November 2020

 November 2, 2020

Conner lost his 4th tooth! He can officially sing, "All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth." Video to come...it took us a while to learn and record the song. I think one of his adult teeth is 1/2 way in by the time we record it...oops.

 November 7, 2020

Today was Isaac's birthday party. We had such a great time! I made his party into it's own post, so check it out!

November 8, 2020

What a cutie!

November 10, 2020

This morning I was giving the kids a bath. Isaac and Emma took a bath first. Emma was ready to get out so I got both of them out and put Caleb in the bath. I get Emma dressed while Isaac is getting dressed...you see where this is going...and next thing I know, Emma is bringing me a towel. I'm confused for 1 second before I realize...

she's soaking wet.

 

Today at Caleb's preschool they got to go in a tent and listen to stories!

 Funny conversation with Isaac about a plastic Luigi figurine:

Isaac: Mom, do you know where Conner's Luigi toy is?

Me: No.

Isaac: Oh yeah! I threw it in the trash because I was mad at him.

Me: Did you take it out of the trash?

Isaac: I begotten (forgotten) to.

Me: Well, it's gone now.

Isaac: Can you make me a new one out of wood and glue?

Me: Ummmm...no.

And I wonder why things go missing!

 

 November 12, 2020

I know there are so many different opinions about Covid. Please allow me to have mine. No need to tell me your opinion on my page. Feel free to on your own page. 

Today we were at the pediatrician for Emma's well check. Like always, they give you like 3 pages of questions to answer. I look up from answering a few and find my kids crawling all over the floor. This is why I wouldn't be surprised if we already had Covid. This is why I am sure if we haven't had it, we probably will at some point...

Today at school, Isaac got in trouble for hitting somebody at recess. I was trying to talk to him about it and this was our conversation:

Me: Isaac, what did you do at recess that wasn't nice?

Isaac: I punched somebody.

He goes on to explain what happened. We discuss using our words and what he could say next time. I conclude with:

Me: So next time you need to use your words instead of hitting.

Isaac: I didn't hit him. I punched him!

 

 November 14, 2020

I'm not sure why I'm so bad at getting pictures on Ammon's birthday, but I am. I'm so sorry, Ammon! This year at least I remembered to take some pictures. Unfortunately they didn't turn out...

 Caleb has been a peace maker lately. I know I'll need a reminder of this someday, so I wanted to make sure to write it down! Here are some examples:

Emma kept opening the bathroom door while Isaac was going to the bathroom. I kept telling Emma to stop. I finally went over to enforce and Caleb was taking Emma's hand, walking her away from the bathroom saying, "Emma, let's come over here and play."

Conner got sent outside for jumping on the couches. He went outside crying. Caleb said, "I'm going to go outside to play with Conner so he will be happy."

He says cute things to Emma a lot, like "Emma, this is your popcorn, can you eat it and not mine?"

 

November 20, 2020

Isaac asked me today to put out the bubble machine. I realized I don't think I've pulled it out since Emma was born! She loved it!

We had a movie and popcorn night. I just love how Emma wants to be just like her big brothers! So cute!

November 23, 2020

Okay, we recorded it!

Tonight the kids ate dinner first and then Ammon and I were eating. Emma came over to me and wanted to share my dinner with me.

November 26, 2020

Happy Thanksgiving!

We have a couple of Thanksgiving traditions in our family that we really love. The first one is Thankful Trees. All the kids who are big enough get a bare Thankful Tree and then each day they pick something they are grateful for, we write it on a leaf, and put it on their tree.

Our other tradition is a Thanksgiving Tree. We put up our pine tree and make home made Thanksgiving decorations for our Thanksgiving Tree. The kids and I always have fun making them!

 

 This year we had our Thanksgiving Feast at the Powell's house. The kids had so much fun playing with cousins!

I made some Wassail and rolls (along with other things)

We had lots of chefs and sous chefs!

