grandma

Grandma highlights:  Chicken day, chocolate fondue, Grandma taking T to the children's museum and dinner, Grandma taking W shopping for art supplies and to lunch, Grandma helping with my "moving" projects, Grandma taking E to the gym.

We also had some one liners.

T informed us at dinner that he learned that "Jake's least favorite food is salad".  It was Jake's turn for spotlight today in Primary.  Oh!  We had a laugh about that.

E can repeat things really well.  Like "silly mama" just the way Grandma says it, chocolate santa, goat cheese, and anything else Grandma says for him to repeat.  E usually adds his phony laugh in after.

T went to change E's diaper and informed us in such a sad disappointed voice that E had "a mini poop!  That is the smallest poop I have ever seen!"  It is true.

T also gave Oliver such great snuggles.  W would cover Oliver with his blanket each night

T's favorite time when Grandma was here was Grandma time.  He liked his red balloon from Red Robin.  He picked mac n cheese, French fries and a shake for dinner.  He loved going to the children's museum with her.  He built stuff with Grandma, played with the light board, filled up the semi cab and made lots of fun things with the water and the pipes.  He made a hose that he could turn the handle and shoot water as well as a "chimney" as he explained it to me.  He was hoping the water would shoot up like smoke does, but it just bubbled over.

W's favorite time that Grandma was here was Grandma time.  She loved getting mac and cheese with Grandma too.  Grandma went shopping with w to get supplies for an art project.  W said the art project was hard, but when comparing Grandma suprises with T, she decided she liked her stuff for her room more than a balloon.

T's comment about the art project was this: "my favorite heart on Grandma's volcano is this one".  He pointed to a conversation heart with only a moustache on it.  I had a good laugh about him calling the conversation heart trees they made a volcano.  My mom made one and W made one.  They glued conversation hearts on a Styrofoam cylinder.  It totally looks like a volcano.    The whole time they were working on it, T commented off and on about how it "smells like candy in here".  It is true.  Gluing them brought out the sugar smell.

T also asked me this week if "lipstick is Spanish for chapstick".  Hahahahaha!  E thinks so.  He saw my mom put on lipstick and asked for it, calling it chapstick and applied it like a pro.  He loves to apply chapstick.  Chapstick is also one of his first 100 words.  He is acquiring words and phrases at a rapid and alarming rate for this mama who wants to snuggle her last baby.

Mommy's favorite part of Grandma was not doing dishes almost the whole week.  I would walk away from the kitchen after dinner and come back later, and wha la.  The dishes were gone.  Usually they are there after bedtime waiting, but not this week!

I also planned all sorts of decorating projects to do with my mom and I think they all got done.  All we did was rearrange stuff, but I feel renewed.  Before Mom came I de-junked after realizing that we have lived here longer than any place I've lived since I lived with my parents growing up.  AAGGGGHH.  I'm so used to moving as my forced de-junk, but this time, I just re arranged the closets and who has which closet spaces, etc.  I'm excited about the results.  Especially since we spend a lot of time looking at it now that it is winter.

The tree they made for E's owl.  Good idea!

The day I didn't make them go to school because the weather was sunny and 58 degrees.  We had a lovely day that day

E throwing rocks

admiring his work

T on the island

W happy to not have a jacket on

Our picnic lunch

Grandma introducing chocolate fondue

Sucessfully accepted

 

E's first fondue

Reading books on W's bed.  E put himself in this position himself

E's favorite activity while Grandma was here

Haha!  (fake laugh)

Gobble gobble

W loved sitting on Grandma's lap in the sun in her new beautiful dress.

E screamed about his tie and shirt he had to wear.  Not sure if he hates the outfit or remembered this means nursery today.

A princess drawing.  She read a few princess books at school.  After that she practiced drawing about 20 princesses.  They all wear short sleeved dresses.  That is how you know they are princesses

They really liked the space topic from school and grasped the concept

Tucker spent a lot of time on this

W's first princess drawing.  check out the shoes

W's first drawing of just her and E.  They are walking by a lake in a field of flowers

T drew this on his own.  He is showing the side of the earth that sees the sun and the side that sees the moon

T made this book about Halloween for W

Here is the bee (he was a bee)

Here is the "baking kitty"  I was the cat this past year, but he really likes to cook and pretend to be a kitty

Here is the mouse.  E was the mouse

Here is a heart

The last two pages.  A caterpillar (which was E last year)  and the end of the book