Monday Presley decided that it would be a good day to stay with Grandma, so Boston and P went to their house for the day to hang out and have some good Grandma/Grandpa time. They went to Mullets for breakfast/lunch, played outside in the sprinkler and had some tv time with lots of snacks, just the way grandparents should do it! :)
Tuesday was my late night, I went in at normal time b/c we are actually pretty busy, which is nice it's just hard finding extra hours to work with our schedule these days. I worked until 6:30 so that I could be home to help with bedtime. This was the day Piper was called the 'bossy one' by the girl at daycare. She was 'pretending' to be the teacher and telling the other kids what to do....Typical? Yes!
Wednesday is gymnastics for Presley and of course, it is at 5 pm so Steve takes her b/c I would have to leave work early to pick her up and get her there on time. Piper and I had our dinner date at El Mariachi! She was not as good as she was last time we went. She dropped her fork and insisted on getting it, then proceeded to stay under the table banging on the table leg with the fork, all while singing 'I'm squishing up my baby bumble bee, won't my mommy be so proud of me!'....it sounds cute right? Not so much. Typical? Yes!
When gymnastics was over Steve and P went to dinner and Piper and I hung out with the neighbors until it was time for a bath!
I picked up Piper from Generation today and her teacher Lennie (who we LOVE!) has been so impressed with Piper's potty training that she suggested doing underwear next week! WTF? So Monday, we'll do underwear and see how that goes. I foresee accidents, but I guess that is bound to happen!
Presley can be SO good and she can get SO hysterical about some things. She got in trouble and it literally is THE.END.OF.THE.WORLD. She cannot calm down, she freaks out, calls names, say ridiculous things, she can make herself literally sick! It's like the movie The Exorcist! No joke. It's scary and sad and worrisome. We try to get her to calm down without giving in but it is hard.
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Monday, June 8, 2015
Random
- Presley has been going to summer KTC for almost 2 weeks now. She was very nervous the first day, she was afraid she wasn't going to know any kids or any teachers (which she didn't). But she quickly warmed up and didn't cry on the first day! She has already made some new friends and got reunited with some old ones (that went to different elementary schools this year). They do something with them every day...from movies, going out to lunch, bowling, the zoo, they have on-site days (glow in the dark day was last Friday, this week they have Dr. Seuss day) and on Friday they get to go to Adventureland. This makes me super nervous, but I know this they do this every year so I just have to trust the program!
- The best part of this KTC program, they offer swim lessons! This also makes me nervous, but she needs them badly! I really want to go spy on her during them. I was really hoping to get her signed up for two sessions but they are full. Boo.
- Piper is SASSY! I know she is getting alot of her attitude from Presley which is so hard to control and/or ignore. And she still takes about 1.5 hours to get to sleep every night. We have a routine, she had a blanket and paci, she either wants our constant attention or isn't tired. I don't feel as if we need to let her 'cry it out' like would we do if she was a baby, but I think we might have to resort to that!
- Conversation with me and Presley the other night reading her Judy Moody book and they were talking about a 'venus flytrap'
P : "A PENIS?"
Me : "No! A VENUS....a 'v', like violin and vase.....VENUS"
P : (giggle, giggle) "A penis flytrap!!!"
Me : "Do you even know what that means?"
P : (giggle, giggle) "a boys privates!"
- I'm off to eat a spoonful of peanut butter with m&m's on it. Don't judge.
- The best part of this KTC program, they offer swim lessons! This also makes me nervous, but she needs them badly! I really want to go spy on her during them. I was really hoping to get her signed up for two sessions but they are full. Boo.
- Piper is SASSY! I know she is getting alot of her attitude from Presley which is so hard to control and/or ignore. And she still takes about 1.5 hours to get to sleep every night. We have a routine, she had a blanket and paci, she either wants our constant attention or isn't tired. I don't feel as if we need to let her 'cry it out' like would we do if she was a baby, but I think we might have to resort to that!
- Conversation with me and Presley the other night reading her Judy Moody book and they were talking about a 'venus flytrap'
P : "A PENIS?"
Me : "No! A VENUS....a 'v', like violin and vase.....VENUS"
P : (giggle, giggle) "A penis flytrap!!!"
Me : "Do you even know what that means?"
P : (giggle, giggle) "a boys privates!"
- I'm off to eat a spoonful of peanut butter with m&m's on it. Don't judge.
Week in Review
Monday was my late night and Steve took the girls to Dairy Queen for dinner....nice daddy, lucky girls!
Wednesday Presley had summer gymnastics so Steve took her to that, he said there was a lot less people there and only 4 girls in class that night so perfect 'Presley' conditions! She did good and enjoyed it! Piper and I have started a tradition of going to El Mariachi for dinner when they are at gymnastics. Presley doesn't like eating there and Piper is so good when it is just the two of us! :)
Thursday we decided to take girls to Camp Dodge to watch the band Brother Trucker. They have a summer concert series, you can take your chairs, blankets, coolers and food. They sell food and there is plenty of room for kids to run around. Our kids were running in circles, wrestling each other on the ground, Piper decided that spitting was her new favorite thing (wtf?)...I'm sure all the people around us thought they were out of control.....hey, if they aren't fighting and screaming, we are mostly happy! We left there about 8 and then all hell broke loose. Presley completely lost her cool and when she gets mad or upset there is NO calming her down. So after screaming, kicking, name calling, crying she was sent to her room for the night when we got home.....which of course made her do all those things even more for even longer. ugh.
