BOWLING

Today I had Mamma Juliette Day, but I also worked in a quick work meeting.  Juliette and I went to Town Hall Lanes and got in some bowling and lunch.  She was really cute and we were there before they opened so she had the place to herself, it was pretty cute!

WORKIN' BOY

I do a lot of work a home.  Maybe too much...  Dylan wanted to sit down and do some work too.  When he was done, he shut the computer and said "I am all done with my work!"

The pencil in the ear thing is TOTALLY Joey :-)  I had to help him get it there...him trying was pretty cute, though!

RANKIN PLAYDATE

I was off with both kids on Monday, so we had a nice little playdate with the Rankins.  It's really nice because Juliette and Danielle are a month apart and Dylan and Brady are 6 months apart, so they pair up perfectly.  AND they can play well without us even having to watch them (much!).  Audrey is only 6 months, but is the easiest baby ever....you barely even know she is there!  Such a fun time :-)

SHOW TIME

Ok, originally this post was titled "Snow Time" but when I went to send the pics form my phone to computer, I hit delete instead of send :-(  We went over to my parents on Sunday night and got to play outside in the snow and on the pirate ship....it was fun...wish I had pictures!

Anyway, the only other picture I had from this day is the kids sitting on their chairs in the living room watching a show!  Juliette has had that Tinkerbell chair forever, and I found the Spiderman chair for Dylan for $5!  They were so cute sitting together!

snack time!

COUSINS

Finally had our makeup Christmas date with Elizabeth and kiddos (Noelle was helping Miles through his shot recovery, so we missed them!) Dylan LOVED having a big boy over here to play with and all the kids did well!  Wahoo!  It has been fun watching them grow!

Waiting for their cousins...2 hours before their arrival!

Obligatory stair pic...a little fuzzy, but cute!

SECOND CHILD

I feel like I have been heavy on the Juliette lately...but, honestly, she is so much easier to get to take a pic...

Case in point...(at least he is happy)

THE CALL

I got my first ever, "your child threw up at school" call. 

Honestly, she looked bad when I brought her in in the morning, but she said she was ok.  Good news is, she made it to the bathroom!  (I would've felt terrible if it was on the circle time rug or something!).  When I picked her up, she was still looking a bit green.  I wasn't sure if we were going to make it down the hallway!  But we did, and made it to the car.  But not all the way home :-(  That poor little kid puked in the car.  I did have a bag ready for her, and she got it all in there, but man does it suck to watch your kid puking from the rear view mirror...so sad.  The rest of the day she rested and napped.  No more puke, just a lot of sleep and movies!

obligatory pic with the puke bowl/bucket

MAMMA JULIETTE DAY

Wednesday is my day out the office (I work during naptime and at night to make up my office hours).  So on Wednesdays, I am home with Juliette, and we have dubbed the day "Mamma Juliette Day".  At the beginning of the school year I made a conscious decision to try to do something different and fun every week...not just sit around and do chores and watch movies!  So we've done lots of fun things...Children's Museum, Twins game, library, Macys 8th Floor Holiday display, movie theater, arts & Crafts, Mall of America...  We usually start with a morning at Caribou, where Juliette always seem to have the "best hot chocolate EVER!" :-)

So this week we took Caroline (her doll) out the the American Girl store for some lunch and shopping!  She said that Caroline really wanted a pet...a kitty.  Turns out that Caroline's pet, according to American Girl, IS a kitty, and his/her name is Inkspot.  I paid $22 for this.  That hurt.

Anyway, when you go to lunch, they have a little box with conversation starters...I took pictures below so I would remember the stories.  The first one was, "Who is the funniest person you know?"  She looked at me, and goes, "Moooooommmm, you know that one, it's GRAMMA!" :-)  The next one was, "Who is the smartest person you know?" and then she pointed to me.  Two for two.  The third one was to use one word to describe yourself.  She said she likes to play...and I explained that the question was asking about her personality and asked if she was kind or friendly (specifically not using "beautiful" or "pretty") and she looks at me and goes, "loveable"...three for three kid.  Man, I just loved that answer!!

 

We also had a few points left over from our last visit to Nick Universe, so owe could go one a few rides.  I BEGGED her to go on the (kiddie) rollercoaster.  She is my scared-of-big-rides child.  I also may have bribed her, but either way, we went on the ride together.  The left is a picture of her clutching my arm before the ride started.  The picture on the right is her standing and smiling and proud that she went on the rollercoaster.  In her words, it was "AWESOME!"

Love my Mamma Juliette Days with this girl!!

BOYS II MEN

While trying to make sure to introduce Juliette to the finer things in life, we were jamming out to some Motownphilly in the car...here is our conversation:

Juliette: "What is boys cement?"
Me: "Actually,  honey, it's Boys II Men, it's the name of the group."

MOVIE NIGHT

We let the kids watch a movie together in J's bed...they were SO good and SO cute...it's fun watching them actually play/hangout together more!