A few years ago we cooked one turkey in the smoker and one in the oven. The smoked turkey was picked clean and we still had lots of oven turkey left. It was surprising how much drier the oven turkey was. We have never done another oven turkey since that Thanksgiving. This year Kendall tried a method of pulling out some of the bones before cooking it. By pulling out he bones, the turkey laid flat and we could fit more turkeys in the smoker. In the past years, we've had to transport smokers to the host's house to fit all the turkeys in. 

 

Kendall and Caleb ate "apple worms" aka really long apple peals

 

Sadie had planned a few fun crafts to do with the kids!

We had a phenomenal feast!

And we got this gem!

November 27-29, 2020

It has become our family's tradition to go camping the day after Thanksgiving, and we love it! It seems like every year Ammon and I struggle with wanting to go as we are packing everything; but once we get there, we always have so much fun! We have gone to Enchanted Rock each year, but we have decided not to go there next year. The campground has gone down hill a lot the past two years.

This year, the bathrooms were only open for 3 hours a day (they had port-a-potties the other 21 hours), and it rained the first night there. So we only stayed one night.

We love hiking at Enchanted Rock. There are so many fun rocks to climb all over.

I wouldn't let Emma climb this huge rock because there were too many places for her to fall off. So I picked a different rock for her to climb that wasn't nearly as big, and this is what she thought of it...

I think the kids favorite part of camping is night time. It doesn't matter what time of day we set up the tent, they are ready to go to bed right then! 10 am, no problem, let's go to bed! Also, once it gets dark they get glow sticks and to make SMORES!

November 29, 2020

Today we decorated the Christmas tree!

As we are decorating the Christmas tree we were talking about the Christmas story. Conner said, "I know what the three wise men brought! Frankenstein, gold and Murry!"

 

We finished painting and putting together Emma's room today! We took the front off her crib, so she now has a big girl bed! She was excited to go to sleep in her bed!

 Emma has been very interested in the boy's underwear for a bit. But today I found her on the toilet, with toilet paper, wiping her bum! Yikes! Is she REALLY ready to potty train????

November 30, 2020

Grandma Dietz brought sugar cookies and frosting over tonight and decorated cookies with the kids!

Isaac's 5th Birthday Party

Today I threw Isaac a 5th birthday party for his school friends! 

Before I had kids, I loved throwing themed parties. I haven't done one in a very long time, so I was nervous. I LOVED planning it all and the party itself went fantastic. I'd say it was a success and I would definitely do another themed birthday party!

A few weeks ago I asked Isaac what theme he wanted at his birthday party, and I wasn't surprised when he said, "Peter Pan!" I have been planning for weeks and it went amazing! We had so much fun!

 

Each child had a party bag decorated like a treasure map. They got to put all our activities into their party bag.

 

As friends arrived, they got to choose what color of glitter to add to their Pixie Dust Playdough and then play with it!

 

After Peter Pan gave Wendy, Michael and John pixie dust, they could fly! We flew parachute men off of our balcony.

As they flew into Neverland, Tinkerbell told the Lost Boys that Wendy Bird is coming and Peter Pan said to shoot her down! So we used sling shots and pom poms to shoot Wendy.

 

The Crocodile likes to try to eat Captain Hook. We played musical chairs, where the floor is the water, and when the music turns off, Croc is going to bite whoever is left in the water. 

Tinkerbell shows Captain Hook where the Lost Boys Hideout is....and X marks the spot! We played pin the X on the treasure map.

Our last game was walking the plank! Whoever could walk the plank (all the kids) got a Peter Pan hat of their own!

Isaac opened presents. It was so cute watching the kids be so excited for Isaac to open their gift!

The kids went outside to play in the backyard while I got the birthday cake all ready. Then we sang to Isaac and got to eat it! The top tier is a treasure map cake. The cupcakes are all "Gold Doubloon" cupcakes.

Each of the kids got to take their party bag home full of their Pixie Dust playdough, parachute man, slingshot and a pompom, Peter Pan hat and some gold doubloons. We had a blast! I can't wait to throw another themed birthday party!

