Woo-hoo! Logan won a first place trophy for speed at yesterday's pinewood derby car race! I have a happy husband. :) Caleb and Levi's seemed to start out pretty good, but then gradually fell behind in subsequent rounds.
It was fun to watch each of the boys at the race. They did a very good job paying attention to when it was their turn, and they handled their cars very well.
During the last week or so Logan has really been saying "I'm bored" a lot. Oh boy. Spring Break is coming up, not to mention the whole summer.... Gonna have to figure out how to handle that one!
Today was a nice family dinner for my dad's 70th birthday. Fun having almost everyone together. And, it makes for a bunch of giggling grandkids when Papa gets a whoopie cushion in one of his gifts! :)
Sunday, March 26, 2017
Thursday, March 23, 2017
countdown
Spring is in the air, and Mike will soon be done with Friday's off. I'm really not sure I can handle it! And, how in the world am I going to manage all summer long if I can't even handle a 5-day work week?? Sigh. No pity parties here, just trying to mentally prepare myself!
March has been a fairly quiet month so far, and that's GOOD. We enjoy just being together as a family without too much other stuff going on. A few school activities (dinner auction, Dad's Day, Reading Month, and a Celebration Banquet tonight), some "girl time" for me (coffee with a friend, weekend away visiting my niece at my alma mater and then catching up with friends in the area), and pinewood derby car preparation (this is serious business).
Our church's pinewood derby race is this Saturday, and Mike has been hard at work getting cars ready. The boys were able to do most of the painting, but they're not quite ready for the other work in making the cars. :)
I had a great weekend in Ohio! Nice to have the time away, and I was ready to see my guys again. :) I spent a little time with Natalie in Cedarville, and she was very patient with me as I reminisced around campus. And, to make me feel nice and old, she was asking if we had computers when I was there and said, "Wait, when was the Internet invented??" Ahhhhh!!! Yes, we had computers; yes, we had the internet; but thank goodness we didn't have social media!! From there I drove to Chillicothe where a college friend lives, and the next day a friend from Mt. Vernon drove down to hang out. We went out to lunch, got pedicures, and did just a little shopping, and a lot of talking. :) Come to think of it, I don't know if we actually finished any conversations. We get started, rabbit trail into all sorts of things, and just keep going following every trail and rarely looping back. :)
Last Friday Levi had his Kindergarten screening. I hope he makes it in! ;) I have no worries that he'll be just fine. I think he's ahead of where Caleb and Logan were at this age. Strange to think about him being gone 3 days a week next year. What are Jackson and I going to do??
Jackson continues to be quite vocal about expressing himself. He's learning how to 'ask' for what he wants, and if he doesn't get it, watch out! Throwing food and his cup from his high chair continues to be a problem, but when we tried having him sit in time out the other day that seemed to get to him, so maybe we're on to something. :) He is so much fun, though, He makes a couple animal noises (pig and rooster), says "uh-oh" (more like "ah-ah"), blows kisses, does "so big", dances, brings his diaper to the trash, and claps when he does something good. He's been napping less, which is a bummer, but he'll still do a "rest time" in the late afternoon, so that's nice at least. And, like right now, even though he woke up a while ago, he's been hanging out nice in his crib, so that helps, too. :)
March has been a fairly quiet month so far, and that's GOOD. We enjoy just being together as a family without too much other stuff going on. A few school activities (dinner auction, Dad's Day, Reading Month, and a Celebration Banquet tonight), some "girl time" for me (coffee with a friend, weekend away visiting my niece at my alma mater and then catching up with friends in the area), and pinewood derby car preparation (this is serious business).
Our church's pinewood derby race is this Saturday, and Mike has been hard at work getting cars ready. The boys were able to do most of the painting, but they're not quite ready for the other work in making the cars. :)
I had a great weekend in Ohio! Nice to have the time away, and I was ready to see my guys again. :) I spent a little time with Natalie in Cedarville, and she was very patient with me as I reminisced around campus. And, to make me feel nice and old, she was asking if we had computers when I was there and said, "Wait, when was the Internet invented??" Ahhhhh!!! Yes, we had computers; yes, we had the internet; but thank goodness we didn't have social media!! From there I drove to Chillicothe where a college friend lives, and the next day a friend from Mt. Vernon drove down to hang out. We went out to lunch, got pedicures, and did just a little shopping, and a lot of talking. :) Come to think of it, I don't know if we actually finished any conversations. We get started, rabbit trail into all sorts of things, and just keep going following every trail and rarely looping back. :)
Last Friday Levi had his Kindergarten screening. I hope he makes it in! ;) I have no worries that he'll be just fine. I think he's ahead of where Caleb and Logan were at this age. Strange to think about him being gone 3 days a week next year. What are Jackson and I going to do??
