My Baby's Big Moments

Oh my goodness!

My baby lost her first baby tooth tonight. 

She is so excited. 

And even though I have known the tooth has been wiggly for a while. And even though I knew that it was getting extra wiggly in the past 48 hours. And even though she woke up 4 times last night to tell me that her tooth was "very wiggly and kind of annoying" resulting in her very tired eyes that you can see above, my heart was still not really ready for her to lose her first tooth just yet. 

C was 6 years and 5 months old when he lost his first tooth. 

M is 5 years and 6 months so I thought I had a good while to go. 

She does things on her very own schedule I guess. 

Don't worry, the tooth fairy visited!

Life Skills

On Monday, C learned how to do laundry. I admit, that of household chores, I don't have any problem with laundry. But still, he should learn. So he did a load of laundry.

Yesterday, he cooked his first dinner.

It was the ever fancy, boxed mac and cheese and green beans.

But with the exception of carrying the pot of water back and forth from the stove to the sink, he did it all! He even got the steamer basket out and set up the colander. 

He was very excited to help and I was happy to teach him. He did a good job! Life skills class has been a nice little addition to our time home. 

Today, things are officially open again. Which is good for the economy I guess. It's a little weird. School is still out. None of the fun places for kids are open and we don't know when they will be, so even though things are open, nothing has really changed. 

I am just excited for playgrounds to open back up. That alone will be so good!

Words, Shapes and Pancake Cereal

Yesterday we mostly played hooky from school. It was a really nice day. It wasn't actually supposed to be. But the rain wasn't coming until the evening and so I didn't want them to waste the nice weather.

C did his math. Because Fridays are the "no math" day. I don't love math, I never have. And somehow C has that too because he whines and groans about it every day. Here's the kicker: he not even bad at it. So I don't get it. Luckily, also like me, shapes and geometry math stuff seem to be exciting and minimal complaints occurred during the work.

His teacher also came by the house for another book exchange. And he was very happy about that. 

This little girl is working on reading and her sight words. So yesterday we did some music sight words. She wrote "This is me" and then we listened to the song from The Greatest Showman and pointing to the words when they sang them. 

We did the same for "So What." (Working specifically on This and What yesterday) She is my reluctant reader, which is frustrating for both of us. But she's been doing great and progressing. Plus she got to wear her Anna braids yesterday. 

So, she obviously put on the dress and had a Frozen singalong. 

Have you seen "pancake cereal" floating around the internet? Basically small pancakes in a bowl with syrup? Well, pancakes were on the dinner menu anyway and I love a good gimmick. So the kids each got a bowl of their proscribed pancakes.

Today brought the expected rain. But it is stopped for now, and we did school work so the kids are outside I am sure getting muddy as heck and I am just going to shrug my shoulders and let it go. 

Another Day, Another Baked Good

Tuesday has rolled around again. It's amazing how the days have blended together but each one still stands out as something different.

Schoolwork is over for the day and the kids are in the backyard. It is going to rain here for the next few days so I gave the kids the choice to help me clean or play outside. I would have been happy either way but I am glad they opted to be outdoors. It's been so chilly here lately. Not feeling like May, which does make the staying in a little harder on us all.

C has his weekly zoom call later today. That's always cute.

Yesterday I sorted through all of M's clothes and weeded out things that were too small. (Or, to be honest, shirts I just didn't like.) Not sure why I put the task off, it didn't take that long and I feel so much better about the state of things in there!

Mother's Day was lackluster in a totally expected way. The kids each made me a card, and Husband still got my traditional breakfast pizza even though I said it wasn't necessary. But that was about all that made the day any different than any other day. I am not disappointed by this at all. It just wasn't much fodder for blogging.

 Selfies with my munchkins at bedtime.

In other truly important news, I made some chocolate frosting on Friday. It worked just like a can of frosting. It looked just like a can of frosting. It tasted equal or superior to a can of frosting and it has only regular real ingredients. So total win.

THIS IS THE RECIPE. We had it on top of funfetti cake. (Our nephew turned 1 on Friday and had an online birthday party. Zoom parties are BYOC don't you know.) My favorite kind of homemade cake is funfetti from a box with chocolate frosting.

Aldi chocolate frosting is terrible. Probably because they're committed to not using weird stuff in their food, so to make it shelf stable a lot is required. Anyway, don't buy Aldi chocolate frosting. Don't buy frosting at all actually. Just make that recipe. You will be happy you did. (Also, don't use your stand mixers, just use the good old hand beater for this. Trust me.)

Okay, that's all I know over here! I hope you're well. 

End of The Week

Hello Mother's Day Weekend!

So, I don't even really have anything of particular interest to say. Our state is slowly reopening. I saw more adults this week than I have in the past 8 and it was so good.

Lots of things dropped off at my house. A bag of books. A small treat for M from a friend. My carpet cleaning vacuum being returned. Driveway drinks with friends. All socially distant but so so good.

C's teacher mailed each person in the class a mini her to go on adventures. She met Frog and Toad at our house. She has an affinity for those books, as it happens so do we! Plus it is the story in their reading book this week so it worked out well. 

Lots of outside time also leads to plenty of scrapes. With Abe Lincoln bandaids because why not?

M had her zoom call. It was just as hilarious as always. I take notes every time and I am so glad I do!!

 Have a lovely weekend!

Star Wars Day

Yesterday was May the 4th. Which made it Star Wars Day. Here's the thing: I have never seen these movies. Neither has M.

C watched the first one (A New Hope) and then he also watched part of the next one. But he has read a ton of Star Wars books. Anyway, he is kinda into Star Wars and we are definitely seeking things to make staying in exciting.

SO... anyway, we started the day with school work. Our typical schedule has us starting the day with our school's Facebook live announcements at 8:00 and we are usually done by 10:00. Sometimes we have a little more to work on.

M borrowed one of C's shirts so she could dress Star Wars-y.

The kids watched Lego Star Wars with their lunch. 

Afternoon snack was a Yoda apple and "lightsaber pretzels" (Pretzel sticks covered in Fruit Roll Up.) Yes, we made just one apple. M doesn't like to bite into apples, she prefers slices, so she got a sliced up apple, a marshmallow, and 2 mini chocolate chips on a separate plate. 

Then we made some Star Wars crafts and I made pool noodle lightsabers for the kids to "save the galaxy" 

All in all, it was a very fun Star Wars Day and broke up some of the "staying home doldrums." Still haven't seen the movies. Don't plan to see the movies. But hey, I can throw a themed day anyway!

Happy Thanksgiving

Because celebrating Thanksgiving right as the May flowers show up makes more sense yes?

Anyway, we did Thanksgiving yesterday. We watched the 1997 Macy's parade in the morning. We made a whole traditional feast. We made turkey crafts as one does.

We opted to switch pumpkin pie for key lime because it's May and warm and we are not monsters.

I highly recommend throwing a Thanksgiving. Going around the table and sharing what you're thankful for shouldn't just be once a year anyway right?