December 4

Our gingerbread house is finished :) Not that the boys helped much except for eating the candy. Ethan did decorate the roof, and told me what colors he wanted on it, but then he took off to play Mario...typical.


Today was day 1 of a 3 week project at Lowe's...he's making a holiday train. For whatever reason, they started with the caboose. He's most excited about the patches because they all fit together to form a "train" of patches.

We also went to see "The Legend of Gahoole" today...lame movie. Ethan could not sit still. Bill liked it though. I fell asleep half way through..it was hard to follow, all the owls looked the same to me. After the movie, we went to Burger King for lunch..E was dying to get a zhu zhu pet happy meal toy...why I have no clue, because he has 2 real zhu zhu pets and NEVER plays with them, but whatever. So he gets a boy one in his meal, and is not happy, so he goes and waits in line with 4 or 5 soldiers and gets up there and asks them if he can trade for a pink one LOL They had one pink one left - the one he wanted most of all, Peachy. So he was a happy camper.

November 20

Today was another Lowe's project. E made a cute snowman, that is supposed to be a gift card holder. But we are going to paint it and put a picture in it and make it a frame :) After Lowe's, we went to the movie on post, "Alpha & Omega". I hadn't heard much about it, but it was a pretty cute movie about wolves that we all liked.



We also put up our tree tonight. Yes, it's early, but we always are! We figure we'll be able to enjoy it for a month before we head to Kenosha, since we aren't here for actual Christmas (hopefully anyways, Bill hasn't put in his leave yet). Ethan loved putting it up, and playing with the ornaments. He had to be reminded several times that they aren't toys, but nothing got broken, so I'd call it a success.

Momo brought Ethan's cool Phineas & Ferb jammies today. Ethan said "I didn't want these"...so I think Momo might be bringing coal from now on!! Such a sassy boy I have!! (For the record, he wanted some Mario ones he saw at Walmart that were the same style and that's why he was disappointed, but geez kid.)

November 13

Ethan had a Lowe's project this morning. Bill felt good enough to come with us thankfully. I'm sure if he didn't the periscope would have come out backwards or something :P Next week is a snowman, which looks cute, but then December is 3 pieces of a train. Kind of lame. I was hoping it would be Christmas related.


Oh, this is nifty. When you look at this picture bigger (click on it) you can see his eyes up in the top of the periscope!

Momo brought the boys matching elf jammies today! Bill looks annoyed in this pic, but he wore them all day and I'm pretty sure he likes them :) We watched the movie Elf tonight too. Our first Christmas movie of the year!

October 9

We had a fun day today! We tried to pretend that it was actually fall and not 85* outside, but that wasn't working too well since we were all in shorts. We did have a pumpkin shaped pizza last night, it wasn't very good. After we got it, I went back and read my blog entry from last year and we didn't like it then either LOL


This morning was a Lowe's Build to Grow project. Ethan is still loving them! He's up to 4 patches already :) Today's project was a fun house mirror. It's pretty cute, just a little mylar mirror that you can move up and down to distort your face.

After Lowe's we headed over to the free movie theater on post and watched "Kung Fu Panda". It's an older movie, in fact, we saw it on E's 3rd birthday. He hated it then, but I think mostly because he was too little to sit still at the movies. Today he liked it a lot better :) We stopped before the show and got candy & sodas at the commissary.....first he lost the cap to his drink in the theater and then he spilled his orange soda all over my white pants. I was quite sticky, and they insisted on stopping at GameStop and the commissary on the way home.


E has a responsibility chart that he does every week. He gets to pick his reward - usually it's going out for ice cream, but this week he picked a present. He's been very into LEGOs lately, especially playing with the little figures. I found a whole pile of their heads in his bedroom the other day - creepy yes, but he was playing with toys! Anywho, they have a collection of just minifigures right now. It's a mystery which one you get, and you are supposed to collect them all. He got some of them as his reward. His favorite is the lifeguard, but I like the vampire best. They're all pretty darn cute though.

Build and Grow

I discovered that twice a month Lowe's has a free clinic for kids to come in and build a FREE (my favorite part) craft/project. I finally remembered to sign up for one, and now E is hooked. Each time you build something, you get a patch to put on your (also free) apron. Today he built a little wooden school bus with a chalk board top. It's very cute, and he's proud of himself!

Next month he is signed up to make a dog leash holder & a firetruck! He wants to collect 100 patches!!