I Miss This!

I really beat myself up over not being able to blog anymore.  It frustrates me.  I want to blog.  I love looking back at Baby Mallory and watching her grow.  Then there was Baby Maxwell and watching him grow and how tiny Mallory was when Max was a baby.  Then there is Melanie.  Melanie?  Who is Melanie?  Yeah.  Did you know we had another baby?  : )  She isn’t featured as much as the other two were.  Makes me mad.  Poor kid.  I hardly remember to take pictures of her! 

When I think about updating my blog… I think oh man I have to go back to August (3 months ago)… because I don’t want to miss anything.  Not what I want to do.  So I close the computer and surf pinterest and read other peoples blogs.

Then get this!  I get mad at one of the blogs I follow because she hasn’t updated in like a year!  Gasp!  I was with her when she only had three kids and now she has 5 kids and she doesn’t update and her baby has to be like almost two now!!  Update your blog lady!!

Shame!  That’s me!  I could have people out there who keep checking to see if I am going to update and here I am not updating!

I was told a few weekends ago that my profile says I work, own a business, and have two kids.  Wow.  That was a lifetime ago.

So here we go… I am just going to the leave the past in the past and start fresh!  With my current pictures and stories!

We had a Christmas Party this past weekend.  It was come as a Christmas Character or in your Christmas Jammies.

Jesse = Uncle Eddie (National Lampoons Christmas Vacation); Me = Aunt Bethany (National Lampoons Christmas Vacation); Melanie = Bunny (not sure it was anything – it was just cute and we classified her into the Land of Misfit Toys from Rudulph); Mallory = Ballerina (Nutcracker Ballet – she really wanted to be Anna from Frozen but I talked her out of it!); Maxwell = Christmas Jammies (My absent minded Mommy brain bought him these in a size 5T… he is barely into a 4T!!  So he was pinned together to keep his pants up!) 

I really hope I will be back in a day or two with the rest of the pictures and stories from this Christmas party.  Right now though… I have to attempt to get a grumpy 5 year old in the shower.  She hasn’t let me touch her hair in three days and well… ain’t no comb going to fix that!! 

The many faces of Melanie

Learning Outside

After playing with caterpillars it was time for school.  Since it was beautiful outside and probably one of the last nice days we hauled our school stuff outside. 

It was a Friday and on Fridays it is usually just Mallory who has school.  Typically it is just a half day, because we have a Mom’s group Friday mornings.  Max tagged along with his gun to keep the bears away. 

Melanie is never far either. 

Mallory working hard. 

Drawing a map on the dry ease board.

Her stack of work.

Max was feeling left out so Mallory passed off her worksheet for him to finish.  They love these bingo markers when doing searches.  Mallory is searching for her sight word of the week.  (She gets two sight words a week.)

Then she had to build sentences and draw a picture to go with the sentences.  Followed by writing the sentences.

School was so exciting that Melanie fell asleep. 

Lastly a math worksheet.  In Math right now she is learning how to count pennies and dimes (counting by 10s), shapes, colors, writing numbers, calendars, and reading clocks.

Look who else brought her gun.  You never know when you are going to need to fire off a nurf bullet at an incoming animal.

It was kind of fun to switch up our school routine.  The kids enjoyed it also.