Weekend Wrap-Up

Happy Superbowl!

Just kidding, I don't care at all about football.  I remember when figuring out our Superbowl plans was such a big deal.  Now, I honestly couldn't even tell you who was playing, and can watch commercials online tomorrow if they are funny enough to be posted on facebook.

Oh, how things change...

Anyway, we had a nice weekend!  Chris had (soon-to-be) Uncle Craig's bachelor party all day on Saturday, so it was me an the girls for the morning.  It started out with Callie getting a haircut.  The amount of snarls in her hair (which always led to major comb and brushing battles) was out of control.  So we got the snarls cut off and she got a cute fresh haircut.

Then back at home, Maya would not leave our snack cupboard alone.  I think we need to do some toddler-proofing.

Kona got to play with Shambles, and Maya napped at G-ma and G-pa's house while Callie went to dance class.

Whenever I take her to dance, I can't help but taking pictures and videos.  It is so darn adorable.  Here she is getting some rond de jambe lessons from Ms. Connie.


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And here is the "Red Red Robin" dance. She rocks the jazzy walks and shoulder shrugs.


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On Saturday afternoon we went over to meet the girls' newest (on the Gosselin side) 2nd cousin baby Carter.  He was born almost 5 weeks ago to Chris' cousin Sarah and her husband Nate.

It was fun to hold a tiny baby again and fun to see the girls interact with him.  There will be lots more babies born to friends in the next 6 months, so we'll get plenty of baby fixes without needing our own! :)

Today was a pretty chill day.  Maya and I met Bops, Boom and Auntie Yoda for lunch, and other than that we were just playing at home.

This morning the girls were playing really well together and Callie was using a hilarious high voice when talking to her.  I caught a quiet little moment on the stairs when Callie was trying to "read" her a book.

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Have a great week!

FTPDF

Happy Freaking Friday, everyone!

This may have been the craziest week of my life, but I'll save that story for another day because my brain might explode at any moment.  Therefore, tonight's post will be brief.

Callie is starting to figure out that humans eat animals.  She has asked me some good questions, but I (being a former vegetarian and not wanting to gross her out enough to stop eating ham and salami, some of her few sources of protein) have remained vague and noncommittal.  I know she'll figure it out soon enough and I'm sure it will be fine. But honestly, if I have to think about the details too much I could swing back to vegetarianism in a heartbeat.  And I like corn dogs too much for that.  So instead, I like to change the subject and ask things like, "If you could make a wish, what would you wish for?"  And then she answers adorable things like, "To lose a tooth and a princess clock," and the subject is then avoided.  For the moment.

Maya says "Maya" a lot now when she sees herself in the mirror or in pictures.  But then we went to dinner last night and she saw another girl at the next table that was her size and Maya pointed to her and shouted "MAYA!!!"  So she may still be a little confused.  But seriously the vocabulary development is still going strong and SO MUCH FUN.  We have conversations where I know she understands everything I say, but I understand only 2% of what she says but she doesn't care and neither do I because it is so adorable to hear her babble so passionately.  She also still hates getting her teeth brushed and screams and cries through it every. single. night.

I only have two groups of pictures to share from the week.

Favorite Thing #1: Hanging out with these people (plus Kona)

Favorite Thing #2: Getting these pictures while at work

Have a great weekend!

TBT

Happy Thursday!

Our household is out of the land of the sick, but unfortunately both G-ma and Boom joined the sick party.   THOSE GERMS!  Ridiculous.  Sorry for the germs, G-ma and Boom.

Here are the throwbacks for this week.  I tried to mix it up a little bit.

Goofy faces with Mommy

Callie in a laundry basket

The difference a year makes.
Last year we were in the throes of SCREAMYBABYNESS.
I'm so glad we're not there anymore.

The Norovirus Vortex

Happy Tuesday!

OMG. HOW IS IT ONLY TUESDAY?

Our little family has spent the past 5 days in a puking pooping vortex of nasty.

I looked it up on WebMD...it most definitely seems to have been something like a NOROVIRUS.

It started on Friday with Maya. 

Puking.  4 hour nap.  More puking.  Gross pooping.  Multiple baths. CRABBY.

Saturday was okay...just a little 7:30am puking by the little one (and more gross pooping) but generally better.

Except that was probably the day that the dang little norovirus crept its way into all the rest of us in order to cause more pain and misery.

Sunday morning it hit Chris.  He was in bed ALL day and pretty much totally out of commission.

Then, 11:30pm on Sunday night, it hit me.  Multiple times.  Throughout the night.  I was out of commission all day on Monday.

Then, 10:30pm on Monday night, it hit Callie.  I had gone to bed early, but was woken up by Chris coming into our room and saying, "Well, we are 4 for 4," and starting the bath tub for yet another clean-off-the-puke bath.

