Timehop Tuesday

Happy Tuesday! First up, a girl who was almost 4 then, and almost 7 now!

 

Then, a timehop of a timehop! Three years of Maya Leigh:

 

Lastly, the elves used to be a lot more exciting. Now they just need coffee.

 

Weekend Wrap-Up

The sugar rushes and subsequent crashes have begun.

But I am proud of us, because we are pretty anal about the girls' sugar intake. For example, at a birthday party today, they made gingerbread houses and both actively snuck pieces of candy. Therefore, they had to split a cupcake.

Haha. Ugh sugar.

Anyway. We had a fun, albeit FREEZING weekend.

Yesterday was pretty fun.

We decided to combat the cold and cabin fever and headed to Edinborough for some active play time. My knees felt it, crawling up in the big play structure. Ouch.

 

Auntie Cat came over to hang out in the afternoon (she helped us clean, too!) and did some cool outdoor winter science experiments. My favorite was when she threw boiling water up in the air. It created what looked like smoke and then totally disappeared. 

 

We tried to go see Santa in the early evening, but as soon as we got there Santa had to "go feed the reindeer." So, we went to play some games at Dave and Busters instead.

 

As you can see, the evening ended with a pillow fight.

This morning was negative-something-ridiculous outside, so we stayed in. Callie and I made Oreo Balls!

 

The girls did a pretty decent job of playing together... for about 2 minutes.

 

This afternoon we went to Sydney's birthday party. There was gingerbread house making and lots of play time.

 

Tonight we cleaned and Maya got a Daddy hair-do.

 

That "DON'T YOU DARE SMILE" trick works every time!

And then she fought sleep so hard but finally succumbed. Lights on and on the floor and all.

 

Have a great week before Christmas.

A Picture Update

Holy Snowy!

We are in some sort of storm watch so I got out of work at noon and Chris left work early and we picked the girls up early so as to not have to deal with driving during rush hour in the snow. Instead, we got to sled in the snow!

 

As you can see, they loved it.

Now it is officially the start to my and Callie's winter break! Maya has a couple days next week at preschool still.

The biggest thing we made it through this week was the last couple performances. Callie had her concert at school and a little holiday dance show. Both shows were cute. She had a speaking part at her concert:

And a clip of the last song:

A couple things- it had a lullaby theme so she got to wear pajamas and loved it. Also, she has no front teeth and her speaking part had so many /s/ sounds. So cute. Also again, did you see the look she and the boy next to her gave each other at the end?!?

She also had her holiday dance show, where her class did the appropriate-for-this-age group number "For Sooth, I Lost a Tooth." They wore their "Hard Knock Life" costumes to get one more use out of them. Once again, adorable.

Auntie Cat got her flowers.

 

Earlier in the week, Maya had a fun day with Boom.

 

And the girls and I wore our footie jammies.

 

And, of course, those silly elves have been up to no good.

 

The level of crazy going on downstairs in our basement right now is high. Callie got totally sugared up at school with treats, and Maya has been awake since before 6am so she is now delilerious. 

Hooray winter break!

Timehop Tuesday

Happy Tuesday! We have Christmas themed Timehops today!

First up, our Christmas trees.

 

Then, the girls in their preschool Christmas programs (Maya- 3-years-old; Callie- 4-years-old).

 

And finally, crazy how time marches on. We have Maya on the left, dressed up to go see her sister in her preschool concert. Maya on the right, ready for her own preschool concert.

 

Weekend Wrap-Up: The Belated Happy Birthday Auntie Mari Edition!

Yesterday was Auntie Mari's birthday and I missed doing a post! But the girls did sing to her right away in the morning, and it was sweet.

We got to celebrate with her today, after two different Christmas programs at church- Maya's in the morning and Cal's in the afternoon.

 

 

Yesterday was a pretty chill day. There was some fort making in the morning, and that's the only picture I took all day. 

 

We went over to the Held's in the afternoon but no pictures of all the crazy kids this time.

This morning we played in all the snow!

 

And went to lunch, where I got my new favorite picture.

 

 

My favorite picture trick is to tell them they are not allowed to smile. I *love* how much they love to do the opposite of what I tell them. But in this situation, it totally works in my favor.

Back to the birthday girl. We had dinner at her and Josh's place. And I got to use my trick again to get an adorable picture of her with her nieces.

 

Have a great week!

A Picture Update

Hello! Happy Friday! 

The 2nd to last week before break is always pretty brutal at schools...at least in my experience. This was me at 5pm on Monday:

 

It had been a long day.

But Maya had a fun day with Boom, and then a fun dinner at Uncle Dan and Hanna's house with Daddy.

 

 

Callie and I played with Snapchat for the first time in awhile.

 

Callie lost another tooth on Wednesday morning, so she really does want her two front teeth for Christmas!

 

Maya went to the library with Pa, which is their Thursday tradition. This week she brought a kitty.

 

Last night was the first of 5 holiday shows that we have for the girls. It was Maya's preschool concert and she looked adorable.

 

When it came to singing in the concert, though, well... this is what we got.

No singing and a lot of her fingers in her mouth and staring at the floor. But lots of people came to see her and we got cookies after the show.

 

It was a fun/funny night!

Here is what Coo-Koo and Loony have been up to this week:

 

Crazy elves!

Lastly, this morning I went with Callie to her school's family breakfast. Donuts!

 

Have a great weekend! Here is a big fat goodnight kiss!

Timehop Tuesday

Happy Tuesday folks!

I just have a couple Timehops today.

Silly Callie:

 

Tree cutting: