Showing posts with label Chick-fil-a. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chick-fil-a. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Pumpkins, paint, stickers and the zoo!



Walking Julia to school

Been pretty busy since my last post.  Which is good, i like being busy.  You'd think having 4 kids would keep me busy enough, and it does.  But for some reason i like having other things to do, places to go, people to see...sometimes :).  Anyways, let the kids go swimming the other day.  Its been getting kinda cold over night here now, so the temperature of the water has cooled off some.  Its not horribly cold to get into, but still that shock for a min. when it goes above your belly button, and you suck it in and hold your breath because its cold haha.  The girls didnt mind, of course.  Even Ella wanted to go in.  My husband was in with the girls while i stayed inside with the baby.  I didnt feel like getting in anyways.  If it was an in ground pool, i would get in more.  The ladder into the pool freaks me out, and its so much work trying to get dry when you have to get a baby and a toddler dry first and deal with all the soaking wet suits and towels.  And when i go swimming, i like to swim, not just stand there and walk around.  The girls like to chase me and splash and thats fine, but not when i just straightened my hair, i dont want to have to re-do it.  So i let their dad go in, its easier for guys.  About 30 min. later, he is calling for me to come get ella.  She didnt care she was getting out, but she also hadnt complained to get out.  She LOVES the water!  She didnt seem to care that the water was so cold, her legs had turned to a bright red.  She could barely walk when i got her inside because her poor little legs were so cold :(  I spent some time warming her up and getting her into dry clothes.  She thought it was funny i was rubbing her legs lol.  Her normal skin color took 3 hours to return!  
Double french braided the girls hair monday night :)


We also went and checked out Phoenix zoo this past saturday.  Ended up getting a membership because the entry fee to get in ONCE was going to cost us $60!  And thats with the 2 youngest being free.  So it made sense to just get the membership because it was cheaper than 2 visits there.  The girls had fun!  The place is great!  And we only saw half of it lol.  You can rent paddle boats!  Madie was tired of walking and was ready to leave.  We figured we might as well go, we had already spent almost 2 hours there and since we had a membership now and all year round weather to come back, we could do just that.

The girls are so excited for Halloween.  We went to Julia's Monster Mash/fall ball thing at her school on friday, after she had a fun girl scout meeting.  We showed up for the ball only to find out they required tickets.  Tickets that apparently were on sale all week.  Well i had gotten NO INFO on this, i kept waiting for something to be sent home.  I finally asked a teacher on friday, about the ball and she never mentioned needing tickets.  Im so glad we decided to not walk to the school for the ball or we would have had to walk home, to then get in the car and go to an ATM to get the cash to buy the tickets at the door.  The things we do to make our kids happy! :) The girls had fun dancing at the ball.  Madisen of course got tired and didnt feel like dancing anymore.  You'd never know with Julia and Ella that we had past their normal bedtime, they were dancing like crazy!!  Julia saw some friends there, and ran around a little bit them, but for the most part, stayed in a little circle with us and danced.  Boy does she get REALLY into it.  Its hilarious!!  I wish i could have gotten a video! 
 
The girls all ready for the Monster Mash/ Fall Costume Ball






Not sure if i mentioned before that we showed up to Chick-fil-a on daddy daughter date night.  I kinda laughed because it reminded me of the nasty White Castle having reservations for valentines day....Um gross lol.  But this was actually really cute!!  They had half the restaurant closed off for reservations only.  The food came with dessert and a little gift for the kids, plus they had a horse drawn carriage ride!  That was for anyone, so after we ate ( i got a salad, trying to lose weight!) we all rode the carriage.  The girls were so EXCITED!!  It just went around the parking lot, but it was soooooo cute!  Made me miss horse back riding even more.  I should find a place by me that does that, there is definitely enough horses around here :) 

 Since tomorrow is Halloween, and we have not carved our pumpkins yet...i know i know :(  I decided to let Madie paint hers while Julia was at school and Ella was napping.  Doing it in groups is far less stressful.  When we get home from picking up Julia, i will let her paint her pumpkin, and also let ella paint one of the small ones.  I painted the other small one that is Aubrey's since she cant do it herself this year :)  
Finished results-green dots are cheeks :)



My pumpkin of course :)
 After Madisen was done painted her pumpkin, i let her paint some pictures and then do a sticker project.  Shes had a fun day!  

PAINT

STICKERS!

 Ella and Aubrey have been asleep for over an hour now, so any min. one of them will wake up lol.  Probably the baby since Ella at least takes 2 hours naps during the day.  Also took some great pictures of Aubrey this morning.  She is such a happy baby, just melts my heart!  I love my girls so much!!
Last nights bath

From this morning

Until next time...

