Thursday

Breakfast: cin/sugar pancakes, banana, milk
Lunch: pb and marsh on wheat, applesauce//watermelon, cheese, milk

All ate super duper great!!! Lilly was in love with my pancakes!! and she loved the american cheese, everyone else got colby jack cheese. The carvers are addicted to apple sauce this week too! Big eaters, Hayden and Tristan ate whole sandwhiches (Lilly didn't drink much today)

Wow Lilly is looking slim!!! Just noticed it this morning when daddy dropped her off!

We went outside for a half hour early in the morning after breakfast (before it got too hot) The kids had fun running around and didn't get too sweaty.

Then we came inside and watched Hayden's new movie "follow that bird" one of my favs from when I was little. It's an old sesame street movie. The kids (especially Bryce and Tristan) loved it!!!

We then read books and sang and danced. LIlly was very fussy during the movie (I think she was tired.) I got some new toys out for her and she had a "ball" with a bunch of balls.I also noticed she wanted to stand a lot today, she kept saying.... "up"

We ate lunch and then the big boys were upstairs and the little ones down with me. All are in bed, Lilly is in the room upstairs in the crib and I'm hoping she naps better there today.

Wed

Breakfast: poptarts and muffins and milk
Lunch: mac n cheese, pudding, pears, and milk

All ate well for both meals!

yeah for me feeling better and being able to finally take the kiddos grocery shopping (I think they missed it!) They did super and we were in and out in less than an hour! We took Bryce to summer fun program and then came home and put groceries away and played until it was time to pick him up. We ate our lunch and now the little ones are asleep (or in bed) and Hayden and Bryce are playing so nicely up in Bryce's room (they begged to let me let them stay up a bit longer)

Hayden is excited for his "new" Popsicles that he'll get if he takes a nap today! :-)

Tuesday

Breakfast: whole grain poptarts, banana, milk

Lunch: spagettios, watermellon/applesauce, cheese slices (Lilly hated cheese!!! she had yogurt!)

All ate very well today except my Landon at Lunch. It was a good morning today (well except for the usual misbehaving of my 2!! grrrrrrrrr)

We went outside from 8:30-9 so it was nice to get some fresh air before (what I thought it got hot but now it's raining) Then we came in and watched sesame street for a bit and had free play time. Then we sang our mother goose songs (we need new songs soon!!! however they are experts at those songs!)

Then we did the weather and day of the week/month.

We did 2 activities later. We talked about tracing. The kids had a worksheet where they practiced tracing patterns of lines. Then they did a coloring activity and finally we talked about the letter T and W and what sounds and words they go with. They practiced writing T's and W's too. Bryce and Hayden did excellent and Tristan seemed to "get" tracing. Paige just loves to color and Landon well he would color then run around then come back and color (oh I hope his attention get's better before preschool) Lilly was so excited to join the kids in the fun and I gave her two crayons to scribble with (she loved it!!!) and she stood the entire time!

Then we did a fishy craft. We practiced gluing and cutting and some more coloring! We talked about fishies and where they live.

Everyone was in good spirits today and the big kids played so nice (crazy nice) after lunch upstairs while the girls played with me downstairs. When I went up the boys made this huge train track and were playing so quietly (like I said crazy!!) even Landon was involved!!!

All are napping!

Oh and just a reminder if you could bring a thing of wipes for August that would be great (I'm seeming to be going through those a lot lately!) Thanks!

Monday

Breakfast: cin/sugar pancakes, milk
Lunch: grilled cheese, cheese puffs, yogurt, pears, milk

All ate well.

No pics today (sorry) We played this morning then since I was feeling so weirdly good I took the 4 kiddos to Kohl's (I needed to get a new back pack badly!) They were good and we were there only for a short bit.

We came home and played in the basement and sang/listened to music.

The Carver kiddos seem pooped today (but not grumpy) just tired. Sissy actually laid down on the couch before lunch. They've been telling me all about their sesame street adventures (sounds like fun!)

Well now everyone has/had this cold except for Bryce (so I have bets that he'll be getting it any day now!)

