Countdown to Kindergarten Day 3

My little ones were so sick last night. It was a horrible night. Clare had a super nasty fever, it was that panting, shaking, shivering terrible kind. Her Tylenol finally kicked in and she fell asleep. 2 minutes later, Shea woke up with really bad stomach pains. He also said it hurt to breathe. He was crying and miserable. We were really worried about both of them. Chris went to bed around midnight and Shea finally fell asleep around 2am, right when Clare's Tylenol wore off. She was so so sick, I held her for an hour and then I couldn't take it any more, I wanted to distract her or something, anything to take her mind off it and get her to stop panting and crying so I turned on a princess movie. It worked like a charm and her Tylenol kicked in during the movie. I can honestly say I've never watched Cinderella at 3:30 in the morning before. What a treat. :-) (not really.) I finally got Clarey in bed at 4 and Shea woke up at 4:20 just as I was falling asleep, wanting more medicine. I got him taken care of and back in his bed. I FINALLY went to bed just before 5am. UGH! Chris, thankfully got up with the kids, who, incidentally, woke up at 8 singing! SINGING! I swear. I got up at 9:30 determined to still do Day 3.

We made it and had a really fun time.

My kids love, love, love the Natural History Museum. They could seriously go there every day and never get tired of it.

Elephants and the map of the museum. (Shea loves those maps and plotting our course around.)
The dino teeth puzzle at the dino lab. A favorite!


And we found a Chick-Fil-A in LA! There were some in SoCal, but way too far away to go to. I'm so happy to have one close-ish now!! My absolute favorite!!!! Theirs too!
Another fun day with my babies! I love them, I love spending time with them, I love this week, aside from the sick kids and no sleep that is. :-) Disneyland tomorrow!

Sprinkler fun!

Clare was too chicken to join in the fun, and just watched from the sidelines, but Shea took full advantage of the 20 minutes all those sprinklers were on!



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Daddy's rule.

They think of things like soda box catapults. All you need:
A soda box
Three pencils
Three rubber bands
Bottom of a dixie cup
And some craft pom poms or marshmallows and
PRESTO! Days and days of entertainment.

Try it! :-)

Countdown to Kindergarten Day 2

Wow!
Today was...
the most boring countdown to kindergarten day EVER! :-( It literally and figuratively rained on our parade! So our planned beach day was out thanks to the rain and both Clarey and Shea were sick. Clare has a cold and fever and spent most of the day lying in bed or on the couch whining. Poor thing.
And I'm not sure what Shea did but he hurt his back today and spent a large portion of his day in bed and on the couch. (Don't you love his posed I'm sick and hurting pic?!) :-)

So aside from the sickies, I did make it to an OB apt. Baby is doing great. 21 weeks down, lots, lots, lots more to go. :-)
And just to make things really exciting today, we turned this:


into this:
I know, I know - too much excitement! :-) I promise little guy, tomorrow will be better!

The love

The Star Wars love at our house will never die.

Countdown to Kindergarten Day 1

Today was FANTASTIC!
We had so much fun kicking off our Countdown to Kindergarten Week! It started at the batting cages, watching Sean bat. Shea wanted a turn but was too young, but he thoroughly enjoyed watching. Then we played in the arcade (where I missed seeing Al Pacino yell at his son because Clare picked that moment to have to go potty.)

Then we did 18 holes of mini golf. SO. MUCH. FUN!




Then in the parking lot we ran into "Danny" from CSI New York. And with my new found courage to ask stars for photos (thanks again, Tamara!) I asked and voila. Chris was so embarrassed!
"Danny" Carmine Giovinazzo
"Danny" with me! (his son, and a giant ray of sun)
We ended our super fun day at Round Table with Sean and Rachel. We loved watching baby Dean smile and talking, talking, talking with our good friends. We all had SOO much fun. If only this week wasn't going to end with Shea going to kindgerarten, we could do this every week! See you back tomorrow for Day 2's update!

Hollywood Bowl Dates Rule

Thursday night was our third Hollywood Bowl date this summer. My husband spoils me. He loves music and the arts and has made sure that I get plenty of opportunities to love them too. Last night was the American operetta Candide. It was awesome. Aside from the incredible show (I'm so jealous of their voices, but that's a whole different post!), the bowl is dark, it's outside in the amazing SoCal weather, you get to sit next to your husband and bring and eat dinner and dessert while watching the show! My husband and the Hollywood Bowl rule!
(Oh, and our awesome babysitters who agreed to sit for us for 6 hours!)

Some kind of record.

Yesterday morning my kids slept in til 9:14am.
They must really love me. :-)

My new FAVORITE breakfast.

I almost always end up having to purchase the sample at Traders. This week it was their Steel-Cut Oat Muffins. OH. MY. HECK. I have never, ever, ever tasted a better muffin. The giant, hot, buttery delicious bran muffin from Marie Calendars is almost as good. Almost. These are absolutely to die for. And then they spread it with Mascarpone AND raspberry jam. I was so happy at breakfast this morning. And then I looked at the nutrition information. And I was less happy. But just slightly, they're that good!!!
9:27 pm isn't too late for breakfast right?

Countdown to Kindergarten!

I can't believe this is the title of tonight's post. I can hardly bear it. The time has finally come.
My baby is leaving me. In celebration of his last week with us, we've planned a countdown to Kindergarten! He picked every single thing he loves and we've crammed it into his last week.
Our schedule looks like this:
(And yes, I had to look up how to correctly spell Kindergarten!)
We're so excited to spend all this time together doing what he loves. Man will I miss my baby. For all our friends here, come join us in the fun!!!!