Toy Story Goes To Bass Pro Shops

Lucy is currently obsessed with Toy Story. She watched the movie in January at Aunt Stephanie's house and has been in love with it ever since! We have borrowed my parent's copy of Toy Story to watch here and Aunt Stephanie has given Lucy one of Trevor and Cody's Buzz Lightyear and Woody toy figures. Lucy loves to carry them around the house and play with them. She gets so excited when Toy Story is on and has such a funny, hearty laugh when she sees them. It's really cute!

I found a Crayola package with Toy Story coloring pages and bought it for Lucy. I took the pages out of the cardboard box it came in and put the box in the recycle bin. The bin is kept in our garage right by the steps going into the house. Last Friday night we went to Bass Pro Shops for Lucy to walk around and look at the fishys and turtles. Well, when she was walking out the door to the car she saw the Toy Story coloring box in the recycle bin and wanted to get it out. Ross had her and thought okay, that's fine, so got it out for her. They went outside and took a little walk up the block and Lucy carried the box with her. I came outside to see this and thought it was the funniest thing!

The box rode in the car with us to Bass Pro and when I got Lucy out of the car to go in the store she wanted to take the box with us. I said no, let's leave it here, but she was not having it. To avoid a fit I said okay, you can take it. I figured it didn't really matter and we could just put it in the stroller. When in the store she asked for Buzz and Woody a couple of times to show them to the fishys. So cute!!

Walking with Daddy, Buzz, Woody, and Jesse

Showing Buzz, Woddy, and Jesse the little fishys.

Now they get to see the big fishys!

 

Human Hungy, Hungy Hippo

Remember the game Hungy, Hungy Hippos? Wikipedia defines it as: a tabletop game made for 2-4 players with the purpose of the game being for each player to collect as many marbles as possible with his or her 'hippo'.

I remember playing this game as a little girl and played it again last week in my boot camp class with my students acting as the hippos! It was so much fun and so funny!

One of the girls in my class posted a video to our Facebook page of some other class playing a human form of Hungry, Hungry, Hippos so we decided to try it ourselves. It was really pretty easy to set up and fairly easy to play. We used scooters (which the gym had) to roll out to the balls in the center and diaper boxes to collect the balls. The people in the video we got the idea from had used laundry baskets to collect the balls, but I didn't have enough so thought the boxes would work okay, and they did.

It was pretty fun and a good workout, too. The person on the scooter had to roll themselves out to the balls and collect the balls then their partner pulled them back in, making for a decenter overall body workout. Enjoy our video!!

Molly's Newborn Pictures

We had newborn pictures taken of Molly a week after she was born. I think they turned out really well. Here are some of our favorites:

Homemade Play Dough

My mom used to make us homemade play dough when we were little and she sent me the recipe to make for Lucy. The recipe is from my Gramma Ward and is pretty easy to make.

1 c flour
1/2 c salt
2 T cooking oil
2 tsp cream of tartar
1 c water
food coloring

In a saucepan, mix dry ingredients. Add water, oil, and food coloring. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, unitl dough forms. Remove from pan and place on wax paper. Let cool and then play!

Pancake Muffins

I saw a recipe on Facebook for pancake muffins and decided to try it out. They turned out pretty good and are super easy, so thought I'd share!

Mix together instant pancake mix as directed on the package. Pour into muffin tins 3/4 full and put what you want on top...chocolate chips, apples, nuts, blueberries...Bake at 350 for about 12 minutes and enjoy.

I used chocolate chips and they tasted pretty good, like a chocolate chip muffin. I made some for Ross with apples and he said they were pretty good, too. Enjoy!

You're Never Really Ready

One thing I've learned after having two kids now is that no matter how ready you think you are, you're never really ready! I first learned this when I went into labor with Lucy. I remember that night so well! My water broke at home and we headed to the hospital shortly after. I felt a mix of emotions from excited to nervous to happy to scared, so many feelings all at once, and one of them being this feeling of not being ready! No matter how much I had prepared - her room was ready, our house was ready, the car seat was in the car, my bag was packed - there was this overwhelming feeling of not being ready for Lucy to be born. I needed a few more days to get ready. I don't know what I would have done had I had those extra days. I was overdue with Lucy, so was basically just sitting around waiting to go into labor. 

And I felt this same overwhelming feeling of not being ready when I went into labor with Molly just a few weeks ago. It was the same thing again - her room was ready, our house was ready, the car seat was in the car, my bag was packed - yet there I was feeling so not ready again! Again, I don't know what I would have done had I gone into labor a few days later. Everything was done and we were playing a waiting game again.

I'm sure you can relate this never ready feeling to anything in life...changing jobs, getting married, the death of a friend or loved one...no matter how much you prepare, you are just not ready for that big change.

Life With Two Kids

So far life with two kids is going ok. Today is my first day alone with Lucy and Molly. For the last two weeks either Ross or my mom has been here during the day or Lucy has been at my parent's house, so I've had help or just one kid. I guess you could say my life is really beginning today. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't scared or nervous about being alone with both kids all day. It's hard balancing a 2 1/2 week old baby who is 100% dependent upon you for everything and an almost two-year-old who needs attention, too. In fact, I think that's the hardest part of having Molly--figuring out how to split my time between the two. I know we will fall into a routine and life will become normal again, but right now that seems impossible!

Last week I got to experience both of my girls having a fit at the same time. I imagine that in the future there will be lots of times like this video shows, and I hope I can just laugh it off and persevere!

Valentine's Day 2015

This year we carried on our Valentine's Day tradition of eating dinner at Popeye's and it was so much fun! We started this tradition in 2013. I surprised Ross by taking him there (one of his favorite places to eat) and we decided to make it our Valentine's Day tradition.

This year we got to share our fun with my sister and her family. They came up from Joplin to visit us and they went to dinner with us. They had never eaten at Popeye's before, so it was fun to share our tradition and restaurant with them. I think they liked it, too.

Cody, Lucy and Trevor

Valentine's presents for Daddy, Mommy and Lucy

Lucy loves opening presents.

Lucy loves books, especially Frozen books!