Another jammie drill!

We took the kids on another Jammie Drill this past week.  There is a dessert place in town that also has a wall of shelves filled with games.  We thought that sounded like a fun place to take the family.

The kids had fun picking out games and we all enjoyed the fun time together.

piano recital

The oldest three kids started taking piano lessons a few months ago.  We have a wonderful piano teacher, she is a friend of ours and is willing to come to our house to teach the lessons.  What a blessing she is is to our family.  She planned a recital at a local assisted living home.

We got there early which allowed us to visit with some of the residents and to get some practice in on the piano there.

The kids did a great job playing the pieces they had been learning including some traditional Christmas carols.

Miss J is itching to start her own lessons and stayed close to the action.

Miss C was having fun visiting with her friend.

Mr. S liked the look of the fish tank.

 

It looks like Mr. K is wondering "which one is my mommy?  They all look the same from down here"

"Ah, here she is!"

Towers

Mr. R found a book on sky scrapers on a recent trip to the library and then built this....

Which prompted the other kids to give it a go too.

They were so proud of their projects and asked "mom, are you going to blog about these?"

Pancakes

On a recent trip to the library Miss C spotted this book of fun shaped pancakes.

Miss E thought it was a great looking book and asked if she could PLEASE make breakfast for us.  That sounded just great to me.  She spent the afternoon figuring out which pancakes to make for each person, figuring out what colors she would need to mix up and mixed all of the dry ingredients.  The next morning this was our breakfast...

A bowl of cereal for Mr. K

 

Duckies for Miss C.

 

Miss J requested a butterfly.

Our bouncy boy requested a frog.

 

A bomb seemed appropriate for Mr. M

Miss E knows that Mr. R always goes for a game of checkers.

 

Miss E is a fan of watermellon (it also happened to require chocolate chips!).

I had a stack of pancakes; complete with syrup and butter.  Miss E even provided a knife and fork!

 

There was plenty more batter to make an apple with a worm in it, eggs and bacon, spaghetti with meatballs, and balloons.

 

 

Thanks Miss E for the fun breakfast!

First hair cut!

It seems this is quite the year for first hair cuts!  First Miss J got hers (and gave to locks of love), then Mr. K had all of his sweet curls cut off, this week it was Miss C's turn.  We were not quite ready to cut her hair, but she asked so sweetly....

"I want my hair cut, but only if you do it mom.  I want my hair just like Mommy, Miss E and Miss J"

I cut off about two inches and sent her to look in the mirror.  The verdict was "its not as short as Miss J's, it needs to be shorter"  so I took another inch or so off.  I had fun layering it too since her hair is so fine and feathers out a bit, it is much more forgiving.

Jammie drill!

We like to do jammie drills from time to time, but tend to do more around Christmas.  The other night as the kids were just about to head for bed Daddy said "5 minutes, Jammie Drill!" at which point all of the kids quickly scrambled to not only get their own shoes on, but the little one's shoes as well and scramble into the van in 5 minutes.

Daddy ordered all sorts of goodies like chicken strips, fries, fish 'n chips, soup and pancakes.

 

No Jammie Drill would be complete without dessert.  We got a whole candy cane pie to share!

These are not just fun activities to do with the kids, but a way to tie the heart strings of our children and build bonds and memories that we hope will last their lifetimes.

shooting rubber bands

Mr. K has been watching his brothers closely.  He loves playing with them, wrestling with them (they lay on the floor while he tackles) and wants to do everything they are doing.  He recently walked out with a rubber band. Positioned a rubber band.  Released and said "bang!"

Yep.  He has started trying to shoot rubber bands.  He rarely gets one off, but when he does it just falls right down.  Its so cute to see him trying, but we're also remembering that in no time at all he will really figure this out and it may not be so much fun, so we're working on teaching him not to shoot at people.

 

I can't believe how quickly this sweet little guy is growing up!  We're all having so much fun with him.