2016 At A Glance

2016 went by very fast.  Here is what happened.

Jake celebrated his 4th Birthday

We spent some time at "Mima's Water"

And got a motorcycle ride

We celebrated Olivia's last day of school.

Spent time at Franky's Fun Part

Missed Mommy when she was in Norway

But passed the time making smores while she was gone

Back to Franky's where Olivia became a driver

Had a witch and ninja turtle for Halloween in our house

Celebrated Olivia's 8th birthday

 Went to the Annual Daddy Daughter Dance

Jake learned about the meaning behind Thanks Giving

Olivia climbed her first tree and loved it

Went and saw Santa

Made gingerbread houses for Christmas

Jake got a picture with a creepy Santa at school

 We rang in the new year

Tooth Fairy

Olivia’s tooth has been loose for about a week now.  Friday, I picked the kids up for lunch since they were both at Young World and Olivia’s tooth had reached the point of no return.  She got in the car excited to show me, and I told her to give it a little pull.  She reached in, grabbed it, pulled, and then had a tooth in her hand.  She was very excited.  I then took a frightening picture of her.

She put her tooth in the Tooth Fairy pillow and hung it on her closet door and got a whole dollar.  Congratulations Lee on losing your first tooth.

Halloween

We had a great Halloween this year.  Our neighborhood has finally taken off.  There was a sea of kids out trick-or-treating as far as the eye could see, we didn’t even have to leave the neighborhood in search of candy.  Jake was at the point of not being able to carry his pumpkin because it was so heavy with candy.

Friday was dress as your favorite book character day at Olivia’s school, and also a Halloween costume party at jakes, so they both left for school dressed up.

After work PC had a small gathering for the kids and gave out candy and had games.  I brought Jake to it for an hour before I had to leave to pick up Livi.  Since she is in Simpsonville, she didn’t get to go (and I didn’t mention it to her.)  Jake had the most fun bowling with the heavy tennis ball, though it took him for ever to knock them down.

Saturday we carved the pumpkins.  Jake was not into it, but played along for a while.  Olivia finished the scooping for him.

 

Halloween night was great, so much candy.  We will have to thin out the candy herd secretly, because there is no way they should eat that much candy.

Olivia also told me that her friend at school taught her to blow bubbles with gum.  She then tried to show me.  Not sure what is going on here.

 

Happy Halloween everybody!

Resemblance?

Jake was dressed like this as usual the other day.  See any resemblance?

Livi Sings the Blues and Jake Just Sings

I brought out the guitar this weekend because the kids were talking about it.  They had a lot of fun playing it.  They sound much better than I do on it, it has been too long for me.

 

 

Bed Time

Jake has been exploring getting out of bed more and more these days after we put him down.  Actually, the two feed off each other’s antics at bed time.  They both go the their open doors and see if the other is there, then decide to do some wild stuff.  Last two nights were worse than others in the mess department as you can see form the pictures of the stairs.  I guess emptying his drawers and throwing everything down the stairs was his idea of fun.  Needless to say, things are changing with bedtime now.  We have put a doorknob guard on Jake’s door so he can’t open it if we close it.  He gets his door closed if we see him getting out of his room after he gets put down.  He doesn’t like it one bit.  And I don’t know why the boots, mittens and hat were something he wanted in the summertime, however, it sure was cute.

Super Heroes

It is a strange crew of super heroes at the Spatta house today.  Not sure what to call them, though for her, there may be some inappropriate names.