The New Look

Mommy wasn't the only one to get a makeover this week. Baby girl just had her third haircut in 16 months. Seriously this girl's hair grows just like her momma's. Instead of going to Great Clips this time I decided to try a new kids place I heard about from a friend. So yesterday we tried Cookie Cutters and the girls really enjoyed it. While waiting Gigi played on the slide and watched a portion of Horton hears a Who. Gigi picked the Dora car for her sister to sit in and they started the very quick and painless process of cutting my baby's hair. There's not much you can do with her hair so a quick trim all over is what she needed.
Note: you know the child's hair needs cut when she has to tilt her head up to see under her bangs while watching a show. lol
This was the first time Lil Miss was not sitting on my lap during a haircut so I didn't know how she would do. Besides the constant turning of her head to see what was going on, she did great!

{Hello there!!}
I know I could probley do the trimming and cutting myself, but I am so nervous I would get her with the scissors and I know from experience it would not be straight!!

Here is Lil Miss hamming it up for the camera. She is totally in style now with the blunt bang look that all the celebs are wearing. Our little Diva!! Lunch time -- we had a playdate at the Davenport Junior Theater with the Quad City Moms Blog group yesterday so we picked up lunch on our way home. The girl munched on mommy's french fries while watching an episode of Sesame Street. Such a Big Girl!!!
photo from: http://www.thestylesocial.com/
http://thestylesocial.com/2012/02/27/oscars-2012-blunt-bangs/
{Our stylish girl}

Tackling Reupholstery

Back in September I did my first reupholstering project. We have a large window seat in our bedroom and it had a funky blue fabric on it that was probley original with the house. it had large crevices wear buttons were and the holes were filled with dirt and dog hair... yuck. So after cleaning the seat entirely, I filled in the button holes with stuffing and covered it in this fun fabric. Do you like? Last weekend I finished another reupholstery project. I love the fact you can take something and completely make it new by just putting on a new fabric!! Sweetness!! Nate had surprised me with our dining room table and chairs as a wedding gift. When I say surprise, I mean surprise. I left three days before the wedding to head back to our home town to get everything ready for the wedding and Nate had the dining room table delivered and set up while I was getting my nails done. The night before the wedding he showed me a picture on his phone with the table and chairs in our apartment. Talk about Surprise!!! We obviously weren't thinking about children when we bought the chairs because I had picked out a cream colored fabric for the chairs. Flash forward almost 8 years and the fabric is covered in ketchup stains and colored markers. It was time we changed it up.

{updating the chairs... goodbye old fabric}

Two of the chairs are now located in the living room because the table only fits 4 chairs currently in the kitchen. So i decided to start with recovering those two first. (I also am not able to find the fabric yet that i want in the kitchen yet, so that project sits for another time) The kids and I started in on the project. Bubba and Gigi were the photographers... when they weren't taking pictures of the dogs or the floor! Lil Miss was in the middle of my project literally... she sat down right in the middle of the fabric and didn't want to get up. Despite my "helpers" best efforts to distract me I got it done.

{a roadblock in the covering phase}

{hurry up Lil Miss got up.... time to staple}

{photographer 1}

{self portrait of photographer 2}

{Lil Miss using the screwdriver.... stalling me once again}

{Before and After}

The seats were so pretty at one time.... now a little dirty. Can you see the questionable green spot on the front? Not sure where that came from.

All pretty and stain free!!! Project complete. Yeah, me. :-)

What a difference a day makes!!

It's a beautiful day... the lyrics to the U2 song were in my head all day Thursday. It was truly a wonderfully beautiful day. The sun was shining, the weather was warm and the kids (and Mommy) were in happy moods. It felt like spring..... 24 hours later we had inches of snow on the ground and we were bundled up again. I was just about to start to put away the snow pants and snow boots and welcome spring, but before I had the snow pants rolled up and put on the top of the closet. It snowed!

{daddy goes for a lay up}
To make a good day even better, daddy was home before 5 and before it got dark to play with the kids outside. They collapsed on him before he was out of the car and had convinced him to stay outside to play. I don't think it took much arm twisting to get daddy to play. :-)

{showing off her jump rope skills}

{bubba goes up for a lay-up}

That day me and girls took a walk to the park. We had to clean off the wagon from cob webs and saw dust (thanks daddy!) then we were ready to go. Lil Miss did a wonderful job of staying seated as we took a wagon ride. She looked like she had done it a hundred times.

