Matea ♥

I really, really like this time of year.....the M & M's have their birthdays, the weather is changing, usually I don't love the cold, but since I am pretty sure I am going to give birth to a small furnace in the New Year - I enjoy the winter cool-ness sometimes :)  But most of all....it's that time of year when I start making our Family Christmas Calendars!  Yay! 

The best part (well other than giving a gift that I think people really like) is I get to look back through all my pictures!  And I would totally consider myself a picture HOARDER!  I even STEAL the pictures off my sisters camera when she is here!  Hoarder.

Anyway I was going through some pictures from September and I found one of Miss. Matea straight out of the camera, that I think is beautiful :)

She looks so grown up...and also like she is plotting something BIG!

Love her

 

Happy Monday

Mackenzie's 6th Birthday

Big Mack is 6...when did THAT happen?

Wasn't it just yesterday that we brought him home?

 I was sooooo overwhelmed :)

 and I really had no idea WHAT I was doing....

And...shocker....I still feel the same way ALL THE TIME :)

Am I doing this right?  Should I give him a time out for that?  How long is too long to play "Super Why" on the ipad?  Is it inappropriate to give him his own ipad?

To be completely honest I am having a hard time with him growing up...and I need to let him be more independent...

...but I just don't want to....as you can see by my "Mommy death grip" in this picture :)

Enough of the serious stuff...check out those 6 year old eyelashes!

Happy 6th Birthday Buddy!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Halloween!

Halloween is always CrAzY at our house (just as I am sure it is at yours) and this year was even better!  With the addition of "the school schedule", which to be completely honest I never really understood because "The Nana" has always made her way (rain, sleet, snow, or wind) over to Chez Schurman in the early morning hours to look after the M & M's, we didn't have to wake up, and make sure breakfast was eaten, and clothes were on.....the M & M's routinely slept in past 8am, and on occasion requested a "PJ Day!"and I only had to worry about getting myself ready.....and this year we joined reality.  So....with the introduction of the school schedule and Halloween we still had to get ready for the day, but we also had to make sure costumes met certain "code" (I personally think that teachers make up rues just for the sake of having rules--I am a teacher so I can totally say that) make sure an adult could be on hand to volunteer (but it is more like if you DON'T volunteer you are a horrible person-oh and PS it's ALSO your son's birthday so it's practically mandatory that you be there) and bring a snack (already pre-determined because we were, of course, the last parents to sign up for the snack list).  It was a little more hectic than last year...Mack went to pre-school, he didn't want to wear a costume, end of story.

2012...not so much

We started out wanting to be a ghost, then a zombie, then captain caveman (he just wanted to wear a hat, and carry a bat-definitely NOT an option in his Kinder class) then finally a skeleton.

Now because we have lots of costumes kicking around the house, the skeleton quickly morphed into a sheriff, and because Bob was dressed as a cowboy, he also had to be a cowboy too. 

Skeleton Sheriff

 Captain Skeleton?

 Matea Bunny....the only picture I got

I am confident they were the "preferred party guests" at the Kinder class party

Skeleton-Sheriff-Cowboy (that is a horse he is riding)

My oldest babe and I getting ready to go out trick or treating :)

Uncle Jer taking Mack to one of the houses on our street

 The whole gang (I think we were the only 4 adult:1 Kid ratio family)

Uncle Jer, Bob, Auntie Kyla

 I have no idea how he walked the whole block with that horse sticking out of his jacket - too funny

 

Matea enjoyed Halloween inside....there was no way she was going outside in the cold, especially when she knew there was candy IN the HOUSE! 

She stayed home and played on the ipad with Bampi and handed out candy, I'm sure she was a REAL help to Nana in that department...smart girl.

Happy Halloween!