Life As We Know It!

Thursday, April 12, 2018

Busch Gardens

We took the kids out of school the Friday before Easter and took them to Busch Gardens. 2/3 kids were excited.

One of our kids was not too happy

I'm sure its hard to figure out which one wanted to stay in school

But the tea cups brought smiles to all. And a green face to their mother. And I'm pretty sure that's why Joel loves it so much! ha! makes me sick

We took them to see the Elmo show thinking Norah might like it. She was terrified. Said it was creepy and after 5 minutes we left. I told her it was people inside the costumes and in her words "that's even creepier mom" haha

Then we headed up to Blacksburg for the rest of the weekend.

Easter Egg Hunt Birthday Party

A few weeks ago we celebrated Norahs birthday with an Easter egg hunt. We had a rain date scheduled but earlier that week they were predicting snow showers. It was a little cold and we all bundled up but the sun was shinning.

The kids helped me stuff around 700 eggs. I know my kids and an Easter egg hunt is more fun when their baskets are overflowing.

I was going to dress up like the Easter Bunny to surprise Norah but she saw me looking up costumes and said it was too creepy and she didn't want him coming to her party. In fact she keeps asking me to delete this picture off my phone. So its a good thing the Easter Bunny didn't arrive to terrify her!

We were about to start the Easter Egg Hunt when a mom of a girl in Norah's class called and said they were 7 minutes away. So we started to play Red light Green Light instead to keep the kids from gathering up all the eggs.

Then they all started to chase Colin. Lots of fun - screaming giggling kids...

And then shortly after this two girls wiped out completely in a puddle of water. (Greg, one of the dads, told me at the end that he died laughing watching it all go down and his storytelling is pretty funny) At that moment the mom and girl we were waiting on showed up so I missed the wipe out. Becca was one of the girls and lost a shoe in the mud. Sarah went and got it out. Then Becca went the rest of the time wearing Heathers shoes and Heather went barefoot. I didn't know until it was all over and I kept thinking that Beccas feet had really grown! ha! The other girl was soaking wet. Poor Colin felt so bad he gave all his eggs to the girls. Even though it really wasn't his fault.

The kids all noticed the girl we were waiting on was there so the egg hunt started and was over in minutes. I should also mention the mom that was late I had never met before. She dropped off her two girls and then left. Told me to call her when it was over. And one of her daughters I didn't even know her name. But no name girl did tell me at the end that it was a really fun party - probably because she consumed her entire basket of candy before she was picked up! So between the girls getting wet and the late girl's mom just leaving it was a little stressful for me. But Norah loved it and that's all that matters

Sweet girls - we miss Elizabeth living next door to us! but I'm glad they've stayed friends.

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

This is Six

Six years ago our lives changed in the most beautiful way. I always tell Norah she's my best girl and she always replies back that I'm her best mommy.

So much sweetness and sass in one little girl.

The other night Norah was showing Brent how she can do a handstand and she fell and scraped her nose up pretty bad. She didn't complain about the hurt (it was bad and she had the biggest blood blister ever the next day inside her lips) All she cried about was how ridiculous she looked. "I look RID-DUCK-OOO-LES" I'm soaking in the cute ways she pronounces things because I know that wont last too much longer.

That same night I wasn't completely sure she hadn't broken her nose so I let her go to sleep in my bed. She eventually ends up in our bed every night so I thought I'd save a step for her and keep an eye on her. Sometime around 3 or 4am she woke up, rolled over and put her arm around me and snuggled close whispering "I love you mommy"

For her birthday we went and got donuts before school and ate them for lunch. This girl eats a few small bites out of her lunch each day. She will come home and finish the rest of her lunch as soon as she gets off the bus. On her birthday she finished off 2.5 donuts before lunch was over.

At the last minute I got tickets to take Norah to the aquarium for their mermaid Mondays. Since her birthday fell on a Monday it was perfect for a little birthday fun. I got tickets that morning for Norah, Joel and I. Colin didn't want to go but Joel wanted to go and see how they did it.

I thought it was way overpriced for what we saw but Norah loved every minute of it and it made her birthday very special. And she now is fully convinced mermaids are real.

For this mermaid Norah asked her how she was able to be out of the water. The mermaid said that she has to be carried because she cant walk and that she will have to go back into water every so often. Then a worker came a little later to carry her out of the room and Norah's eyes grew wide because obviously the mermaid was telling the truth.

Joel enjoyed it too because he could see the sharks and he loved petting the rays. He could probably have done without all the mermaids but it was still fun for him.