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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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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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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It's been busy so far!  Next week is winter break - so I'm sure we'll have lots more going on!

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?

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Here comes rocket number 2!

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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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The whole crew headed back to the car after the big adventure.

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Mickey Mouse

161 days until our vacation to Disney!  Jonas and I are already excited, and we made Mickey Mouse waffles this morning!

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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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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The various superhero poses

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Bear Country - the Berenstain Bears

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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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Lisa and I had fun in Bear Country too...Abby broke our super cool wall, and we made awesome silly sentences!

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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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Those crazy Lafferty's think they're birds!

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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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Zoo in the Winter

Some of our best zoo trips have been in the winter.  It's a little cold, and we have to bundle up a bit, but we always see animals out and about that we almost never get to see.  This year was no exception, and we had a great time!

Sea Lions - one of my favorites!

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The bears were awesome.  They were almost putting on a show for us.  All 3 of them were standing on their back paws and walking around a bit.  Do you think they were mimicking us?

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Kissing giraffes

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I am always disappointed when we don't see the ocelot in the Rainforest exhibit, which is nearly every time.  Yesterday, he was walking all around right in front of us.  Yay!

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The zoo was also decorated for Christmas...pink Christmas trees, anyone?

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Silly kids

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Tiger faces - yup, even the lions and tigers were out!

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The Last Christmas Party

Monday afternoon we had a party at Grandma's to see all of our extended family.  Jonas was loving getting to spend some time with his cousin Ben!

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Some wind down time after all the excitement:

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Christmas Day

We spent Christmas Day over at Grandma and Papa's house.  We are so thankful to have such a wonderful family, and Jonas loves being with his cousins!  And guess what?  More presents!

Jonas helped pass out the presents...

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My Mom and Dad's main present for everyone this year was reservations for our Disney trip in June.  (Which I am INCREDIBLY excited about!)  To get the kids ready, they bought each of them their own Disney suitcase and filled it with small things to bring on the trip.

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We were all pretty tired and silly by the end of the day:

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Thanks everyone for a wonderful Christmas!