PJs & Pancake Day at Cheer

PJ & Pancakes this morning at cheer... and they could use some help so mommy got to stay! We had a great time! The girls had pancakes in their pj's, then we made spirit sticks to throw at the crowd during the game next Saturday and we made a team poster. Then we had a scavenger hunt! Mommy truly got a workout running around the church, up and down the stairs - I think it was a setup, lol! Phoebe had a blast! Then they practiced their "Footloose" dance which they will perform during halftime at Saturday's game. :) Phoebe is really enjoying herself!

I recorded a video of the Footloose dance. I'm not sure if the video will work. It shows that it matches Third Party Content (Sony) because of the Footloose song, but here's the link: http://youtu.be/4E5_MO5u9V0 It's set as unlisted, so only those with the link can view it.

5 Grossest Things You're Eating - YUCK!

If you eat any of the following, you may want to read this… or you may not want to, lol! 5 Grossest Things You’re Eating:
1) Canned Mushrooms
2) Jelly Beans
3) White Salad Dressing, Coffee Creamer, Canned Icing
4) Shrimp
5) Grain Products (packaged bread and baked goods)
For more info, the article is here: 5-grossest-foods-supermarket

Just some cute pictures

Phoebe got stuck rock climbing!

We went to Aidan & Evan's birthday party at Lifetime Fitness today. The last hour of the party was rock climbing. Phoebe got all the way to the top but couldn't get back down because she was too light. She did okay the first few minutes, but then she was getting a little scared when she realized she was stuck. You heard her say really low "I think I'm stuck". Poor thing. Daddy handed me his phone as soon as he realized she may be stuck. He was ready to put on a harness and go get her. The employees took care of it though, they went in the back and did some kind of release. She didn't freak out too much, but the poor thing was scared. Needless to say, she was all partied out after that and was ready to go home. We took her to Wendy's on the way home as a treat for being so brave. She's been wanting to go but we've been trying to stay away from the fast food. She was fine by the time we got to Wendy's.
She was excited and ready to go!

When she first reached the top:

This is while she was stuck at the top: =(

This was when she finally got down and the employee was reaching for her.

Help Phoebe be a Heart Hero!

Watch the following ecard for additional information:

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This kid cracks us up, how does she come up with this stuff? =)

1/25/12 - Me & Phoebe got home today and cousins were coming over and bringing pizza in an hour and a half, so I wasn't going to cook dinner. Phoebe chose to eat the little single serving bowls of mac n cheese. I cooled it some and then gave it to her. She says "momma, I have hearburn." I said Phoebe, what do you mean you have heartburn? And where ever did you learn that word?" She said "I just know mom, I have heartburn". I said "well explain to mom what you're feeling". She said (while patting her chest), the macaroni and cheese was hot when I swallowed it, so it burned my heart." I was cracking up. 12/27/11 - So I give Phoebe her clothes to wear this morning and she said "Uhm Mommy, I wore these when I was 5, I am 6 now"." She certainly has the right idea! We should all get a new wardrobe for our birthday each year. :)

Phoebe - Cheerleading

We signed her up for Cheerleading at church. During the evaluations, they tried on uniforms and practiced cheers. Here's her first try with a group for cheerleading. She did great. :) Phoebe really enjoyed it and can't wait to start cheering! Here's a video of her first halftime performance on March 3, 2012

Another Mommy Daughter Day

Since I had to work late everyday last week, I told Phoebe I'd make it up to her by taking her out for a Mommy/Daughter Day. We woke up, got dressed and went to meet Aidan, Evan & Tammy at Skeeters for breakfast. Then we all headed to Toys R Us. Phoebe got her guitar pics and strap. Then me & Phoe went to Claire's, she picked out a pink and purple feather jewel that clips in her hair and a ladybug pee wee pillow pet. I gave her the option of getting the pee wee baby or going to get our nails done, she chose the pee wee and said we can do each other's nails at home. We then went over to Children's Place and got her a few things, then headed home. We have spent the entire day hanging out. While Daddy was washing Big Red, I took Phoebe around the neighborhood to ride her bike. I told her this was my exercise, so she kept speeding up and making me run. It was great. I did get some exercise, it was fun and I was able to spend time with my girl while exercising. My dream workout :) And now we're ending our day watching Strawberry Shortcake, before that we watched a few episodes of Angelina Ballerina.

Tomorrow we're taking Phoebe to get fitted for her Cheerleading uniform. Aidan & Evan signed up for Flag Football. I am so excited to see how cute all 3 of them look in their uniforms.

Phoebe's First Time Ice Skating

Today was Martin Luther King's birthday and school was closed, as well as the after care center. I had to work because my deadline is the 20th of the month and we were filing year end returns, so I had more than double the amount of my normal return count. Nikki & Patrick offered to take Phoebe ice skating with them. Phoebe and Aubree are BFFs (as Phoebe calls her). These are one of the very few people we would trust Phoebe with. According to Aubree's parents, Phoebe and Aubree did great! Phoebe also got to pick out a stuffed animal at the Disney Store. She got the baby lion from the Lion King movie and called her Nahla. She was thrilled about that!

