Valentine's Day Party

It was Mcayden's last day at "Fun Time" (his little pre-pre-school class) and they had a Valentine's Day party. It was fun watching him carefully put valentines into each child's bag. When I picked him up, they were on a scavenger hunt and had followed big, paper hearts through the building and to their goodie bags.

Addison's After the Party Party

Belated Birthday

Mcayden was really sick on his birthday this year. We rescheduled his little friend birthday party, but still had our family party that evening.
Here are some of the highlights.

Opening his presents...
Oooh, money! Thanks Grandpa B!
His friend's Zoe and Caleb brought over a gift (an art kit that he ADORES). Zoe handmade the darling wrapping paper. It was covered in dogs--just for Mcayden. It was so darling.
Addison loved the fun finger-puppet books Grammy B gave him!
This is such a fun toy. I had one when I was younger, but it was made out of nails. Now they have them made out of plastic "nails". Mcayden has had a blast with this! We got it at Target for around $8.

Sick

Craig gave it to Rick. Rick brought it home.
I picked it up, then Mcayden, followed by Addison.
Now we are all officially sick.
It has been a week and a half of coughing, congestion, sore throats, fevers and plain ol' feeling yucky.
I will update our blog soon!
Mcayden's birthday is tomorrow. We rescheduled his b-day party for Monday. Hopefully he'll feel better soon.

Preschool

So, here in CO., if you want to get your kid into a good pre-school, you register them nine months before school starts! Yes, N-I-N-E months.
They have this huge preschool fair in January and if you want to get in, you register right away. School starts in September.
Luckily for us, the school we want to enroll Mcayden in, opened a Tues/Thurs. afternoon class, and we were able to enroll. I went to check out the school, curriculum, etc. and am really happy we got "in". It is a Christian school-- they say a little prayer before they eat their snack and learn that Christmas is about Jesus Christ. I love that. The actual curriculum is based on "Core Curriculum" which is supposed to be great. I never thought we would have to sign up our kids for pre-school so early. I thought "those" kinds of schools were only for the elite, but I've learned. Here "those" schools are for everyone.
I'm going to take Mcayden on Monday so he can visit the school and he can stay the whole class time as a "visitor". It'll be fun.

Spray Bottle

Addison does this ear-piercing, hair-standing-up-on-your-neck-kind-of-squeal/shriek that she belts out when she wants something, is excited about something, or needs your attention.
At first, it was cute. Three months later, not so cute.
Today I started flicking her with water when she would squeal and she'd stop momentarily. Unfortunately, she'd just smile and do it again. She is very persistent. It reminded me of my friend's little boy would do a similar little shriek/squeal when he was about about 1 1/2 years old. She tried everything and finally tried using a spray bottle and would give him a little spray when he would do it. He eventually stopped doing it (as far as I know), but I'm not sure if it was the spray bottle, or that he grew out of it. When I'm on the phone and Addison shrieks/squeals, the people on the other side always comment on how loud her squealing is. Yeah, it's loud. Maybe we'll stop at Target tomorrow and buy her a spray bottle.

Today

A reminant of a wrapper. A red fruit snack. A piece of tape. A pen. A crumpled up piece of paper. A toy train. More tape. Socks. An elastic band. Tinfoil. Catfood. A dirty spoon. A dirty fork.
Things we took out of Addison's mouth today.
We don't remember taking so many things out of Mcayden's mouth when he was this age. We didn't. There was only Rick and I leaving things out. This time around, Mcayden helps add the array of miscellaneous objects Addison can (and does) put in her mouth.