My silly baby. I love him. What a trouble maker. But a peaceful, good-natured one. He can make the sounds Mama and Dada, but I don't know if he associated them with Aaron and I yet. HE can smack his lips for kisses too, and often will crawl at me smacking his lips and then attack my face with his face. He likes to play peek-a-boo over the edge of the tub. It's adorable. He's almost 10 months!
I never got around to blogging about Aaron's birthday. We had a great time celebrating as usual. My mom and Kerry took us out to Brick Oven in Provo. We left the older kids home with a sitter, so it was just the 4 adults and Ollie. It was great. Aaron's parents took us out to breakfast at Kneaders. And on the evening of Aaron's bday, we met Kelly and Esther at Macaroni Grill in Salt Lake and had a fun double birthday date. (Since Kelly is Aaron's twin and all.) The waitress sang them an Italian opera birthday song. It was cool.
In order to teach the kids about giving gifts, I let them each pick out a $5 gift that they thought Aaron would like. One of those gifts was the game Sorry. And they all had a great time playing it with dad. And hey, I'm just thrilled that we have moved on from Cootie and Shoots and Ladders. :)
A while ago, I mentioned that the kids were making Thanksgiving books. They finished them, but I never posted them. Here are a few more of the pages. I think Ivan's Indians look like the Beatles. :)
At Science Club one week, I taught the kids about chickens, specifically, the life cycle of a chicken. I brought hard boiled eggs and let them peel them open to see the different layers of an egg. We made a diagram on the board and named all the different parts. We also talked about how the eggs shape makes it strong enough that the hen doesn't break it when she sits on it. I let the kids each try to squeeze a raw egg in their hands to see if they could break it, but they couldn't. Ivan wanted to try again when we got home, and just to make sure, he wanted Aaron to try too. Aaron couldn't break the egg by squeezing it in his palm either.
At the beginning of December, Lincoln's theater class did a couple of shows. The first one was a Parent-Preview of the things they've learned so far this semester. The second show was his Christmas Performance. His class sang You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch, and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Linc was a little nervous to go on stage in front of so many people, but he did a great job, and said that he had a lot of fun.
Our Art Class is taking the month of December off, but there are a few projects that I haven't posted about. I think the watercolor shape trains are my favorite project we've done so far. I think they turned out so cool. I also really like Lincoln's germ and Ivan's owl.
Then we hit December, and I kind of shut down. I always think, "This will be the year that I can do an awesome advent calendar for the kids, with activities and art projects and treats!" But every year I fail...miserably. About the only thing I can keep up with is a good ol' paper chain. And that's because all I have to do is help the kids make one, and then they keep track of it themselves for the rest of the month. This year the three older kids each wanted to make their own and hang it by their beds so they could rip one link off every night. It's going well.
I did get my Christmas cards out this year by dang! If I were to only do one festive thing, sending Christmas cards would have to be it. I love it. I have fun putting ours together, but even better is receiving them from other people and hanging them on our door to look at. I usually leave them up until Spring. This year, Ivan helped me stuff envelopes and stick on address labels. What a good kid.
I got to have some one on one time with my favorite 6 year old. I took him Christmas shopping with me one Saturday while Aaron stayed home with the sickies. We had a grand time. It's so much easier to be a nice, fun mom when you have your kid one on one. We got lunch and Chik-fil-a.
Have I mentioned that we've been sick? Oh I have? Hmmm....well I'll mention it again. We've been sick. Not all of us all at the same time. We've been taking turns. We're nice like that. Poor Ivan, it's kind of wiped him out. And I also think he's growing too, because he's eating like a bottomless pit, and has taken a nap voluntarily every day for the last two weeks.
And it won't stop snowing. Blah. I'm tired of shoveling the driveway...but hey! At least Google has put these cool illustrations on some of the photos, so that one of Adelia actually looks like it's snowing. Pretty snazzy Google.
I have the best husband on the planet. Remember my Bah-Humbug post? Well, Aaron read it, and came to the rescue. He made brownies. And he found this cute little baby Jesus craft in the friend and did it with the kids the other night. They were thrilled of course. Daddy's crafts are WAYYYYYYY cooler than Mommy's.
And there was Christmas Sunday. I'm obsessive and require my children to allow me to photograph them in their Christmas Sunday best. They hate it. They are stinkers about it. And this year all the pictures came out blurry (hence the black and white). But Google saved the day again and made my Christmas tree sparkly. I love it.
And today, yes the day before Christmas Eve, I finally got my act together. We (and by we I mean the kids, I made them help, I was mean like that) got the whole house cleaned! Yay! Now Christmas can come. And we even had some time left over to do a cute hand print reindeer craft and a Christmas themed writing assignment. Go us!
And somehow, in the midst of crazy life mode, I need to find the time to read this entire stack of books. Don't you love it when you're borrowing books from three different people and then all the sudden all your library holds come in at once. Slam! So far, I've read the first 3 chapter of Writer's Jungle, all of Champion, and most of The Aviator's Wife. Life is good when there are books to read.
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