They wouldn't allow them to take pictures while on the ice. But they assured me that she did great and had so much fun! That was a first for us to let her go off with another family, but I'm glad that we did, it was certainly worth it. And again, if there's anyone we'd trust with our child, it would be this family... they rock!

Bowling & a Playdate

Me, Phoebe & Mikey went bowling this morning. We had such a good time. Afterwards, we went home, Mikey went to play his game before the Saints game came on. I noticed Phoebe's friends Victoria & Kelly were outside, I called Phoebe outside to see if she wanted to play with her friends.  They ended up coming over and spent about 3 hours by our house. They had a great time together. It was nice for me to sit back, relax and watch them play.

We're heading back to church tomorrow. We've had to miss the past few months. It started with me being in pain all the time, then the surgery to fix that, then working too much so I had a lot to catch up on in the house, then we'd have visitors in or be out of town. Ms. Connie contacted me today asking if I could help teach Phoebe's Sunday school class tomorrow, so Phoebe is super excited that I'll be teaching her class. :)

Phoebe's 6th Birthday Party

Phoebe's party was a success! We absolutely loved Stacey's Dance Studio! We had 2 kid tables set up by the door. As the kids arrived, they came to the tables by Phoebe's Uncle Rudy and MawMaw Tessie to get their faces painted and/or get a Hello Kitty or Pirate tattoo. We mainly offered 2 face painting options - a pirate skull or a hello kitty face, this was a big hit! Then they went over to a helper from Stacey's to make beads and have some free play while other guests arrived. Once everyone arrived, they played follow the leader and the hokey pokey, which Nanny and MawMaw Tessie joined in on =). Then they had a hula hoop contest. Phoebe did so great on the first 3 and then for the contest it was her and Lexi holding on for a long time, but Phoebe ended up dropping it and Lexi won the contest. Which was great because like I told Phoebe, you want your guests to win because they came to your party and you're the one already getting lots of presents, so it's good that she won. After the hula hoop contest, they had a relay race, there were 2 lines and each person had to put all this dress up stuff on, take it off and run back and tag the next person, it was hilarious, they had so much fun. Some were jumping in excitement waiting for their turn. After that they set up a big tarp on the floor and we served pizza and cupcakes. Then we opened presents, handed out favors and packed things up.
Here are a few pictures: (you can click on the slideshow to see larger images)

Christmas has passed.. time to get ready for a New Year!

We ended up staying home for Christmas this year. Since I had so much on my plate with work, Christmas & Phoebe's upcoming party, and was recently diagnosed with high blood pressure, my hubby is trying to help me lessen my stress factors. Whenever we have vacation time, we use it to travel to see family. We planned to go in for Christmas this year, but we decided it was best to stay home and get some of the clutter in the house cleaned up, so I don't stress as much over it. It was nice to have Phoebe wake up at home on Christmas morning again, but it would be perfect if we could share it with more family members. Phoebe seemed to be happy with all she received. Her favorite gift was a 4ft tall sock monkey, which we named JoJo. She is extremely attached to this monkey! We even put a shirt and pants on him today because she said he was cold. We didn't have any boy clothes, so JoJo got a pink shirt and purple pants. Here they are inside the tent that Nanny & Uncle Ruby got her for her birthday:

Santa brought Phoebe a Bop It XT game, a telescope, microscope and JoJo (the 4ft sock monkey mentioned above). Santa paid a visit to Phoebe, Aidan & Evan while we were at Nanny's on Christmas Eve. He gave her the Bop It game and she was oh so thrilled. Mom & Dad got her a Spongebob hangman game, a motorized train with lights that goes around the tree, a travel kit for her DSi, Hello Kitty puzzle, remote race car, create your own jigsaw puzzle, and a few other things. Here are the before and after pictures: Before

 

After:
 

She did have a birthday 5 days earlier, where she got a Dsi, Super Mario game, Bumble Chase set with motion and music and an animated Abominable snowman (named him Bumble). We made a point to talk about the meaning of Christmas and how it was Jesus' birthday.

Happy Birthday Phoebe!