{lil Miss hot-roddin'}

and as the song goes... we didn't let the day get away. We enjoyed every minute of the sunshine that we could. The only think on the kids and I's agenda that morning was eye dr. appt for Lil Miss.

Oh, yes at 16 months we had an eye dr appointment. We came home with good news. That as far as the doctor can see Lil Miss does not have Nate's severe far sightedness. We will keep an eye on it but for now we can not worry about that. Her chances of needing glasses is still high since me and Nate both have bad eyes, but keep our fingers crossed that she got the perfect blend of both of our eyes (i have bad near sightedness and he has far sightedness) and she can see 20/20.

{Gigi was occupied the entire appointment playing on her new DSi that she got for her birthday}

Lucky for us they didn't have to use the usual eye equipment on our little girl. She only had to stare at the tv playing Aladdin across the room or see the cow moving and "mooing" or the sheep "baaing". I was quite impressed with the whole appointment.

{our happy little girl}

{what a difference a year makes! Last year she was just sitting in a stroller not doing much more than eating, sleeping and pooping AND now she is playing with the BIG girls.}

On Friday as the snow started coming down our Big girl got ready for Kindergarten Roundup. She was so nervous and mommy was too! I know there will be tears come August when I have to let my baby go at school and leave her for the day. :-( But until then we can have fun every day up til school. It was deja-vu sitting there learning all the kindergarten rules and information. I should be teaching what to do after having two kids go off to kindergarten the last two years. Gigi is so excited to go school shopping already to pick out her backpack and be just like her big sister and big brother.
On Saturday, Mommy got to get pampered with a free makeover that I won over at the Quad City Moms Blog. I didn't know what to do while getting pampered. I am usually the one making other people happy and comfortable. It was a great time and the girls who helped me pick out my outfit, do my hair, do my make up and take the before and after shots were wonderful!! We ended the night with a dinner out at the Machine Shed which was also provided by the girls over at the QC Mom's Blog. I felt like a million bucks. I love my new hair cut and especially the color. I am getting used to having it shorter but I am still getting used to not being able to put it in a ponly tail on days that there is NO time to even brush my hair. So time will tell how this will pan out. I ran 6 miles at the YMCA on sunday and had to push the hair out of my eyes a few times. BUT I love the look and so does the kids and Nate. YEAH!! More to come....

A Day in the Life

I have gotten back into the organization mode, BIG TIME!! More on that to come, but I also have been religiously keeping track of our schedules and daily routines. Rosie now has a calender in her room keeping her abreast of things/events coming up and days she needs to take a shower. So as I was looking at Ali Edwards Blog http://www.aliedwards.com/ this past week and came across her Day in the Life series. It chronicles her daily routine and observations about the day, special gratitudes and her favorite moments. I was inspired and printed one of the printables right then and there. Yesterday I decided to put the 'Day in the Life' into action. Since I wasn't running in the morning and was sitting around before the kids woke up (a rare moment) I took pencil to paper and started to write what had happened that morning... not much since it was only 6 o'clock. :-) Throughout the day I took the paper out and jotted down a few notes and here is what a Day in the Life of this mommy looks like.




4:00 am -- still sleeping, Thank Goodness! I know my sister sometimes starts her day at 4 but I like a little bit more sleep.


5:07 am -- alarm goes off to go running, but Nate informs me he is getting up for a 6 am meeting and has to go into work. So I crawl back into bed and get a few more zzzz's.


6:11 am -- Alarm goes off! Time to start the day & get dressed and ready. If I don't get ready now before the kids wake up then I am most certainly going to be dropping them off at school in pjs. There isn't enough time to get everyone ready and me if I wait til the kids are all up and running around the house. I know this from experience. I let the dogs out, put 3 laundry baskets of clean clothes on the bed so I am forced to fold them and put them away before we go to bed that night. I check e-mail and facebook (morning, noon, and night rituals) before I hear the first sounds of my kids.


6:36 am -- Start the morning routine. I go into the little girl's room and see that Lil Miss is talking up a storm and Gigi is in her bed playing in with her flashlight. (the flashlight is kept under her pillow to help her get to the bathroom at night without getting too scared, it is also probley why Lil Miss woke up) While changing Lil Miss's diaper and getting her dressed, bubba sneaks up behind me and scares me to death! He is already changed and ready to go. He asks me to button his sleeves, because his new thing recently is wearing a button down shirt to school just like his daddy! Last week he came in wearing a shirt and a tie, no joke. I made him take off the tie to go to school, mean mommy. Bubba is my morning person. He is usually dressed before I even have to ask and has a smile on his face ready for breakfast. By the time we have Lil Miss dressed and have an appropriate outfit for Gigi picked out (after her dissing mommy's 3 other outfit choices) we walk over to Rosie's door to wake her. To my surprise she is up. Not completely awake but up out of the bed. I choose an outfit out for her.... she is much easier to please because all I have to do is pick something out with sequins/or shiny and we are good to go.


