Tuesday

The Vogt kiddos ate very well today (pancakes and banana for breakfast, grilled cheese, yogurt, and pears for lunch) WE also had a special cookie treat today!

Well Lilly got her first boo boo at Aunt Ash's today :-( We were down in the basement playing and I was changing Landon's diaper (she climbed up the 2 stairs to the landing and then decided to try to get down and landed right on her face!!!) At first it didn't look bad but then her nose started bleeding. She only cried for a little and no bruises so far (but under her nose she has major rug burn (I'm putting aquafore on it to keep it moist). I feel so terrible (especially because I know you said your kids have pics coming up, I'm hoping Lilly's aren't this week!)

Other than the accident, everything went well otherwise this morning. We took Bryce to school and then played outside all morning (it's so nice out!) the boys loved playing in the leaves (Lilly not so much, in fact she freaked out when I put her in them!) The boys were loving the grasshoppers today (see pic of them looking for them) They were trying to catch them (Landon ended up catching a spider instead and came to show me and I screamed!) YUCK!

We picked up Bryce and had lunch. Wow those cookies were a hit (especially with Lilly!!!) YUM!

I'm just getting ready to put Lilly to bed, the big kids are upstairs making a super track.

So so so so so sorry about her fall!!! Those 2 steps down there are tricky to monitor at all times!

Monday

Ian ate a good breakfast of whole wheat banana muffins and banana with milk. Then he woofed his lunch of mac n cheese, yogurt (wow he loves that stuff), pears, and pb crackers, and milk.

I had the full body bib on him and somehow he still got stuff all over his shirt (sorry)

It was a great and fun morning! We took Bryce to school and everyone had fun in the car ride! We came home and played down in the basement. We watched some Elmo (Ian is really liking him these days!) Landon was yelling out the letters that came on the screen and Ian was repeating him.

Baby Reid did great and played, played, played. He was like I call "easy peasy!" He took a great morning nap and didn't fuss a bit! He ate 5 oz of his formula and had 1 poopy diaper.

Ian had a huge (stinky) diaper! Wow, that must have cleared out his belly so he could fill it up!

We sang songs, listened to music (Ian's fav was wheels on the bus), read lots of books, and played, played played! Ian was into copying everything Landon was doing. Landon was into filling up at toy school bus with cars and riding it around, so Ian found the other school bus and did the same (so cute!)

Lunch went great, then we played for a bit more and then off to bed! Ian fell right to sleep at 12:45

Thursday

Breakfast: choc chip pancakes, banana, and milk (Vogt's ate great! Lilly loves her bananas now!)

Lunch: grilled cheese on fiber 1 bread, yogurt drinks (Lilly just had yogurt), grapes, halloween cookies for treats. Everyone ate great again, and Lilly LOVES Velveeta cheese!!! she kept saying "more pizza" even though it was a sandwich.

Lazy, yucky weather morning! We just hung out and played inside all day. We watched sesame street, then went downstairs and played. We played "boat" Tristan's favorite and pretended to fish, be attacked by sharks, cook, rock the boat in a storm all on the couch (our boat). We also then talked about water and what needs water to grow (people, plants, and animals) We did a worksheet about it and then painted with water (that was funny to watch lilly, she kept trying to drink her cup of water.)

We read some books, sang songs, listened to music and then it was time to pick up Bryce.

Tristan and Bryce are up in Bryce's room playing while Landon and Lilly are playing in the playroom. It's soon nap time (yeah) hoping for 4 good nappers today!

Oh Lilly counts, 1,2,3,4,5, 8, 9,10 (every single time!!!) she skips 6 and 7 it's so cute!!!!

Oh and she did well walking by herself with your walker downstairs!!! But then she did fall and then chickened out and only would walk with me!

Wed

Sorry this is kind of late!!! Landon and I were running around all morning while the big kids were at school so when we got home I had a gazillion things to do and put away!

Jocelyn ate a good breakfast! So far for lunch she has eaten half her mac n cheese and her yogurt drink.

Both my kiddos were up early this morning and the 3 played very well until school time. Jocelyn and Bryce were putting on a magic show and when Bryce asked Jocelyn, "how did you do that" Jocelyn replied, "A musician never reveals her secrets!" hahahahaha, I was laughing so hard to myself because she said it so seriously!

