The Lunch Bunch

First Snow Fall...

We woke up to our first snow fall of the season this morning. The kids were super excited about it and just couldn't wait to get out there and play in it. Paul was ready to go out at 8am. We ended up with about 6 inches. It looks pretty, but it's way too early for this!

Paul's birthday weekend

I'm a little behind on getting these posted, but you can still enjoy them a little late! We took the kids to Duluth for Paul's birthday weekend. We asked him if he wanted a party or if he wanted to go to Duluth. He chose Duluth, so we took the money we'd spend on a birthday party and took them to Duluth for an overnight, we would have liked to go on Friday, but it is too hard with Amelia being in school now, so we got up and left by 7:30 Saturday the 30th. We met my mom, step-dad, sister, niece, grandma and aunt and uncle up there. We got two family suites and it worked out great for sleeping for everyone and the bonus was we saved a little extra moola that way too!

Mmmmm, chocolate shakes...

Daddy was working late tonight, so the kids enjoyed chocolate shakes for dessert! Clearly Addie likes them on her pj's too!

smiles

Stella Kate---8 weeks old

Birthday Boy

We had Pauly's birthday dinner tonight, exactly what he requested: hot dogs with ketchup and mustard, mac and cheese and potato chips. I didn't bake a cake, but we put candles in the cake my mom had baked for his mini-birthday party in Duluth. I didn't think it was necessary to bake a new cake when we had over half a cake left from Saturday. He didn't seem to mind! I can't believe my baby boy is FOUR!

Big Girl

Before...

After...

Notice the difference? Amelia lost her first tooth! It's been loose for a while, but I didn't realize how loose it had gotten. Saturday morning when we were getting ready to leave for Duluth she said to Kevin and I "My tooth is very wiggly, I'm going to lose it on vacation". I said "I don't think you'll loose it on vacation, but I'm sure it'll come out soon". I did check it and it was pretty wiggly, but I didn't think it was wiggly enough to fall out. Sure enough Saturday night when Paul was opening his b-day gifts after dinner, she said "MOM! I lost my tooth", of course she wasn't sure where she lost it at, thankfully we found it on the hotel floor. So I put it in a ziploc and put it in the diaper bag so I wouldn't lose it. Last night we put it in her tooth fairy pillow, and I told her I'd call the tooth fairy so she'd know to come and she asked me not to call the tooth fairy, because she's "too shy for the tooth fairy". Also didn't want me to call tonight, so the tooth is still sitting in her tooth fairy pillow, awaiting the tooth fairy! The tooth next to it is pretty loose too, I don't think it'll be too far behind.