Christmas shopping...

We've been busy getting ready for Christmas around here. Hubby did the watchdog day at school, we survived class parties. I had a hard time monkey's. Well, lack there of. It's not like elementary school anymore...sniff, sniff. He said there were no parties, so i believed him. Then in his non-chalant way, said well the teacher said we could bring some snacks or something. Excuse me, this is the morning as we walk out the door. Ugh, it killed me. Luckily i had gotten him a couple boxes of candy canes, but still.. Cookies on a cute plate, something?? Boys, they just don't care like girls do :( He had fun though, someone, with a girl i imagine, brought pizza :) Next year, i will be prepared!
Midget's party was a feast of winter delights, not Christmas, as it's public school :( But they had snowflake cupcakes, and pizza, chips and alot of candy. I was sad to see a good friend of midget's dad there with a new, much younger wife... ugh. That was heartbreaking to find out. She seemed nice, and was nice to her friend. So I hope they are all doing well. She had lots of fun at her party, and it was good we were all there for it.
Here are some pics of hubby being a watchdog. It was lots of work, more than he knew. I might have not mentioned how much on purpose...ssshhh. It made midgets whole year i think. He read to some classes in the library, helped a few kinder kids with their projects, worked at lunch, and helped the principal. Then we all met up for lunch with midget, and broke her out of school early. Fun day for her, but he was a little overwhelmed ;)
Oh, and his stylish vest, says "watch D.O.G.S." And it stands for Dads of Great Students. Sweet :)

This was her star of the week poster

Star of the week

This has been a crazy week! Midget is star of the week at school. So that means everyday something special. She had a poster about herself, got to read her favorite book to her class (the sandwich swap)- great book! I made a quick dvd with some pics of her to show her class, very sweet. Today she gets letters from her friends in her class. Plus today I had the odd honor, off droppping my husband and my daughter off at school. That was funny!! Monday was an open house for ballet class too. She was so happy her daddy was there to watch!

Monkey has had exams all week. Crossing our fingers he does well. I'm sure he will though. He's worked hard all semster. he gets to have his friend sleepover tomorrow, and his dad is taking them to the skatepark. Not to mention, when this boy see's his xmas present, he is going to be so HAPPY!!! I'm so excited for him :) Although not sure who is more excited, his dad, or him.
Fred has been busy all week... i think he's getting a bit tired, as he hardly moved a couple days last week. oops... But he's made up for it this week with his silliness!

Here is the monkey, making his very special omlette's for all of us for breakfast! He' s quite the chef. He was making fun of me, since his dad told him i didn't know how to boil water when we got married :)

He was so hard to find this morning!! Wrapped himself up, she says he wanted to stay forever. :)

Here's that pesky Fred. He was making snow angels in the kitchen...with salt!

Fred was taking a bath in the bubbles in the sink. Midget was mad, as he was using her toothbrush as a back brush. She said he left elf hair on it...eeewww!

He left a movie one night, and he ate her hershey bar...

Career day

Today was career day at midgets school. Her dad missed it by one day :( So she asked her uncle to come. He's super busy right now, but agreed to come for her. They were so great! He thought the kids wouldn't want to hear the typical cop speach, so he brought one of his officers and the k9 dog. It was so cute! Hubby was right, and said Johnny Carson was right, never follow a cute dog. :) All the kids went nuts for the dog, and midget was a rock star!

Also, we got some of our xmas decorations up. We got my village up. I love my village. It's one of my favorite holiday traditions. My first village pieces were from hubby's grandma. She actually made them herself with her church group. I cherish them, and it's nice showing them to the kids. Some of the other little building are from my dad. He got one that is a wedding dress shop. So sweet. I have to admit got a little weepy taking these things out. Yes, they are just objects, but they have such memories. Now midget loves the village, and has fun placing the people everywhere, and putting the lights on them. But, we have a invader in the village...

Oddly he is quite agile and never knocks anything over.

