Almost done!

Last night Cory and I had the capstone dinner for his Executive MBA program. I can't believe he's down to his last three months (hallelujah!!) It's been a busy two years but he's loved the program so it's made it all worth it. I'm so proud of him and all his hard work juggling the program, work, and our family, and he does it all so well! He's tried very hard, and I'd say succeeded, to still be present as much as possible so he can be around and involved with the kids and I, even with how busy he's been. We'll be glad to have all our weekends and nights back with him! ❤

Almost done!

Last night Cory and I had the capstone dinner for his Executive MBA program. I can't believe he's down to his last three months (hallelujah!!) It's been a busy two years but he's loved the program so it's made it all worth it. I'm so proud of him and all his hard work juggling the program, work, and our family, and he does it all so well! He's tried very hard, and I'd say succeeded, to still be present as much as possible so he can be around and involved with the kids and I, even with how busy he's been. We'll be glad to have all our weekends and nights back with him! ❤

Avery is just so sweet and adorable, we love her so much and she brings us so much joy! She has gotten to be so enthusiastic! I think she gets more excited about things than any of my kids ever have at this age. She'll do things like, whenever I say we are going to go somewhere, no matter where it is (the store, Costco, music time, the museum, etc.) she'll respond with, "ok, mom! Gate!" (Great 😊) Or "yay!!"
Whenever I suggest something like let's read a book, or play with blocks, or whatever it may be, she also comes back with the happiest, enthusiastic little responses like "ok mom!"
I think it's the cutest thing, and I must say her happiness and enthusiasm for life is contagious! When she gets so excited I can't help but be excited, too :).
She also gets super excited when we see something driving that makes her excited, like a bus or a dog or something like that.
Tonight it was so funny, we were driving to the store and stopped at an intersection when she said very excitedly "oh, look mom! A rock!" I looked to the side of the road to where she was pointing and sure enough, there were a few larger sized decorative boulder type rocks on the side of the road. I thought it was so cute and funny she would get so excited about a rock, but that's the way she is - she seems to find happiness and excitement in even the little things! Love this about her. Somehow I don't think she will grow out of this enthusiasm for life, it just seems in her nature. I think she will always be full of happiness and life and enthusiasm, which I love! How lucky I am to be this sweet, smart, busy, happy girl's mom!

Visiting Grandma Jojo

Last night we went to Jojo's house for Sunday dinner. The kids love visiting her and couldn't believe when I told them she is 79 years old. They told me she looks like she's in her sixties. I told Jojo that and I'm sure it made her night 😀. I told the kids it's all the vitamins she takes 😉. Luke is already almost as tall as her! She is really cute with the kids. She's one spunky and fun great grandma.

Future chess whiz

Yesterday Asher was quiet for awhile in the basement while I was in the other room. I came out to find he had taken Luke's chess set out and stood all the prices on the board all by himself. What a smart little guy! He must have been observing Luke. Asher is very observant. A chess whiz in the making 😉



So I sent the picture around to my family (grandpa Sheldon, grandma Lori, brothers and sisters, etc) and grandpa Sheldon responded back with this picture of Avery he must have take the other day when they were at my house (the twins love to steal their glasses) and said "looks like he's getting ready to play this girl." Haha. Love this cute kiddos!

New Years!

Boo!

In the background is "Boo." He's pretty much all the twins can think or talk about lately 😂. They want to be out playing by him ALL THE TIME (Avery will only get within about 10 feet of him because he's "scarewee", but she still can't stop talking about him). He was in the front yard but that wasn't working too well with two of them and only one of me - I would end up chasing them in opposite directions, finally catching them and carrying both inside under my arms kicking and screaming to avoid runaway babies down the middle of the street 🙈. So over the weekend Cory came up with the brilliant idea to move Boo in the backyard (why didn't I think of that?). Now they can be out by Boo all they want. They get pretty upset when he has to go to "sleep" at night (aka deflate) but we make up for it with the excitement of inflating him the next morning 🤗. It's so funny the unexpected things kids become obsessed with!