Abby is 2! It is so hard to believe she is so old already. She gets cuter every day!
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| From March 2012 |
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| From March 2012 |
The older kids had a hard time letting Abby open her own presents...surprising, I know.
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| From March 2012 |
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| From March 2012 |
Wednesday, March 07, 2012
The Rest of February
Matt posted on the Lafferty blog today, and since I can't let him beat me at blogging, I figured I better get moving!
We went swimming at the hotel a couple weeks ago, and as usual, Jonas never wanted to get out of the water. He was happy to not have "rules" like swim class for a while!
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We went to the aquarium while we were in Niagara Falls, too. We watched an awesome sea lion show, and the penguin and seal feeding were fun too!
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Playground time with Papa!
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The Eastern Hills Mall had their "beach". The kids had a great time, and Jonas built a pretty cool sand pail tower with some new friends.
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
February Fun
Ok, we are half way through February, so I guess it's time to share a bit of what we have been up to!
We celebrated Groundhog Day at school by making some ground hog waffles. Super fun, and yummy too!
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| From February 2012 |
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This past Friday was our 100th Day of School party...even though it was really only the 99th day :-) We had a fun day full of different centers and snacks. Unfortunately, Jonas was feeling pretty lousy and was totally sick by the end of the day. I love his church made out of popsicle sticks though!
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| From February 2012 |
This was Jonas by the end of the day. Poor little guy! He pretty much slept the rest of the night.
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On Tuesday, we had our Valentines Day party. The kids loved all the games and crafts, but I think their favorite part was the cupcakes!
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| From February 2012 |
It's been busy so far! Next week is winter break - so I'm sure we'll have lots more going on!
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Quotes of the Week
Jonas: When I'm 6 I might start having milk in my cereal.
me: Bethany and Bekah have milk in their cereal.
Jonas: It's just because some people are different, mom. Like I'm a boy and you're a girl. You like stuffing and I don't. People are just different, right?
me: Bethany and Bekah have milk in their cereal.
Jonas: It's just because some people are different, mom. Like I'm a boy and you're a girl. You like stuffing and I don't. People are just different, right?
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“Mom, when you turned on the light you broke my dream!”
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Jonas was playing with his mini skateboards and his Papa asked him what they were called. He said, "Netflix". He truly thinks his skateboards are called Netflix. Weird.
Miscellaneous Fun
The Kindergartners were allowed to pick out books from the school library to take home for the first time this year last Tuesday. Jonas picked out a Star Wars book, and was totally into reading it all week.
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| From January 2012 |
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| From January 2012 |
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Saturday we headed over to the Radt's for a Dove chocolate party. While the mommies were busy eating yummy chocolate, the kids bundled up and had some fun in the snow!
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| From January 2012 |
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For some reason Jonas has starting carrying around weird things as "pets". So far he has a pet potato, and a pet water balloon. He even brought the potato to church on Sunday!
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| From January 2012 |
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After church we went out for lunch, and Jonas kept himself busy (and entertained the people around us) by stacking the jellies into huge towers. One older gentleman reminded us after lunch to take our "bricklayer" home!
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| From January 2012 |
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Happy Birthday, Denny! Jonas had a great time at Denny's birthday party Sunday afternoon! He even drew Denny a picture of Gort (the robot from "The Day the Earth Stood Still)...too bad he's the only one who has any idea who Gort is :-)
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| From January 2012 |
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| From January 2012 |
Monday, January 09, 2012
Rockets
Papa got a model rocket for Christmas (and we still had one lying around), so everyone headed to the park yesterday to blast them off. We were pretty successful! They both blasted, and we even found one afterwards! Jonas was a little disappointed we couldn't get the other one out of the tree it landed in, but he is excited to be able to blast off the one we found again soon.
Setting up the red rocket
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| From January 2012 |
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| From January 2012 |
Here comes rocket number 2!
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| From January 2012 |
Here's a video of the white rocket blasting off...and us all chasing it like idiots.
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Lisa got it! It wasn't easy though...she had to go through swamps and prickly bushes and all kinds of things, but she is serious about those rockets!
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| From January 2012 |
The whole crew headed back to the car after the big adventure.
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| From January 2012 |
Saturday, January 07, 2012
Mickey Mouse
161 days until our vacation to Disney! Jonas and I are already excited, and we made Mickey Mouse waffles this morning!
Wednesday, January 04, 2012
Babies
Bethany and Jonas were pretending to be Hayden last night. Started out pretty hysterical...they were both cracking up trying not to let Papa feed them with a bottle. Of course, by the end they both thought it was awesome, and I'm pretty sure we are going to have to squash all their fun soon and tell them they are actually way too old to use a bottle in real life.
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Tuesday, January 03, 2012
Strong Museum of Play
To end our Christmas vacation, we all headed to Rochester to the Strong Museum of Play. Even though I still wasn't feeling too great, I refused to let our entire vacation go by without doing anything fun! We did have a great day there, and Jonas and his cousins had a blast experiencing the fun exihibits that they have there. We will definitely go again, and hopefully next time we won't end it with a trip to the doctor for double ear infections!
Visiting the train tables...we were successfully able to distract them from the actual train that cost $1 per child to ride :-)
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| From January 2012 |
The various superhero poses
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Jonas spent an extraordinary amount of time loading apples onto the conveyor belt and dumping them in the bucket...I think he would like working in Bear Country!
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| From January 2012 |
Lisa and I had fun in Bear Country too...Abby broke our super cool wall, and we made awesome silly sentences!
Another surprising favorite was the "Fairy Tale Room", where Jonas made me a feast and served me for a good 20 minutes.
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| From January 2012 |
And, of course, Wegman's shopping. Jonas took a lot of care to pick out his 5 things to buy, and still has his receipt!
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The last half an hour and the way home was rough. Jonas started complaining about his ear, and I got him to the doctor as soon as we got home. A double ear infection and some amoxicillan, and today we're feeling much better!
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| From January 2012 |
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