The fun stuff of the day

Today was Casey's first Ballet lesson (which fit in perfectly with our Letter of the Week by the way since we are on B) She has been looking forward to this for some months now and today was a day of excitement since she knew all day long that it was today. Her poor day didn't start out so hot for her because she told me last night at the dinner table that she didn't want the food I had fixed for dinner and she would rather go to bed than eat it...so we put her to bed and she had it for breakfast this morning instead. I know that might sound mean but frankly she has this control issue thing about food and I refuse to cook something different just because my 2 (almost 3) year old says she doesn't like it. She actually loves the food I cooked she usually eats it quickly and asks for seconds but last night she pushed it across the table and said "I not gonna eat it" Taking the advice that our parents and Dr. have given us (not to mention just some plain common sense) we stuck to our guns and to bed she went. So anyway she ate it this morning after a little pouting and me not allowing her up from the table till she finished it because I knew she had to be hungry. I would also like to point out that once she put some in her mouth she ate it and told me "This is yummy mommy!" No kidding! I told you that last night when I put some in your mouth to get you to eat some remember?? LOL So after she was happily eating the food she wouldn't touch the night before we moved on to school. The kids love the letter B and are having a great time with it.

Caden has enjoyed learning a lot and he really likes the animal part of it. This week we were going to learn about Buffalo but our library was out of their books on them so we moved to beavers. There is a lot to know about those little guys! Our Bible story is John the Baptist and Caden I think loves the fact that he at locusts more than anything while Casey is impressed that he knew Jesus. Beethoven is the composer of the week and I found some tid bits about him but he was a little depressing in all honesty. I am having trouble finding the music to go with the composers I don't own any of the classical music ( I know bad of me) so if anyone has some with composers that have music done but composers with names starting in C - G that would wouldn't mind letting me borrow please let me know? .

On to Casey's class...we walk in and there is another little girl there at the same time getting her slippers on and Casey walks up to her and says "You will be my friend!" and the little girl says "Yes! I am your friend!" so there you go best friends made instantly. Casey did much later find out that her friends name is Kate and they hugged and held hands the whole time they waited for class to start. They were also joined by another little girl who asked if she could be there friend and her name is Dylan and they welcomed her instantly too. You gotta love kids they really are amazing they don't care at all about being shy most of the time you just have to be nice to them and they will be you friend right away. Casey loved her class and can't wait to go back next week. She did inform me that she was the only one there without a tutu on her leo but I have no idea where the moms got leos with attached tutus because separate tutus aren't allowed and I am not paying more than the 10.00 I paid for her leo I got from Target. the amount the class cost and the shoes cost just about sent Joe into a stroke so again if anyone knows of discount sites let me know :) It has been a very fun day and it isn't even over yet!

Baby Shower Bug

So today was an awesome day! I had a fabulous morning with the kids. We just had a laid back morning playing and cleaning. I was waiting on a phone call from a friend telling me that they now knew that it was a bouncing boy or a sweet baby girl in her ever growing tummy. The kids were very excited about this phone call to but more than find out about the baby they were just excited because it meant they got to go out with one of their favorite people after the phone call. So she called (well texted cause she was at the doctors office and she had to let a lot of people know!) and so off we went to Target.

We got there early so we killed time on the toy aisle which is always fun and with the Bug's birthday next month I enjoyed watching which toys she was enjoying the most. It really amazes me how many toys from when I was little have come back now but with a "new" look. Rainbow Bright has even come back and of course my all time favorite My Little Pony! Bug is a big fan of all of them honestly I don't think she has a favorite. Caden LOVES the dinosaurs and cars that they now have and OH MY GOODNESS they have come out with dinosaur cars! He was about to have a heart attack. It was so funny LOL Anyway they were really good and only asked if they could have things a couple times and didn't even pout when I told them no. : ) My favorite part was when Casey found the display of Twlight figures and picked up the Edward doll and goes "Mommy! It's Daddy!!" I laughed so hard.

My friend found us playing on the toy aisle and then we went in search of boy baby things which was a whole lotta fun! I am so excited about this baby it isn't even funny. The kids absolutely had a great time and were thrilled they got to go out to Burger King with her too. 

