Random January

Abi was able to start Miss Manners back up with her grandmother. (Doug's mom) 

There were a few weeks that they couldn't do it so she was really excited to be going back.

Last Friday Abi came home and told me that a karate place had come to her school and done a first lesson for gym. That night they were invited to come to the studio and do the second class for free.

Obviously they are trying to get people to sign up but she really wanted to go so I took her and Maddy over.

She really enjoyed it.

By the end of the class she broke the board and earned a white belt.

The kids got free pizza, water bottles, and cookies too.

Last Saturday Brent (my brother) and Karen came over to play games and have pizza with us.

They brought a yummy dessert and this Boom Boom Balloon game.

It was pretty fun.

We also played Wits and Wagers.

Monday I had an appointment with my first doctor and the girls were super excited to go to my sister Steph's house while I was gone. 

Tuesday, Maddy fell down the stairs and landed on the kitchen floor flat on her face. 

Her face and especially lip were swollen and there were cuts on the inside and outside of her mouth.

I called my sister to see if she had any popsicles and she did so we rushed over to her house (up the street) and she gave us an entire box of Otter Pops. 

That's pretty much all she ate that day because it hurt to eat food.

This first picture is crazy because it doesn't even look like her.

I have somehow given the girls the idea that if they get hurt, they need to sleep because it will make them feel better so it wasn't long before I found Maddy asleep in the front room.

Yesterday my mom came over to have a Doctor Who marathon with me. 

I have slowly been getting her over to watch the whole show because she has only seen a few episodes over the last few months.... but she is now on season 3.

I have had a crazy busy week with all of my doctor appts. so it was really nice to have a day where I could just hang out with her and watch a fun show.

New Years Eve

This year we started a new tradition of a New Year Tree. 

Abi helped me take down all the ornaments and put them away except for any snowflakes/ stars that were silver, gold, or white. I put a new star ornament that our friends gave us for Christmas for the top of the tree. We put some silver garland I got for next to nothing at Target on it and then the girls tiaras and our New Years crackers. I also took down the tree skirt and wrapped a blanket around the bottom.

Then I sent the girls to rest time and I filled up a bunch of balloons. I wanted them to be silver but Abi wanted purple added and I had to use white instead of silver. I had 4 pennies, 4 nickels, 4 dimes, a dollar, and a bunch of fortunes in them. Then the two on top of the tree had a bunch of confetti I cut out in them. I tied them all to the tree with white, silver, and gold ribbon and then numbered them, putting paper with the numbers on it in a bowl.

After rest time we dressed in the mandatory polka dots for new years eve. (Polka dots on New years eve are supposed to be lucky). Abi wanted to put on make up so I let her put some on herself and Maddy. Then they both wanted their nails painted. This was the first time painting Maddy's nails!

Then I brought them down and they saw the tree covered with balloons. There was a lot of squealing from Maddy!

The make up didn't look too bad in person but it definitely photographed heavy. So cute though. Like little dolls...

It wasn't long before Maddy was mad at Abi for telling her not to pop the balloon...

If looks could kill...

she wanted to look at all the numbers..

Abi had her stitches taken out last Wednesday and it is healing really well. You can see the scar in this picture...

Now, we just had to wait for the New Years festivities to start....

We always have appetizers for dinner on New Years eve so we had some Jalapeno and cream cheese poppers and buffalo wings, Maddy had dino nuggets, and Abi had a lunchable. We watched a little Phineas and Ferb.

Then it was time for the first balloon. Abi got to go first. She picked her paper out of the bowl to see which balloon she got to pop.

She tried lots of things to pop it.

Nothing was working so finally she used a pen to stab it. She got a fortune...

A half hour later it was Maddy's turn and she tried sitting on it...

Finally Doug got our little corn holders and we used those for popping the rest of the night. 

Maddy also got a fortune...

It this point we went in the kitchen and had our first toast of the night...

Then it was time to start the gaming! We got a few new games for Christmas so we wanted to play all of them. Abi was determined to stay up until midnight but we were only letting Maddy stay up until 7 so we played the kid games first.

First up was Disney Pictureka!

then we played the Busytown airport game... which is just as much fun as the other Busytown games. They have the best games.

After this game we did our crackers. I love this picture because you can see all of our crackers!

Maddy liked the cardboard tube from hers the most.

After this I put Maddy down and then we hunkered down to play Life. It was a favorite game of mine as a kid so I was excited to get it. Abi had never played it before. It was so much fun and lasted almost two hours!

At this point we took a little break and got out some chips and salsa, cheese salsa, and spinach and artichoke dip...

Then we played Creationary. Also very fun! We played a few rounds because it goes really fast.

Here is a chair Abi made...

After that we took a long break. Doug was tired so he laid down on the beanbag for awhile while I put the next game together and read a little and Abi watched netflix shows on Doug's phone. 

Then we got together around 11 for the last game of the night...

Heroica

Another really fun game! At this point of the night we were doing balloons every 15 minutes. It started out every 1/2 hour. Abi was the lucky finder of the dollar bill!

It was getting close to midnight and we made some ice cream sundaes. You can tell just how tired Abi was...

After I took that picture I said, "that doesn't look like an ice cream face." So she did this...

We counted down, watched the ball drop, and cheered. Then I had Abi pop the last two balloons.

Happy New Year!