The Spaghetti Kids

Do you think my kids love Spaghetti?

Yes they went straight from the table to the shower.  I didn't even do a bath because I didn't want to clean all the spaghetti bits out of the tub.  Maybe Elaina can be an Oompa Loopa for Halloween.  All I would have to do for the costume is feed her spaghetti before we go trick or treating. 

Lazy Monday

We decided to take it easy today.  The only thing that we had to do today was take some sort of dessert to the church for the supper the ladies were taking to Elementary for the teachers during the parent/teacher conferences tonight.  I needed to go to Sams so I decided to take the easy way out and buy some red velvet cupcakes there.  What teacher doesn't love red velvet cupcakes?

Since the ladies were meeting around 2:30 to get everything ready for the supper, I decided that I needed to drop them off earlier.  I was afraid that the kids would take a late nap and there was no way that I wanted to wake them up just to drop off cupcakes.  The kids and I met Trey for lunch since he works across the street from the church.

After lunch and dropping the cupcakes off we came home so the kids could nap.  Elaina went right to bed, poor little girl was really tired.  Josiah, on the other hand, decided that he needed to watch Monsters Inc.  I used to always put on a movie for him bc he would sleep better, but lately if there is a movie on he will not nap.  I decided that I would see how it would go with a movie.  I don't figure he will sleep but since we have nothing to do tonight I thought I would see how it would go.

Well I was writing the above when Josiah was suppose to be napping.  Yeah, Let's just say that there will not be any more watch cartoons nap any time soon.  He was a MONSTER (and I don't mean the little cute monster or monstar that we called him as a baby).  It was so bad that at about 3:45 I made him go lay and he finally fell asleep and I let him sleep for an hour before I made him get up.

Then we went for a walk/tricycle ride.  Elaina pushed her stroller around and Josiah tore up the side walk with his tricycle.  Elaina, for some reason, decided that she needed to walk where she wanted to when she wanted to.  So needless to say she ended up strapped in the stroller and kicking, bucking, and SCREAMING all the way home.  I guess she thought it was her turn to be a monster.

After we got home we had a nice supper and a calm evening before the kids went to bed.  

a picture of them together

I was actually able to get a picture of the kids together the other day.  Elaina wanted a bow in her hair and went to show Josiah.  She started to sit in his lap and I told him to let her so I could get a picture.  He let her and she stayed there long enough to get a couple of pictures.

I kind of tricked them into sort of looking at the camera; they were watching something on the tv and I stood in front of them so that it looks like they are looking at me.

And course the photo op only last for a minute before they were rolling around being crazy kids again.

 

Picture Catch Up

I can't believe that I have went so long without blogging.  I will be really mad at myself when Trey gets my blog book for  me and it is empty.  Of course I could go on and on about how busy we are, but if I want to remember all this I better blog it.

We have been playing, going to preschool, started MOPs and went to visit grandparents.  We also went to Crystal Bridges Art Museum for a toddler activity which I actually took my camera only to find out that the battery was dead. 

Josiah working on his coloring lesson

Elaina loves to cheese for the camera

We watched our neighbor's baby and the kids made sure she had toys to play with.

Josiah made us pizza

He even put pepperoni on it for me

Elaina patiently waited till it was time to eat.

I  really am going to try and do a better job of blogging about all that we do so that I won't forget about all of the craziness that goes on around here.

Soccer

I signed Josiah soccer this year and he has been having a blast at practice.  I thought his favorite thing about practice has been playing duck duck goose at the end, but I just asked him and he said trying to get the ball in the goal.  My little boy is growing up.

The coach asked them a few weeks ago what they wanted to be called and the kids came up with the monkeys.  He had suggested other things and several would always say no, and then one kids said monkeys and they all agreed.  So we are the monkeys this year and I think that is a great name b/c I am always calling him my little monkey (Although Elaina is my climber). 

We had pictures before I game and we had to be there by 8:00.  Yeah, Elaina was not to happy about that.  She did let me get her dressed and then she grabbed her paci and blanket and I put her in her car seat. Neither of my kids move very fast in the mornings and need several minutes with just their cups before they even want to think about eating breakfast.  Thankfully Josiah woke up on his own around 6:45 and instead of putting him back to bed like I normally would I told him that he could come lay in our bed and watch cartoons.  That paired with the excitement of his 1st soccer game and he was ready to go when it was time to get moving. 

We got there and got his uniform and found out that they were the gray team.  I got him dressed (in is way to big uniform) and we went over to get his pictures made.  He was all shy kid and didn't want to have his picture made.  I was trying to tuck in his shirt back in but little Miss Elaina refused to let me sit her down.  Thankfully one of the other parents tucked it in for me.  He acted a little shy but they were able to get a good picture of him.  Well I guess getting his picture made woke him up bc all the shyness left.  They were trying to get him to line up by a kids and he decided that he needed to be in the middle so that is where he went, but I think that worked out for the best b/c he is the tallest.  They he decided to dance around and then he would walk back up to his spot for a few seconds and let them take a few pictures then it was back to dancing.  Yes he was "that kid" in the pictures, but as one of the other moms, who is a kindergarten teacher, said that it is ok at 3 if he were 12 and acting that way then he would really be "that kid"

After pictures we went over to the field to get ready for the game.  Elaina finally was ready to eat her breakfast, so I gave her a cup of cereal.  Josiah ran around with his team and got ready for his game.  I tucked his shirt in about 15 times before I gave up and just left it out.  All the kids get to play a total of 12 minutes broken up into 4 minute period.  Josiah was in the 3rd group so he played the 3rd, 6th, & 9th period. 

