After a really fun day at Disneyland, my kids ended up with quite the load of swag.
A lot of times this stuff just ends up on the toy drawer, but today — I was happy to see the swag come out and be worn for day two in a row.
Disney Swag
Bippidy Boppidy Boo
The the twins and Grey’s birthday, Britni invited us to Disneyland.
And when I say Disneyland — I mean the first class way to Disneyland.
Including the Disneyland hotel, the autograph book, all of the paraphernalia, the pins…and Bippity Boppity Boo.
I never knew this Disneyland existed.
It started off with rides, food and fun.
The stooges were in full force, and hilarious.
Their Star Wars Ears were classic!
But the ultimate event of the day, was the moment that will be imprinted on Pippi’s brain forever and ever. The moment she became a real life princess.
Here are the girls “before”.
After picking out a princess dress, shoes, jewelry and hair style….the pampering began.
The three girls all sat next to each other for their princess transformations.
They got polish.
Jewelry adornment.
And of course — Magic Dust.
Out came Belle, Sleeping Beauty, and Shanequa.
There was also a Prince Charming in the mix.
And they all rode off into the sunset to meet their prince.
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What a fanstastic day for these two of mine…and to top it off, Micah came to the hotel with the other two, and then we all swam the night away at the Disneyland Hotel pool!
Mom Notes
I am the lucky recipient of many of these awesome notes from Navy. She is so sweet, and is always looking to make everyone and anyone feel good…especially me!
HOw sweet is this girl, who went around and asked everyone their favorite word to describe me.
Nonnie - pretty
Navy - nice
Dash - play with us & cuddle with us
Dad - always happy, and my favorite….never mad at dad!
Scout and Pippi…you are dead to me. But not you Navy….you are alive and well and my favorite!
Another Soccer Game
It’s another soccer game today.
It is boiling hot, I didn’t bring shade, and Dash is doing karate and somersaults on the field.
Pippi…you have my sentiments…EXACTLY!
Saturday Morning Chores
Saturdays are becoming like well-oiled machines around here.
I don;t think I do everything right, but after ten long years of managing Saturday Morning Chores, it is all finally panning out.
Hallelujah!
This is what this morning looked like:
Scout gets up the earliest, completes the car, and moves on to his indoor jobs — his room and practicing the piano.
Navy does her jobs amazingly well, and then moves on to help anyone who is whining about their jobs.
Dash has recently proved that he can clean the kitchen, which is very impressive for a five year old boy if you ask me!
Although it sometimes takes coaxing to get him off of his head.
And Pippi has stepped up lately to do her piddly jobs.
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If I could describe this morning in a word, it would be GRATIFYING.
Especially, since this was all finished before 10am. It might be a new record.
Faking Twips
After a really long and active day, we put the twips down in the twins bed. Notice that Goldi is completely out, while Pippi fakes sleep and Sturdy just stares me down.
That basically sums up their personalities.
Sand Monsters
Sand Monsters.
Sand Monster Fail.
Best Friends Date
Pippi wanted to take Goldi on a special date…a best friends date.
(She informed me that Sturdy is actually her best friend, but Goldi is a nice friend.)
After treats, we went to the nail salon.
Pippi was in her heaven, and Goldi warmed up after a while to start enjoying it.
But afterwards, when they both had bright pink nails, they were both in heaven!
Back To School Night ‘17
Back to School Night is always an interesting experience. I remember my mom telling me that she would always go to Seth’s classes and send my dad to Shem’s classes. I get it. But unfortunately, since I am the one doing homework, communicating with the teachers, etc. Micah gets to go to Navy’s class (where they sing her praises and everything she is already showing off from the beginning of school, looks like masterpieces on display), and I have to go to Scout’s classes…where I get more and more humiliated at every turn. The big problem is, that Scout knows how humiliating it is to me, and he takes a bit of pride in doing it. Then I laugh, because I think it’s kind of funny. Hence the whole problem.
This year…the first thing I saw, was an art project the class had done. I looked for Scout’s, and almost fell over when I saw that he had really tried hard to do a good job.
Pretty decent.
I perused further and then saw these great paragraphs written by the class.
I looked all over for Scout’s, and found it on the very bottom row next to the floor.
There is the Scout I know and love. Among every other child’s well-written paragraphs, I saw, “This year I have the most awesome teachers. There so nice, this year is going to be fun. P.S. I’m awesome.” Please note: it was written in chicken scratch.
Notice his laughing in the picture they took of him. This kid is up to his old tricks.
Then on everyone’s ddesk, everyone wrote a loving note to their parents. Mine read, “Dear Mom, Please leave me 20 dollars. By the way Geff Geff.” (Some dumb new slang)
It’s tradition that I leave my kids a few dollars to buy something fun at lunch.
So I responded with a dollar and arote, “Dear Scout, I was going to leave you 20 dollars until I realized that you have not done one day of your homework. So here is one measly dollar…AND YOU SHOULD BE GRATEFUL YOU GET ANYTHING! Love, Mom.”
Honestly…if I wasn’t a stickler for tradition, I would have left him nothing. I actually regret not leaving him a penny.
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The report back from Navy’s class was phenomenal. Micah left her $5, and a really cute note. But since it was Micah, we don’t have any photos of it.
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Then, for the first time ever, we got to go to Dash’s back to school night. It was fun and exciting to see all that is in store for him this year. He did great work that was on display. We left him a note as well, and told him something to the effect, “Dash…watch your older sister, and do everything just like her!”
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Another year down.
And remind me???
Do I have to go to back to school nights in Junior High?
Family Nachos
As a mom, I appreciate nothing more than a meal that every one of my kids likes.
For us, that is Family Nachos.
And as a mom, I appreciate nothing more that a meal that everyone likes, that is simple to make!
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