After dinner, last night John was working on his homework and Gillian was working on a new picture. Gillian asked Daddy “Turn on the musgik!” Daddy didn’t understand what she was saying. It took me awhile to figure it out too. She wanted to listen to music while she worked on her picture. Below is… Continue reading Music
Gillian cracks me up. She is a lot like John and just says the first things comes to her mind. Here are a few do my favorite Gillian comments from the past couple of weeks. Daddy brought Gillian home and told her to wait on the front porch. When Daddy joined her on the porch,… Continue reading Silly Gilly
We signed John up to play basketball with the Tinton Falls Recreation. It was supposed to start the first Saturday in January, but it got cancelled due to the snow. Luckily this Saturday the weather was perfect and John got to have his first day of basketball. It is an instructional program four first graders, and the… Continue reading basketball
John has a friend named Maddy. Maddy is in the first grade at his school but not in his class. They met at Time+. Yesterday I picked up the kids from school and John told me “Don’t be mad, but Maddy and I wrote F’s on our hands. Because we are friends!” In the bathtub… Continue reading Friends
John got a magic kit for Christmas. He opened it today and learned a few tricks to show me. The first one was a magic box. I had to pick a color on a cube then put it in the box. He then put the box behind his back and then “guessed” the color I… Continue reading The magician
John has the best comments and insite. Here are a few of my favorite comments from the past couple of weeks: Daddy asked John “Who do you want to help with your shower? Mommy or Daddy?” John replied “I’ll settle with you Dad.” We have been trying to teach John to say excuse me when… Continue reading Oh John!
Our Elf on the Shelf, Buddy, returned the day after Thanksgiving. When we were in Disney World, I asked Aunt Betty to check our mail for us. She went to the house the Friday after Thanksgiving and found Buddy sitting on the couch eating M&Ms and Oreos and drinking soda. She took a picture and sent it… Continue reading Buddy’s Adventures in 2013
This morning, John woke up and came into our bed. It was really early and we snuggled. After a few minutes of snuggling, he said “Mom, I saw something in the hallway.” I asked him what it was. He said “It looked like a hand, but it was dark. I couldn’t really see it.” We… Continue reading Buddy’s Clues
Daddy and I decided that the kids needed to go see Santa this year. We were having a hard time finding the perfect day to go. Finally yesterday, I went online and paid in advance to Fast Pass the Santa line for Tuesday night. I didn’t look at the weather and was a little worried that… Continue reading Santa 2013
Tomorrow we are going to Disney World. But tonight, Daddy picked up the kids and said “Ok. We are going home and we will eat dinner and then take a bath and then go to bed and then get up and get dressed for school.” John responded and said “I think we are getting started… Continue reading Wrong foot
John and Gill went up a hill 