7:07 am -- Lil Miss, Bubba and I are in the kitchen putting breakfast on the table. Bubba gets fruity cheerios, Lil miss gets an orange and a piece of bagel with cream cheese, and I start a cup of coffee. Rosie comes down to the kitchen shortly after the breakfast is on. She looks a little dishevelled but at least she is dressed.



7:15 am -- Gigi is still not down stairs eating breakfast, so I go up to search for her. She is sitting in her room sitting in her underwear playing with her doll Addy. She tells me she doesn't want to go to the dr. and get shots today, bribing her with nothing but fun today if she gets dressed and goes me with to the dr. I get her downstairs to eat.

7:20 am -- Bubba is cleaning out the dishwasher, Lil Miss is parked in front of the tv watching Sesame Street, and Rosie is ready to get her hair done.



7:52 am -- Girls hair is done, they have begged me to wear makeup so each of them has a hefty amount of lip gloss on their lips and all the kids are dressed.




7:59 am -- start the process of putting shoes on and going out the door. This may seem like it should only take a minute or two but we also have to solve the mystery of wear is Rosie's glasses. It has snowed through the night and snow is on the ground, so I have to disappoint Bubba by telling him he has to take off his chuck taylors and put on his snow boots. Without much fuss he has quickly switched and his boots and snow pants are in his bag to go to school.



8:11 am -- we are walking out the door. The kids have their backpacks, snow pants and snow boots, and hats and gloves. Mommy has packed the diaper bag, but forgot the grocery list and checks to be deposited on the counter.



8:21 am -- after prayer in the car on the way to school and good bye kisses the oldest two kids are out of the van and into school.



8:24 am -- At Hy-Vee to grocery shop when I discover that I forgot the grocery list. Me and the girls only pick up a few items since Gigi wants her own little grocery cart we fill that with what mommy could remember. She begs to do self check out and I do. She scans all the items we had in her little cart (her favorite part) she bags it all (3 bags full) and puts them back in her cart. She is Miss Independent and doesn't let mommy help at all. I was going to hop right over tot he bank but since I forgot my deposits I head straight to the Dr.'s office.



9:02 am -- early of course we walk into the Dr. office for our 9:20 appt. To my surprise we don't have to wait longer than 5 mintues before we are taking back for Gigi's 5 year appt. The nurse gives Gigi the wonderful news that her vaccinations are all up to date for kindergarten and gives her a clean bill of health and fills out all the forms for kindergarten. Whoohoo.

{feeding the horse out of the bucket}

{Lil Miss driving the combine}

10:00 am -- Girls and I head to the Family Museum to play. I thought Lil Miss knew her name pretty well until she was running around the place in the opposite direction from which I was calling her. LOL The girls played hard for an hour and a half.

11:40 am -- pitstop at Wendy's to pick up lunch and bring it home. We were going to go somewhere to eat out but Lil Miss was fading fast, so we took lunch to go.

12:14 pm -- Lil Miss goes down for a nap. As soon as our lunch is all cleaned up, Gigi and I head up stairs to fold laundry. Gigi gets out her workbooks and works on her directional words like in between, near and far. I sped through the folding of the clothes as fast as I could because I was losing Gigi attention. She doesn't take naps on days that she doesn't pee the bed at night so we were successful in that the night before, YEAH! She kept pleading to me to stop cleaning and do something fun. For some reason I didn't really argue so I put Daddy and I's clothes away in their spots and we headed to the basement. My sister had gotten me three buttons for the wall as a house warming gift, this was way back in october but I had done nothing with them so I decided today was the day of paint. So I pulled out the kids painting smock and set up an art area in the family room and we got to work. Besides painting 2 of the 3 buttons I also painted one of the 3 wooden boxes I bought for the Office. Thanks to pinterest I found a really cool idea to attach some wooden crates to the wall as shelves. I needed something fun in that room, since it is my funky room with aqua walls and fun vibrant colors as accent. I fell in love with the deep purple I painted on the crate. I almost wanted to paint all 3 that color... but no... one will be a rich purple, one lime green, and one orange. Yes, I am sure my mom and Pam are gagging right about now, but I am nothing but colorful!!! LOL While we were painting we watched Dumbo which happens to be Gigi's most favoritest movie right now. Her words not mine.