Friday night we decided to hang out and order pizza. My parents stopped by b/c they hadn't seen the girls in a couple weeks and missed them. So it was a good night in!
Saturday morning Steve was able to get some guys from work to help pour the concrete for his shed! Some cheap labor and a concrete truck in the cul-de-sac was the perfect way to start our morning (sorry to our neighbor who was having a garage sale!)
While they were doing that I took Presley and Piper to a nearby park to waste some time in the nice weather and then met my mom for lunch! They were mostly good (95% good for Presley, 20% good for Piper). We came home and Piper went down for a nap and Presley and I headed to meet Samantha, Scott and Boston out on their boat! It's so close for us to go there and it was nice to hang out on the water. The weather was kinda cool and I knew that neither one of us would be getting in the water but it was still nice to hang out. Afterwards we had dinner at the marina, just the two of us! It was a good girls afternoon doing something a little different for us!
That night we had a first.....for about 10 minutes, the 4 of us sat on the couch, eating popcorn and watched (part of) Annie. Then Piper was done sitting still and it was time for her to go to bed.
Sunday morning they girls were up at 7 am....WHAT? WHY? So we got up and ready and decided we'd try to do brunch out....we went to 1908, they have a great patio, it is never busy and they have food the kids will eat! So it was a fairly successful brunch out! Then we made a Target run...now I have been to Target in over a month and Piper.....I have no idea how long it has been since all 4 of us have been into a store together...and we were reminded why we don't do it. Neither one wanted to sit in a cart (which is fine when it is Presley), Piper wants to run away and if you chase her, she thinks it's a game. Eventually she just wouldn't listen and wouldn't stay with us so I took her to the car (kicking and screaming for daddy down the aisles of Target) while Steve and Presley finished.
Sunday afternoon (while Piper was napping) we enjoyed the afternoon (do you feel sorry for Piper yet? she gets left out a lot but she is just NO fun! ha!). Presley got in her swimsuit and played in the babypool and sprinkler, I got my Kindle out and layed in the hammock and Steve hung out and did some yard work. The weather was toasty warm and we enjoyed the summer weather!
Wednesday Presley had summer gymnastics so Steve took her to that, he said there was a lot less people there and only 4 girls in class that night so perfect 'Presley' conditions! She did good and enjoyed it! Piper and I have started a tradition of going to El Mariachi for dinner when they are at gymnastics. Presley doesn't like eating there and Piper is so good when it is just the two of us! :)
Thursday we decided to take girls to Camp Dodge to watch the band Brother Trucker. They have a summer concert series, you can take your chairs, blankets, coolers and food. They sell food and there is plenty of room for kids to run around. Our kids were running in circles, wrestling each other on the ground, Piper decided that spitting was her new favorite thing (wtf?)...I'm sure all the people around us thought they were out of control.....hey, if they aren't fighting and screaming, we are mostly happy! We left there about 8 and then all hell broke loose. Presley completely lost her cool and when she gets mad or upset there is NO calming her down. So after screaming, kicking, name calling, crying she was sent to her room for the night when we got home.....which of course made her do all those things even more for even longer. ugh.
Friday night we decided to hang out and order pizza. My parents stopped by b/c they hadn't seen the girls in a couple weeks and missed them. So it was a good night in!
Saturday morning Steve was able to get some guys from work to help pour the concrete for his shed! Some cheap labor and a concrete truck in the cul-de-sac was the perfect way to start our morning (sorry to our neighbor who was having a garage sale!)
That night we had a first.....for about 10 minutes, the 4 of us sat on the couch, eating popcorn and watched (part of) Annie. Then Piper was done sitting still and it was time for her to go to bed.
Sunday morning they girls were up at 7 am....WHAT? WHY? So we got up and ready and decided we'd try to do brunch out....we went to 1908, they have a great patio, it is never busy and they have food the kids will eat! So it was a fairly successful brunch out! Then we made a Target run...now I have been to Target in over a month and Piper.....I have no idea how long it has been since all 4 of us have been into a store together...and we were reminded why we don't do it. Neither one wanted to sit in a cart (which is fine when it is Presley), Piper wants to run away and if you chase her, she thinks it's a game. Eventually she just wouldn't listen and wouldn't stay with us so I took her to the car (kicking and screaming for daddy down the aisles of Target) while Steve and Presley finished.
Sunday afternoon (while Piper was napping) we enjoyed the afternoon (do you feel sorry for Piper yet? she gets left out a lot but she is just NO fun! ha!). Presley got in her swimsuit and played in the babypool and sprinkler, I got my Kindle out and layed in the hammock and Steve hung out and did some yard work. The weather was toasty warm and we enjoyed the summer weather!
