monday 4 days till Christmas!!!

Breakfast: fiber poptarts, banana, milk
Lunch: home-aid mac n cheese, apples, yogurt, milk, chocolate stars for dessert (all ate very well for both meals, they loved my mac n cheese!!!

Well it was a good morning but we had some cranky/sleepy kiddos on hand! We made santa hats today with cotton balls, did the weather/calendar and counted down the days till Christmas. WE read the Christmas story and acted out our nativity and also read lots of other Christmas books. We started getting ready for our birthday party for Jesus tomorrow and made some games up like pin the star on the tree.

I had to feed the kiddos at 10:45 because we were having melt down city, but afterward all were happy! big boys played up in Bryce's room till nap and the little ones played in the play room. Oh no!!!! Thomas had a blow out and somehow ripped his diaper off and him and Landon were playing in it :-( ughhhhh, luckily I basically caught it right when it happened and stopped it quickly, but needless to say Thomas got a bath and so did my carpet!! Funny thing is this happened exactly 6 months ago except it was Landon with the blowout and ripping off his diaper (must be the age!) Thomas is sure going out with a bang huh??

Oh and Thomas was dragging around the baby cabbage patch doll and baby bottle all morning saying "baby" haha it was cute!

Hayden is super duper excited about Christmas!

- Thomas needs extra clothes, he had to put on a pair of sissy's pants until I could root thru landons clothes to find something. haha
-Paige and Tristan need diapers

Oh and reminder I'm closed on monday the 28th!

thursday

Breakfast: poptarts, banana, milk

Lunch: pb and marsh sandwiches, cheese slices, oranges, milk

(all ate very well for lunch, Tristan didn't have any breakfast here, Daddy said he ate already and he said he wasn't hungry)

Good day here! We watched Polar Express this morning (they loved the Train) Took Bryce to school. Came home for a bit and played downstairs and colored. Then took Hayden and Tristan with me to Bryce's school for the Christmas party and to see Santa (they had a great time!) Hayden got to sit on Santa (Tristan cried when he saw Santa so I didn't push it!)

Came home and had lunch (big boys played upstairs) and Thomas and Landon had a blast in the toy room while Sissy hung out with me while I cleaned up the kitchen.

All are down for naps (although many aren't sleeping??) Tristan screamed for a good half hour (hopefully he'll settle down and sleep) and Landon is jumping up and down in his crib.

Tristan and Paige need diapers for next week!

Ash

wed

Breakfast: I made pancakes, but they only wanted poptarts today!
Lunch: mac n cheese, left over pizza, grapes

No one ate that well at lunch for some reason.

Well we decorated gingerbread house #3 and I'm thinking the kiddos (and me) are about gingerbread housed out! Thankfully this was the Carver house so I'm thinking Daddy Rankin can do our last house this weekend for the Rankins!

Not too much on todays list of events (Bryce was still pretty out of it this morning) The kids honestly just played downstairs most of the morning. We had bath time after lunch (interesting with 4 kiddos) but they had a blast and it took up a good hour. Hoping all nap well (I need a nap!!! I think I'm getting something now!!!) Ughhhh

tuesday

Breakfast: fiber poptart, milk, banana

Lunch: grill cheese, yogurt, grapes

All ate pretty good for both meals

Crazy day (you know how it is when your kiddo is sick. ) We did decorate Tristan's gingerbread house then were off to the doctor's office. Don't worry I just dropped Bryce off so your kids didn't go in!

The kids enjoyed their little ride (a little too much Tristan and Paige fell asleep so who knows how nap time will go) they are quiet for now and Tristan actually asked to go to bed???

Turns out Bryce has strep throat and scarlet fever (he is on penacilin) and will not be contagious within 24 hours (so we can hopefully still go to dinner with Santa tomorrow!) Doc said your kiddos have about a 25-30 percent chance of getting it, so if they get a rash all over that kind of looks like sunburn take them to the doc asap to get a strep culture. I found out that this is going around in his classroom so I'm guessing that's where he picked it up.

Notes: Tristan needs diapers

REminder pick up at 4:45 at the latest tomorrow (we actually need to be heading out by 4:45) so if you come at 4:45 I will have kyle and my kiddos in the car ready to go and your little ones with coats and shoes on. (ummm if Landon isn't fever/rash struck yet )

monday

Lots of pics for you to enjoy today!

Breakfast: pancakes, banana, milk

Lunch: pizza, oranges/grapes, yogurt, milk. All ate well except Thomas didn't eat much at all at lunch.

It's been a fun day. We did Thomas' gingerbread house today. We are doing 1 family per day and I think that will work out well. All the kiddos help to decorate it. I chose to do this right after breakfast so their bellies would be full and it wouldn't ruin their lunches. They had so much fun (especially the older boys!) Thomas and Landon were so funny they would put 1 candy on then take it back off and eat it :-) I'm sure they'll get the hang of it as the week goes on.

We then went downstairs and did out huge new Christmas Sesame Street coloring book (which is also a story)

Then we read the Christmas story and acted out our nativity. We played downstairs (the big boys played mini golf in the play room, and choo choo's after lunch)

We then had lunch and off to nap time.

Thomas was a grumpa lumpa today :-( Hoping he was just tired and not getting sick (but his nose was running a lot!) Didn't feel warm though and went right to sleep. Hopefully a nice long nap will help him out a bit!

thursday

Breakfast: fiber poptarts, banana, milk
Lunch: marsh and pb sandwhiches (huge hit again!), cheese slices, mand oranges, applesauce (all ate very well at both meals!!

Great day today, all in great moods and played very well. We took Bryce to school and then came home and did lots of arts and crafts!! We painted more ornaments (Paige and Landon too , well Paige ended up painting herself and landon ate the paint but they tried!) yes it's non toxic and washable! Then we did playdough and made pretend christmas cookies.

We then went downstairs and played. We read our Christmas story again and played with the little people manger scene. Tristan was so cute, he would pick up Joseph and say "Jesus's Daddy" then we sang happy birthday to Jesus and Away in the Manger.

I taught the kiddos a new song "Teddy Bear" they loved it!

The big boys played well upstairs together after lunch, and the little ones played in the play room till naps!

wednesday

Breakfast: pancakes, banana, milk (all ate very well especially paige and thomas each having 2.5 pancakes!)

Lunch: mac n cheese, yogurt, apples, choc. stars (all ate well, thomas and paige of course do to their huge breakfast didn't eat as much)

It's been a good morning although Hayden and Paige both did seem a little extra sleepy (and a bit grumpier than usual) I'm sure a good nap will keep the grumpies away!

We finished off our handprint ornaments (make sure to take yours home with you today!) Hayden and Bryce had a blast painting (for over an hour!) christmas ornaments and using "sprinkles" glitter. Then we went downstairs and played and of course had to watch Sesame Street.

After that we got our curriculum out and I pulled a few ideas out. We colored and did our old songs from a few months ago (the kids remembered them well and Paige and Thomas and Landon did the motions) We did the weather and talked a lot about snow and cold. We did the calendar too!

We then took a good chunk of time to read the Christmas story and the kiddos acted it out with the little people manger (it was fun to read the story and have the kids pick up the different characters/animals) We sang away in the Manger and practiced our motions.

The rest of the morning was free play until lunch.

After lunch the big boys went up to bryce's room and played extremely well with the choo choo's. Best friends Landon and Thomas played in the play room also very well (they just love each other) Paige hung out with me while I cleaned up lunch (she told me she is very excited to meet her new best gal friend Lilly :-)