October 2020

 October 1, 2020

Today was dress like a Cowboy at school for Isaac...I know a week late, right? But he still had a great time! He named his horse "Fly". I don't think he gets the humor in that name...horsefly.

 Ammon took Conner and Isaac to the Lowe's and needed extra space in the van, so he took out Caleb's carseat. In an attempt to not be left home, he got in his carseat. It didn't work, he still stayed home! Lol! It reminds me of a story from when I was a kid. My Mom was taking Elise and me somewhere. Kimberly wanted to go too, so she went and got in the van. I don't remember if my Mom knew Kimberly was in the van, or if we truly needed to take the truck, but either way, the three of us got in the truck and drove away, leaving Kimberly very upset.

The boys got these SmashEm' toys from the treasure chest - it's a squishy Paw Patrol character inside a red ball. The red balls have become Poke-Balls in our house. I guess in Pokemon, you throw a red and white ball at creatures, and if you hit the creature, it's captured inside the ball.  Emma has watched them and knows what to do with the Poke-Balls.

October4, 2020

This is the face Emma makes when she sees a picture/video of herself. So cute!

After we were done looking at pictures, I set Emma down, stood up and while walking out of the room said, "Come on Emma." I looked behind me and found she had done one of her favorite things...stole my chair!

 

Apparently Caleb likes ketchup.

That's a veggie straw he is using as a straw.

 

October 5, 2020

Conner lost another tooth tonight! Third one!

Emma got some new shoes. I asked her to show them to me and she posed. LOL!

October 8, 2020

Conner and Isaac have been taking Jiu Jitsu. It is a form of self-defense in the martial arts. Tonight they learned a take down where you pull on their leg then sit on them. At the end of class, Isaac got to spar with Master Jay to practice his new moves!

October 9, 2020

Grandma Eggett is in town so we went to Jungle Jam! We had a great time!

October 11, 2020

When Emma doesn't want to take a nap, I found a way to get her to take one without crying. I tell her dolly needs a nap, and can you lay with her until she falls asleep?

October 13, 2020

On the weekend we let the boys get up at 7am and watch TV so that Ammon and I can sleep in. Every "tv morning" Caleb will come into our bedroom around 7:30 and say, "I'm hungwe" in his adorable voice. It melts my heart and I never want to forget it!

 

October 20, 2020

Caleb's city preschool class is located in the education center at Fischer Park. So while he was at school today, Emma and I played at the playground!

 

She was swinging and making monkey sounds!

October 22, 2020

I told the kids that it was time for bed and to head upstairs... I watched as Emma ran AWAY from the stairs and proceeded to hide from me...

October 25, 2020

Emma is a year and half and old enough to try out the Powell's spider box. At first she is not phased by the spider, but the more she sees it, the less she likes it! I love this age because she won't remember it by next year, so it'll be "new" again!

October 28, 2020

Tonight in Isaac's prayer he said, "...please bless me tomorrow to not hit, punch, pinch.....slap.....or take him down so he hits his head on the floor." I was thinking, "Wow, he really thought that out!" LOL

 

October 30, 2020

Tonight was the church Halloween party! We did a trunk or treat in the parking lot.

We have 3 kids from Paw Patrol: Isaac is Marshal, Caleb is Chase and Emma is Skye. And Conner is a Storm Trooper from  Star Wars.

October 31, 2020

Happy Halloween! Earlier in the week we carved our pumpkins:

For dinner we ate pizza and had some soda to go with it. Emma's cup still had plenty of soda in it but she was asking for more. We explained that she still had some in her cup, so she couldn't have more and she was devastated! LOL

Time to go out trick or treating! Isaac decided he wanted to be Gekko (his costume from last year), so Caleb decided he wanted to be Marshal. There were more people passing out candy this year than last year when it was raining. We went around our block on both sides of the street and the kids said they had enough!