Thursday

Alexa's in a good mood today!  We did school drop offs then I took Alexa and Kobe to Target to return a few gifts and then we went to the library to pick up some videos I had on hold.  They were so good!  They loved running around the library for a bit after sitting at the store (they had some pretzels and milk and were very good) 

Came back home and they went off and played so nicely!  We read books, got the tunnel out and listened to some Christmas music.  Alexa then showed off her talents of taking off her socks and pants! haha

She ate really well today.  Pb,pear oatmeal for breakfast and for lunch chicken nuggets with yogurt and grapes.  Drank her entire cup of milk and had a huge wet diaper!

Wednesday

Ugh I even tried creating a new blog to see if I could upload pix and nope!  I guess I'm at my max for all my blogs.  When I get a chance I may try to set up an entirely new account.  This stinks, I'm very upset I can't continue with pictures!  I've been doing these blogs since Bryce was born!

So today was great!  Alexa was in a super play by myself mood!  Seriously she just went off all morning and played played played.  She didn't want to come upstairs much at all and I had to drag her outside for the whole 20 minutes we decided to play outside.  She was really into playing kitchen and pretending to make pizza.  I love this age when they play so well alone (yet I feel like I'm neglecting them)  haha  Although I did have her sit for a little and paint her ornaments (which she decided to paint her hand as well).  She drank almost her entire cup of milk and had 1 wet diaper (not soaked though)  She ate her cereal much better with the pb (I might have to try that with Kobe, pb and a mashed up banana with oatmeal sounds yummy to me!) 

The Baldwin boys were ornament making fools!  They loved the salt dough and not only made hand print ornaments, but other Christmas ornaments out of cookie cutters.  Oliver loved cutting the dough with a butter knife and Elliott enjoyed my roller.  They did this for almost an hour.  They are cooking now and they can paint them next week when they come!  Oliver is talking up a storm.  Elliott begged to go outside to sled.  I knew I had enough snow boots and gloves so out we went for 20 minutes.  I couldn't believe it but the sled actually worked on the very tiny amount we had.  I was impressed all toddlers kept their gloves on!  Came inside and played in the basement (well I picked up while they played it looked like wreck!)  We read some books.

Came up and had lunch.  Everyone ate well except Alexa dissed my mac n cheese for the second day.  So strange how a favorite can suddenly become not the case!  Has she been eating pb and j sandwiches at all?  I haven't tried them with her for a while and thought maybe tomorrow I'll try that.  She ate all her fruit and yogurt (oh and I have a ton of frozen fruit by the way!)  Elliott had a pb sandwhich, yogurt, and grapes with milk and Oliver had his special food with some added grapes and yogurt. 

Tuesday

That's strange!  I went to upload pictures on my blog and it says I've reached the maximum number I am allowed and I have to pay for more space????  I'll have to have Kyle look into that.  If that's the case perhaps I'll just post a pic or 2 on facebook and tag you in it???  I have a cute one of Alexa making her handprint ornaments I'll post that on facebook today.

Good morning!  Alexa (other than having a few melt downs over paci) was excellent!  I will stay consistant with that for now on and I'm sure she'll get over it!  She was talking up a storm today too!  Her and Kobe were loving my kitty Zues (he's really starting to become quite the lover with small kiddos)  She was saying "kitty" "soft" "tail", etc.  She also pointed to my tummy and said "baby" (so cute!)

So we stayed inside today.  My sister brought her girls over for a little so she could wrap up things with her job.  If I would have just had Alexa and Kobe I was going to take them out for a little in the snow.  However bundling up 4 didn't sound like so much fun, I'm sure we'll have more times to do that!  I am planning to take Landon out now that the toddlers are asleep. 

Alexa didn't eat much today (I'm guessing she doesn't have her normal appetite back yet?)  Just half her oatmeal and fruit for breakfast and a few bites of mac n cheese and yogurt (but ate all her grapes at lunch and drank all her milk.  She looked sleepy today so she went down for a nap at 12:15.

Tuesay

 Syd took an AM nap and me and the one year olds hung out this morning in the basement playing with toys.  I showed them the monster trucks and how to race them which was tons of fun!  Listened and danced to some Christmas music. 

Everyone ate well for both meals.  Although Alexa didn't touch her cherries? 

Pretty boring morning,..... haha  not much to report.  I started making some Thanksgiving foods while the 1 year olds watched elmo too. 

Alexa is having a bit of a melt down now that lunch is over.  Her pants keep falling down so I'm thinking the poor t\hing is going to get some duct tape on her diaper today (I'm desperate!)

Monday

 It's been a good morning.  Alexa played so well all day probably because all the toys were like new to her since she hasn't been here for 2 weeks.  As you can see the big kids were loving Jocelyn's leap pad (Kyle leap pad 1 is on clearance on amazon for $50?) do you think we should get one for Bryce??

Everyone ate well for both meals.  Mac n cheese with yogurt and fruit for lunch.

I just fed the big boys now at 1:30 since they had a big snack for their preschool feast today.  Miss Shelly picked them and up and dropped them off from school since I had Jocelyn.

All wee ones down for naps at 1.  Hoping Alexa stays dressed and in her pack n play.

I finally got Alexa's bday present today!  Took forever!  I tried it on her as you can see and I think it fits.  I have no idea how those capes work but it's cute!

Oh and we played inside, then did some crafts (the big girls cut and taped the little ones colored)  Then I took the 3 little ones outside to play for an hour while the big girls continued to do crafts inside (um can you say huge mess of cut up paper?!) haha

Thursday

I put the oatmeal in the bag and hope to remember the milk!

Good but sleepy morning.  Alexa spent the first hour or so laying on the couch yawning! haha!  I asked her if trick-or-treat was tough work and she said "yes".  We just spent the morning hanging out down in the basement.  Since the wee ones weren't into playing with me I used the time to clean up while they lounged around and played quietly. 

Came up mid morning and finally Alexa got some energy.  Turned on some tunes and we danced and she suddenly went into serious play mode by herself.  She even played through Kobe's lunch and said she didn't want to eat yet.  I finally made her sit to eat at 11:45 and she ate very well.  She gobbled down her breakfast again today and had chicken fingers/mac n cheese, yogurt, cherries for lunch.  Had 1 #2 too!

We did flash cards for a little today with letters until the kiddos started throwing them around like they were toys.

We are playing in the playroom now.