After regularly blogging our pre-Halloween fun, it's certainly taken me a while to blog the actual holiday! We had a pretty normal Saturday, ate dinner early, dressed up & headed out. Spiderman was, once again, a hit. Kevin & I got into the spirit a little more than we usually do. Funny, though, with Kaleb most people didn't even notice Kevin's extra head. Kaleb was so excited & knew just what to do this year. Most people were not anticipating many tirck-or-treaters and gave generous amount of candy. He got used to it, so the houses that let him pick he would pick 1, 2, 3 , 4, and we'd finally stop him by 5 peices of candy. (He was fast....I was in no way trying to get more candy for my own selfish enjoyment).
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Halloween (finally)
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Friday, October 30, 2009
Birthday Bash(es)
We started Kaleb's birthday out right. I set a presant in his room (a Buzz shirt I wanted him to wear that day). I thought he'd wake up & tear into it, but my thoughtful boy found me & asked "What is that birthday thing in my room?". He was bummed at first that it wasn't a toy, but when I told him he'd get toys later he got really excited about his shirt. I made muffins for breakfast and he (eventually) blew out a candle after my Mom & I sang to him. He slept in so Kevin & Grandpa weren't home anymore. We had a great day with friends & family at Dland, CAdventure & out to dinner. He got to blow out another candle at dinner. He wore a birthday name badge all day & got very excited whenever anyone wished him a happy birthday. He would try to tell them all about his birthday shirt & the transformer Grandma got him.
Yesterday was crazy fun. We woke up and made Kaleb's green bakugan cake (Spidey to be added later as a candle).
Guests showed up about 10 minutes after I finished getting stuff ready, which is great timing. I usually don't get to finish everything I had planned for parties. Chaos ensued. I tried having some structured activities, but it might have been better to just let the kids run around and play. I think everyone had a good time; I know Kaleb did.
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
Birthday & Memories
Happy fourth birthday to Kaleb! We are so excited for his "Green Spiderman Bakugan" birthday.
I have never written down Kaleb's birth story and am going to use his birthday as the excuse to do so. Unless you're like me & enjoy this stuff feel free to scroll through the pics or skip this post, because I'm going to write down pretty much everything I can remember.
We had been trying to get pregnant for 8 months and were really hoping it would happen. I realized I was an hour late (yes, I was that anxious). When the test resulted in a positive i got nervous, told myself that I had to wait the full three minutes for a correct result & went to change out the laundry. Of course, the test was still positive, so I walked into the room holding it to show Kevin. The smile on his face erased all my worries.
I loved every minute of my pregnancy. I had morning sickness for 8 months, pregnancy gingivitis, heartburn, acid reflux, back pain and plantar facitis, but I was so happy to be pregnant and to feel Kaleb moving inside me that I didn't mind as much as I probably should have. It was kind of ridiculous how excited I was. The hormones did make me emotional, but only in positive ways. True, I did get so emotional that I cried when I let a truck in front of me on the freeway and the driver waved a quick thank you (how sweet!!!!), but it's better than it could have been.
For the record these pictures were taken 2 months before Kaleb was born, but the ONE picture I have that shows how ginormous I really got is packed away & I really don't like how swollen my face got towards the end anyways.
October 26th Kevin & I fell asleep on the couch. I woke up sometime to drag my huge body to the bed & practically had to yell to get Kevin to wake up and come to bed too. I was awoken at 3:30 AM by an internal popping & gush of water. Not too hard to figure out. I whispered Kevin's name and his eyes flew wide open. Somehow he knew it was an important whisper.
We rushed to the hospital & the whole way I was saying things like "Ooooh, that was a good contraction". Poor girl, I had NO idea what was in store! I remember screaming at the top of my lungs for the epidual, but everything kind of ran together. Twelve and a half hours later (Two and a half of them pushing) Kaleb made his debut at 4PM October 27th.
Kaleb was a very happy and easygoing baby. He usually slept through church...and most other places we went. He hated diaper changes and loved looking at his mobile.
When he first started crawling he could only crawl backwards and ended up halfway under the couch alot.
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Crafty Halloween
I figured I'd post pics of this week's crafts, even though I really can't take credit for them. I stole the ideas from thisrandom person's blog. http://matthewandjess.blogspot.com/ Sometimes blog stalking pays off :) This cupcake might be from somewhere else, but I don't really remember. We made these for activity day girls (before painting pumpkins). Super easy & cute. "Ocean animals" lesson craft. It's supposed to be a turtle, if you can't tell :)
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Sunday, October 18, 2009
Craft update: kitty face masks for our "domestic animals" lesson and tress for our "seasons - winter & spring" lesson. Both times I used elmer's glue & even though the crafts had 1.5 hours to dry I sent the kids home with sticky, falling apart crafts. Lesson learned: always stick to glue sticks or tape!!! I have some fun ones planned for this week :)
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
Thank you, corporate America
for all the free stuff:
To be completely honest I did pay $3 for the hoodie after my free $10. What did I do to get all this? Just provide some businesses with my contact info & bask in the freebie coupons. Check out my reciepts from 2 of the stores. Gotta love it!
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
Kaleb is the littlest (and I hope most manly) activity day girl. He goes with me to every activity & doesn't mine being surrounded by cute, older girls :) This week we made gingerbread haunted houses. Only they were made out of graham crackers. It was a fun activity & I kind of wanted to make one too. I made one for Kaleb, but controlled myself so I could interact with the girls instead of going to my happy decorating place :) Thursday we got Kevin to come to Dland with us after work & we watched the fireworks from in front of the castle. I feel almost silly for thinking it was a good show when I saw it from the other side of the park...we missed so much! I wish I had captured Kaleb's face when Zero came out, but, as usual, I got a pic of him blinking & grimacing, even though he was ecstatic in real life. I only took one pic, because I'm sure all the people around us watching the show & taking pics of it thought I was crazy for taking pics of a kid with peanut butter on his face. What can I say...it's motherhood.
Friday our little "joyschool" had a field trip to the zoo. See that adorbale girl on the right? She's in love with Kaleb. I know, right? Go Kaleb! :):) They are so in love that there was no opportunity to get a cute pic of them together, and she's not even next to him in this pic. I guess that's love when you're three & it's just fine with me. If girls like that are in love with him & keep that kind of distance until he's in his twenties I think I can handle it :) I teach for a two week block starting tomorrow & I think it will be fun. I need to come up with some fun animal crafts, so if anyone has ideas let me know. I'm sure I'll come up with somthing...I just want somthing really cute...you know?
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