4 Day Weekend

Caroline had a four-day weekend recently so we tried to make the most of it with some fun. First off, games at Chuck E Cheese!

Miles loved watching Caroline play skeeball. In fact, he was pretty content to just observe. Anytime I tried to get him to play with something he looked like this:


Not a fan.

We made a PVC pipe fort (more on that later) and Caroline slept in it - she loves it!

Then we went to the Children's Museum with Caroline's new cousins. We've been trying to get together for a while, and it was a great day. The kids all get along so well.

Again, Miles was not an enthusiastic participant. He was well-behaved, he just didn't want to climb on or play with anything. Which is ironic, because the boy doesn't stop moving when we're at home!

Caroline's favorite parts of the museum are always those that involve music, dancing and stages. She was glad that her cousins were willing to dance with her!

Oh yeah. I couldn't help it :)

After the children's museum we went to McDonalds and after they ate, the older kids played together with their happy meals toys for like 30mins! They were playing and laughing and afterward Caroline said she had even more fun at McDonalds than she did at the museum! Silly kids.

Around here lately

We started February off with a case of .... pinkeye! Thankfully, Caroline was the only member of the family to get it. We found out that it was going around her school and even some teachers missed a few days. The good thing about pink eye is that you don't really feel sick, no vomiting or fevers - you just can't be around people! So we used it as an opportunity to hang around in pajamas, watch movies, color and build forts.

After the pink eye went away, Dave got some tickets from a guy at work to go see a Memphis Grizzlies game. So the three of us went and our dear friend, Vicki, stayed home with Miles and put him to bed for us. It was a lot of fun!

Caroline was so funny - she really got into it! Basketball is easier to understand than other sports I think so every time our team made a basket she was yelling and jumping up and down and high-fiving - it was great!

I love that Miles is at the age where he can start eating a lot of what we eat. Here he is destroying a peanut butter and jelly sandwich :)

A little while ago, Dave found some good moving boxes at a house he was working on, so he snatched them up and we've had some fun with them...

Star Student

Caroline was the "Star Student" this week in her kindergarten class! Every week a student is picked at random to be the star student which means they get to be line leader and teacher's helper. Each day of the week they get to do something special. On Monday, she got to bring in a poster all about herself. She and Dave worked on making it very sparkley!

On Tuesday, she got to bring her favorite book, which was "My Lucky Day" by Keiko Kasza and on Wednesday she got to bring a toy. On Thursday, I got to come and read to the class:

It was so fun! The kids were so good, laughed at all the right places, and made me feel like a celebrity :) We handed out treats and I had lunch in the cafeteria.

Caroline has been looking forward to this all year-long and she said it was just as great as she hoped it would be!