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Weekly highlights | September 6-12

10:36 PM

 Sunday

A nice slow start to our week.  We spent our morning playing outside before it got too hot out.  The boys drew pictures with chalk and Ellie traced more letters.  We spent more time outside in the evening.    

James is super snuggly and I love getting snuggles from him!

Handsome boys with their new hair!




Braxton wore these sunglasses for several minutes.  

Monday

On Tuesday Ellie woke up asking if the parks were open. So after breakfast the kids and I walked up to the mega park. We stayed there for about 20 minutes until more people showed up and we headed to another park and played for another 40 minutes. I was struck with how much the boys have grown since we were last at the mega park almost 6 months ago. Last time the boys wouldn’t even go down the big third level slides and today James ran up to the top and flew down the slide on his belly!  Will also ran and jumped up onto a spinning chair. I don’t know how they are getting so big and grown up. Benjamin is enjoying the park more and more. He liked going down the slide a lot.  













Tuesday 

Tuesday was Will and James last day of "summer"  We spent the day playing and took another trip to the mega park.  The weather was cold and foggy and I figured with that kind of weather there might not be too many people there and I was right we had the park to ourselves for about 45 minutes!  We spent an hour at the park.  Benjamin enjoyed the slide and swings again.  Benjamin kept trying to lick the poles at the playground and he knew I didn't want him to so he'd look at me laugh and then lean in to try and lick it waiting for me to tell him "NO, YUCK!"







Wednesday

It was a big day for Will and James on Wednesday, that had their first day of school!  I was pretty impressed with myself we were able to get up, get dressed, take pictures and make it to school on time.  (We were in the front middle of the drop off line!).  Ellie, Benjamin and I hung out at home while they were in school.  Ellie wanted to do a school work book I got for her so we did a few pages, she was so proud of herself!  

Why do they look so big?!?





My little ninjas, William insisted on taking his picture with his hood up and mask on.

Having fun on their first day!





Thursday

We were back to a day at home on Thursday.  We made a trip to another park today, the snail park as the kids call it.  The boys took turns taking pictures with my phone.  

These are the pictures the boys took!




Benjamin is started to develop a love for slides at the park!  I'm thrilled that the playground have reopened. 



Friday

The boys had their second day of school of Friday.  Our morning routine went pretty well again, but we were closer to the end of the line at drop off and I was definitely the last in line at pick up.  Ellie and I played memory while the boys were in school and we moved the boys rug from their room to the family/playrrom because the boys didn't want it in their room anymore.  Its making the family room feel cozy.  After nap and quiet time we had movie night.  We watched "Brave" and enjoyed some popcorn.   

Ellie was excited that she made a match!


Testing out his suspenders for his birthday pictures

He's just too cute!

Already to watch the movie with popcorn.

Loving his daddy!  Benjamin has been loving his daddy a lot lately, chasing him down the hallway, making eyes at him and trying to pull up on the bed saying "dada".  


Another one snuggling up with Daddy.  Ellie is a big daddy's girl!

Saturday

We ended our week with a quiet day at home.  The air quality is too bad to play outside so we had to find a way to entertain ourselves inside all day long.  The morning was spent playing, the afternoon was spent cuddling a baby who didn't want to nap and the evening was spent playing games after dinner.  We finished dinner early so I asked the boys if they wanted to play and they picked the pie face game.  Its always fun, Ellie doesn't like the game, but Benjamin wanted to get involved and tried to steal the whipped cream with spoon.  





Ellie loves Doc McStuffins and she will check anything that stays still long enough and that included the dogs on Saturday. 

Ended our day with family game time.  Benjamin wanted to join in by stealing the whipped cream. 


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Weekly Recap | May 31- June 6

10:08 PM

Sunday

Sunday was a quiet day at home.  I started working on cleaning out Benjamin's room.  (Until this point there has been just a few extra things in Benjamin's room and since he's started sleeping in there at night I thought it was time to get it set up more like a room for him)

While Benjamin napped I played outside on the patio with the big kids.  Ellie and I played memory and then James and I played slap jack.

After Benjamin's morning nap we went on a walk because the kids were bouncing off the walls.  When we got back from our walk the kids ate lunch watched a little tv and then we went back out for a bike ride, burning off more energy!

James can be so sweet with Benjamin.  He always tells me how cute he is. 



Monday

Ellie set up the memory game for us to play all by herself.  She found six pairs and then lined them up in three rows with four cards in each row.  She was so proud of herself and so was I!

I finished cleaning out Benjamin's room.

The kids and I made a run to Target Drive up and picked up a few things.

Watching a squirrel eating birdseed out of Ellie's bird feeder. 



Tuesday


The kids and I cleaned up our little Adirondack chairs for the kids to use on the patio.  They helped me scrub and clean the chairs and then they blew bubbles, used their water squirters

I got to chat with my sister for a while which was super fun!

Ellie and I with Benjamin went out for a walk/bike ride after dinner because she really wanted to and the boys didn't.  It was really nice out and Ellie would stop and jump around making Benjamin laugh, it was so cute.  Ellie loves riding down the big hill and she was doing a great job going down quickly until she hit a bump or something and she fell off her little bike.  I was very proud of her after I cuddled her for a moment she hoped back on her bike and finished riding down the hill.  She kept telling me "It doesn't hurt, it just beed (bleed)".

The boys worked on their kiwico crates.  They love doing the crafts every months.  



Water table fun!




Wednesday

We were playing hide and seek and this was Ellie's hiding spot!  

Someone enjoyed a taste of pie!

Putting Benjamin down for his nap.  I could hold him forever. 



Sleeping with her water bottle and all her stuffies


Thursday



In the morning on Thursday we ran out to pick up the few things I ordered at Old Navy and Micheals.  When we got home I put Benjamin down for a nap and sat with the Ellie, William and James and read them stories for about an hour.  Then we went outside to the garage and I picked up and the kids played.  We ended up putting up the bounce house for an hour.  While we were playing the James asked me to jump with them.  It was sweet, I told him the bounce house would have to be bigger and he asked me to get a bigger bounce house.  We ended up playing that I was the tickle and cuddle monster.








Bath time mohawk!


Benjamin bit my toes while I was reading stories to the kids


Friday
In the last few days we read the book "Berenstein Bears get Stage Fright" and in that book they use the phrase "piece of cake". The boys asked what that meant and I explained that it meant something was easy.  While out for our bike ride the boys rode their big bikes they got for Christmas. They were worried about going down on the hill with them but I told them it would be ok and if they were scared they could walk their bikes down.  When we started down the hill Will turned to me and said "Mommy this is easy" then he smirked and said "Mommy it's a piece of cake!"

We sad a squirrel that was hit by a car and after we passed it Ellie turned to me and said "That squirrel is so cute!"  I answered "Ellie that squirrel is dead". She looked at me and said "What? Why's he dead?"  "He's still cute"

Ellie's face when I asked to take her picture....
Then Ellie's face when I ask to send the picture to Grambie and Geep, haha!




Saturday

Ellie took this picture of Benjamin on my phone. 

The boys worked on building a new lego today.  They still impress me with how they are able to put them together on their own.

On our bike ride I pulled out my phone to take a picture of Ellie and she responded with "Ahh No" I said "For Grambie and Geep" and she then stopped smiled and said "No problem". Also Ellie noticed that the dead squirrel we saw yesterday was gone and I said a bird probably ate it.  Ellie responded "Birds don't eat swirls (how she says squirrels)".   She then pointed at a vulture in the sky and said that she thought he ate the squirrel and when I said she was probably right.  She responded "No not eat  swirls!"





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