Sunday, March 11, 2012
P is for Pajamas and Pancakes
Unfortunately, we've spent the beginning of March battling stomach bugs and colds in the Chase house. As a result, Ryan missed two of three days of preschool last week. He loves preschool and he didn't take the news that he couldn't go to school very well. Especially when he missed Pajama day, poor guy. In honor of the letter P, his class had a pajama / pancake / P-themed day planned and he'd already told his best preschool buddy, Hudson, that he'd be there in his Bob the Builder pjs. In attempt to make it up to him, we celebrated family pajama and pancake morning at home. Abby, Mommy, and Ryan all dressed up in our favorite pj's and I made them chocolate-chip pancakes, sausage, and strawberries for breakfast. We then read a couple of bedtime favorites - Pajama Time by Sandra Boyton [of course!], Bedtime Mouse, and Don't Wake the Bear. Ryan loved hollering the rest of the sentence for me: but .... "don't wake the bear!" I tried my hardest to find our copy of If You Give a Pig a Pancake with no luck though. While I'm sure it wasn't quite the same as preschool, hopefully Ryan enjoyed it well enough! So glad to say that everyone's been healthy for the last three days or so; I sure hope we're done passing around our bugs!
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Driving Miss Abby
After dropping Ryan off at preschool this morning, Abby & I headed to Cumming for the Baby Doctor and a couple errands. Shortly after leaving preschool, we passed this meadow where three or four horses live and they were gathered around a huge bale of hay chomping away. Abby sees them and hollers: "Cows eat it! Cows eat it!" [which would be even more impressive if they were cows, but alas at her age cows and horses are one and the same].
It was a fun experience having just Abs in the car with me for so long today. Without her big brother to do all the talking, she was quite vocal. I caught her several times covering her eyes and playing "peek boo" with herself. And she sang her version of the ABCs a few times. She gets "A,B,C" without any trouble and sort of ad-libs the rest. Today she was singing: "Next time won't you sing" That's what, five words in a row, proud momma here! And she asks for her toys by name; the one that most impresses me though is she says "dinosaur" just as well as any adult. Unfortunately she had brought dinosaur inside a couple of days ago, so we had to talk about how dinosaur was "home" and "upstairs."
It was a fun experience having just Abs in the car with me for so long today. Without her big brother to do all the talking, she was quite vocal. I caught her several times covering her eyes and playing "peek boo" with herself. And she sang her version of the ABCs a few times. She gets "A,B,C" without any trouble and sort of ad-libs the rest. Today she was singing: "Next time won't you sing" That's what, five words in a row, proud momma here! And she asks for her toys by name; the one that most impresses me though is she says "dinosaur" just as well as any adult. Unfortunately she had brought dinosaur inside a couple of days ago, so we had to talk about how dinosaur was "home" and "upstairs."
Monday, March 5, 2012
advanced reasoning at not-even-two-years-old
So this morning Abby's sitting in her chair for breakfast and she starts pointing out the back door saying "outside, outside." I told her no, we can't go outside, it's really cold and really windy. She looks right at me at says "jacket!"
I think I'm going to have my hands full with these two smarty-pants of mine!
I think I'm going to have my hands full with these two smarty-pants of mine!
Monday, February 27, 2012
3 John 1:4
Ryan finished the Bible at four years old!! Granted it's not the complete adult version, but I'm still super excited! We [mostly Daddy] have been reading him a story each night at bedtime for a few months now and he & Nana read the last one on Saturday night. Not only did he finish the Bible, he asked to start over again. Love it!!
Friday, February 24, 2012
all or nothing
Ryan's been on Winter Break this week which means no preschool, speech, etc. We've enjoyed being a little more leisurely in the mornings and lots of fun activities with friends. Tuesday was the baby doctor where Ryan was able to see his baby sister on the tv screen.
Wednesday we met Ms. Christa and her kids at the playground and had a great time! The weather was nicer than we expected [cloudy but surprisingly warm] and we ate lunch at Subway. Wednesday afternoon it cleared up nicely and our neighbors Sam & Jack joined us in the backyard to play on the swingset and in the playhouse.
Thursday was absolutely gorgeous!! High 70s and sunny, wow!! We had a picnic lunch at the playground with Ryan's preschool buddy Seth. And then in the afternoon we met Sam & Jack at the neighborhood playground, as well as running into a couple other neighbors. It was such a beautiful day; we even changed into t-shirts in the afternoon!
Today we enjoyed having a couple of our new small group friends over to play in the backyard. What a fun morning and great end to the week. It seems like I either overbook us with playdates or don't get around to it and we have boring [which leads to fussy!] weeks. And while this week was certainly crazy, I wouldn't want it any other way!
Wednesday we met Ms. Christa and her kids at the playground and had a great time! The weather was nicer than we expected [cloudy but surprisingly warm] and we ate lunch at Subway. Wednesday afternoon it cleared up nicely and our neighbors Sam & Jack joined us in the backyard to play on the swingset and in the playhouse.
Thursday was absolutely gorgeous!! High 70s and sunny, wow!! We had a picnic lunch at the playground with Ryan's preschool buddy Seth. And then in the afternoon we met Sam & Jack at the neighborhood playground, as well as running into a couple other neighbors. It was such a beautiful day; we even changed into t-shirts in the afternoon!
Today we enjoyed having a couple of our new small group friends over to play in the backyard. What a fun morning and great end to the week. It seems like I either overbook us with playdates or don't get around to it and we have boring [which leads to fussy!] weeks. And while this week was certainly crazy, I wouldn't want it any other way!
our date weekend
The kids spent the past weekend with Grandma and Grandpa visiting Aunt Lolly and Uncle Brian in NC. We missed them terribly, but tried to make the best of it. We ate dinner out twice [Applebee's and Schlotzky's] and went to a play at the local Woodstock theatre. We saw Brigadoon and while I enjoyed it, I'm not sure my hubby was as fond of it! Thanks for being a good sport and taking me Dearie :) We also saw a few movies [I recommend The Double]. And I also got some stuff done around the house on Monday which was nice. Now that the kids are back safely, it's a lot easier to say we had a good weekend! Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for their mini-vacation and our staycation.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Look what we did
Before ...
After ...
Close up ...
We all worked on this canvas together. For our first time doing anything like this, I think it came out really well, I love it! Ryan did the little dots at the top with a pencil eraser, Coleson painted the sweeps with a rope, I did the next section with a spring, and Abby [with a little guidance] made with the large circles with a water bottle. The words are wall transfers that I cut and positioned how we wanted. Go us!! I love that everything on the wall is fun and personal and significant now instead of the boring, heavy, all in a line frames that we had before. It took awhile to find the motivation, but it was so worth it!
UPDATE: I knew we'd been wanting to do this awhile, but I was just cleaning up some files on my computer and found the 2011 goals that we made last January. Yup, you guessed it, "rearrange the family room wall" was right there on the list. Better late than never I suppose!!
Close up ...
We all worked on this canvas together. For our first time doing anything like this, I think it came out really well, I love it! Ryan did the little dots at the top with a pencil eraser, Coleson painted the sweeps with a rope, I did the next section with a spring, and Abby [with a little guidance] made with the large circles with a water bottle. The words are wall transfers that I cut and positioned how we wanted. Go us!! I love that everything on the wall is fun and personal and significant now instead of the boring, heavy, all in a line frames that we had before. It took awhile to find the motivation, but it was so worth it!
UPDATE: I knew we'd been wanting to do this awhile, but I was just cleaning up some files on my computer and found the 2011 goals that we made last January. Yup, you guessed it, "rearrange the family room wall" was right there on the list. Better late than never I suppose!!
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