Fun with my "sick" kid!

Well yesterday Ryan stayed home from school because during the night before he woke up crying and screaming that his throat was hurting. By morning he appeared fine, but just to be on the safe side we kept him home, but away from the daycare kiddo's.



We had a lot of fun! We made a volcano with baking soda & vinegar, learned how mixing the primary colors gets you the secondary colors using food color & water, & putty with cornstarch & water. Later we added food coloring to make the putty green and played in it even more - he even remembered what colors to mix to make green! Needless to say Ryan went to school today with green arms because he decided to paint himself!



When we were all done he learned what color you get when you mix them all together! "Yucky green brownish black!"

He ended up being perfectly fine. I enjoyed spending some special time with him though!

Ryan has been doing really good on his growing the past few months. He's grown almost 2 inches since last June! Of course I never really notice how tiny he still is until we are near other kids his age and he's about a head smaller than most of them, but that's okay! Makes him easier to snuggle! :)

Snowman Soup! Yum!

These boy LOVE Snowman Soup! I love the smiles that come from making it!
(Do not serve after 4pm though! LOL you maybe up all night!)
They had it around 9:30 in the morning and were still very wired by evening!

Directions:
*1 pack of Hot Chocolate made according to directions on package
*1 Candy Cane for stirring
*1-3 Chocolate Kisses(or flavored kisses)
*5-10 Marshmallows of choice (we used gingerbread flavored & chocolate covered mini's)

Mix together and enjoy!

New Years & New Puppy!

Aydan doing a puzzle with Nana at our New Years Party!

Grown up's playing Uno while the youngsters watched Ponyo in the playroom. It was fun teaching Grannie to play Uno. Our first few hands we showed our cards so she could see how you choose what cards to play. She got pretty good at it. Still learning to have fun even at 80! :)
Nana & Cheryl had fun too!
Symon & our new puppy Dyson. We got him from a shelter in OKC on Dec. 3rd. He came home with kennel cough & quickly shared it with Symon so our $50 (adoption fee) puppy quickly became a $200 puppy! But I guess he's worth it! ;) Symon very much loves his new friend!

Chilling out on the couch during party time.

More Christmas!

Cookies for Santa - Christmas Eve

Christmas Morning - We lock them out of the living room for Safety! :)

Aydan & his ball Aunt Jamie got him. He loves this thing!

Harmonica's from Aunt Jamie. I now have very musical children! :)

Okay time for some updating! :)

Where to begin....hmmmm - Christmas!
We are just beginning to get back into routine after Christmas & New years. Christmas was so busy with family, fun and lots of exciting goodies!
This year of course we made our annual trip to Quail Springs to get pictures with Santa.
Dylan asked Santa for Lego's and to Nutcracker. (The decoration kind) - Not sure why he really wanted one, but he did! He loves the things - I think it's because he see's JD somewhat collecting them. Although it's not really so much that JD collects them it's just that I keep buying them for him... :) Well, Santa came through on the Lego's but had a hard time and was unable to locate ANY Nutcrackers this year. But Dylan being the happy everything goes kind of kid really didn't mind - he absolutely loved the Lego's though! His second favorite gift was his clothes I know hard to believe a 6 year old would care much about that but he did. We got him a couple pairs of pj's, Gamma & Grandpa got him some Jeans & a couple of shirts which he very much loves!

Ryan asked Santa for a Build-a-bear gift card. Really he wanted to be able to pick out clothes for his bear Champ, but we told him that Santa couldn't deliver the store to our house for him to shop on Christmas so maybe a giftcard would be best - of course then we had to explain what a giftcard was. Santa came through with flying colors getting him a giftcard PLUS some shoes, clothes and a coat for Champ! Ryan was so excited! He very much loves Champ and has been asking to get Champ a coat for a LONG time - he was so happy Champ would no longer get cold! :)

Aydan didn't really understand who Santa was and really wasn't sure he liked the guy! He spent the entire time just trying to figure out what was going on. Though as soon as we left he started asking to "go back see Santa?" and every time he sees the picture hanging on the fridge he asks again! Aydan is really into Elmo this year so of course he got everything imaginable with Elmo on it - socks, slippers, Pj's, a backpack, books, pop up tent, coloring/sticker books, and an Elmo Dr. kit! And probably his favorite gift of all - a ball from Aunt Jamie!

We had a great time getting to spend time with Nana, Grannie, Cousin Cheryl, Uncle Ralph, Jamie, Dale, Alli, Derek, Gamma & Grandpa, even David & Mila via Skpe!

Christmas is my favorite time of year so I'm sad to see it go, but only 11 1/2 more months & we get to celebrate all over again!