2:40 pm -- my alarm goes off on my phone (it is set for every weekday at this time) Time to get ready to pick up the kids from school. I had the paint and mess cleaned up at this time. We headed upstairs so mommy could change into her workout clothes and put some shoes on. Like clockwork, Lil Miss started making noise in her room and we walked into the room with her throwing everything out of her crib.

3:01 pm -- we are headed out the door once again with coats, shoes, and hats on to go wait outside the kids school till the bell rings at 3:20 releasing them. I park in the same place everyday and my children are always one of the last kids out of the school. I go through the mail while the kids watch a Barbie movie in the van. Gigi fell asleep right away as soon as we left the house so all is quiet. I was pleasantly surprised when I got to chat with my sister Beth during this time too. One of the few times during the day when I have time to talk.

3:28 pm -- I finally see my kids s-l-o-w-l-y walk to the car. Bubba is always filled with words on how his day went and Rosie tries to get a word in as we drive the short drive home. We get home put a snack out for the kiddos and quickly all go the restroom before we are back out the door.

4:15 pm -- we check in at the YMCA. Tuesday is Taco Tuesday. Ask the kids what Tuesday is and they will say the same thing. Since the first of the year I have made it a point to always make it to the Tuesday night Zumba class at the Y. I can't always make it to the Thursday night class because of Kids For Christ... but my Tuesday night is non negotiable. I drop the two little ones of at child watch, the two older ones at Y Pals and then head upstairs to run on the elliptical until class starts.

5:30 pm -- Covered in sweat and full of energy, I pick up the kids and sign them out and we head to the van. We pull through the Taco Bell Drive thru... Rosie knows our order by heart and take our warm tacos home to eat.

5:50 pm -- daddy is at home working on the trim in the bathroom and the kids all head for the table with their tacos and start eating. Before they bite into their first taco, we all say grace and recite the Our Father which we are learning this week instead of a bible verse.

6:30 pm -- Bubba heads up to the shower, and Mommy and Rosie sit down to do math homework. Rosie was missing on Thursday because of a fever so she didn't understand what they were doing with counts so we spent some time learning a new skill. We finished the homework and she headed upstairs to get in the shower and Bubba came down to do his homework. I like kindergarten work because we are only working on counting by 2's, 5's, and 10's. Mommy can do that!!

7:15 pm -- Rosie finally makes it out of the shower with steam coming out of the bathroom and water ALL over and the it's the two little girls turn for a bath. I throw Lil Miss and Gigi in the tub and start scrubbing. Lil Miss is starting to love bath time so we throw in some toys and get to turn into prunes.

7:50pm -- Everyone is cleaned and ready for bed. We start the bedtime ritual of reading bed time stories and prayers. Gigi is the first (youngest to oldest) and picks a snow white princess story. Daddy pitches in and reads to Bubba and hopefully made him read some but I wasn't there to witness. And then it is Rosie's turn. She is supposed to read a book to me from school every night and then I read a chapter out of one of her books. We don't make our 8 o'clock bedtime but by 8:20 everyone is in bed.

8:22 pm -- Lil Miss's screaming gets to Daddy and I and Daddy goes in to save her. We started on Sunday to put things on her thumb to stop the thumb sucking and since then the night time hasn't been so easy. She doesn't have the comfort of sucking her thumb putting her to sleep. Daddy took her downstairs and Mommy went back to putting more clothes away and folding two more loads of laundry so we could actually go to sleep without a pile of clothes under us. Time to read a little in my devotional and right a little in my journal. Read tommorrow's Love Dare which is ask your spouse to tell you three things that cause him or her to be uncomfortable or irritated with you. I must do so without attacking him or justifying my actions. (so nate I am asking you to name three things -- and only three things. I guess if I do it this way without physically asking you can think I have ulterior motives, right?) :-)

9:15 pm -- get a text just as I was going to jump in the shower.... Can you come get our baby girl she fell asleep. So I head downstairs with a diaper to change girl and put her into the crib. Of course she wakes up as I am changing her diaper and when I go to lie her down she scream s bloody murder.

10:20 pm -- After Daddy put her to sleep again we successfully get her into the crib. Two hours later I get to take a shower.

10:46 pm -- I am in bed.... put to sleep while listening to Nate's book on tape. I couldn't even tell you what it is about because I was out!

