Day 24: End of the World

See this sort of pinkish object?
Well this once used to be pink, now a bit grayish blankie caused a whole bucket of drama. Monday evening, at bedtime Alex could not find it. Eric promised he would search for it and bring it to her when he found it. But he could not find it anywhere.

We looked in the hiding spots, the usual spots, under furniture, inside the trash (she does have a little brother who likes throwing things away), no where. She went to bed crying.

And she woke up crying when she realized it had never been brought to her in the night. She was crying so much she almost made herself sick.

I sent out post on FB asking if anyone at workout class had seen her blanket. She continued to sob, I asked if she wanted to stay home from preschool today. She said yes. I was just about to call her teacher when I got a message- someone at workout class had found it- someone that also went to her preschool and would bring it to her today! She was suddenly ready to go- her world had been restored.

Day 23: Helpers & Projects

Ryder loves helping me. Sweeping is one of his favorite jobs. He also loves helping me rearrange my spices, even stacking them in nice towers at times. He will get out bowls and stir with me and loves watching the food cook in the oven.

"On" he will say while pointing at the oven standing on his tiptoes trying to see the food cooking inside. So today when he pushed over a chair so he could see what I was cooking on the stove, well he was in heaven. "Ohh" he would say while pointing. "Stir" he replied while I stirred the food.

"No touch, hot" I would remind him. He did good keeping his hands back, he just wanted to be able to see what was going on.

He wants to be big and do everything his siblings do- so when we began making Lucas' 100 day shirt painting our hands to make hand-prints- well Ryder wanted to join in. Pointing at the shirt, but then when it came time to paint his hand, he pulled his hand back towards his body and said "nuh-uh, nuh-uh". We tried to show him how fun it was, but he would look, but always kept his hand safely tucked in.I ended up just painting some handpints for him.

Day 22: Fire

My husband grilled on Sunday

No, we didn't have to call the fire department- that was a fire we could see from our backyard He does a great job grilling, he grills most Sundays
See yummy

Day 21: Rain, Projects and Icecream

Woke up to cold and rain Saturday morning- which meant no running for me. I was really glad I hadn't signed up for the 5K that was that day- that would have been miserable.

Since we were home we got some things done around the house-- I finally got the mirror hung up. We used to have our family picture up, we moved that to a different wall and I redid some of the mantel decor. This mirror- only $10 at the thrift store!
In fact I realized that everything on my mantel I got at the thrift store- except the Home- that was from Ross.

And in about 5 minutes and for about $5 I completed another craftIn the afternoon and evening the sun came out and so we ventured out to the dollar store.
We drew names then bought secret gifts for each other. We stopped at the store to pick up some pizza and took it home for a night of gifts, pizza, pop, drumsticks and a movie.
It was Ryder's first ever drumstick-
he liked it.

It was a good Saturday.

Day 20: Friday Traditions

On Friday's we go out to eat. Usually it is to a quick fast food style place, which really is the best with kids. But this week we stepped it up and went to the Rain Forest Cafe.
It was all smiles from the kidseven Ryder-
though the first time the thunder went he was a little scared
My foodAnd of course we stopped in the Lego store since we were right by it. And we actually found some shoes for Alex! She just turned 5 two months ago and wears a size 13 shoe-- a 13 Wide that is, in fact the tennis shoes we got her were Extra Wide. Poor thing will never be able to wear all of the cute petite girly shoes.

Day 19: Antiques and Junk

I drug Ryder around shopping with me again- poor kid-- but he does get fruit snacks when we shop and he really is a good shopper.

What were we shopping for- I really wanted an old window and I found one!This beauty will soon be part of my living room decor-- so excited.

And yea, I might have had a little snack while reading blogs.
And the day ended wonderfully with a sweet card from my oldestAnd working on and completing projects while watching American Idol

Day 18: Round Two

Tuesday night Eric and I were headed up to bed, I thought I heard Lucas call my name. I went into the hallway and listened but didn't hear anything, but then I heard it. I went in to his room to discover he had gotten sick- all over the place. And he had had some red pop with dinner- yea.. not going to go into more detail but I gagged many times.

Since he missed school today it gave us some extra time to work on his school boat project which was good because it took us

one

(floated until we stuck the sails on-then just tipped to side, oh and paint washes off of plastic)

two

(works but might be a bit too big for dimensions required)

three attempts.

(right size and it floats!)

The final one that worked- was based off a Time For Tots project we did almost two years ago. So glad those days paid off.