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

A little here, a little there...Stitches at 3



Ah, i felt awful this morning.  I hate telling people no, even if it inconveniences me, i end up doing it anyways and saying yes.  I must have gotten that from my mom and my nana.  Anyways, i did say no, but still felt bad about it as i was saying it.  My daughters 1st grade teacher came up to me this morning during drop off and asked if i would be willing to organize her thanksgiving feast she has every year.  I had to kindly decline.  I said i really want to, and i will be there to help on the day they have it, even make or bring something, which im sure is what its all about anyways.  But i had to remind her i still have little ones at home and just dont want to take on the responsibility of being the one that puts all that together.  Funny thing, though, is last year i think i would have totally done it. No problem.  But i was more comfortable there, and knew most of the other moms in my child's class.  Plus i got pretty close with her teacher and we are now still friends and talk all the time.  So it wouldnt have been that big of deal for me, last year.  This year though, having just moved here, and really only knowing one other mom.  Ok, i know 3 other kids moms in Julia's class, but only talk to one of them daily.  Plus i dont really know this teacher well.  She is very nice, and i like her, but just havent gotten the level where we communicate much.  And from talking to the other moms, thats how she is.  Thats ok though, i know being a teacher is a lot of work and shes busy.  But anyways, like i said, i will be there on whatever friday she has the feast and i will help! :)

Went to the Chiropractor this morning.  Not sure if we are going to keep this one.  He is a really nice guy and he does the technique that our old Chiro used to use, but i just dont feel cleared when we leave.  He cant get my wrists to feel better, and my neck is still kinda off.  Jeremy says the same thing after this appointment, so i think we will look for one closer to use.  Maybe we have to go through a couple of them to find the one we like the best.  Something i really am not looking forward to!  I hate filling out all that paperwork with kids trying to run around get into things.  Plus, just that first meeting of a new dr. and what not, ugh..i get so nervous and clammy, i hate it!  I miss my old chiropractor!!  We had him since Julia was 6 months old.  So for over 6 years.  When we move back, we are heading straight back to him! lol

Well, Aubrey cat napped in her crib again this morning.  About 15 min. or so.  Then woke up and was awake for awhile.  Ella woke up at 5:30 this morning.  I have no idea why, she is still so tired when she wakes up, but she just wont fall back asleep.  I blame it on her not being a binkie baby.  I got her to lay in her bed until 6 by playing her classical music CD and hoping she would fall back asleep, but she didnt.  Joy!  The baby decided she was going to get up at 1am and again at 5 am.  And she was WIDE awake after her 5 am feeding.  She is just so darn happy and adorable though, how can it not make me smile when she is just beaming up at me :)  Looooong day ahead!

Madisen comes to me with a paper cut from the book "Are you my Mother?" that she was trying to read.  Of course she blames the book and says she is no longer going to read that one lol.  I explained to her its not the book, its how she changes the pages.  Not sure if she believed me or not.  She refuses a band-aid.  She always freaks about them, i think its the taking them off part later that gets her so freaked out.  I usually took them off in the bath anyways when they were less painful, but she can be a drama queen about them.  She was so tough and strong though when she busted her eye- brow open in June 2011, she was 3 years old.  We were playing at a fountain in Oregon that had cement steps and she tends to be a little slow on steps, so her friend, completely by accident, kinda pushed her out of the way to catch up to speedy Julia who was already at the bottom.  And so madie fell and hit her head on the edge of the stair below her.  It was so scary for me!  And of course her!  lol  She was crying and i lifted her up and her face was covered in blood already, man those eye brows can burst open easy!  Luckily we were only a couple blocks from her doctors.  So i had to load up Julia, baby Ella at the time, and a crying scared Madisen, into the car.  This of course happened with in 10 min. of getting there :(  Fountain day was cut short.  We get to her doctors and they cleaned it out but said they dont give stitches there and i had to take her to ER.  GREAT!  I had to call my husband at work, he had to take the rest of the day off, i had to go pick him up so i could leave the other kids at home with him.  I know how long ER visits can take and there was NO way i was bringing other kids to that.  So then we dropped him, Julia and Ella off at home, while i took Madie to the ER.  She had already stopped crying long before that and was being sooooo good.  She hadnt even had any pain reliever and had to keep her bandage on her eyebrow while we did all that driving.  Get to the ER and it must have been a slow day because they pretty much took us right back.  Then a nurse and a doctor come back to look at it and the doc decides that the glue would be better than stitches.  WHEW!  Fine with me! :)  But he still had to get in there and clean it out, which meant pulling it apart a little bit and squirting saline in it to get the dirt out.  Not one tear from Madie.  She just layed there so good.  He had even brought in 2 other nurses to hold her down because he said he usually has to do that when cleaning it out.  He was very impressed with her, and so was I.  What a big brave girl!  She then got a couple otter pops while we waited to get discharged.  But not until i was questioned about how she got hurt like 6 times by many different people.  Ok, i know they have to be thorough to make sure i wasnt abusing her, but it got really OLD explaining it everytime.   Finally after about 3 hours, we got to leave.

At her doc. office shortly after it happened
Not cleaned up yet





Bandage with some numbing cream on it

They glued it and she was all better :)

 Thank goodness that is all that happened to her and it wasnt much worse. I am so grateful for that!  

On a different note, i made some awesome chicken last night.  This was the 3rd or 4th time making this particular kind from a recipe i found on Pinterest.   Its supposed to be like Chick-fil-a chicken nuggets, and it surely was!   Like i said, i had made them before, but last nights were the best.  Ella gobbled them up, and she doesnt even really like the real ones from Chick-fil-a!  Madisen kept saying how much she liked them and she must have because she actually ate them with out having to be reminded to take a bite, chew, and swallow...REPEAT lol.  Julia said they were good too, but shes never really gets excited about meat.  Just like i was as a kid.  Anyways here is the picture and link if you want to make it for dinner too! :) (thats for you mom! i know you're missing it )



                                                         

 
Well until next time...