Saturday, February 20, 2010

Who Knew?

This Valentine's Day was eye opening for me. I was so proud of myself for being "ready" for the festivities. That is until I got a note from Z's class and then a note from A's class. I suppose being home with them the last two years I forgot that this year they would be in the midst of it too. Wednesday night before Z's party I asked him to write his name on a couple of cards. When he realized what we were doing he insisted on telling me which cards went to boys and which ones went to girls AND he wrote his name on every single one - staying up late. It was very fun and sweet. Sadly I didn't get a picture of the cutest thing - when I wrote an "A" just like that he insisted that his "A" needed a point to so he went back and drew a little line on top of several of his "A's" so that they would have a point. Funny boy!
Here's a couple of pictures of my little Valentine.

My father-in-law (the brilliant John) said it well when he said, "you lost one and gained three more." Meaning B is now beyond the V-day festivities but now teaching elementary school I'm in them and Z&A are too. So when I was "ready" I had only considered K & myself. Silly me!

Sunday, February 7, 2010

The new rooms

We now have an office in our house! The kids have moved into same gender rooms and they are loving it, for the most part! :) We had a lot of fun telling the kids all the wacky reasons that we "might" have been making this change - we were getting ready to move into a two bedroom apartment, we were having another baby (no this is NOT true), we were moving out of town. It all boils down to the fact that it was going to happen sooner or later and since A had pretty much moved herself into K's room we decided it might as well be sooner. We still have a LOT of work!! I am going to go in and purge K&A's room (as I did for the boys today), I still need to get the office closet figured out, organization wise - it is smaller than the one in B&Z's room where I had all the stuff before. We are saving up to buy bunk beds for the girls but for now they love having the queen sized bed. Here are the pictures - check out K&A's smiles!!!


Monday, February 1, 2010

Holiday's with G'ma Judy & G'pa Harold

G'ma Judy & G'pa Harold came to visit - they even brought a special surprise, Uncle Scoot!!
Here's the pictorial proof: