Saturday, December 12, 2015

Avery Turns 6

After celebrating with her class at school on her actual birthday...


Avery celebrated her sixth birthday with her friends at Seascape Kids Fun...








Saturday, November 14, 2015

Camden Turns 3

This year we did Camden's party with all his little friends at Orange County Model Engineers in Costa Mesa. We got the whole place, a train and two conductors all to ourselves! The kids had a blast.














The train ride was so relaxing that Camden fell sound asleep...



Thursday, November 5, 2015

Goodbye Lizzy, Hello Preschool


On September 30, 2015, we said our final farewell to Lizzy. Lizzy took care of both Avery and Camden from the time they were 10 weeks old. 

 First Day at Lizzy's

Last day at Lizzy's


It was a tough goodbye for me, she has been a second mom to them for the past six years.

The next day on October 1, Camden was thrilled to start preschool.



He dove right in to socializing and kicking a ball, and hardly had time to say goodbye to me!



He is following in big sister's footsteps; starting out in the Monkeys classroom with Miss Wendy.



Hard to admit that he is a big boy now!

Saturday, October 31, 2015

Halloween

Avery got to come to work with me for our office potluck at noon... Our group did Disney Princesses (the guys) and their sidekicks (the girls), and we were one person short so we needed her (and Camden's costume from last year)! From left to right: Mouse & Cinderella, Belle & The Beast, Elsa & Olaf, and Ariel & Sebastian.




Then of course, trick-or-treating after work... Camden went as Michael Jackson from "Thriller," but threw a fit when we started putting the zombie makeup on him, so he only got about 1/3 of his makeup done and ended up looking more like Mike Tyson.  Avery was Elsa from the "Frozen Fever" animated short.


Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Food Art

Avery has been making some awesome artwork lately, 
which has inadvertently called me out as being a parental failure in the nutrition department. 

 The Food Book


Quesadillas


Oranges


Mixed Veggies [pictured here with spoons from Yogurtland]


Mac and Cheese


Ice Cream


Watermelon [which she hates]


Doughnuts


String Cheese


Ravioli


Strawberries


The Lunch Box Project (in which they had to decorate the outside of a lunchbox and fill it with pictures of food, cut out from magazines)




Avery: A+
Mom: F