Writing about all the big & little things
Yesterday we had a birthday party for Chloe and Josiah. It was awesome if I do say so myself.
As always, we had food, fun, and laughter. Now onto the highlight pictures!
It was fun to watch them blow out the candles together. Oh, and you should know that when we chose on the Veggietales theme we decided that Chloe would be Larry the cucumber and Josiah would be Bob the tomato. Why? Because Chloe is taller. 🙂
Jen spent the night last night and is coming back again tonight just in case. It’s nice to know that if I go into labor in the middle of the night we don’t have to wake the kids up. I still think it will be tomorrow. In fact, I so firmly believe that it will be, that I’m going to be REALLY disappointed if it doesn’t happen.
Our adventure for today was going to a birthday party!
Some newer friends of ours at church were celebrating their little girl’s 1st birthday. It was so cute. I forgot what a big deal first birthdays are. They had a watermelon theme, which I thought was super fun. Our kids had a blast playing in the kiddie pool and running around with the other kids. It was a bit strange for us, though, since Chloe was the oldest kid there. We’re not used to having the oldest child when we go to gatherings.
They even had favor jars to send home with each kid. It’s hard to see the picture, but they are plastic “mason” jars with lids and straws, bubbles, watermelon gum and then watermelon suckers. Too cute!
I wonder if I should plan an adventure for tomorrow….. ??? Hmmmmmmm…………………. 😉
Here we go–it’s the countdown, er, wait… I mean count UP to the day I have this baby. My prediction is still 40 weeks and 4 days since that’s what I was with both the other two. So, that means I have 2 more full days to get everything in order! Today we’re getting the house re-cleaned and we installed the baby carseat. We also washed bedding. Both Chloe and Josiah had fevers earlier this week–NOT what I wanted to be dealing with as I imagine bringing a newborn home. Luckily whatever it was passed quickly and they’re both doing great now.
My friend at church who was due this past Sunday went into the hospital this morning. That would be 40 weeks and 4 days for her. Isn’t that amusing? She’s having a girl too. I’m excited for her. Plus I’m relieved, since I REALLY wanted her to have her baby first, just to be fair since she was due before me. 🙂
Here are a few pictures from yesterday. I haven’t fully decided what our adventure for today is going to be……. hmmmmmm….
Making chocolate chip cookies!
Yummmmmmmmmy
While we waited for the pans to cook in the oven, Chloe read Josiah a book. I LOVE that she can read to him now!
Let’s see, where did I leave off?
Oh yeah! The Parks Adventure (that was our Friday event).
5. Saturday: We did a Video Game afternoon. I made signs for them and hung balloons in the basement and then we sat on the couch and played video games on the Wii for a couple of hours as a family. Chloe and Josiah thought it was a hoot! Especially when Tim and I would play against each other.
6. Sunday: Father’s Day! We got to have lunch at Pizza Ranch with some friends who are just about to head oversees to be missionaries. They were friends of our when we were going to church in St. Boni years ago. It was wonderful to catch up them. He’s actually just finished training to be a missionary bush pilot and they are heading to Africa.
7. Monday: Went to the movie theater! The movie theater is having a summer promotion where they do kids showings on certain days for a discounted price. Today’s movie was Paddington. They really enjoyed it. (sorry the picture is not the best)
7.5: Still Monday: Yup, we did two things today. We went to a friends house to see their rabbits! The girls are actually our nannies and I teach them both piano, so we’ve become friends. The kids loved seeing the rabbits and then the kids played with the girls for quite a while–they wore themselves out nicely. 🙂
I decided this week to try and do something fun every day for the kids to help pass the time, and give them something fun to do. Especially since soon we won’t be doing much at all since we’ll be stuck home with a newborn. 🙂
So, I told the kids every day we would go on an “adventure” and I won’t tell them what it is until we either get there or we are in the van. They are thoroughly enjoying it. Here’s what we’ve done so far:
1. Trip to the Biggest Candy Store in Minnesota (the yellow barn just down the road in Jordan). I let them pick out one thing to have as their own.
2. Play date with the Tindalls and then we delivered a meal for a family at church. It was an adventure b/c I had never been to their house before.
3. Bowling! First time ever for Josiah and only the 2nd time for Chloe. Josiah was OVER THE MOON excited about it. Then we picked up a pizza and had lunch in the park.
4. Tour of Shakopee’s Parks! This was the adventure for today. I printed a map and chose 7 parks to go to (Shakopee has about 25 parks not including development/townhome parks). I picked only ones on this side of town that were larger. We spent 10 min. at each park then ran back to the van and drove to the next one. They thought it was AWESOME! Here are the picture highlights:
Our map!
I didn’t notice until I uploaded the pictures that Chloe seems to have her hands the same way in almost all the pictures. Haha!
I have a few other random pictures from the parks, so I’ll post those tomorrow since I already have a bunch. 🙂
The transition is finally complete! Josiah and Chloe are officially moved into the same room. It took me DAYS longer than I had planned (mostly because I had to take breaks because of being so very pregnant and getting sore) but it’s done. Yes! It did take some creative storage solutions and I’m not completely pleased with where all the toys are… but it will do for now.
And they couldn’t be more thrilled.
Wanna see the finished room? Ok!
Last Friday Chloe had a special event at school where all the kids in her class presented a book that they wrote. They were short books (maybe 6-7 pages) with drawings on each page. I moved my early afternoon lesson so Josiah and I could go and watch her. We were a little pressed on time and arrived just as it was starting, which was good since she was the FIRST one. She did a fantastic job. I’ll have to see if I can post the video I took…
Then after listening to the rest of the class we got to see how they work on their I-Pads and then she showed us around the classroom and we had cookies and punch. She was so proud.
We were also able to get a picture of Chloe with Mrs. Connell. She has been simply amazing for Chloe this year. We will miss her next year!
Sorry I haven’t posted this week–I’ve been tearing the kid’s rooms apart in order to get everything to fit into one so they can share. It’s taking me MUCH longer than I expected… but more on that tomorrow.
Today is the last day of school! Chloe is super excited, but Josiah might actually be more excited to have her home to play all summer. 😉
Friday was Rainbow day at school and they had planned to make some sort of “Roy G Biv” man, but then they ran out of time. So when Chloe came home I told her we could make our very own Roy G Biv man on Saturday. The idea was to have each part of his body a different color. And then she wanted to color each part of the body rainbow colored as well… AND she wanted him to be holding a rainbow.
Gulp.
That’s a lot of details and work, but we forged through.
And… here’s our finished man!
Chloe was selected from her class to have a piece of artwork in the art fair. Seeing as she’s our first child I didn’t know what that actually meant… but last night they had an open house and invited all those selected to come for a preview night with refreshments to see the art displayed. It will continue to be displayed at the library for the next week or two. So last night Tim and Chloe went to the open house and were able to see her art and she even got a certificate (she was very excited about that part). There were quite a few displayed since it was all 5 of the elementary schools and each grade had a few, but it was still fun to see her art within all the others.
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