Archive for February, 2009

The Birthday Bash

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

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Maggie had her big birthday party last night. What an awesome bunch of girls. They were so much fun.

Our boys were invited to another birthday party for the evening so Damon took the boys and Molly to that party. I stayed with the girls and had a girly-girly fun time.

They started out by making their own pizzas. Then we moved to spa time. We had foot bathing, hand waxing, fingernail painting, toenail painting fun. The hand waxing was their favorite activity. They each waxed their hands about 10 times.

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Then it was cake time. Damon had picked up an ice cream cake that was big enough to feed a small army. Seriously, the thing is huge. We still have more than half of it left and we have eaten it for 2 days.

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Then we moved to craft time, movie time, popcorn time, and finally giggle and talk till after midnight time. I was determined to outlast the girls and stay awake and I made it. Then they were back up and at em before 7:00 this morning. Crazy girls.

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I think I am going to have trouble keeping my kids’ parties to just family now. The boys are already trying to figure out what kind of party they want to have for their next birthday.

Tuesday Tidbits

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

This is something new I am going to try to do each week to write down the small stuff about the kids that I don’t blog about. I want to remember the little stuff, but most of the time don’t make a full post about it. I realize it is Wednesday, but I have to do it on Tuesdays from now on cause it sounds better for a title.

Maggie had a great birthday. The best one ever. We took her to TGI Fridays to eat. They came to sing to her and made her stand on her chair while they yelled about her birthday to the whole restaurant. It was great. We got her a waterproof sports watch which she has wanted for a long time.

Micah is going through such a cute stage. He needs his mommy more than he ever has. He can’t go to sleep until I tuck him it. He says that I am the best “coverer up” in the world. There is something about the way I do it that makes him feel safe. Ahhh!

Micah loves to talk to Damon and me on the phone. He sneaks calls in to Damon several times a day. I can count on him calling me on my cell phone every time I leave the house just to check on me. Last night I had been gone for 30 minutes and he called me to tell me that it felt like I had been gone forever.

Evan has finally caught on to reading and math. I was a little scared at the beginning of the year because he is so different than Maggie and Micah when it comes to school. He is much quicker than them to pick up on life skills and slower to pick up school skills. For instance: he potty trained really early, he rode his bike without training really early, but reading was really tough for him to figure out. It has been fun for me to watch his little brain figure it all out  this year.

Eli broke his spare glasses yesterday. It was only the second time he has worn them and he broke them. A good reason not to buy cheap glasses.

Eli talks with a little French accent and it is hilarious. He can’t say the “er” sound and instead replaces it with the long a sound. He just brought me a bouquet of weeds and told me Happy Valentines day. He told me to go put them in watA so they won’t die.

Molly has figured out how to pick my bathroom lock. She then comes in and thinks she is in charge of making sure no one else comes in and bugs me while I am taking a shower.

Molly calls Damon “dad and me “mom”. She is our only child to not call us mommy and daddy and it cracks us up.

We’re in the Double Digits

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

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Today my sweet Maggie turns 10 years old. She is such a blessing to us. We love you, Maggie.

This weekend she is having her big birthday bash. She hasn’t had a big party for quite a few years and I promised her one for her 10th birthday. So, more pictures will be coming after her exciting weekend.

He’s a Hoot

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

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Yesterday, our furnace quit working so we had to call the heater man. The man worked in the washroom on the furnace for almost 2 hours. I went down to check and see how it was going and found Eli questioning the man on his every move like this. It was really cold in the house, but only Eli….. That kid keeps us laughing all the time.

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And here is Eli using Molly’s dolly shower to rinse his hair.

Eli’s Poor Blankies

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Evan brought me Eli’s blankies and wondered if maybe Gramma or someone could sew them up for him. What do ya think?

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