Sick as dogs

 Two Thursday's ago I got a cough and a fever and was sick all weekend.  Then L-bug got sick Sunday and it snowed on Tuesday, then Ro-bear had a tiny cough and now finally this week Boo got sick so we've been a little off lately.  On Tuesday we had some watermelon we'd gotten before I got sick, it was very yummy.  I tried to take a picture of the snow out of the window while Ro-bear is holding a watermelon, but it just didn't work out.

 In December I started making Ro-bear some robot pjs and just never did the finishing touches, so I just gave it to her.  She loves them even unfinished and wore them all day.

 L-bear whining through uke lessons with Dad.  She's in a phase where she doesn't want to practice anything and doesn't want to work at anything so pretty much everything we ask her to do is like pulling teeth and so much fun...

 Poor Boo and her snotty green nose.

 On Wednesday we were feeling a little better so we bundled all up and went outside to play. 

 L-bug wanted to make a snowman, but it wasn't good packing snow, so she made a pyramid.  Then she got bored with the pyramid and made it a volcano.

 After hot cocoa and warming up Ro-bear decided to finger paint and L-bug water colored with her new 'real' paints from Christmas.

 This is what happens when you give a kid with ocd finger paints.  She painted for a second then ran to wash her hands.

 The girls all asked for mommy.  Ro-bear asked for a hello kitty hat, but I was out of white so she happily said it should be yellow kitty.  Boo has a pink and dark pink striped hat with heart earflaps, but for some reason I forgot to take a picture.  And I had to buy some new needles to start on the cable knit hat that L-bug wants, but I just got them in the mail and as soon as I get Boo and Ro in bed I'm going to work on it some more. 

Ro-bear's three

 This is what happens when you let a fanatic of polka dots and the color yellow pick out the decorations for her cake... it 'ate good' though.  My middle girl turned three, not sure where the time went.  She's so small that she's still in 24 month clothes that fall off of her little butt, so thinking of her as three is just strange to me.  Here's some pictures of her party at Mamaw's house.

Last Wednesday she went to the Dr. for her three year check up, she's made it all the way to 9% in weight and 30% in height, that's a big difference from last year.  Before they fixed her iron last year she was below 0% on both, she grew a bunch after the iron supplements worked. Her Dr. says she still pretty far behind on speech though, so he's having the nurse looking into speech classes for her. We've not heard more on that yet, but with the holiday I didn't except to hear yet.

 The girls snuggle bunnied on the couch one morning while it was still chilly.  The weather was pretty nice last week though, so lots of outside time and very little snuggle bunnying.

Boo was being silly wearing L-bug's bike helmet. 

The babies started the preparatory curriculum at Letter of the week.  I don't make a big deal about it, since Boo's still really little, but its hard to tell her not to do something Ro-bear's doing.  Pretty much we read some stories on the theme of the week and I write things on their poster (read piece of paper taped to the wall).  L-bug loves the baby school, she sits in the rocker doing some quiet work and listens to their story.  Boo has figured out that 'school work" comes right before nap time though so she's kinda tries to make it longer so she can stay up, but I don't fall for that lol.  It takes 5-10 minutes so nice and brief and Ro-bear loves it.

I've been trying to work on a nice routine for the house hold.  We've had them before, but things like nap time changing and new classes and just big holidays likes Christmas throw us off and you have to stop and think- what do we NEED to do.  So far we've added back in game night and movie night and everyone loves that.  We're due for a field trip soon, just not sure what. Planetarium maybe.

We've also been working with L-bug who went from loving math to hating it and we've found up to flips her numbers like crazy- so while she can DO the math involved she can't keep it all straight if we ask her to write it down and she's gotten discouraged poor kid.

On the cooking front we've tried meals from Don't Panic- Dinner's in the Freezer.  So far we're three for three all delicious.  We've also made baguettes and chocolate bread (or was that last post) and all kinds of yummy's out of the meals from around the world book who's name escapes me.

On the crafting front I've started a lapquilt for next Christmas. So far so good, but a long way to go.
Let's see- nature wise, the two cactuses died, the butterfly's still in his cacoon and the other plants are chugging along, we also added parsley to our collection. Its doing well and is yummy. 

Hope you all have a lovely week and I'll see you back here next week.

Happy New Year (just a little late)

One of my goals for the new year is to cook more instead of just heating up food.  I really do enjoy cooking, but with the girls sometimes its just easier to heat food and eat.  So far this year we had this meal shown above- Lemon and Garlic Chicken with Focaccia bread last Friday, then we had Cheesy Chicken bundles Sunday which made enough to freeze another meal worth, and then Baguettes Monday and Chocolate bread with Spaghetti yesterday.  So far it seems like mostly just breads, but hey its baking.   The Lemon Chicken was yummy, but L-bug hated it.  The Cheesy Chicken was a hit with everyone and the chocolate bread was yummy, but not as sweet as L-bug excepted.

January seems to be birthday month.  Ro-bear's birthday is Monday, her party's tomorrow.  Then we had friend Ks little J's 1st birthday last weekend and neighbor S's little J's 1st birthday next weekend and her boy C's birthday the next weekend.  Shew, birthday month, there's also the girl's cousin E's birthday in there somewhere. 

 I love this picture.  I think the cake meets Ro-bear's approval.  Which reminds me I need to bake a cake today...

 These outfits the girls wore to church last week.  They were given to them for Christmas by daddy's best friend's mama, their new Grandma Mary.  She picked out some awesome outfits, the girls looked really nice.

 Sorry about the mess, just look at the girls :).  We're still cleaning up and reorganizing from Christmas.

Ro-bear's selfie.  It just cracks me up.

 Ro-bear found a map and proceeded telling her dolly where people lived on the map.

 Santa brought Ro-bear lots of chalk, so we all got out the big chalk board and colored together.  The problem with chalk is one person crawls over the board and takes out everyone's pictures in one swell foop.

 Ro-bear explaining to me she wants me to look at the pictures she took... which included above self portrait. 

The girls started in on book binding out of their own volition.  L-bug wanted to make Ro-bear a book for her birthday and wanted it to stay together.  We watched a lot of youtube videos on book binding then decided on a method and I had to help because it involved poking holes in the paper with sharp objects, then we sewed it up and now we just have to hope L-bug gets it done by Ro-bear's birthday.  Good luck on that Bug. 

Oh L-bug also started a homeschool cheerleading group this week.  We'll see how it goes, so far she loves it.  The other two girls in the class are older though and more experienced and it made her feel a little behind.  We explained that she just has to work hard and she'll get better.  She took to the cheer part easily, its the tumbling she's "behind" on...

 

This week was a little crazy, the weather was too cold to step outside for the first half of the week and the girls weren't feeling into the routine thing, we felt a little off all week.  On the bright side we're not halfway through second grade.  L-bug is very happy about that.  Here's to a lovely weekend and a much calmer week ahead (please please let it be calmer)