AND that's my day. I am very nervous how next year is going to pan out with three kids having to do homework after school. I don't know where I am going to come up with more time. When I write it all down it seems like a lot but if you look at the house it doesn't look I did anything. I mean the dishwasher got cleaned out and I cleaned the dishes after breakfast, but there was still dishes in the sink when I went to bed. How does the work when we ate out for both lunch and dinner? i didn't have time to sweep or clean off my desk both things i wanted to get done. I did get my workout in though and that was important so all in all it wasn't a bad day. And I have to say the kid's were in outstanding moods and so was mommy. Daddy even made it a point to comment on my good mood. As an observation, I would have to say that my mood is directly linked my children's moods/attitudes. Kids Happy = Mommy Happy

Things I overheard was Lil miss saying -- "there he is" clear as a bell. Recently she has been able to respond to where is her belly button by pointing to her belly button. Last night while Daddy was in the room I asked Lil Miss where her daddy was and then in a sing song voice I replied to myself "There he is!" and perfectly she repeated "there he is". Nate and I both looked at each other and said did she really say that! Also Bubba confided in me that "he didn't do anything wrong" but he was playing with a little girl at school and out of the blue she went and kissed him on the cheek. The teacher told them that we don't kiss anyone but our mother, father, or family. He told us that he wouldn't let her do that to him again. We are going to have to watch out for those feisty kindergarten girls!! LOL

Gratitudes -- I just want to be thankful for a wonderful day. not everyday goes this smoothly and if I was keeping track of my daily tasks from today you would have heard a different story. (today not going as smoothly as yesterday!) I am glad I wrote this all down so that I can see that if I keep a positive attitude and my kids see that we are all much happier. I was also much more prepared the day I wrote this than today. Today I was still in my workout clothes when the kids woke up (15 minutes early) so I already felt overwhelmed. If I could keep and not fret over not being on a set schedule it would be a much more pleasant start to the day. Yesterday the kids were walking into the school at 8:21.... today 8:26 -- I hope they don't come home saying they got a tardy. And then I sit back think so what! So they get a tardy, if I wouldn't get so worked up about being on time, I wouldn't have this dread in the morning that "oh no we are going to be late!!" I am also immensely thankful for the time I get to spend with my two little ones. I know they will grow up so fast and these little things that we get to do during the week are pretty special. That time at the family museum seeing the girls play together and run around laughing were my favorite of the day! I didn't worry about what time it was or what we have to get done today.. I was actually being in the moment. AND that is pretty wonderful!

I do need to mention that I could have been doing more. I watched 3 tv shows throughout the day on the DVR (parenthood, biggest loser and the good wife) -- not every minute is accounted for during my time line :-) The time spent painting the buttons and crates with Gigi was actually a lot of fun and daddy would have been so upset with me having paint in the family room .... but we were careful!!! ;-)

Let the celebration begin

{we made Gigi use the birthday bib on her birthday!}

It was a birthday celebration all weekend in the Schulte household. It started Friday and the girl was spoiled up into today. Tomorrow will be such a let down. :-( We are currently feasting on leftover birthday cake to fill up on this FAT TUESDAY. This mommy has been on a diet for a while so I am really trying not to indulge on this day. Feeding Lil Miss leftover cake and taking a nibble here and there is ok for me. I know Lent is about giving up and "sacrificing" something that is really important during this time. A small price to pay when Jesus gave his life for us, so I have given up soda for Lent. (my best friend Mountain Dew will be so lonely) I feel it is really more about "doing" things instead of "giving" up. That is why besides giving up soda for the next 40 days, I am also "doing" more to change my life. For the past 2 1/2 months I have been running in the morning training for the Cap City 1/2 marathon. I know, you can't seriously see this girl running 13.1 miles. Well, it's not pretty and not fast but this past weekend I ran 5 miles!!!! My longest yet, and that combined with the walking I did I totalled 7.36 miles on Sunday! I am very proud of myself. So Lent I will continue to improve my running and NOT give up. I also started over the weekend doing more reading in the bible. 3 weeks ago we started learning bible verses as a family. Over a weeks time we talk about the bible verse, read the story in the bible in coordinates with, and then memorize the verse. This has motivated me to really strengthen my relationship with the Lord and spend the time every night reading a little in the bible. Over the weekend I picked up a devotional journal too and have started to reflect on MY life. I spend so much time analysing each child and trying to solve their problems... that I forget that I need to work on my attitude and reaction to situations as well. Trying to regulate myself over this Lenten season is a goal AND if I am working on my relationship with God and my relationship with myself, I might as well throw in my relationship with Nate as well. I started The Love Dare on Friday with Nate. If you aren't familiar it is was made hugely popular by the movie "Fireproof." I spent a little time on Friday afternoon at the book store and came across the Love Dare once again on the bookshelf right in front of me. I came straight home, found the copy I had bought a long time ago after just finishing the movie (I think I made it to day 2 last time) and started it right away. I am on Day 4 of the Love Dare and up until now I don't know if Nate even noticed I was doing anything different. He will now after reading this -- if he reads the blog? So more than just giving up soda -- I am trying to work on myself and my attitude. Those of you who know me closely know that the past month or so I have hit some lows. I would say I have definately walked a fine line on being depressed. I can't blame it on winter weather because the weather has been more like spring. In my world it just seems that everything came falling in at one time. So now I am digging myself out of my funk and coming back to the real world showing the people around me that I am not the person I was the last couple of months. Instead of sitting in front of the computer at night searching pinterest, looking at facebook, or reading inspirational mommy blogs who I admire.... I am finding "me" time to reflect. This may sound like such an easy task, but I have struggled to put all the tasks that need to be done out of my head and just sit in bed and read or pray. Harder than it looks...

