Random photos

This is from when Schmoo was the student of the week in his class.


This is Schmoo's first personal pan pizza that he earned doing the pizza hut "Book it" program that they offer at school. Daddy did this while he was growing up too. What other 5 year old do you know whose first choice of pizza is Mushroom? (actually he was like, "do I want green pepper? Or sausage? Or olive? Do they make shrimp pizza?" He finally settled on mushroom.)


This was the day of the primary program. This kid is getting soooo tall!

We went down to the Cape May zoo on President's Day. It was a great day because it was cool, not cold, not many people were there, and the animals were out and about! We didn't do a lot of photos, but I had to include the tiger because the big cats are my favorites. While we were at the zoo, one of the lions started ROARING! I've never heard that before and it was amazing loud and deep. It echoed throughout the zoo and I LOVED it!

We found this super duper simple recipe from Good Houskeeping or somewhere and if I were responsible I would link it here but it was from an actual paper magazine and I don't want to go find it online right now. Anyway. Chocolate lava/pudding cakes and they were divine. And so very easy. And anything I can make in those dishes is automatically awesome. (Except don't you dare suggest that I make something horrific like tuna casserole in them.)

I love Valentine's Day!

I love the whole month of February! Groundhogs, birthday, and especially Valentine's day! I love pink and red and hearts and cards and dates and chocolates, and LOVE! This year I am surprising Schmoo and Honey with a little gift or treat each day from Feb 1-14th. It's too much fun!

Happy 100th Day of School!

It's a tradition to celebrate the 100th day of school in kindergarten. The kids make shirts with 100 of something on them. We came across this idea online and thought it would be awesome. It was :)

Christmas Time :)

Don't you wish it was Christmas again? Well, it'll be around the corner before you know it! At least that the way it seems. The older I get the faster those months fly. I'll take Christmas again, but NOT December. It was the worst December on record. Schmoo was sick twice for a total of 9 missed days of school, 3 dr appts and 4 rx. Then I got Pneumonia~ 2 appts and 5 rx. Then My dh got pneumonia, same rx as me. I had to take big bad teaching exams while on codeine. My dh was furloughed, twice. We had to cancel our IVF cycle. We missed every party, event, and all good stuff.

Phew.

It ended well though! Right before Christmas my parents flew in and celebrated the holiday with us. It was a lovely lift of our spirits and we had a great time.

Schmoo and granny making the Gingerbread house

Schmoo acting out the Nativity on Christmas Eve with the awesome set his Primary teacher made for him. So sweet!

So excited on Christmas eve. We ate, read the scriptures, watched Mr. Krueger's Christmas, Schmoo opened a couple of presents, and off to bed.

We had church, as usual, at 10am. We told Schmoo that he could open all his stocking stuff before Church, but no opening presents til we got back. He was fine with that, and was even great on Christmas morning. We were all laughing as he was sitting fully dressed in the hallway with his shoes on 1/2 hour before we needed to leave for church. When we got there he kept on asking me every 5 minutes if it was time to go home, so finally I just handed him the program and he painstakingly scratched off each entry the moment someone said, 'Amen.' You have never seen someone exit the building so quickly!

Handing out gifts

Happy to see he wasn't really getting Crispix as a present.

Granny and papa opening gifts

Have you seen a happier kid? He was soooo excited to get these Legos from Grandma and Grandpa!

Santa brought lots of tracks to put together, a la Mario Kart.

Day after Christmas he wanted to eat this so badly. I told him it wouldn't taste very good but to be my guest...


This was the year of the penguin! He is obsessed with the little guys right now and they were around everywhere.


Some of his track set up

His "dia de los reyes magos" present. I like to celebrate 3 kings day, so he always gets a little something. (usually with the cashback from Toys r us.) Our upstairs neighbors gave him the red bird for Christmas, so we got him a pig and bluebird. He thought it was hilarious when he woke up on January 6th and found his presents and the "level" that we built that for him with his blocks :)

Scientist of the week

I'm so glad that at schmoo's age they are already encouraging them to do little science projects. And I'm doubly that glad that I married who I did so that when the projects get more complicated than this that I can bow out!

Home

Shmoo was cranky this morning bc he had to quit playing a game and go to school. He started ranting and raving about how much he wanted to stay home and then he busts out with, "Mom, HOME is where the heart is. Not school. Not work. HOME!" Hahahahaha! It would have moved me if he had been sitting on my lap reading a book, but since he was just hanging out with his pals Mario, Toad and Sonic, I just smiled as I escorted that little boy to the bus stop.

He says...

Schmoo frequently asks what things I love him more than. Example... I love you more than Chick fil a. I love you more than sleeping in. I love you more than chocolate. On Sunday he asked and I made him a list and then he started on his. He made a list of things that he loves me more than but then said, "Mommy, I don't think I love you more than Bacon." When I expressed my (mock) sadness he said, "but don't worry, I love you more than Spam!" (Daddy just fed him some out of the hurricane supply kit :)

Tonight he was walking around saying, "I have dentist breath." When I finally asked him what that means he explained, "My dentist has really bad breath, so instead of saying 'I have bad breath', I just say, 'I have dentist breath."