Sheldon's bed

My mom had given us this little window ledge thing for Sheldon to sit on. But every time he got on, it fell. So grandpa took it and made him a little box and put the bed part on top. He loves this thing!
So here is the napping kitty. He's even taken to midget's bitty-baby blanket :)

Pizza girl

We are out of school now for the break, thank goodness! Midget was a bit bored, sadly there are no kids her age on our street :( So while monkey roams the street skating, she is bored. So she made our dinner! We had a pizza kit, and she made the dough. Of course, then she had to make a menu, take our order and serve us :)
It was really good though!

wowzers...

We've had a good week. It's cooled off alot, and finally feels like fall. We had to get some new shoes for monkey. Do boys feet ever stink!! Yuck! When he takes his shoes off you can smell the funk slithering across the house. After going to Zumies, and having the sales girl try to use her feminie charm on my little man... i was so mad! He didn't fall for it, and we came home and ordered his shoes online :)
We got him some super cool Lakai's. They are "Beast". I feel so out of it, Beast is now a new word apparently. So we ordered from Zappo's, and i was prepared to have him whine everyday if his shoes were here. Who knew that day would come? I'm proud :) They came the next day, in less than 24 hours!! Can you believe it? Crazy good customer service!! Here are his new beast shoes...

Taylor and Soccer

We had a crazy busy weekend. We finished soccer season, and got the trophies to prove it. Sadly midget had a great coach, but monkey wasn't as lucky. His coach was not positive, and didn't let the kids play all the positions. Midgets was so positive, and everyone played. Hopefully, next time we will get a better, more positive coach. But he had some fun, and was active. He's back to skateboarding, so I am glad to see him doing something he loves. The big thing this weekend was I took midget to see Taylor Swift. I have never seen a girl so happy! I have to admit, i really like Taylor Swift too. She is so adorable, and such a positive roll model for little girls. She dresses age-appropriate, isn't on drugs, and is not in the news for doing bad things. Love her for that! The concert was amazing, she had ballet dancers, a wedding, and midgets favorite part, she sang love story from a floating balcony. So pretty. Here's a video, look how happy she is, i so <3 this little girl!
Please ignore the nose wipe, it was windy outside on our 30 minute hike to the stadium from our parking lot :)

Here are some Halloween pics..

and some soccer..

Confessions...

Nothing good i'm afraid, or all that exciting :) I absolutely love the a&e show Billy the Exterminator. It's odd, i know. But there was a little boy at the trick or treat in the park last night dressed like Billy!!! Oh how i wish i could talk mine into doing that. It was so awesome!

Now the kids went nuts over the minecraft boxes these kids wore.

We are waiting to get the fun started again... It's been a fun, tiring couple of days! I am looking forward to a restful november!

Halloween

We headed down to the Boardwalk for Boo on the Boardwalk, had alot of fun! Midget wont he Halloween contest and got a gift card! Dinner was on her!
How cute are they?

This kids costume was AWESOME! He transformed!!

Playing around...

We had a nice weekend being lazy, and survived the first week of school. They both did okay getting up early, but it was getting a little grumpier by the end of the week.
Soccer starts in a couple weeks, and then things will get crazy. Midget had a small fire in the cafeteria and 3 firetrucks came, of course with her you never know. She's gotten to the age of telling stories, and she's so good you never know. I guess it's time to whip out the tale of the boy who cried wolf.
Monkey is full on into junior high, and isn't as crazy about it. But he's glad to be there with his friends. Hopefully things pick up for him, it's alot of changes.
Here are some pics of them having fun outside, still need to get midget a bike. They fight over his :)

Such a handsome guy.

Okay, this is him being nice to her, but her not being to sure of riding on the back... but she doesn't want him to know she's scared:)

I love when they get along....:)

She took the doll seat for her bike, and tried to tie it on her scooter, it didn't work to well...

His new favorite spot..

cute kitty..