Outside fun

A little bit of outside fun a few weeks back...

Taking liberties

Henry is climbing a LOT now.  He climbs up onto the kitchen table and crawls right across it.  What a little scammer.  He prefers to eat his after school snack on a real chair now too. 

Great Wolf Lodge December 2014

A few days after Christmas we packed up our bathing suits and drove to Great Wold Lodge! The great thing about the hotel/waterpark is that it can only be so full.  It's not like going to Disney World and battling through the crowds.  At GWL you can only go to the waterpark if you are staying at the hotel.  

Mike and I both had colds, so that part was kind of a bummer, but the kids were fine.  However, when we got to the hotel and Henry woke up from his car seat nap he had a severe limp?? So weird.  We had no idea what it was at the time and it was slightly worrying, but we have since decided he must have slept funny in his car seat and caused some sort of sciatic nerve problem or something.  Who knows! It lasted for about 5 days.  

Anyway, after we got there and checked in, we went to the waterpark for a few hours.  This time Rose was a little less nervous.  Paige still isn't tall enough to go on most slides, but i think that helps keep us all together.  I get super cold there so it's hard to wait around if we split up.  Mike took Henry on the wooly mammoth this time, while the girls and i went in a separate tube.  Apparently Henry was saying no and repeatedly saying "mommy daddy mommy daddy", since he was scared.  

Because of our colds, we spent a little more time doing MagiQuest this time.  We figured out how the whole thing works and rather than randomly running around with wands, the girls completed 2 quests.  What a way to get you to go back.  There are multiple quests and you can just pick right back up the next time you go back.  

Here is Paige's fake note she left in the room from the "hotel staff" when we got back from breakfast. I had told her we had to go back and check out but could still go to the waterpark.  I laughed so hard when I saw it.

So even though we checked out we were able to put our stuff in the car minus one backpack with clothes and shoes, and go back to the waterpark.

We decided to make the most of the day and get Henry to sleep in the stroller while the girls did more questing, rather than going home.  Poor Henry was done and was having a tantrum because he couldn't spoon his ice cream into his mouth properly.  He was flinging it onto the floor.  As soon as we got the stroller he fell asleep in about 10 seconds.

So the girls both want to go back for their birthdays.  May be a lot more GWL in the future.  At least its a short drive, and 1 night feels like a long time there.

Boxing day present opening

Often we open presents with the McLaren/Davoren's on Boxing day.  We had the usual crepe lunch and lots of coffee!

Paige's new horse

Christmas Day part 2

Christmas dinner at Grandma and Grandpa's!! Forgot a family photo AGAIN!!!

Christmas Day 2014 Part 1

Christmas morning photos below...in no particular order.  Organizing them would take too much time!

I think this year would go down as one of the most epic Christmas' yet!!  We set the girls GroClock for 6:30 and told them they could only get up after that.  I heard them wake up earlier than that but it was nice to relax for a while.  Then the girls came into our room and we all waited for a while until Henry woke up.  

We had some very excited kids-- The girls desperately wanted mermaid tails from Santa, which they got, as well as a few other things they wanted (an Elsa doll for Rose, and a Minecraft video game for Paige). Henry got cleaning supplies as we all know he loves sweeping and order.  We limited the toys this year as much as possible in order to get them a surprise gift of a trip to Great Wolf Lodge a few days after Christmas.  They were excited, but also confused when they unwrapped the explanation about the upcoming trip.  Henry had almost no interest in any of the presents except his brooms at first, and then Rosie's cash register. He only wanted to play with that. 

Standard Christmas breakfast--a little less gluten than usual. 

Video game!

Rose bought Daddy a hockey puck at her school sale. 

Cowboy boots, jammies, and a mess

Mermaids

opening the great wolf lodge surprise!

Injuries by Henry

One day while I was getting Henry ready to pick up the girls from school he was quite upset.  I thought maybe he wanted his water bottle, which was beside us on the window ledge.  I passed it to him and he tried to take a sip.  I later realized that the straw was not in the cup, which is what must have made him mad.  At any rate when he sipped it, he got mad and chucked the bottle at my face.  Major pain! I put my hand to my face and it was bleeding!! It was a sharp cut under my eye that was all bloody and bruised.  I had to immediately go pick up the girls from school as by now we were running late.  I can't even imagine what people must have thought.  I wish I had brought ice because it hurt so much.  It was a really cloudy day too so I couldn't feasibly wear sunglasses.  So brutal.  He realized what he had done though because he kept saying "owie" and pointing to it.

Last night Henry chucked a remote control at Mike's head and he got a painful bruise and bad headache.

Boys!! I was in the camp that boys and girls are very similar, but the girls never threw stuff at us! If you give Henry a bag of rocks he'll chuck them at Scout, or just throw them as far as he can.