Friday, June 5, 2015
Friday Fun
So last Friday we had a date night.....We got Carlyn to babysit and then we went to The Radish in Grimes for dinner....it was very good! We were pleasantly surprised! Then we head to the Steel Panther concert at Val Air. We saw them a couple months ago and loved it! Again, it is SO raunchy and wrong and people can easily get offended and you are guaranteed to see boobs.....and we laugh so hard the whole time!
and then Cory Taylor from Slipknot got up to sing with them for a couple songs. I'm not a big metal fan but supposedly this is a big deal
It was a lot of fun and we were still home by 11:30! Piper slept until 9 and Presley got up a little before 10 Saturday morning...Carlyn must have worn them out! Saturday we didn't do much, hung out, spent time outside, ran errands...Steve smoked some meat for dinner and worked on getting the shed ready to have concrete poured tomorrow!
Sunday was more of the same. Piper slept until 8 and Presley almost 9. The three of us girls went to go watch Mary's softball game, they didn't win but I love watching them play....it's too cute though I don't think we'll get Presley to play after watching the game and hearing the parents yell at the kids on the field or up to bat....it would be too much pressure for her! HA!
That night we had Jerry and Holly over for dinner, Steve made pizzas on the grill, we sat on the deck and talked and ate. It feels like we haven't really seen the family in a long time so it was nice!
Last Day of Kindergarten!
I seriously can't believe she is going to be in 1st grade! The Tuesday after Memorial Day was their last day of school, they had a bbq lunch and the parents could come and then you could take your child home with you if you wanted. So Steve took a half day and had lunch with them and then got her pictures taken with her teacher Mrs. Kuhlman.
and their math teacher Mrs. Steiert
We got a million papers sent home and ideas for good summer projects! I have a hard time throwing any of it away!
So between the last day of school to the time that summer KTC starts, there is a day of no daycare. So I took the day off to kick off her summer the right way! She slept in and we got ready to head out for breakfast!
The weather was perfect so we went to Mullets for brunch on the patio!
Then we headed to the zoo! I will say she is not 100% interested in the animals. She likes the sea lions and feeding the koi fish but doesn't like walking.
She likes snacks and riding the merry go round.
She wanted to ride the train (but didn't want to walk to it) and wanted her face painted once we left?! Perfect timing kid.
We got home and right away she wanted to get the water buckets out and play. Eventually the swimsuit came out and then the neighbors joined. We are very lucky to have them close and have them get along most of the time! Steve got home and we headed out for an early dinner on the patio at El Mariachi (without Piper, sorry Piper!).
Memorial Day Weekend
I know, I know...I'm almost 3 weeks behind! How is the possible? This never happens to me! So we have been busy and I have no idea what I'm mentioned before. Presley has been taking gymnastics, she loves it and has learned alot, we love it there! Piper has been potty training....b/c SHE wants to. This current week she has done amazing at being dry for most if not ALL day, she lets us know when she has to go but there is still no #2 on the potty (which was just like Presley!). So we are very proud of her and we are so happy that we haven't had to push her into it!
Sister nonsense....occasionally they get along and play school or house.
So the Saturday of Memorial Day we got up, packed up the car and headed to our babysitter, Carlyn's graduation open house. Unfortunately she has decided that graduating and going to Iowa is a better idea then hanging around DSM and babysitting for us! :)
After the party we headed to Lake Panorama for the night. We got there about 1, tried to put Piper down for a nap (that didn't work). The weather was overcast and chilly but the kids didn't seem to mind! We hung out, the kids played, a little fishing, some drinking and alot of talking!
The next morning we did some more hanging out. The weather was still less than desirable but again, the kids didn't care. Presley spent most of the morning playing with the other kids either in the mud on the beach or on the merry-go-round spinny thing at the park (makes me sick just watching them on that thing!). We headed home about lunch time so we could unpack, Piper could nap, we could do laundry and such.
Then about 4 pm, we got back in the car and headed to Earlham for cousin Derek's graduation party! We got to see the whole family, we hung out and ate and the girls had to check out the bathroom (my least favorite party of potty training is the amount of time in bathrooms doing NOTHING). It was nice!
Monday we finally had nice weather so we spent time outside! Our kids would love to just be outside playing with the neighbors all day long! Sunscreen has already become our friend!
She played with bugs and got out the sidewalk chalk.
The neighbor girls Naiah and Kinsley
Talia
Kinsley (who is 2 weeks younger than Piper, though Piper acts much older...and she is so well-behaved and quiet.....Miss Piper is so the opposite!)
Anika, who moved to the neighborhood a couple months ago and was in Presley's class!
Miss Piper cheesing after running down the block. She is naughty, we are trying so hard to teach her NOT to run away from us, or down the block from us!
Playing in the back of the car....one of their very most favorite things to do!
Monday, June 1, 2015
Crap
Our computer at home now has a virus on it...so it will be even longer before I get on here to update! Maybe if I find some more free time at work I can, but we've actually been busy! I know all of you are just on pins and needles waiting for me to update about our EVER intriguing lives! :)
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