Chloe is excited to be able to help feed Josiah now!
Writing about all the big & little things
Category: Chloe (Page 17 of 20)
Today was a bit of a busy first day off so I haven’t had time to sit and write about the recital. I figured that you all cared more about the pictures rather than my babbling anyway… 🙂
The best family picture of the night--it was a bit tricky getting JD to look and Chloe to sit still after all the sugar she had (I'm pretty sure she had at least 3 slices of cake)!
Our bi-annual recital picture sitting at the piano!
My awesome kids!
Kailynn and Chloe--adorable cousins!
My two handsome guys!
My favorite picture of Chloe & JD!
Chloe was SUPER excited to be able to wear her special white dress again--and I was thrilled to find a cute little blue sweater "thing" to keep her warm!
A kiss on Daddy's cheek!
And finally, a great picture of the Greenhalgh family. They LOVED holding JD and playing with Chloe!
I would write them first (orange) then she would copy it (blue)
“Oh Mom! You forgot to tell me it’s Christmas today!”
Chloe tells me this everyday. Every. Single. Day. And every day I respond with…
“It’s not Christmas yet, honey. I’ll tell you when it’s getting closer. First we have Christmas EVE…”
So, to save my sanity Tim suggested I make a paper chain to help her visualize how many more days it is until Christmas. She’s VERY excited about it. 🙂
2011: Christmas Chainlink Countdown!
I made the “links” comically huge for a more dramatic effect.
Today Tim and Patsy took the younger cousins to a Disney on Ice performance. It featured the “Princesses” which we thought would be a big hit with the little girls–although Logan had a bunch of cool things to tell me about it when he got back too. 🙂
Here’s a picture of the four kiddos all waiting nicely in their chairs waiting for it to start! (He took it with his phone so the picture is a bit blurry.)
All bundled up and ready for the show!
I think it was such a nice outing for the kids–and it gave Chloe a chance to spend time with Logan and Allison who she doesn’t get to see very often. Tim said it was good, but a tad long (2 hours) so the kids started to get a bit restless. On the way home they stopped by McDonald’s and brought home Happy Meals for the kids to eat at our house. So they all filed in and had a fun lunch together before the other three had to go home.
While they were gone JD and I worked more on candy for my students. I’m almost done now–I should be able to finish on Sunday.
Tomorrow is a crazy day, though… We have worship team rehearsal, then a morning make-up lesson, 2 afternoon lessons, a Christmas musical at the church down the street (I’m just going to watch–I have a bunch of students in it) and then a church women’s Christmas party. And somewhere in there I need to make a trip to the grocery store to make an appetizer to bring to the Christmas party. Yikes! I better get to bed soon!
Ahh! So much love!
Chloe (bless her little heart) loves JD so very much. And we’ve said from the beginning, that she may actually love him too much if that’s possible. I’m constantly amazed that the novelty of having a baby around hasn’t worn off. She’ll still ask to hold him and she wants to do everything that she sees us do (talk to him, kiss him, tickle him…). And for the most part he doesn’t mind at all. In fact, he seems to genuinely enjoying having her attention. If he’s upset and I can’t get to him right away I’ll ask Chloe to go and sing to him or read him a book and it does the trick.
It’s precious.
I love my kids.
Tonight Tim took Chloe to an operetta presented by students at Northwestern college. Our pastor’s daughter attends Northwestern and is a music major (and is also on worship team with us) so she invited Chloe a few weeks ago. It was geared towards kids–I think the story line was a take off of “Hansel and Gretel.” Anyway, we talked about how much fun she was going to have with Tim and how she had to sit still and listen (and how she wouldn’t be able to dance along). And she even got to pick out a special outfit and take a bath. See, doesn’t she look so grown up?
They got home just after I finished teaching tonight and she said she had a really good time. And Tim said she was quite good and sat nicely for the most part (come on she is still only 3…) I’m glad he was able to take her to experience it. They even had cookies and lemonade afterwards! Fun!
(Oh, and he said the music was good too… hehe)
Edit: Here’s a picture from last night of Chloe with our pastor’s daughter–who played the role of Hansel. 🙂
I had to laugh when I went back and re-watched the video from yesterday. Tim and I didn’t realize she asked to try the apple FOUR times but apparently you guys noticed… But fear not–she does still get a lot of attention around here. 🙂 In fact we can’t get over how much people (and my students) want to just give her things! Yesterday I had a family ask if they could give Chloe some things after their lesson. They brought in a ton of books, computer games, princess wall decals, a swim suite, and even elbow pads. I tell you, it was like Christmas! They were cleaning out their stuff and wanted to give it to her–some of the items were even still in the packages!
