Favorite-Things-Phone-Dump Friday

What a weird week!

No school on Monday.  I stayed home on Tuesday because both girls were sick/crabby.  Had school Wednesday and Thursday, and then had a snow day today.

And throughout the whole week gross head cold germs permeated our house starting with Callie and ending with me AND Chris AND STILL Callie.  Maya has avoided it so far, but we'll see what happens.

Sick Callie looks, sounds and acts a LOT like gluten-filled Callie.  It wasn't super fun to deal with.  But I have talked about that many times on the blog, so I'll just leave it at that. 

Maya has REALLY become a mama's girl.  Like REALLY a mama's girl.  And I love it, but only sometimes.  Ok, most of the time.  But look at that face when she realized that I wasn't holding her but sitting close enough where I SHOULD have been holding her.  And then look at the face pretty much immediately after I grabbed her and DID hold her.  Ridiculous.  But kind of great.  Sometimes.

Favorite Thing #1: Mama's girl- evidence #1

And then we have a video where she CLEARLY (not really) can totally say Mama.

IMG 0584 from Baby Goose on Vimeo.

Favorite Thing #2: Mama's girl- evidence #2

 

 

On to the other pictures...

 

Favorite Thing #3: Cleaning/Rearranging Callie's room!

Favorite Thing #4: Sister time at home

Favorite Thing #5: Playing School



Favorite Thing #6: Puppet shows at Auntie Cat's

Favorite Thing #6: Tuesday
Top: You know your 4-year-old is sick when she takes a nap!
Middle: Playful baby.
Bottom: Seeing our old neighbors, Ben and Hannah.
 

 

Favorite Thing #7: Wednesday at Pa's house and
dealing with the snow at home.

 

Favorite Thing #8: Thursday at G-ma's

 

Favorite Thing #9: SNOW DAY

Favorite Thing #10: I literally went to bed and was ASLEEP by 8:30pm the
past two nights.  OLD.  And a little sick.

But the sleeping things has gotten better.  I got to sleep from 8:30pm to 5am last night.  And the baby didn't even wake up until 5:45am...I was just up since I went to bed so early.

 

I know I just jinxed it, but there has definitely been sleep progress this week.

 

Have a great weekend!



TBT

So this week hasn't been too fun in terms of sickness.

All of our noses are raging (well, 3 out of 4.  The fourth one has teeth that are raging and a nose that I'm sure will follow suit soon).

Callie looks like Rudolph. Maya is super clingy. Chris and I are sniffling congested messes.

Is it bed time yet?  No, it is only 4:30?  Dang it.

Here are the throwbacks.  They are all 6-month photo shoot throwbacks.

All the pictures on the left are the ones Nik took at Callie's 6-month shoot.  All the pictures on the right are from the JCPenny's photo session a couple weeks ago.

Enjoy!

The sweet baby shot

The family shot

Callie's cute scrunchy nose- then and now

The artistic shot

Weekend Wrap-Up

Hey Everybody!  Happy Sunday!

Our weekend was pretty chill.  We hung out at home (I'm going to be SO glad when it gets warmer and we can be outside.  Our 4-year-old tornado wreaks havoc on our house, and it is pointless to even try and keep up with her).  We went to Frederic's 1st birthday party.  We had a family cuddle.  We went to Edinborough to play.

As you can see in a couple pictures, I had 2 leeches shadows on me all weekend
(when they weren't playing with each other or Kona). 

Callie, Donald, Frederic, Maya = Third cousins

The Family Cuddle- goofy faces included

Playing at Edinborough

Callie got another cold this weekend so that has been fun.  Now we're just waiting for it to spread to the rest of us.  Maya is getting a few more teeth on the top- not the middle two quite yet, but the one to the left of the middle two.  Weird.  So she's been WAY clingy to me.  And I kind of love it, but sometimes I'd like to go to the bathroom without her making it seem like I'm breaking her heart.

I'm going on a work trip to L.A. in a few weeks for 3 nights.  Gulp.  While I can't wait to be in a warmer climate with other fun adults (AND have 3 nights of uninterrupted sleep) the thought of leaving everyone, especially the baby, is pretty brutal right now.  But maybe I won't be totally alone, because Callie said, "Mom, I'm going to sneak in your lunch box when you go on your trip!"  If only I just needed to pack a lunch box.  That would make traveling super easy.

Hope you all had a great weekend.  Thank you to our presidents for another day off tomorrow.  We have a big day planned- a dentist visit for the older one and a flu shot for the younger one.  Wish us luck.

Well Played, JCPenny's. Well Played.

I got the groupon app a few weeks ago, and within an hour I had bought 3 groupons and spent $100. 

Ooops.

BUT.  One of the groupons I bought was a portrait session at JCPenny's for $25 that included a few free sheets of pictures and a CD of 3 pictures.

We went last Saturday at 11:40.  I was nervous about the timing of it all, since our little baby's naps are still pretty inconsistent.  But she took a solid nap from 9:00-10:30 and was ready to rock and roll for the pictures.

They could not have turned out more adorable (and sometimes hilarious).  We did a gray and red theme and Maya even wore a headband. 

Enjoy.

First up: THE SISTERS.

Then we have: THE OLDER ONE.

Next up: THE BABY.

Then: THE WHOLE FAMILY.

 

Then, she started showing me all the pictures on the computer and turned them all black and white.  Here are a couple of my favorites.

And then she was like a picture wizard and started making photo collages with just a few clicks of the mouse.

Yes, that is a picture of Maya's butt ruffle used in the background.  Brilliant.

So I see all of these and sheepishly ask, "What comes with my groupon again?"  And she says, "2 sheets and a CD of three pictures, but we can upgrade to a CD of all the pictures for $80."

You can obviously guess what happened next.

$80 is a small price to pay for these treasures.