Saturday, May 5, 2018

5.4.18 Park Fun

Last night the children had Momma up for 2 hours in the middle of the night. As a result, Momma was grumpy this morning and needed to take the kids out of the house. So, we met Mema at the church park and played! Mema took Kaycee and Tripp to visit Uncle Marty too! 









Thursday, May 3, 2018

5.3.18

Today was a simple day at home. We pulled out the car blanket to play cars this morning! After Olive and Nolan went home, Kaycee and Momma were going to run to Walmart, except the car wouldn't start. So instead, Anthony went and bought a new batter and installed it in the car! Walmart will have to wait till tomorrow.




Wednesday, May 2, 2018

5.2.18

Today was Kaycee and Tripp's last gymnastics class. It was pajama day which made Tripp very happy!
I painted and hung a new oils shelf to house my growing collection. Izzy covered herself in yogurt and walked around with the Mickey Backpack on for at least an hour straight. Nolan laid on his tummy for a half hour straight, longest stretch so far and Olive played like normal! 
Anthony and I had a date tonight. We recorded the first podcast in the "Keeping it Neal" podcast series, baked and decorated a cake, and started a marriage devotional!






Friday, January 12, 2018

Jan. 12 - Friday Tot Lot

This morning Olive had therapy with Ms. Punam. She seemed to be doing really well, despite not having therapy for the last 3 weeks. She's working on stepping down from a step and can do it without help about 50% of the time. 
Then we all went to Friday Tot Lot at the Schaumburg Park District Sports Center. Basically, it was a basketball court, set up with 1 play structure and many bikes and balls to play on. The kids ran around for 2 hours playing, riding bikes and throwing balls. They all had a blast and were unhappy when it was time to go. On our way home we stopped to pick up a new toy shelving unit, which Momma is super excited about! 
Miss Lauren brought Kaycee a present today! She found a mermaid swim suit at Target. It's a pink/purple 3 piece suit. 1 top, 1 bottom and 1 tail! Kaycee was so happy she hugged Ms. Lauren and immediately put it on. She didn't take it off till bedtime. I can only imagine we'll have a fight on our hands when I won't let her wear the tail to swimming lessons next week. 
Tonight, Momma worked on Olive's birthday cake! 2 books, stacked on top of each other. The bottom tier was a marble cake with fresh strawberry filling. The middle tier was a gluten free cake with chocolate buttercream and the top tier was a rice crispy treat (for Olive's allergies). There was only 1 mishap with the fridge peed on the blue fondant and dripped blue coloring down the white cake. However, once the cake was put together, it looked fantastic! Hopefully, Olive will like it tomorrow! 

Daddy won today! He's pretty amazing and super sweet! He sent Momma a text telling her that she was loved and that she could have whatever she wanted for dinner. (She chose Buffalo Wild Wings)! He also had yellow flowers delivered to the door! He's amazing and Momma felt totally loved! 
















Thursday, January 11, 2018

Jan. 11 - Lunch with GG

Kaycee had her first swimming lesson of the day today! Mema picked her up and took her to her lesson. Mema said that this session Kaycee has 6 girls in her lesson instead of 2. It's possible Kaycee could switch to the next lesson, which would have less kids in it. 
The rest of us met Mema and Kaycee at Mema's house for lunch with GG. Mema made mac n cheese and I brought left over chili for chili-mac! Papa was there working, so we got to see him for a minute when he slipped out to grab lunch! GG read the kids several books, which made them very happy. Mema even played memory with Kaycee! We did come home in time for a late nap. 
Anthony had basketball practice tonight over dinner, so the kids and I were on our own. Thankfully, Daddy made pork chop stir fry before he went! I worked on filling and dirty icing Olive's birthday cakes white he was gone!