{daddy's chocolate chip pancakes} What makes like a little better is a yummy start to the day! On Sunday daddy made his wildly popular pancakes with a Gigi twist of chocolate chips. We enjoyed every bite!!

{someone loves pancakes}

{opening gifts}

Uncle Neil made Gigi wait all day to open her gift until he could "watch" her open it via skype. Even though the package came in the afternoon she waited only asking us 6-7 times if she could open it. As soon as she heard the skype signal coming through the computer she was excited!! She thought the box held clothes.... but to her astonishment it was an American Girl Doll. She is in heaven!!!

{So excited for her birthday gift -- an american girl doll from Uncle Neil}
Addy is now a part of the family. The doll goes everywhere with us.

{Skyping with Uncle Neil -- Lil Miss is a big fan of skype}

{there was some cuddle time this weekend -- this is my favorite!!}

For a treat we went to Monkey Joe's (a inside bounce house) on Sunday Afternoon to play. The little girls and I had been there before but the big kids had not. I told Daddy to bring his computer to do some work because there was a parent's lounge with comfortable chairs and couches and a big screen tv. I did not disappoint. I think I made all the kids happy -- even the biggest one, daddy!!

{monkey joe -- yes he is a purple monkey!}

The toddler area was perfect for Lil Miss. She couldn't be pulled away from the mini slide in the play area. Up and down, Up and Down, she went. It made this mommy tired.

{birthday girl -- all smiles!!!!}

{I can't believe this cake is all for me!}

When we got home from bouncing us silly we ate a dinner of turkey tenderloin and macaroni and cheese (guess who picked that?). The icing on the cake was birthday cake. The birthday girl picked Ice Cream Cake. Yummy!!!
{our boy hustling on the court}
Saturday we all made it to bubba's second to last basketball game. He does exceptionally well but needs to work on team work. Nate was constantly telling him to pass the ball but he said he was open and kept taking the shot. How can you argue? He also is watching to much OSU basketball that he is trying to use skills above his level. This week he tried dribbling under his legs once again, which he is pretty good at. BUT the funny one was when he tried to pass behind his back to another player. It went the wrong way. I think he still needs a little practice before the NBA. When you ask him what he wants to be when he grows up he will automatically say a basketball player but then adds that he also wants to do engineering. The first time he said this at the dinner table I may have made a comment such as "basketball playing engineers are pretty rare". I was rolling on the ground laughing.... Nate did not think this was funny. :-)
{Big girl staying busy during her brothers game}

{day off school scavenger hunt}

On monday the kids didn't have school because of President's Day so mommy had to be creative how to pass the time. Most of the day was unexciting. We ate breakfast, kids played DS and wii, a couple UNO games were battled out, and we watched High School Musical 3. The only creative activity we did was a scavenger hunt. The kids hunted high and low for 10 items put on a list. With Rosie being the leader reading off the list they knocked off the scavenger hunt items one by one. It was the 25 minutes needed to put supper on the stove.

{someone stole sisssy's glasses}
We had some silly times over the weekend ... like always!

{doing addy's hair}

{of course, the dolls had to eat breakfast with us}

I think turning 5 was pretty good for our little Gigi!!! She had a blast and I think the rest of us did too.