But I did think about what you guys said about her wanting to be the center of attention (which is a big adjustment of a first born to have to suddenly share the spotlight). So I asked her if she wanted to make her own video today with just her in it… and she said no. She wanted to be silly and hide… And she wanted to sit by JD and hold his hand… And she wanted to sing in the microphone… But when I pulled out the camera to let her have her moment to shine she wasn’t interested. Weird huh? I thought she would jump at the opportunity! At least I tried!
Today we went over to work on Kumi’s yard. (She has a grading issue with the water running into the basement of their new house.) We had a good time working on her yard. It was a wonderfully beautiful day outside and I liked getting a good work-out doing something helpful. We had to pull up the old filter fabric and move the rocks off then put down more dirt (sloped correctly) then put down new plastic and then put the rocks back again. Considering that rocks are HEAVY, it was a bit of a process. We only got half of it done since I had early lessons today, so Tim will have to go back and work some more on it later this week.
Here’s proof of our work!
Chloe helping Tim work--notice the "before" rocks next to them...
And now you can see some of the "after" rocks...
Minnie Mouse!
All dressed up and ready to go
Minnie Mouse to the rescue!
Minnie Mouse helping feed Tigger as we get ready to go see Kumi
Man, do I love this Tigger boy!
So it’s Sunday night. Chloe is finally tucked in bed and JD is just about to take his final short nap for the day. I thought it was about time to sit down and write something since it’s been a few days. This week was unusual because I actually didn’t have to leave the house for anything big (like Music Seminars or BSF). I had planned on going to BSF on Wednesday but Chloe got sick the night before and I didn’t want to contaminate the other kids. It was strange to stay close to home all week. We did manage our normal errands (Target, Cub, Sam’s Club, etc.) throughout the week, but it was all at a nice relaxed tempo.
And you would think with all of that “free” time that I would have had so much more time to sit and catch up, but alas, no. I found myself just as busy as ever. Funny how that goes, huh? We did manage a nice walk on Wednesday morning however, since I had planned on being gone.
This weekend has just whizzed by as well. I got a lot of the cleaning done today (and a great workout!) but I forgot to make any phone calls until now–and now it’s too late… I meant to call Kylene back today (sorry Sissy!) and I meant to call Mom to find out how her trip went (sorry Mom!) and I meant to call Shannon to see how she’s feeling (sorry Shannon!). So, you should all know that I had the best of intentions…
In other news, Chloe has developed a cough. It’s definitely not as barky as it was on Wednesday–now it’s more of a tickle in the throat kind of cough with a runny nose. I’m pretty sure she’s passed it (or will be passing it) to me. Lucky me. Tim is recovering from his cold that lasted for about 2 weeks. Needless to say, we’ve been drinking a lot of orange juice around here this week. I guess we weren’t able to bypass all of the sicknesses this fall. Hopefully this will be the worst of it.
Today a gal at church gave me a homemade sling as a gift. I’m quite excited to start using it. I didn’t really have any need for a sling when Chloe was a baby since it was just her. But I’ve discovered with two kids that I sometimes just don’t have enough hands to hold JD and help Chloe at the same time. Now, I’m not the kind of Mom that feels the need to hold him all the time, but this will help me be more productive when I do need to. It’s going to take me a while to get comfortable with it and figure out how to put him in, but I’m excited!
See, isn’t it pretty?
Josiah likes his new sling!
Look my hands are free!
I’m doing the Slim-in-6 workout series. I’m just finishing the 2nd week and I’m feeling so much better. It’s amazing how getting back into exercising can make me feel so much more normal. The first week was pretty tough and I was quite sore, but the second week was amazingly better. I had a bad eating day today but I know I’m going to have those once in a while and the rest of the week was great, so it’s not all that devastating. I’ll post my results at the end of the six weeks for those who are curious.
We’re having our annual Pumpkin Party this coming Saturday. Hopefully it will be gorgeous weather like today. It’s normally quite chilly so by the time I finish carving my pumpkin, my hands are numb… I’m excited to see everyone again.
Shannon is still doing well and on bed rest at home. She’s made it to 30 weeks along, though, which is AWESOME!!! I wouldn’t say she’s feeling great, but the baby is still growing so that’s a blessing. It’s funny to be so excited about counting the days up that she’s pregnant and not down. 🙂
JD is very close to rolling over. Tim said he did it once the other night while I was teaching, but I have yet to see it. He is using his legs for momentum and pulling his arm down and under him but he just can’t quite get himself over. I expect any day now.
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