Month: November 2015

A miscellaneous post for you!

The Wednesday before turkey day the kids and I had off.  The night before we’d been hit with a dramatic storm leaving us with close to 12 inches of snow.  So we decided that we should go sledding on the hill in town before the sun melted it all.  We got an early start and had the hill to ourselves for almost an hour.

The kids and I climbed all the way to the very top of the hill (which ended up being much bigger than it appeared from the road); I loaded up both kiddos on the sled with Ajax in the back and gave them a shove.  I realize in hindsight I should have given them a bit of guidance because they made it halfway down the hill swerved and then rolled.  Both received snow burns on their checks.  After that Ajax rode the round sled and Noomi and I took the longer one, which proved safer for all.

After an hour more families arrived and Ajax had a blast racing the other boys down the hill, while Noomi had lost interest in sledding and proceeded to stomp around in the icy mud puddles.

I loaded up some muddy kids and took them home where we made pies for turkey day!   The kids were very proud of the apple pie they helped make.

Today (Saturday) we put up our Christmas tree and decorated for the holidays.  The kids were pretty excited.

Turkey Day 2015 in the books!  What a wonderful day- beautiful weather, family, and of course, lots and lots of food!

We hit the road fairly early and headed to my grandpa Nader’s home in Dearborn.  Dinner at the Nader’s is fairly early, around 11 or so, and then runs like an open house till about 5 pm.  When we got there, there were about 40 others there with lots of little kids.  Noomi wore her Elsa Frozen dress and showed everyone her spinning/twirling dance moves.  When we sat down for dinner the house and entire block lost power.  So we ate Thanksgiving dinner in the dark!

After eating the kids spent the rest of the day running wild outside as it was in the mid-50’s and sunny.  Ajax had a ton of fun wrestling with his cousins and playing dodge ball.

Around 2 or so we headed to Theresa and Tim’s house in Ypsilanti for second turkey!  How wonderful that we were able to see both families on one holiday. We felt very fortunate as everyone was there.  Dave thought the last time he and his sisters had Thanksgiving together may have been high school.  The kids of course had fun and we even managed to take a new family portrait with our tiniest family member.

We ended up bathing the kiddos at Theresa’s and then loaded them up for home.

Overall, an excellent holiday!

 

Well at 7 pm tonight the kids were in bed and out.  For some reason both kiddos were exhausted and barely seemed to keep it together tonight.  At one point Ajax was crying during dinner because his taco broke in two and Noomi was lecturing him that he had to eat all his food.  I have no idea why.

Ms. Noomi has been a handful in general, as yesterday she was angry at Dave while sitting on the potty and started yelling at him – Daddy!  Daddy – do-do!

Another weekend in the books!

On Saturday, Emily and Adrian came over to babysit Noomi so that Dave and I could take Ajax to a doctor’s appointment.  When we got home all three of them were sitting on the couch watching Frozen.  Noomi was very excited to share Frozen with them, lol.  We bummed around the house and then because no one felt like cooking we went out to dinner.  The burger place we chose also had an arcade area, so the kids had fun playing a few games though we couldn’t convince either of them to try the pinball machine or Pac-Man.

On Sunday, Dave made us an awesome breakfast and then the kids and I hit up the park so that Dave could get some work completed.  We had a blast playing at the park and the kids ran wild.  We got there pretty early and at first there were no other kids present, which meant the three of us were running wild playing tag.  After an hour though some more kids showed up which gave me a break, lol.  When we got home, the kids helped a neighbor rake leaves and I cut the grass.

Ajax has been obsessed with America’s Funniest Home Videos which he just discovered on Netflix.  It’s cracking us up since that’s what we used to watch when we were little.   Noomi’s been telling us periodically that there is a dinosaur that lives in her pointer finger.  The dinosaur isn’t always there (of course), but when he does show up she yells – hey my dinosaur is back!  And she’ll hold up her finger.  I asked if I could see the dinosaur and she looked at me like I was crazy saying, no mom!  Ajax just rolled his eyes and said, mom she doesn’t really have a dinosaur in her finger.  Thanks buddy.

Some quick little updates on our household.

Noomi absolutely loves her preschool.  She loves her teacher and friends.  She is excited to go school each day and seems to be learning more and more each day.  She can spell her name and can write it.  We’re working still working on recognizing all the letters in the alphabet and numbers are hit and miss.  Her arms are also perfectly healed.

Ajax is turning into a serious first grader.  He has homework every night, which I’m not much of a fan of.  He now has spelling tests each week.  He’s doing wonderful on them – 12/12 last week!  He’s also doing well in math.  Michigan uses common core and so far I don’t see why so many parents are mad with it.  He’s quite proud of his mad math skills.

Another excellent Halloween in the books!

On Friday, Dave and I both had the day off to attend the kids’ school parties.   Noomi’s party was in the morning and all the little kids were so cute dressed up.  They had the gym decked out with a bunch of Halloween themed games and Noomi took us around to all of them.  Toward the end of the party, however, she started getting a little tired and refused to let go of Dave’s hand during the class photo.  Dave is the tallest preschooler in the picture.  Ajax’s party was in the afternoon after the school’s parade, which was led by the high school marching band.  We didn’t get many pictures of his party since I was in charge of the craft table.  After his party we took the kiddos home to carve pumpkins and then do an easy dinner.

On Saturday, we had a house full of people- Mary, Gordy, Emily, Adrian, Rod, Dara, Theresa, Tim, and Baby Vivian!  We went trick or treating in downtown Williamston and then ate a ton of food before heading out into the rain and cold for neighborhood trick or treating.   Noomi was a cute monkey-witch, Ajax was a ninja, and Vivian was an adorable bumble bee!   Noomi only made it to a few houses, but Ajax went through most of the neighborhood.  Vivian slept through most of the trick or treating, but there’s always next year.

On Sunday, we did nothing!  Noomi and I watched Frozen and danced around the living room.  Dave and Ajax played Minecraft and built Legos.  That was our day!

Here are also some pictures from the school’s Fall Festival.  They had these tables were kids could take apart all these old power tools and computers.  Both kids loved it and spent hours at these tables.  Noomi only broke away a few times to go dance, but other than that they were very intent on taking items apart.