convincing and encouraging because he wanted to keep it). Andrew kept asking me (relentlessly) if I could call and find out if anyone had collected the toy. I called the school, and explained the situation, but they had a rule that they couldn't give us anything out of the lost and found that wasn't ours. Andrew was very disappointed. I searched on the internet and finally found the same toy, but Nana got him the entire alphabet as a complete surprise.
In the afternoon, Nana took him on a date and they stopped at Puppy Barn. Nana had spotted a puppy there earlier in the week that she was thinking about buying. She ended up buying the dog (Milo) for her and my dad with Andrew on his birthday, and he was so excited to be part of the process! And now, because of this, Andrew and Milo have a special bond (much to Rachel's dismay).
He requested an ice cream cake, and Brandon has retired from cake making - NO!! So the week before, I practiced by doing an ice cream cake with two ice cream layers with oreo cookies and homemade fudge in the middle and the outside had a whip cream frosting. Andrew was not impressed with all the extras. He said, "Mom, I just want mint chocolate chip ice cream and the white frosting and that's it!" So while I was checking out the ice cream, I saw that the big containers were shaped almost like a cake, so I got a big tub of mint ice cream and flipped it over onto my cake pan and stuck it in the freezer - it took a total of 5 minutes. Then I frosted it with whip cream frosting and he said it was "perfect". Ha ha! Best cake hack ever!
For Andrew's friend party, we had ninja training and if they made it through all the ninja tasks, then they'd become ninjas and earn a sword and mask. They took it super seriously, which made it so fun! We had a balance beam (balance), balloon fighting (self defense), wii dance (focus), ninja says (listening), laser beam course (agility), obstacle course, etc. Brandon helped a ton with the party, which made it a lot more fun! Some of his buddies took it very literally - we saw our cousin, Cole, at the soccer game the next day, and he hadn't taken off his mask! And Sawyer, scared his parents half to death in the middle of the night with his mask on and sword acting like a stealth ninja!
Andrew loves clothes, so Brandon and I game him all clothes for his birthday ... and he was ... THRILLED! He was so grateful and happy! We also gave him a few coupons - two 10 minutes of jumping on the trampoline with dad and one night's sleep in mom & dad's bed, which he redeemed that very night! These gifts are Andrew in a nutshell. He also got a big boy bike from Grandma/Grandpa and he has been riding it every single day. Andrew also was thrilled with the alphabet transforming robots from Nana/Papa. The backstory is that Andrew found the letter S robot in front of the school weeks ago, so we turned it in to the school's lost and found (after a lot of convincing and encouraging because he wanted to keep it). Andrew kept asking me (relentlessly) if I could call and find out if anyone had collected the toy. I called the school, and explained the situation, but they had a rule that they couldn't give us anything out of the lost and found that wasn't ours. Andrew was very disappointed. I searched on the internet and finally found the same toy, but Nana got him the entire alphabet as a complete surprise.
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| Nana's new puppy, Milo that Andrew got to go with her to get. |
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