Student Of The Week

Alyssa was student of the week at preschool and she was so excited about this.  What this meant was she got to be second in line and the second helper, the snacker is the one who is first.   She was also able to take "Bob" home with her. 

Bob was supposed to go everywhere with us and I got the fun task of writing in the journal of all his fun outings and happenings with our family. 

He had a birthday party to go to that weekend at the little gym.  We managed to take him to several parks and the museum.  He traveled to Seattle and got to have a very yummy lunch at our favorite italian place.  Alyssa loved making her poster and picking out all the pictures.  She was very sad to see Bob have to go back to the school. 

Guess Who Is Three!

I can't believe my little ball of energy is 3 already!  He is such a wonderful little boy who amazes me all the time.  He melts my heart when he will tell me, " Mom, I love you to the moon and back."  This is something the kids and I always say to each other.

On his actual birthday it was going to be a nice relaxing family day with swim in the morning and then just us celebrating during the day.  Plans changed.  I ended up getting food poisoning the night before so Cory took the day off and actually spent time with the kids down in Seattle celebrating with Great Grammy.  It made me sad to miss his first swim lesson that morning, but Cory took pictures for me.  It was a little foreshadowing of what life will be like at times when I go back to work.  More on that later.  The plan was to have a family party on Sunday but that changed as well due to illness but my parents were still able to come up.

This year we decided to throw him a party with all of his friends.  In the past we have just had it at the house so this was his first "big" party.  I was having a hard time figuring out where to have it.  There were a lot of good places but looking at cost etc. it was a little hard.  I finally decided on ice skating.  I took a chance since I had never taken the kids before and with the age of him and some of the others wasn't sure how it would work out.  It was a blast!

Everyone had a great time and both my kids keep talking about going back!  My only complaint about having it there is it's not very organized or has a lot of room for the party guests to celebrate.  All of Knox's friends came and had a great time.  It was a little hard to get many pictures but we managed a few of them.   Afterwards we had some friends come back to the house and hang out for a little while and the kids all played.  Then literally right after they left my parents showed up.

 The kids had a great day!  I was still a little wore out and not feeling 100%.  We just relaxed at home, ordered dinner in, visited and played.  I think his 3rd birthday was a great success!

Swim

I can't believe what an amazing little fish our daughter is becoming.  She absolutley loves the water and has told me she wants to be a swimmer when she grows up and an artist.  At the end of one of her sessions she was able to jump off the diving board and the rope swing.  I think the rope swing has been the highlight of her life so far!  Talk about an excited little girl!

Knox is also in swim now.  He is doing good as well.  I see improvement every week with him and can't wait for him to really start getting it.  He has no problem putting his face in the water which is huge.

Vacations are going to be so much more fun now!

Birthdays For The Week!

On Alyssa's actual birthday we celebrated with just us.  She had school that day and was excited to bring in her cupcakes and celebrate once again.  Growing up I always got to pick my birthday dinner, my kids will be no different.  When we asked Alyssa if she wanted to go out or stay in she chose to go out.  I gave her a list of restaurants that she liked and she chose the RAM.  When we got there it was packed so we decided to go to Bobs Burger and Brew.  She had a good dinner and enjoyed her gift from Knox, which was a new Barbie.  We decided that we weren't going to do any gifts for her since we gave her a huge party.  No worries, she did not go without!

The following day we had the actual family up.  She was so excited to be celebrating with both sets of Grandparents, Great Grammy,  Great Aunt Judy, and us.  She had swim that evening and was excited that her Grandmothers and Great Aunt joined us to see what an amazing job she is doing.  On the way back we grabbed a pizza and headed home to finish with the celebration.

The next day we celebrated Grammy's 93 birthday.  It was another full day of celebration and hanging out with family.  It was nice for the kids to be able to spend some time with their cousins since they don't get to see them too much.  Everyone really seemed to have a good time.  After a long day in Seattle we headed back home and were exhausted!  We still weren't done.

Saturday we had yet another birthday to celebrate.  This time it was a friend of ours.  Maddie was turning 3!  We headed up to their house in Arlington and had a great time.  The kids ran around outside, rode the bikes, and played games.  When we left late that evening the kids were zonked from such a long week of celebration.  I have to say I was too!