Thankfully, the stupid norovirus lost a little steam with the last one.  She only puked once, had no gross poops, and was generally fine today.  She did nap, so it got her on that, but was happy and playful other than that.

So we have wiped down surfaces and door knobs, done lots of laundry, and spent a little too much crabby time together the past 5 days.  I'm hoping *knock on wood* that we're out of the woods. 

Until Maya catches Callie's cold, and then we'll get to have fun with those germs back and forth until probably June.

Weekend Wrap-Up: The Sickies Edition

OMG.  As I said on Friday, Maya was sick...puking, etc.  The puking lasted about 24 hours, but the other gross stuff went on through today.  This morning Chris got hit- not the puking, but major stomach pain and couldn't get out of bed...basically all day.  And Callie got a super bad cold.

So I got to deal with all the sickies and their fun sickie stuff and their fun sickie attitudes.

But let's focus on something more positive, shall we?

Saturday

The best part about Saturday was Laura's first bridal shower!!!!!  It was thrown by Faye, the good friend of her future mother-in-law, Mariellen.  It started out at a bar for a dart tournament, which was awesome, and then ended at Faye's house for lunch, cake and presents.  It was so fun, and it was great to get to know some of the ladies from Craig's side.

Bottom left: Laura with Lucy, Craig's grandma (who kicked everybody's butts at darts)
Bottom right: Laura with Mariellen, her future mother-in-law

Craig made an appearance for cake and presents.

There are a couple more showers in February, and the wedding is about a month away.  Can't wait!

As for the rest of Saturday, it was pretty low-key.

Shambles is going to pass up Kona really fast,
The girls wanted to be in laundry baskets,
Maya walked around Southdale and was my dinner date.

Sunday

Today was just a wash.  By 9:30 I got the girls in the car to just drive around because Maya would not let me put her down and Callie was bored.  We drove and watched some skiers (cross country and downhill) at different places near our house, and did a Target and Babies R Us run. 

Thankfully, the girls pepped up before bedtime, so we were able to have a little bit of fun trying to get Maya to say words.  She was not having much of it, though...


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She has figured out her own name finally, as you'll see eventually...


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Hope your start to the week will be better than ours will be!

FTPDF: THe 18-Months-Old Edition!!!

Here is our little 18-month-er in her happy place.

Favorite Thing #1: Bath time

Unfortunately for this little one, she spent a lot of her 18-month-day either sleeping, puking or pooping out gross stuff.  (Hence the bath time picture).  She hasn't had any other issues so far (*knock on wood*) so I hope whatever bug she got goes away quickly.

But besides all that, the biggest thing about her this week is her language development.  It is so fun because everyday she'll come out with some new words that I didn't know she knew.  Today, for example, was "fish" and "phone."  We are also working on her name, but she is being resistant to that little bit.

She thinks it is hilarious to say "no" when Callie asks her to say different things, so now it has become a kind of game between them.

Callie: Maya, can you say "Gossie?"
Maya: NO!
Callie: (giggling) Maya, can you say "Gertie?"
Maya: (smiling) NO!!!

And so on.  It is adorable.

Callie got to go on a field trip to Orchestra Hall today for a Kinder Koncert.  She said that she saw flutes and violins, and that they all got to go in a big box with carpet on the walls.  I have no idea what that means, but I trust her.  She is so observant and takes in so much information every day that I'm always impressed by what she notices and how much she can tell us about stuff.  And, in general, her 5-year-old attitude is MUCH better than her 4-year-old attitude.  Thank goodness.

On to the pictures...

Favorite Thing #2: Goofy girls


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Favorite Thing #3: MLK day off on Moday

Favorite Thing #4: A birthday celebration for G-ma

Favorite Thing #5: Pillow fights with Daddy

Favorite Thing #6: Kona love

Favorite Thing #7: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday with G-pa, G-ma and Boom

Have a great weekend!

TBT

Happy Thursday!  It is currently 5:30am and I have been wide awake since about 3:45am, so I thought, why NOT write my TBT blogpost right now?  It'll maybe give me some more time tonight to run on the treadmill.  Or at least more time to THINK about running on the treadmill.

I'm acutely aware that it is the 22nd today, and that the past 60 months, most of the 22nds have been recognized as Callie's "_______-months-old" day.  Well guys, I'm going to call it now that she's five, and just let her be 5 and whatever months until she is 6.  So no more 22nd month posts for her.

Sorry, kid, you're growing up.

On to the throwbacks...this is a time of year that their opposite season birthdays become pretty obvious.  A lot of Callie's almost-18-month pictures were taken outside in June.  A lot of Maya's are taken inside in January.  Or, in the case of the 3rd one, outside in the cold in January.

Serious girls on the bike at Boom and Bops' place

Cute happy faces

Standing outside