I can't believe our girl is 6 years old!!! Phoebe has been asking for a Nintendo DS for about 2 years now. She had a Mobigo and Kinect so we let her wait a while and enjoy / make use of the stuff she already had. Well we finally decided to get her one, we got the Metallic Rose DSi XL and the Super Mario game. We recorded her opening it and the excitement is oh so cute. Enjoy! The best part is that before she opened any gifts, I asked her how her birthday went and she said she had a great birthday. So this was just the icing on the cake. :)

Visit from Maddi, Britt, Chris & MawMaw

They all came in on December 15th. We went to the Woodlands Mall on Saturday to eat dinner in honor of Phoe's upcoming birthday. Then we rode the boat to see Christmas lights, but ended up getting off the boat to hang out by the Marriott. There was live Christmas music, lights, a huge Christmas tree and Santa was there! We took pictures of each kid with Santa. They gave each kid a spin light (free!) and we all enjoyed a cup of hot chocolate (again, free!). It was beautiful, relaxing and fun for all of us. Here are the pictures of the kids with Santa and a few from dinner. "silly" family pic:
Phoebe
 
Aidan
 
Evan
 
Maddi
 


Maddi & Phoebe were excited to see each other :)


From left - Aidan, Maddi, Phoebe, Evan
 


She was so surprised when we all began singing Happy Birthday to her. I love her expression in this picture!
 

Visit from the Grashoff's

The Grashoff's came to Picayune for a visit. Dane played well with Phoebe & Gage. We all had such a good time. Here's a video of Dane chasing them around the house. Thanks Erin & Steve for making the drive, it was sooo great to see you all. Gage & Dane are still amazing kids. We love you all!

Skating & Tea... in Picayune

MawMaw wanted to take Phoebe to the skating rink while we were in for a visit. It was a good time. :) Although Mommy couldn't get comfortable skating! It's like all of my weight was on the back of my feet, so it was tough keeping my balance. I decided to put the skates away and just take a few pictures and a video of them skating. Too bad PawPaw was at work, we sure did miss him being there. But we had a good time.


We went to lunch at the Sweet Serenity Tea Room after skating and it was delicious! We all cleared our plates. Then we tried on some hats and boas. :)

Phoebe's 6th Birthday -Party

Phoebe turns 6 on Dec 20th, and her party will be on Saturday, January 7, 2012. It looks like we'll have it at Stacey's Dance Studio from 11:30-1:00. The theme will be Hello Kitty. We'll have a hula hoop contest, relay race, tumbling, playtime with the parachute and some dancing. The kids will also be able to choose between having their faces painted like a kitty or pirate and if they don't want face paint, they can choose a tattoo. Should be fun! MawMaw Tessie will be in charge of favors, and she always gets the good stuff! :)

Kinleigh's First Birthday

We came in town to attend Kinleigh's first birthday party in Picayune, which happened to be on Aggie's 30th birthday. We decided to stay the whole week since it was Thanksgiving. Kinleigh's party was so beautiful, they had a candy buffet, a beautiful cake, space walk for the kids and great food for everyone. Kinleigh wore the cutest outfit ever. They had minnie mouse ears for the guests to wear. It was a wonderful party, and we were glad that we could make it.

After the party we were heading to a dinner to celebrate Aggie's birthday, but we didn't make it in time. So we went and hung out with Scott & DJ Todd until Aggie got back to St Bernard. I ended up going out with them and left Mikey and Phoebe by Aggie's to hang out and sleep. We had a wonderful time and it was great to hang out with the family. It was me, Tammy, Aggie, Brian, Mom, Destiny, Brittanie, Max, Chris, Faud & Shan. Such a great night with no drama. Britt, Des, Max & Chris left around 10:30 or so. Great, great night.

Phoebe won 1st place for Red Ribbon Week

She brought home a certificate, but I thought they had just handed them out to everyone, lol. Then I saw this week's Bulldog Bulletin and she was listed as the 1st place winner for Kindergarten. :) YAY! Go Phoebe! (Click on the image to view it larger)

Our Mommy/Daughter Day Out

came after we went to soccer, lunch at Chelsea's, then the pumpkin patch! I had to work alot last week, so I told Phoebe that we could go off today and do something with just us two (dadda didn't mind). We got dressed in the same outfits (yellow shirts, white skirts and headbands).


First we went to the Mudpie Company and painted a Halloween piece. It was a pumpkin and you can take the top of it off and keep things inside. After that I surprised her with a trip 2 doors down from Mudpie, Gigi's cupcakes! They were huge! We sat outside on a bench and ate "some" of our cupcakes. After that we headed home. Phoebe & Dadda started carving the big pumpkin, then me & Phoe played outside for a bit, then came inside and carved Phoe's little pumpkin. It was a fun filled day! On Sunday, I took Phoe to the dollar store and let her spend the $10 that TeTe & Uncle Brian sent in her halloween card. She was so excited. I explained how much she had, how much each item costs and told her it was entirely up to her what she buys. She bought items she already had (well similar), but I didn't want to step in at all, and she was so happy with her choices. Then we headed to Target and she was amazing, as she usually is in the store, so we got an icee and popcorn on the way out. Another fun filled day with my girl! Aidan came over to hang out with Phoebe & Mikey while me & Tammy went to Macy's. Evan stayed home with his dad because he ran into the wall and hurt his nose pretty bad.