Fun, Part 2

The fun continued for all of us on Saturday.  We started the day with some poached eggs and bacon....and an M&M nose.

Then we got ready and went to see a field of sheep.  I know, totally random. 

 

There is a big field next to a branch of the bank that I use.  It's pretty close to our house.  Every winter these sheep appear in that field.  They stay until about March and then it starts getting too hot for them and they take them back to the mountains.  We have taken Spencer to see them before and we went once when Elliott was a few months old.  He screamed the entire time.

 

There was no crying this time.

The sheep were afraid of us and kept their distance, but they were still close enough to enjoy.

After the sheep we headed to a local preschool/daycare for a snow day.  We took Spencer to this same event 3 years ago and then kind of forgot about it for the last 2 years.  Spencer's kindergarten friend invited us to go with him this year and we were happy to go.

 

You can read about our first snow day in 2011 HERE.  Even if you don't read it you should check out the pictures of little 3 year old Spencer.

We went to a snow day in a park the end of November.  Elliott HATED it.  Absolutely hated it.  This time he avoided all the snow at the beginning, then played right at the edge of the snow and then overcame his fears and went for it right in the middle of the snow pile.

 

Spencer had a total blast.

 

Spencer and his best buddy Paul.

The kids just played and played and played.  Then we went in to the preschool for a snack.

 

Then, a little more snow time before we headed home.

Sunday was a day for cleaning, cleaning out and organizing.  One of my monthly goals for February is to organize the work bench in the grarage.  We just kind of dumped stuff on it when we moved in and its messiness was starting to bother me.

 

Sort of last minute on Sunday John and Maryellen invited us over for the Super Bowl.  Michael and Spencer headed over for the start of the game, but Elliott and I went to IKEA first to get some organizational stuff for the garage and our closet.

 

We got there during half time.  Elliott had not napped on Sunday (despite our best efforts) and he was getting really tired.  He climbed into daddy's lap and pretty much stayed there.

And then he did something he hasn't done since he was a tiny infant.  He actually fell asleep.

I didn't want him to sleep long enough that he would wake up feeling rested and then not want to go to bed for the night, so I loaded him up and took him home so he could actually go to bed.

 

John was disgusted with the game so he decided to give Spencer a pool lesson.

It takes between 42 and 67 seconds (depending on the wait time at the stop sign) to drive from John and Maryellen's house to ours.  Good thing because Elliott was in full on melt down mode by the time we got home. 

 

I wanted to get a picture of Spencer and Elliott together wearing their football shirts for the Super Bowl, but this was the best I got for Elliott,

and I never got anything with Spencer, so this will have to do.  Just picture the two of them standing together. 

 

Fun, Part 1

I have been really busy since the 2nd week of January.  I am *only* working one extra day a week, but that combined with two Art Masterpiece lessons, a trip to Tucson, doctors appointments, organizing stuff as part of my 2014 goals, regular life stuff and other normal activities has kept me on the go-go-go for a month now.

 

Luckily a lot of my busyness (I checked, that is a real word), has been fun.

 

I worked on Thursday.  All day.  That wasn't fun.  But after work I stopped by Carter's to pick up a new concert outfit for Spencer.  We wanted him to look like Twist.  

 

I couldn't find a yellow hooded sweatshirt, but the overall look had a "Twist" vibe.

 

He was very, very, very excited.

 

We went to dinner with Michael and Elliott before the show. 

Then we split up.  Michael and Elliott headed home and Spencer and I headed to the show.

The concert started at 6:30.  There was a short intermission at about 7:15 and the whole thing was done by 8:00.  It was definitely produced with preschoolers and young kids in mind.

I took a whole bunch of pictures, but they all pretty much look same so I won't show all of them.  They did all of our favorites, including "Here We Go", "Friends Give Friends A Hand", "Great Day", "Just Like A Rockstar" and "Bananas".  I'd definintely recommend it if they ever go on tour again.  I checked the website and they have about 4 shows left in California and then the tour is OVER.

 

Spencer got popcorn during intermission.

He used some of his Christmas money to buy a concert T-Shirt.  They didn't have his size, so we improvised.  This should last him until his 8th grade graduation.

We went through the drive through at McDonald's for an ice cream cone after we left the show but we were still home and Spencer was in bed by 9:00.

 

The next night, on Friday, Maryellen picked me up at 5:30 to head to Cynthia's birthday get-together.  She got there just as all hell broke loose.  Elliott had been turning the lights on and off.  This annoyed Spencer.  Spencer pusehd Elliott away from the light switch and told him no.  This ticked off Elliott who proceeded to pinch Spencer so hard he tore the skin open.  So, right when Maryellen arrived Elliott was screaming in his room where he was in time-out and Spencer was screaming in the bathroom as Michael cleaned him up.

 

Maryellen asked if everything was OK and if I could still go.  I grabbed my stuff, wished Michael good luck and said, "Let's get out of here." 

 

I didn't take very many pictures but we did get a few good shots of our little group.

 

Well, this one wasn't so good because we got photobombed by a dog.

 

We decided that this would be a perfect shot, except we were missing one person.

 

So Maryellen photoshopped Amy in.  Awe!

It looks like Lauren is behind the couch in the above pictures, but she is actually sitting behind us on the couch.  Once everyone else got up we took an awkward family photo shot.  I had to use picmonkey to lighten it because it was really, really dark.

 

Fun, Part 2 is coming up soon.  It includes all of our festivities on Saturday and Sunday.