Sunday Breakfast

 

Most weekends we are in relax/recharge for the upcoming week. Occasionally I’ll get inspired and make a nicer breakfast than just the standard Eggo waffles(Although, they got a bit gourmet this season with pumpkin spice!). It usually ends up being the kids’ second breakfast since they get up at the crack of dawn and are starving at 6:30. While I was making breakfast Paul and Henry were having story time:

 

 

That lasted for about a whole two minutes until Henry had enough.

 

Claire was in a silly mood:

 

Just picture me here:

At one point, Paul thought I was taking too long and said he could cook the bacon better. He burnt it. He’s not allowed to touch the bacon anymore. We were all a little sad.

After breakfast the kids were still in a silly mood and actually were both up to posing for a picture. I had to take advantage:

             

Love those goobers.

Craft Wars

 

Since I have a bit more time with the kids both in school two mornings a week it has given me the opportunity to 1) enjoy a quiet house, 2)go to the store without two kids grabbing food the whole time, and 3)do some home projects. I have done a couple of craft-ish projects over the last couple of months. Since I have no crafting ability or talent whatsoever it kind of feels like me vs. the project each time. That means it takes me about 8x as long as the normal, talented, crafter.  I thought I would share what I have done. I am awful at figuring out what to put on walls for décor so I found a easy/cheap painting project for our bedroom:

I have always wanted to use chalkboard paint for something in the house, so I painting a small wall in our desk area in the kitchen. The kids loved watching me paint. Every time I ask Claire what color she wants her room she always responds with black. Silly girl. I think I might paint a small part of her wall with chalkboard paint to satisfy her odd black choice. Each painting step took me about a week to complete because I’m a bit of a procrastinator at times.

Finished product:

Baby steps with the crafting. My next task is tackling our window treatments. I have no idea where to start! Curtains intimidate me.

In fun kid activities, Claire loves anything to do with playing music(guitar, microphone, etc…) and Henry loves dancing so they have been having fun putting on “shows” for us with their talents. Pretty darn cute!

    

Henry is also finally loving books and building with the MegaBlocks. It took him awhile to have the attention span to sit, look at a book, or build towers. Now he will entertain himself for good spans of time.

    

(His “cheeese” face.)

Happy Halloween!

 

Our Halloween festivities began last Friday when Davidson did a trick or treating event with all the downtown businesses. We heard that it is always extremely crowded but we didn’t realize what that meant until we got there. It was a good thing we got there early because there were a TON of people there by the time the event started. Both kids had a lot of fun and were really into everyone’s costumes:

(They were Tinkerbell and Peter Pan).

At school, they both had parades and were able to dress up in their costumes. Henry’s parade day(I forgot my camera so a friend took some pics-thanks!):

Claire’s parade day:

Finally the big night!

With our neighbors(trying to get four kids to smile at the same time-pretty impossible!).

We just did our cul-de-sac, which was plenty for the kids. They had more fun handing out candy when we got home!