A Picture Update

So it has been a week. I can’t even believe that Halloween was just back on Tuesday. Wednesday through today has been so busy at work, compounded with Maya being super sick and not sleeping well (a BAD cold).

The top picture is from my Fitbit, and Wednesday was super rough on all of our sleeping schedules. She snuggled with Pa on Thursday, and G-ma baked us pie to cheer us all up.

Back to the rest of the week. Maya’s Mondays are always so fun at Boom’s House!

And a little bit more from Halloween:

Tonight we did our annual costume get-together with the Held family.

Hilarious.

Have a great weekend!

Way Back Wednesday

This isn’t going to be an actual thing, but my Timehop showed me Halloween of 2008 today. We went to a college friend’s house for a party. With other mid-20s friends. And no kids, obviously, as we were still over a year from Callie making her debut.

So who did we dress up as??????

Any guesses???

If you guessed Elvis and Pricilla...good job!

I look at those pictures and think what in the world did we do with all of our free time back then?!?! I guess we had time to actually coordinate and obtain matching costumes instead of wearing the same glow-in-the-dark pumpkin shirt for probably the 5th Halloween in a row.

Timehop Tuesday: The Halloween Edition!

Happy Halloween from our pirate and mermaid.

This year Maya is wearing the big girl version of the matching mermaids costumes from 4 years ago.

And of course, Timehops from all past Halloween’s (with children).

Have a safe and happy Halloween!

Ok...how about one more pic from before (just) kids??

Weekend Wrap-Up

Hey everybody!  It’s already Sunday, and it is already the end of October. To be honest, I hate the end of October. The seasons are changing, the end of 1st quarter is happening at school so students and teachers are stressed, my children are bonkers, and I’m just crabby. There was some meltdowns this weekend that I’d like to forget, but we also had some fun.

Maya and I were at Target by 7:30am yesterday morning, and I noticed how skinny the cereal aisle has become. Maya didn’t seem to mind, as she just tries to be as goofy and challenging as possible 24/7.

It was Halloween costume day at dance class! It is one of my favorite classes because everyone is always soooooooo creative!

Here’s a little video too.

Yesterday afternoon we had game time at G-ma and Pa’s house with G-ma, Pa, Auntie Cat, Uncle Dan, and Hanna! Highlights included Apples to Apples Jr., reading poems from “Where the Sidewalk Ends,” and playing catch-the-styrofoam-block-in-the-butterfly-net with Uncle Dan.

Today after church we went to Boom’s house to hang out with her and Iris. Auntie Yoda and Baby Lucy stopped by for a bit too! The girls found snow out on our walk, and relished the idea of hitting me with snowballs.

We also got the first annual picture of the cousins in their Halloween coatumes.  Maya continued to be a stinker.

The rest of the afternoon was marked by a massive meltdown at the library (guess who?) and then some much needed quiet time for me. Halloween week is coming...🎃👻☠️👹😱

A Picture Update

Happy Friday!!! The big news of the week is that Boom got a dog!!! Yesterday she adopted a 2-year-old greyhound and named her Iris Cecile. 

She’s the sweetest. We went to meet her tonight and got lots of love and kisses.

The girls are SO excited and have both declared Iris their new best friend. 

As for the rest of the week...Maya and Lucy helped Boom prepare for getting a dog on Monday.

On Monday night we had a footie jammie freeze dance party. With spooky pumpkins.

G-ma and Pa took the girls to Lund’s for the Halloween party on Tuesday night.

And they had the girls on Wednesday and Thursday too.

We did some Snapchats last night.

Today it freaking snowed. I’m so not ready for winter, but Maya was pretty excited about it.

And tonight we got some Lucy time while downtown meeting Iris.

Have a great weekend. I’ll leave you with cute babies in bibs.

Timehop Tuesday

Hola! I’ll start with what may be one of my most ever favorite Timehops, which I posted a year ago.

Sigh...when the baby grows into the big kid’s shirt.

And then, toddlers and babies, cousins edition!

Eeeeeeeek!!

51-Months-Old!!

This one.

Whenever I talk about her with someone else who knows her, we inevitably start giggling because she is such a goof.

And those that don’t know her well just think she is the cutest thing ever (mostly because she doesn’t really speak, and instead gives a smirky little smile).

I think it is safe to say we are all balancing the desire for her to stay our baby but also the desire for her to just stop with the 4-year-old drama nonsense. Ok, that just might be me projecting on everyone else.

Anyway. She has been around for 51 months now and we love her to pieces.