So now I am planning a baby shower for a little boy (with her mom and my mom's help) and I am thinking of going with the nautical theme because that is what the baby's room is gonna be done in and my friend loves the beach and the dad loves to sale so I figure that should be perfect and I have now found so many great ideas that I might be a little addicted to the internet baby shower search sites : /   I called Heidi and she think on it too and see if she can come up with any ideas and I have a pretty good idea for invitations already that I can make...

If anyone has any ideas for surf/beach/sailboat theme baby shower stuff please pass them my way I have 2 months to put it together so really 1 month before invites need to go out YIKES

Just one of those days

Today was just one of those days...

I should have known right way that something was gonna be off when my adorably sunny little Bug that usually gets out of bed every morning with a huge smile and a "Good morning Mommy!! Where is Daddy??" the instant she sees me, greeted me this morning with no smile and just a "is it morning yet?" When Joe said "Good morning Casey!" she just looked at him. Yep that was the mood we had today. Caden was in a good mood he just plain didn't want to listen. He was in his "I am 4 and I can correct my sister and do big kid things without asking first" mood. Gotta love that. My grandparents came over for a bit and Caden pretended to be a cat and then Casey decided it would be fun to sit on him or squish him the whole time so that was great fun. My papa and honey are great though so they don't mind at all they thought they were funny. Oh and then later while I cleaned the litter box the kids decided they would take the trash out and truly did take it out! ALL THE WAY OUT!!! Locked themselves outside Thankfully I was listening to them talking in the other room so when it went quiet I knew to go instantly so I got to the garage right as Caden shut the door but still what if I hadn't been??

We have started the Letter of The Week with Caden and of course Casey because even though she is still only 2 she is in the house and wants to be included in the schooling process. I knew Caden was going to love it but I really though Casey wasn't. She usually fights me on all the learning things I do with her but AMAZINGLY she is actually loving everything as much as Caden and doing super with it. We of course are only on the letter A and only on day 3 so it's still new and they love new things but I am enjoying it too.

Part of the school day is a bible story that has the letter of the week in it. This week is Adam and Eve. We read the story on Monday. Tuesday they re-read the story while they colored a picture of Adam and Eve in the garden. Today though was super fun. We acted out the whole thing! Caden got to be Adam, Casey was Eve and I got to be God, the snake and the angel with the fire sword that is placed at the gate. The kids loved it!!!! Casey only had one minor problem...she flat out REFUSED to "eat" the "bad fruit" when it came to that part. It was actually hilarious. Her eyes got all big and I said "Casey this is when Eve ate the fruit remember" and she started to back away from the block (which is what we were pretending was the fruit) and shaking her head. I kept asking her to take it, actually probably much like the serpant from the garden, and she kept getting more and more insistant that she couldn't do it. Finally I just asked "Casey Bug why won't you just pretend to eat the fruit?" and she says "Mommy! God says not too!!!" LOL I ended up putting the block in her hand and telling her we would just pretend she ate it and then moved on to Caden's part because he was getting rather impatient at this point and he ate the "fruit" with no problem.

So in all at the end of day 3 of our first year of homeschooling Caden now can now tell you that an antelope can be found in Africa, Asia  and North America and what it eats, what and Albotross is, recognize the word apple, alligator, and animal (pretty much he surprised me with that by the way we were reading and he pointed those out to me in the book! we had been doing site word flash cards earlier so I guess they work) and what sound an A says.

Casey...knows that and A says aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa and what and A looks like LOL she also can give you the facts on the animals we studied too if she feels like it but she probably won't feel like it so I wouldn't bother asking her if I were you. Oh and she knows Eve ate the "bad fruit" but that God still loved her anyway

It was a long day I am tired pray for me with the schooling that it keeps going good. I am doing it this year for preschool just more for fun than for anything else. Next year is when we will actually start for real and I will have to register with the state and everything and make sure everything gets documented. I am documenting everything now for fun because I am weird like that and because I want to make sure when I do need to do it for real I won't panic at all because I will already know how to do it.