School went well, didn't get too much out of what they did today other than hot potato game. The kids ate lunch and then went upstairs and played for a long while (nicely too!) Bryce is in a great mood again today so I'm going to let him stay up with Jocelyn today (maybe he's finally getting to the point of functioning without a nap!!!)

Jocelyn said her show n tell went great! Landon is down for a nap and J and B are downstairs with me playing!

Tuesday

Breakfast: everyone ate really great! choc chop whole grain muffins, banana, and milk (Lilly ate an entire banana the trick is she likes to have it whole!!!)

Lunch: Lilly had eggs and cheese with yogurt and pineapple, Tristan had pb and marsh, yogurt drink, pineapple, milk. Jocelyn ate her turkey and yogurt drink. They all ate pretty well so I had them sample a pumpkin cupcake (they were a hit especially with the Vogt's!!!) Don't worry mommies and daddies you'll get a sample too!!!

Great morning! The kids played well, we went outside for a bit (it was chilly but in the sun it didn't feel too bad! Lilly is really on the go and wants to be up and about! She's been calling for "Kyle" all morning! haha

We talked about November today and what November looks like and what happens in November. We practiced (as you can see in the pics) having Lilly hold up 2 fingers and Tristan 3) We raked leaves and jumped in them (we need some more leaves!!!) we sang and counted (Lilly told me after 12 is 13!!) I was impressed!

Oh only thing odd was Tristan and Lilly both didn't drink much at all today??? Tristan still has his glass of milk from the am. That's strange for him.

Thursday

Breakfast: banana mini muffins, milk and Tristan had a banana. Lilly didn't eat much today.

Lunch: Lilly had spagettios, applesauce, cheese slices and milk (again she didn'te at much) Tristan ate well he had a pb and marsh sandwich with cheese slices, apples and caramel dip and milk.

So today we took Bryce to school (Bryce is acting funny by the way) When he came home from school he laid on the couch instead of running around like a crazy person. he already told me he's tired (so he's def napping) He wants to watch Shrek on TV tonight!

I took the kids to Kohl's for a return and to pay my bill. They were so good that I got up the nerve to take them over to Target to look at the toy section for Christmas. I told them if anyone melts down we are out of there! They were PERFECT!!! I let the boys walk around and had Lilly in the stroller. The boys stayed right by me. Target has all the new Christmas toy display boxes up and they had so much fun pushing buttons to see what the toys would do. Lilly got scared at one point at a toy that was a little loud.

Tristan and Landon were cracking up at "stinky" the tonka trash truck. He was silly and talks. He's a robot truck that moves like a person (I know weird) But they thought it was funny that his name was stinky. They didn't even ask for any toys (I was shocked!) but didn't want to leave, Tristan said, I don't want to go home and play I like looking at toys!!!)

Then we came home and played for a bit until it was time to pick up Bryce.

The kids are now playing in the pampered chef box I got with my kit yesterday!

Wheewww, I gotta go change lilly, she stinks!

wed

Hi Nicole! Hope you are having a great day and that your observation went well!

Brandon gave Bryce and Landon their halloween goodie bags today at preschool since we won't be able to make it sunday. Jocelyn got goodie bag fever so I told her I would send ours for her home with her today (we are delivering the rest of the kids in the neighborhood tonight) but her's has a few extra things in since I watch her :-)

What a yucky day today! Great day to work if you ask me. The kids ate breakfast (both of mine were up surprisingly early). Jocelyn ate well for breakfast. They had a good amount of time to play before school time.

They made cute squirrel pictures today at school and Jocelyn's glasses were a hit! She was showing them to everyone in the other pre-K class after school was out. Didn't get too much else out of them about school. We came home and ate lunch (they ate very well!) and then I gave them some Halloween chocolates (those things are going to be the death of me!) I of course had to have 3 mini candybars myself!

They played some more until I could tell my kids were exhausted. So much that Bryce didn't even argue! Jocelyn is laying down now too and is very quiet (I doubt she's sleeping) but wow is she quiet!