Thursday

Well it's been a morning of blood, sweat, and tears (literally!)
Blood: Tristan was running downstairs and ran into the wall (ouch) He was ok but I told him no more running, well about 2 hours later, him and Bryce running in the opposite direction = a bloody lip Tristan!!!! It was bad, blood everywhere!! Of course he's fine and we are all cleaned up now. His lip is sore but I've been putting aquaphore on it to keep it moist

Sweat: It's hot outside!

Tears: oh my it was a rough morning with my Bryce. Let's just say he got zero sleep and he took it out on all the kids! That and he was down for nap at 11:00

So we went outside at 8 before it got too terribly hot. 8-9 was great! It was nice in the shade. WE painted, and played.

Then came inside and watched sesame street and had our bloody happenings. So that took a while to clean up (had to get the steam vac out and all!)

We sang songs and finally around 10:30 I had to start lunch because Bryce and others were falling apart. We had lunch and then Bryce went to bed and the other boys played in Landon's room while Lilly and Paige played in the play room.

Breakfast: pancakes, waffles, bananas, milk

Lunch: abc's 123's, applesauce, cheese (yogurt for Lilly) and milk

All ate well except my 2 (big surprise!) Landon is still sick. Lilly ate great and check out the pics I let her at her milk today and she kept taking sips by herself yes she made a mess but I was excited she drank from her own cup!!!.

As for her bottom, wowza sore and bleedy!!! I've changed her 5 times this morning and put cream and powder on each time (she had some huge messy poops)

Hayden is a little emotional/fussy today (I hope he naps because he needs it!) Him and sissy had like 4 servings of apple sauce (they acted like it was candy)

Oh and back to Tristan busting his lip open so he was more upset by the fact I had to take his shirt off!!!

Paige was really into painting today, she I would have to say was my star kiddo today (no issues with good ole sissy :-) haha

So that was our morning, yes it was crazy but we had fun!

Also:

-Vogt's need diapers, and lilly needs spare clothes
-Sissy needs spare clothes!

have a good weekend!

Wed

Breakfast: poptarts, banana, milk
Lunch: mac n cheese, pears, milk
All ate well for breakfast, not so great for lunch (although i knew it because they had pretzels at the movies!)

Good morning! We took Bryce to school then off we went to the movie theater for a free movie. WE saw the Barnyard. The kiddos (well Landon) lasted about 45 minutes. They loved it. Sissy kept squeeling and saying, oh my a _____ cow, duck, pig (haha) Landon made animal sounds. Hayden was a little scared at first and covered his ears but quickly got over it and liked it.

We then ran around (literally) the mall and played in the arcade and rode on some rides.

We picked up Bryce and then home for lunch and naps (I'm pooped and the kiddos looked soooooooooo sleepy!)

Bryce learned about bugs today at school. He told me at lunch, insects have 6 legs and spiders have 8!

I think Landon is getting sick. I had to wake him at 9 today and he sounded horse. He sneezes and huge snot rockets come a flying :-( Then what really took me by surprise was at lunch he didn't eat and I said, do you want to go to bed, he said "BED" and ran up to his bed and closed his door (not a peep out of him since!) and he didn't even have is cars!

Tuesday

Breakfast: whole wheat banana choc chip bread, banana, milk

Lunch: pb and marsh on wheat, cheese slices (Lilly had yogurt), cantaloupe, milk

All ate very well today! Paige woofed both meals and had no crumbs left!!! Was she starved over the weekend :-) Lilly ate well and let me add (all by herself!!!!!) I broke up the sandwich in little pieces and cut up the fruit and she did great! Just a few thrown at the very end when she was done! She didn't drink much milk though.

Good day! It was yucky out so we stayed in :-( We read books and talked about our weekend. The kids had a rough start and were fighting a lot in the beginning but by the end they learned once again how to co-exist.

We did school time today (although I'm almost totally out of curriculum!) So I made stuff up! We did the calendar/weather. Lilly loves Wendy! WE sang all of our songs and made a beach scene.

Landon had his last speech evaluation today! It went great and it was sad to see Miss Karen go! The big boys played upstairs after lunch and did well while the girls hung out in the play room.