Jackson continues to be quite vocal about expressing himself. He's learning how to 'ask' for what he wants, and if he doesn't get it, watch out! Throwing food and his cup from his high chair continues to be a problem, but when we tried having him sit in time out the other day that seemed to get to him, so maybe we're on to something. :) He is so much fun, though, He makes a couple animal noises (pig and rooster), says "uh-oh" (more like "ah-ah"), blows kisses, does "so big", dances, brings his diaper to the trash, and claps when he does something good. He's been napping less, which is a bummer, but he'll still do a "rest time" in the late afternoon, so that's nice at least. And, like right now, even though he woke up a while ago, he's been hanging out nice in his crib, so that helps, too. :)
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
laundry room
Here's some quick pics of our laundry room project. Not sure if I'll get around to a full detailed post, but this is better than nothing! I am LOVING the outcome. Having a clean, bright, much more useable space is amazing!
Thursday, March 2, 2017
down for the count
There's been a lot of sickness going around in the area, and our family decided to join right in. Last week Sunday night Mike came down with it (cold/flu?) - he was in rough shape for a few days, and really took the whole week to get feeling better. I started feeling sick on Wednesday. I had my ups and downs, and was laid flat out on Sunday. Thankfully, I was much better on Monday. School was closed on Thursday due to so much sickness, and we had Friday off anyways, so it was a looooong weekend at home. The other boys mostly have just had some mild cold symptoms, nothing too bad. Jackson's been the worst with snot and coughing. And, he also has 3 teeth that I can see coming in right now. Good times.
He is something else right now. I feel like every stage we get to I'm like, "I forgot how much work this stage is." Ha! He pretty much walks around the house looking for what he can get into that he shouldn't. Kitchen cupboards, the trash, the computer, lamps, etc. If he's actually 'playing' with toys, he's throwing or destroying somehow. (Something that I don't believe boys ever grow out of...) If he's in his high chair he's throwing down food or his cup. He's exhausting me, but he's still pretty cute. :) He totally knows better than to be throwing things because after he does it he says, "Nah (no)", shakes his head, and swats his own hand. Ha ha! Considering he handles his own discipline, and he'll take his own diaper to the trash, I guess he doesn't really need us anymore! :)
Our laundry room project is almost done, and I am LOVING it! What a change in that room, and a much more efficient use of space. There are some finishing touches still to do (get cabinet hardware, install the new light, replace outlets, mount a shelf...), but mainly the room is done and it is wonderful. Keeping my fingers crossed that next winter will be the kitchen - although, we'd better be able to move quicker on that than we did on the laundry room, because I can only handle so much of living in the middle of a project, and having my kitchen tore up would be a major deal since I spent A LOT of time in there!
He is something else right now. I feel like every stage we get to I'm like, "I forgot how much work this stage is." Ha! He pretty much walks around the house looking for what he can get into that he shouldn't. Kitchen cupboards, the trash, the computer, lamps, etc. If he's actually 'playing' with toys, he's throwing or destroying somehow. (Something that I don't believe boys ever grow out of...) If he's in his high chair he's throwing down food or his cup. He's exhausting me, but he's still pretty cute. :) He totally knows better than to be throwing things because after he does it he says, "Nah (no)", shakes his head, and swats his own hand. Ha ha! Considering he handles his own discipline, and he'll take his own diaper to the trash, I guess he doesn't really need us anymore! :)
Our laundry room project is almost done, and I am LOVING it! What a change in that room, and a much more efficient use of space. There are some finishing touches still to do (get cabinet hardware, install the new light, replace outlets, mount a shelf...), but mainly the room is done and it is wonderful. Keeping my fingers crossed that next winter will be the kitchen - although, we'd better be able to move quicker on that than we did on the laundry room, because I can only handle so much of living in the middle of a project, and having my kitchen tore up would be a major deal since I spent A LOT of time in there!
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