sibling love

I just had to take the time to blog real quick because my kids have been just a real blessing lately. I mean they are alway a blessing but now more than other times I am really noticing. For example at this moment they are in Casey's room playing very nicely with eachother.  We have Veggie Tales Greatest Hits playing for music in the background so every once in a while Casey will come out and do a little dance around the living room then go back in. This morning they got up and we had breakfast with Joe at 6:30 before he had to leave for work. They love having breakfast with him and actually Casey picks out Joe's cereal (it alway has to be whatever she is having) the night before when she goes to bed. After Joe left for work we did some chores. The kids have chore charts with all the things they need to do on them so they set to work. Caden fed the cats and Casey fed the fish they made their beds and got dressed, brushed their teeth and then wanted to go see their grandma so we did. Of course that meant we had to go out to the chickens so out we went where my kids showed what skilled chicken catchers they are and Casey planted a big kiss on one unsuspecting chicken. It is really hot though outside so I made them come inside even though by now it was only 8:15 and we made cupcakes with Grandma then out we went again and they drove the Gator around the yard for a long time prentending to be Mommy and Daddy and I am assuming pretending to find all sorts of snakes and monsters out there because there was a lot of pointing and running back to the gator and screaming with laughter. When we came back inside we had a little cupcake party then back to our house so I could get some stuff done and like I said at the beginning they have been playing nicely sense.

They have been such good helpers and playing so well lately it is amazing. Don't get me wrong they fight like cats and dogs too. Just last night I had to inform them that if they fought at the dinner table they were being excused with out finishing and going to bed  but for the most part the fights don't last because they work it out by themselves and want to get back to playing again. I don't have to get involved in their disagreements usually and I have become less and less needed to keep them entertained. They of course still ask for me to play with them and I love it when they do but I love watching them play so well together it brings back so many memories of Heidi and I growing up. We were eachothers best friends and I want that for my kids too <3

Yummy

Okay this is a silly post but my amazing hubby just brought me home the Mixed Berry Smoothie from McDonalds and frankly it is freakin awesome! YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On another note Joe has decided since he is home early and his summer job bosses have let him use the lift thingy that they have rented he is going to cut down the pine tree in the yard that was hit by lighting last year I am a little nervous about this because it is a very tall tree but he used to work for Davey tree so he knows what he is doing I just don't like having to watch.

House of sickies

Last weekend we worked really hard on Saturday all day and go the chicken coop finished!! Whoo Hoo it is done : ) I will post pics later. We went out at 8 a.m. and came in at 4p.m. finally done : ) Our friend Jon and Jhenna came over for dinner that night and we play farkle which was so much fun I just love hanging out with them and I am so bummed we don't see them more often but I am really glad that we did it this last weekend because as of Sunday durning sunday school exactly halfway through the lesson I got hit with a wicked cold. My nose started to get all stuffed up and my ears hurt and felt like I was hit by a truck (I am sure everyone who has had a cold knows the feeling) Then about oh a quarter of the way through the service I got so tired I had to start chewing gum to stay awake which wsas sad because it was a very good sermon. The rest of the fam stayed healthy till tuesday night when Casey Bug fell victom to the fever and runny nose. Caden got up Wednesday all stuffed up and with a fever so now only Joe is surviving the wicked cold.

On the up side we are now the proud owners of a very adorable calico kitten named Jubilee. She is precious and very sweet. She even lets the kids pick her up which I find pretty impressive because if I was an 8 week old kitten I would not be letting a 2 and 4 year old anywhere near me LOL

Chickens

Our chickens arrived the day after we got back into town from the cruise. They were super cute and they still are but they are growing crazy fast and I am sure the cuteness will be gone quickly as they are a week old now and have feathers, or at least a few feathers and the fluffy sweet things are a thing of the past already.

Now that being said there is a chicken that I am very fond of. It's name is Bobby. I am not sure yet if it is a girl or a boy as it is the exotic one they threw in the batch for fun. Ty named it Bobby that way it fits no matter what and I think it rather fits they little thing. It is the smallest of the chickens and is very cute : )

The kids love the chickens and check on them regularly and have tons of questions about them. Joe was making good progress on the chicken coop till he injured his neck on Sunday so hopefully they will still be in there in plenty of time and out of the garage.

Here are some pictures

This is Bobby the one facing the camera