Puppy Party

Rocco turned 4 today

We threw him a puppy party.

 

First up...

Puppy Hats for everyone!

(Oriental Trading 22$ for a dozen!)

 

 

Then a bone hunt!

 

 

 

Every puppy loves an obstacle course:

Jump through the hoop,

Carry the bone,

Push the ball with your nose,



 

 

Then we just did lots more stuff like:

 

Make muddy paw prints.

 

(Potato Stamps)

 

Clip their nails.

Yes...we seriously did.

 

Of course we had to eat bones
 

(Graham cracker bones)

 

& cupcakes too...

 

One last thing you won't want to forget:

 

 

 

~Happy Birthday Little Pup~

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One day a year...

 

My little sister & I have nine kids between us.

 

and

 

One day a year,

May 17th,

on this little girl's birthday...

our kids are all different ages...

 

 

 

 until tomorrow,

when this lil' guy turns 2.

We think it's pretty cool

& take a picture every May 17.

 

Little joys, love 'em.

 

We love her...

Miss Hannigan...

 

she's a big part of our lives here.

 

We sing her songs,

we quote her,

we love her.

 

Having a kid named Annie you see that play a lot.

(We are kinda lucky :)

 

My little sister's daughter has seen it too.

Zadie

 

When they have clean up time at their house she actually says,

"Mom...say 'Get to work you rotten orphans!'

&

"Say 'You're gonna work until this dump shines like the top of the Chrystler building!'"

&

"Mom, don't help us...just walk around & yell at us!"

 

So...she calls them rotten orphans & makes them clean :)

 

& they love it!

 

At our house we like the line,

"We're not having hot mush for breakfast,

we're having cold mush!"

 

The kids groan but they actually love cold mush!

 

 

I get lots of requests for "morning mush" from the kids & today Annie brought her teacher a jar of it.

 

 

It was good practice for Annie writing

a recipe to pass along with the jar.

 

 

I love how she spelled Vanilla:

 

 

Morning Mush

 

                                         1/2 C Oats

                                         1T Peanut Butter

                                         1 container vanilla Greek yogurt

                                         Ground flaxseed

                                         Fresh or frozen berries

     

                                         Mix & Eat

 

We like the Dannon 2x protein vanilla greek yogurt

Frozen berries are actually fab in here!

 

Hope you get a chance to try a little morning mush.

Miss Hannigan would be proud :)

 

Miss Hannigan image

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Just can't wait...

We are so tired of being cooped up from the long winter that even the rain doesn't scoot us inside.

A day like today was perfect for catching raindrops,

(Oh lil Roo:)

 

 

 

And rainy days are perfect for projects!

 

This summer we are headed on a trip to the Gulf of Mexico & we are sooooooo excited!

 

So...today we made a chain to count down the days until we leave.

 

 

Annie & I had fun looking through my old scrapbook stuff

 

Then we just slapped them on our ocean chain.

 

 

I must admit this is my favorite link:

 

 

The kids are already fighting over who gets

to tear off the shark link but I don't care...

 

 

I Just want to enjoy every minute of anticipation

before we start our 24 hour ride south to heaven.

 

I think the anticipation is just as fun as the travels.

You going anywhere?

She is dangerous...

We live on the tip of a curve...we also have LOTS of teenagers in the neighborhood, so cars coming flying around the curve & I worry like crazy about my kids.  Many times I have seen the teens texting while driving on top of that!  So when my kids ride their bikes I am usually out in the street by them.  And I must have warned the kids a million times of the dangers because the other day Rocco was riding his bike down the road singing a song he made up.  It went like this, "I'm not dying, I'm not dead, I'm riding my bike & I'm not even dying." 

 

He sang it for a good 15 minutes.

 

Then he rode by me, "Mom aren't you proud of me I am riding my bike & I'm not even dying!  Aren't I such a big boy Mom?"

 

Oh Brother!

 

I don't know how many of you remember the

VERY INTERESTING TRIALS

of teaching Annie how to ride a bike.

 

She rides almost everyday now.

Even in the snow.

 

After school she gets out of the car

& rides her bike no matter what.

So one would think she would be an expert right?

 

Well...just last week while I was standing

in the street holding Kit...

& she hit me!

 

Smacked right into us!

 

I actually had to make a rule:

If you hit me with your bike I will take away your bike for 2 days.

 

Then the very next day

~I am not even joking~

look what I caught her doing:

 

 

Yes folks...she is texting while biking!

 

She borrowed my phone to call a friend

& I totally forgot until I turned around

& saw her riding down the road like that.

 

 

 

I was so glad I had the camera close.

(I had just taken the other biking pics in the post)

 

Just when I think I have seen it all...

 

Don't worry I took it away before she took out any parked cars.

Don't think she wouldn't!

 

Oh & if you missed the post of Annie learning to ride,

You really might want to read it.

I just reread it myself & I have tears running down my face from laughing so hard...It was painful..very painful.

Just Click HERE.