Afternoon Snacks II

This week's completely unhealthy snack was not Chris' fault this time. Shea saw some character on the Disney channel making smores - and wanted desperately to try them. So we did! Clare picked hers apart and just ate the chocolate (a girl after my own heart) but overall they were a sticky, yummy HIT!

Rainy Days

Are so much fun!! Look at those faces! That's pure joy!
We puddle jumped to our hearts' content yesterday.
It was a little hard for mommy, who's not a fan of doing extra loads of laundry, but I took Jaime's advise and just let them be kids! It was so so worth it, they had so much fun! Clare kept telling daddy later on, I jump puddles!!! We were soaked to our waists, I've got a whole extra load of laundry and I'll do it again tomorrow!!!!
Happy SoCal rainy days!

Superhero II

We added a mask to our superhero outfit. Yeah, he thinks he'd bad! :-)

Cool homework assignment

One of Shea's homework assignments this week was to find his favorite books, spread them all around him and take a picture. It warmed my heart when we were pulling out his favorite books and we had about 30! I made him put some back so we could fit them all in the picture, but I LOVE that my kids are readers and love books as much as I do!!! :-)

Afternoon Snacks

For us an afternoon snack is usually some nuts, a banana, some fruit snacks, pretzels, edamame, fishies, yogurt or something like that. This semester Chris is home on Thursdays. I think it's definitely going to be the kids favorite day of the week as this is daddy's idea of afternoon snacks:



They're only a tiny bit excited! :-)

"What is..."

Occasionally Shea still takes a nap. And when he does he gets to stay up a little later. Yesterday he napped and last night he got to stay up with mom and dad and watch Jeopardy. One thing Chris and I love to do together before we go our separate ways for the evening to work. Last night Shea was killing us. He kept hollering out answers before the contestants could answer, the problem was, his answers had nothing to do with the questions or the categories. Some of my favorites from last night were: "What is a tree!" "What is an elephant!" "What are dinosaurs!" We tried to explain how it all works, but then gave up, because his "answers" and enthusiasm for the whole game was too much fun!
Our kid is cool. :-)

Superheros!!!

Jaime made the cutest superhero capes for her boys for Christmas. Mine aren't as cute, but I'm in LOVE with them. Shea asked for his own cape every. single. day. from the day he saw Bentley and Gaige's capes until yesterday when I finally made his. We made Clare one too. They are having so much fun with them. I made them reversible and Shea has decided that the black side is for when he's the bad guy and the green side is for when he's the hero!


Introducing SuperShea and SuperClare!!!





The bad news is that apparently apparently a rad superhero cape still doesn't protect you from skinned knees. :-(

My favorite Christmas gifts

My two little chefs LOVE to help in the kitchen so I made them these this year for Christmas. They were super easy and quick and they love to wear them. Tonight they were my little chefs and they helped me make rolls. I think they look adorable in their giant chef hats. I love it! :-)

(Oh, and I know ladybugs is way too girly for a four year old boy, but he picked them out. What could I do?? He was with me when I was getting the fabric and I said if I were making something for a four year old boy who's favorite color was green what fabric should I get? And, yep, ladybugs was his choice. He could not be dissuaded. I'm sure had there been a Disney print or an army print around I could have skipped the ladybugs, but nope, my Joanne's was cleaned out! So there's the story of the lame ladybugs. At least he loves them! :-)

The many faces of Clare

I adore this girl! She is sassy and sweet and everything in between!! Excuse the falling out hairdo and bad lighting, she was just being so funny we got all these faces in about 1 minute the other night. Love you Clarey!!




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Shea exercising!

A while ago it was raining and Shea couldn't play outside so after a few hours of boredom we found some kids exercise shows on demand. It was so stinking hilarious!!!! Shea just kept going and going and going even though he was totally uncoordinated and couldn't do most of the moves. It was really funny but he loved it. We'll definitely let him do it again. You should check them out if you haven't.