Thursday, March 19, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
THESE ARE A FEW OF (Their) FAVORITE THINGS
Elaine started showing me her favorite books. So I told her to gather them up and I'd take her picture with them. This began a game of taking pictures with all her favorite things.
Favorite Books: Scholastic First Dictionary ("It teaches me words. But they aren't all in there."-Elaine), Read with Me Bible, Paula Dean's My First Cookbook, If you Take a Mouse to School, Charlotte's Web, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and Ribbon Rescue.
Favorite Dolls: Momma Dora (her largest Dora doll), a Build-a-Bear Bride, Annie (Raggedy Ann), Happy Hank (a dog doll that says "Love the Lord", "God Made you Special", etc), and the Cat in the Hat.
Favorite People
Jim got out the cooking stuff for the kids to pose with.
Allan's Favorite Things: Lightning McQueen blanket, ball and truck toy. Red & Blue Robots. Stuffed Lion. Leapfrog Leappad (alphabet toy). Green gates from Elaine's dollhouse that he says are robotic.
Favorite Books: Scholastic First Dictionary ("It teaches me words. But they aren't all in there."-Elaine), Read with Me Bible, Paula Dean's My First Cookbook, If you Take a Mouse to School, Charlotte's Web, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and Ribbon Rescue.
Favorite Dolls: Momma Dora (her largest Dora doll), a Build-a-Bear Bride, Annie (Raggedy Ann), Happy Hank (a dog doll that says "Love the Lord", "God Made you Special", etc), and the Cat in the Hat.
Favorite People
Jim got out the cooking stuff for the kids to pose with.
Allan's Favorite Things: Lightning McQueen blanket, ball and truck toy. Red & Blue Robots. Stuffed Lion. Leapfrog Leappad (alphabet toy). Green gates from Elaine's dollhouse that he says are robotic.
Today
She has 10 chapters to go (of 22).
It was 40-something degrees today and rained most of the day. The kids bundled up.
Monday, March 09, 2009
Pictures.
I cut Jimmy's hair yesterday, on my day off. This is the 'Before' picture and then here is the after. :)
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This has Allan's new haircut
Before I trimmed Allan's hair.
"I look like a cowboy" -Allan, wearing Elaine's boots and his pirate hat.
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I repainted the window at the store. One side has the empty tomb and Calvary. The other side has an Easter egg hunt.
Allan, Elaine and Noah (boss's grandson) hunting Easter eggs.
Man, they look alike!
Monday, March 02, 2009
Fun and Savings
Because I worked in the morning on Wednesday last week, my schedule got shifted around. That gave me Friday off from work. That NEVER happens!
I babysat Pamela's kids at my house Friday afternoon, so she could see her Chiropractor. The girls played Barbies and the boys played cars and with Elaine's dollhouse. Kaylee was confused why Elaine has to share a bedroom with her brother. Kaylee kept trying to lock the boys out of "Elaine's room". It's funny because all the kids ages are staggered by 2 years. Pam's son is 2, Allan is 4, Elaine is 6 and Kaylee is 8.
Then Jim and I took the our kids to see 'Bolt' at the $2 theatre, inside the mall. It was adorable.
Some major plot points were over Elaine's head though. She doesn't understand what an actor is, so she didn't understand which parts of the movie were 'real' or acting. The kids had fun, but Elaine was confused a lot and asked lots of questions.
Jimmy and Elaine cut a lot of coupons over the last couple of weeks. Last night we went coupon shopping. It took 2 hours at the Kroger of deciding which coupons should be used this week and which ones we should save for sales. There was a razor on sale for $4 off, and I had a coupon for another $4 off, so this week we saved $8 on the razor! Stuff like that. When the cashier started ringing up our coupons $100 disappeared off of our grocery bill. We're getting our coupon system worked out, so it wont take as long at the store next time.
I babysat Pamela's kids at my house Friday afternoon, so she could see her Chiropractor. The girls played Barbies and the boys played cars and with Elaine's dollhouse. Kaylee was confused why Elaine has to share a bedroom with her brother. Kaylee kept trying to lock the boys out of "Elaine's room". It's funny because all the kids ages are staggered by 2 years. Pam's son is 2, Allan is 4, Elaine is 6 and Kaylee is 8.
Then Jim and I took the our kids to see 'Bolt' at the $2 theatre, inside the mall. It was adorable.
Some major plot points were over Elaine's head though. She doesn't understand what an actor is, so she didn't understand which parts of the movie were 'real' or acting. The kids had fun, but Elaine was confused a lot and asked lots of questions.Jimmy and Elaine cut a lot of coupons over the last couple of weeks. Last night we went coupon shopping. It took 2 hours at the Kroger of deciding which coupons should be used this week and which ones we should save for sales. There was a razor on sale for $4 off, and I had a coupon for another $4 off, so this week we saved $8 on the razor! Stuff like that. When the cashier started ringing up our coupons $100 disappeared off of our grocery bill. We're getting our coupon system worked out, so it wont take as long at the store next time.