He had so much fun.  He was super excited that he made a score.  His 1st goal was a true goal that he beat everyone down the field and kicked the ball in the goal.  The next goal he scored was a little more nontraditional.  He was kicking the ball down the field and everyone caught up to him as the ball was going out of bounds.  Well he ended up in the middle of the group and he was using his shoulders to nudge the other kids out of his way to get to the ball.  The coaches were trying to get the ball too so they could reset the ball and start over since it had went out of bounds.  Well Josiah decided that he was the only one that was going to get the ball.  He dropped to his knees and crawled to get the ball.  Once he got the ball the crawled back out of the mess of people and threw it into the goal.  Everyone laughed and said that he is very persistent.

Of course he found the one puddle on the field and fell in it twice; both times were actually an accident.   He was soaked by the end of the game.  I learned that you need to bring a full change of clothes to his games.  Including underwear and socks, because I had to strip him down and just put on a pair of windpants on him just to get him in the van. 

Found the puddle

Notice the water line on his shirt

We all had a lot of fun and I can't wait till his next game.  It is so fun to watch 3 & 4 year old kids play soccer. Oh and what soccer game would be complete without a game of tackle hug? Their game of tackle hug just happened to take place when they were suppose to be shaking the other teams hands.

Let's paint

Josiah loves to paint and is always wanting to do some sort of craft.  So Wednesday we he wanted to paint I got all the stuff out thinking he would use some of his new paint that grandma sent him.  He insisted on using his Color Wonder paint set (clear gel that shows up as colored on its special paper) which is fine b/c it is not messy at all.  So I got that out for him and I got Elaina her paint things that are made for toddlers.  They are hard plastic animal looking things that have the paint and inside them.  They are help the little ones paint without making a mess and the paint is easily washed off hands.

Elaina had fun painting and playing with the brushes on the paint brush.  She did a really good job keeping the paint on the paper; she really didn't get that much on her chair.  Well until she got tired of painting and started playing with them.

Hey what's on my hands!

Mom don't take a picture of my dirty hands

Melt down when she realized that her hands were dirty and that I took a pic of them

 Elaina hates her hands being dirty.  So once she realized that she had the paint all over her hands she was NOT HAPPY AT ALL!!  She would look at her hand and start crying. So I remembered that Josiah liked to play with shaving cream and he cleaned up his chair.  Elaina, not so much!

Small dot of shaving cream on finger = major screaming

So since Elaina didn't like it, I asked Josiah if he wanted to play in the shaving cream.  Of course he said yes.  I gave him the tray to Elaina's high chair so he could play with the shaving cream on it. I then took Elaina to the bathroom to clean her up.  She was much happier once the shaving cream and paint was off her hands.  Oh and this is what I came back to....

I decided that we needed to move everything to the bathtub to help contain the mess.  Josiah loved it, he painted all over the tub with the shaving cream.  He was also covered from head to toe in it.

Now I know that I am going to have to try that thing that I saw online with shaving cream and temper paint in it  for a bath night. He thought it was super cool and way to fun.

Animals at the Fair

Wednesday we went to the fair to see all the animals.  The kids all had a lot of fun and this year the weather was much nicer than last year. We went with with Rachelle and Anna our friends from church, they were keeping Ava that day so even Elaina had a friend.

The kids got to see all the the animals and when we first walked in there one of the men asked if they wanted to pet a cow.  He took them over to one of his that they could pet. Josiah loved that.  Elaina, well, not so much.  I love the look on her face.  She did not want out of the stroller, or even pushed any closer for that matter.

After we left the barn we went into the arena where they were showing pigs.  Josiah did not like that, it was really crowed and loud. So we went over to the petting zoo part.  I got Elaina out of the stroller there and let her walk around and look at the animals.

It was fun to watch her walk around and take everything in.  She seemed to really like the turkeys and the little baby chicks. 

Josiah got to milk a "cow."  Apparently he knew that he was suppose to "squeeze and pull and squeeze and pull" thanks to Phineas and Ferb.  He thought it was funny to try to squirt the water on people. 

Elaina kept going back to the turkeys.  I don't know why she kept going back to them but she loved going over to them.

After the petting zoo.  The kids went out and got to ride the tractors.  Josiah loves getting to drive on all the different tractors.  Elaina thinks that she can do whatever any one else does, so of course she was all over the tractors. 

After all the tractors, we went and got IDs made for the kids by the state police.  Josiah did really good getting his height, weight, thumb print, and picture made.  Elaina, not so much.  Her picture is with her head laying on my shoulder.  She was not happy at all.  Josiah finally started talking to the police man once I told him that the man was a police officer (he was in plain clothes not a uniform).  The guy let him hold his badge and then he talked to him a little bit.

We had so much fun that Josiah said that he needed to take his daddy there.  So we went back Saturday and they got to ride some of the rides, but that will be a later post.