Week 4, January 19-25

Alex:

This is my brother's monkey and my shoe.  He put the monkey in my shoe and i put the shoe on and ran around and he chased me like crazy.

 

My brother is doing his homework and I am doing mine which is harder.  He's writing his letters which is so easy.  He sits and does homework when I do mine.

Zachy dumps out ALL of his cars and plays with only one or two.  And when it's time to cleanup it is so hard for him.

This is my brother's little toy.  He named it snowball.  He loves playing with it.

This is really yummy cereal, I eat it every morning.

This is our Ding Dongs and Zingers.  Mom bought them for us for a treat.  Dad's being crazy!

This is my Dad working.  He goes to work everyday except the weekends.  Sometimes I watch him work.

Mom:

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Today we had a big "snowstorm," school was even canceled!  Here's a picture of all the snow!  It never came!

Nothing too eventful going on today, but I thought these would make a cool, colorful photo.

These are my own recipe crispy parmesan potatoes, they are sooooo good!  My favorite potato by far!

Zach fell asleep on the couch inches from where we had the TV blasting with Rock Band.  Kids can sleep through anything!

I caught the kids snuggled up together watching TV.  So sweet!

I caught a cold and feel yucky...so, this has been my day, Kleenex and Mucinex.

No, we didn't quit!

I know it probably seems like we quit this project after a MONTH of not posting!  But we didn't, we have still taken a picture each day...just haven't gotten them posted yet.  But, we are here to catch up!

I am going to post 4 entries, one week each to catch us up...go get a snack, you'll need it LOL!

Jan 12-18 Catch-Up

So, we haven't posted in a week, goes by sooooo fast!  But, we are catching up now.  If you are reading this before Alex's comments are entered...she is sleeping and we will come back to enter her commentary tomorrow.

This is me sleeping and I sleep silly.

This is a typical evening in our house after bedtime for the kids...Todd sets up shop at the kitchen table and studies and prepares for his patients the next day.

I am a Daisy girl scout.  This is my first time selling Daisy cookies to someone else than my family.  My family bought a lot of cookies!

This is my Daisy Girl Scout on her way to sell her first Girl Scout cookies!  How'd she get so big anyway?

I am doing reading activities at school to get a prize.  I will get a free pizza and another prize I don't know.

Zach and his bud Charlie enjoy Wednesday play dates together.  So nice for Zach to have his own little friend and have a boy to play with.  And they are darn cute to boot!

This is my first day of enrichment clubs at school and I got in the computers class.  This is my home computer.

Our fish tank is soooo clean right now...why, you ask?  There aren't any fish in it!  We need a trip to the pet store!

These are the goody bags for my birthday party and my birthday party is bowling.  And my birthday is February 2...yay!!!!!!!!!!

Alex is having a bowling party for her 7th b-day.  Nana and I made her this adorable party favor box cake.  What a fun way to display them!

This is my new DS and I love playing it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I got a sewing machine for Christmas and it didn't work, so I got a DS instead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alex desperately needed school shoes.  Hers were, well, well loved shall we say.  These Converse sneakers are really cute and stylish and since they aren't white, they should last a little longer, I hope.

This is a new game for my DS. It is really fun to play, this one has Cooking Mama and Cooking Mama 2 on it.

Zach built a towering Geotrax today.  He thought of it on his own and counted all the supports to make sure there was one more in each stack.  He did a great job!  And then we tested all sorts of trains and cars and trucks to see which ones would make it down the track safely.  Most took a dive off the side somewhere, but some made it all the way down and we all cheered!

There were a whole bunch of shoes on the floor, it was a gigantic mess.  And these are my Daddy's shoes.  And these are the exact same shoes I was wearing yesterday in the silly picture!!!!!

I was flitting around the house putting things away that i found out of place and Alex was helping me.  I entered her room to find our dog Rupert on her bed with stuffed animals she had brought upstairs on his head!  And he kept them there for about half an hour!  I thought for sure when I went to go get the camera, he'd pick up his head and I'd miss the shot, but nope, he was perfectly content being lazy and asleep and didn't bother to move...lucky for me, it became my day 11 picture.

january 11th

Mommy was trying on different outfits and I found some stuff in a pile.  And I found a pile of purses too.  So I dressed up really silly and we took a picture of Mommy and me dressed up silly!!!!!

This is EVERYTHING hubby and I have in our closet except purses and shoes.  We piled it all up and began the closet clean out process!  We spent the whole weekend sorting, tossing and trying on clothes and outfits to determine what stays and what goes after WAY too long without a weed out.  It will be so worth it when we're done, nice and neat closet and a shot at finding what to wear on the morning!

January 9th

Mommy came to help with our class and she brought my camera.  So, I took a picture of my teacher's desk.  I thought that a picture of school would be a good daily picture.

Today Zach and I made this little ABC badge album!  It is sooo cute and functional!  It is made from name badge holders and a digital hybrid kit by Melissa Wilson who I CT for.  You print the inserts and put them in the badge holders, put all the cards together with two index card rings and then we decorated ours with some ribbons.  The best thing is, he can write on them to trace and practice his letters and sight words and then wipe it off to use again and again!  We had fun having some quality mommy and son time today.

January 8th

I wore my headband to school and it came out of my hair a few times.  I love these kind of headbands.  i like taking them out and putting them back in.

Today was laundry party day at our house...that is when the clean, folded laundry baskets pile up along the upstairs hallway and there are no more empty baskets left to do more laundry...so we have a big laundry putting away party.  Thought this should be documented somewhere in my year.