It is wrong that, although school was only four days away, that we sort of stopped the whole countdown celebration? I hope not, because that's exactly what we did! On Saturday we cleaned the house, went to work (yes, WE went to work, I totally took the kids with me) and had dinner over at Ana Lee's house. We then left before the kids destroyed her nice, kid-free home and headed to the airport to pick up Jeremiah. Aubrey kept pointed at him and saying, "Babby", her name for Daddy. Not even in kindergarten yet and already confusing her B's and D's!
Jeremiah slept most of Sunday. Literally. I sent his mom up at 5pm to wake him up for dinner. Poor guy was exhausted! I suppose having Nana Lafranca over for dinner was an activity, the kids always love to see her.
I can't even remember what we did Monday. Clean? Slept? I'm sure we went to Target, don't we do that everyday?
Tuesday was Hayden's soccer game. Jeremiah was the coach since Hayden's original coach was out of town. Hayden's team has yet to actually score, but Hayden makes a great goalie. Jeremiah is working on Hayden's soccer skills since we've finally found a sport that Hayden is excited about.
Jeremiah's sister, Sophie, and her kids, Cecile and Josie, were in town to drop Cecile off at BYU. They went to the soccer game with us, and as we were leaving my guilty conscience finally appeared....Hayden starts school tomorrow! I'd promised him something special, but what could we do at 7:30pm the night before school? Well, I don't know about everyone else, but Cold Stone came to my mind. Love it. Nothing screams celebration like chocolate cake batter ice cream!
Hayden and a shy Roman both ordered cotton candy ice cream with sprinkles. Ew, right?
Talking politics. At Cold Stone? Way to kill the party atmosphere! :)
Josie and Cecile. We're trying to convince them to drop out of school and be our personal nannies. We promise to feed them well and give them a place to sleep. They are just that awesome with our kids.
On Monday night for Family Home Evening, we made paper cones. I'd read in a magazine that in Germany the kids make large paper cones and their parents fill them with school supplies and goodies the night before school starts. I thought it would be a fun way to celebrate the start of school so each kid decorated cardstock.
S0 Hayden wanted to draw mice and asked how many hands they had. I told him four hands and feet, but he took that ot mean "four hands and four feet". An eight-legged mouse. The top mouse is telling the other mice to go to bed and to turn off the TV (on the right). Apparently Mr. Boss Mouse needs a microphone to tell the rest of the mice what to do.
This picture is supposed to be Jeremiah sleeping on our bed (see the bed? Pink pillow and blanket? Our bedding is brown, I promise). I love that Jeremiah's belly is nice and round.
That morning, the boys found Mario t-shirts, a bouncy ball, a new matchbox car, and candy in their cones. Aubrey found some jelly beans and a Cinderella doll. 
2 comments:
Hayden's pictures are FUNNY! And there were no school supplies in their cones... you need to work on the less fun presents. Your cones were too fun :) It still sounds like you had fun the last few days, even if you didn't have anything extra planned. I'm just jealous that your school started!
I love that your boys love soccer. They even look like soccer players! Hopefully they go pro and make you lots of money :) And I'm totally stealing the cones idea!
PS- Hayden's drawings are sooo much better than Rix! He hates to draw, and when he does it's minimal. Soccer player AND artist?? Amazing.
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