The Adventures of Chase, Owen & HATTIE!

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Special K

Owen and Chase have both been the Special K in Kindergarten. They each get a week where they bring in a poster about themselves and get to be the line leader, point to the days of the week on the calendar and many other things. They got to bring home the class bear and journal about their adventures with him. It was fun to see their excitement and what they wanted to share with their class about themselves. They both wanted about 50 pictures on their poster!

Owen on his special K day, October 20th

Chase on his special K day, October 7th

With Teddy

Chase with Teddy

Monday, November 11, 2013

Spider

Chase and Owen made spider hats at school. Here Owen shows off his cute hat!

Chase's spider hat

Chase insisted his legs went down and Owen insisted the legs went up.

I think these pictures are from Trunk N Treat

I Love You

10-25-13: Owen says right in front of my face, "Mommy I really really really really really love you!" then throws his arms around my neck. Nothing like hearing that!

On Sunday the 3rd I took Chase to the Dr. Owen had had pneumonia the week prior and I thought Chase might have it. He sure did. He seemed better Monday so I sent him to school, only to get a call from the nurse that he was coughing a lot. When he got to daycare after school (at 12:30) he had a 101 fever. I went home to get him. He and I stayed home until Thursday, when I sent him to school again, only to get a call that he was coughing to much he almost threw up. I took him back to the Dr. and the pneumonia wasn't better. He was put on a different medication and the next day was finally doing better! During this time I had the flu-aches, chills, headaches, and a cough. Not much fun at all. On Wednesday the kids were all home with me because I had scheduled dentist appointments for them. It was a very long week. Hattie wasn't taking the bottle at daycare. In fact, on Monday or Tuesday she had only 1 oz the entire day. That night when we got home she was sleeping in her carseat. I heated up a bottle and stuck it in her mouth. Sure enough, she took it! She was so tired (and hungry) that she didn't really know it was a bottle! Success! Her not eating stressed me out and made nights long because she wanted to nurse a lot and typically 2 times in the night. Finally on Friday she took 3 bottles at daycare! It was a miracle. On Saturday Jeff was even able to get her to take a bottle! Another miracle.

This is the back door of our house. This is where Chase fell asleep when we got home from church last week. Poor guy.

Hattie is now grabbing things very willfully. I hold up a toy she likes (kitty tail book, ball, hippo) and she closes in on it with both hands. Once she grabbs something it goes right to her mouth!

She sat up last week by herself, but then slowly fell forward between her own legs. :)

She went in the Johnny Jump Up and Exersaucer last week! She liked them both.

She LOVES to talk talk talk, mostly making high pitched squeels and gurgles for as long as 20 minutes. :)

October Tie Ups

Chase and Owen play with Hattie's toys, while she watches

Big happy smiles are what we get all the time

One night right before bed (of course) Chase and Owen made lines with their trucks/cars. They each had a line and it extended from the play room to the fireplace!