Our Story Teller

Charlie is 3 for 3 in the story telling department this week.  He is such a goof and make believer  :)

Story 1:  On Monday I picked up Charlie from daycare and Karla told me that Charlie told her this long drawn out story about how is mommy is having a baby and it is a boy.  He proceeded to tell her that he will continue to share a room with his sister because the new room will be the new babies because he will be too scared to sleep in the basement.  Karla said it was a pretty creative story.  There is a new baby at day care and another on the way.  I am assuming he just wanted to be like his friends, I can assure you that there will be no more brothers or sisters for Charlie and Olivia. 

Story 2: The other day Charlie looked at me and said "Mom, my teacher said a bad word."  I acted surprised and said "should I ask her about it."  He then said "No mom, it isn't real, I just saw it on Facebook."  That one had me rolling in laughter, and of course I had to share it with his teacher. 

Story 3: Yesterday we went to see Santa and he asked the kids if they were being good helpers.  Of course the kids responded with a yes (even though I might have been thinking otherwise...haha), and then Santa said do you have a dog or a cat that you help with? And Charlie told him that we don't have a dog or cat, we only have a chicken.  

I am not sure where all of this comes from, but it definitely puts a smile on our face.  You can always tell when he is fibbing, because of the smile on his face.  Hopefully he will be able to put his creativeness to good use when he is older.

Thanksgiving Weekend!!

This past week has been such a fun week.  Last weekend, I was able to have a fun weekend in Vegas with my good friend and neighbor, Joalah.  We had so much fun getting away and having a little "mommy break."  I am so thankful for Jesse letting me get away and everyone that helped with the kids while I was gone.  Jesse got a good taste of what it is like to be in my shoes.  Of course it was a super busy 4 days filled with fundraiser pick ups, birthday parties and Olivia even got to have a sleep over at her cousin's house.  The 2 days following my return, I had parent-teacher conferences, which is 2 - 12 hour days in row.  Jesse then had to take Charlie to ECFE and Olivia didn't have school on Tuesday, so he was definitely "Super Dad" for those days.  

Jesse has also had the last week off of work, which has been AWESOME!!  

We have had so much fun family time :)

Thursday, of course, was Thanksgiving.  Jesse and I got up really early and headed to St. Paul for the Turkey Trot.  We ran the 10K, and of course, Jesse did outstanding.  He took 11th place out of 1500 runners and ran 6.25 miles in just under 40 minutes.  I finished in just a little over an hour, which was my goal.  We then headed back home to my mom's for a wonderful Thanksgiving meal at her house and then later back to our house for another wonderful meal with the Babler side.  I am so thankful for such a great family.  Lots of fun!!

Friday we were able to spend the day doing a little shopping and just hanging around the house and on Saturday we once again got up early and headed to St. Paul for another race.  This time it was the Ugly Sweater Run.  We ran with the kids and they did awesome!!!!  Olivia finished her very first 5K in 40 minutes.  We were very proud of her and Charlie also walked/ran about 2/3 of the race.  The other 1/3 of the race he spent on my back.  I think I got more of a workout with that race, than if I would have actually ran it like I normally would...haha!!!  After the race, we went to one of my favorite restaurants, The Old Spaghetti Factory and of course it was delicious.  

We finished our weekend today with just a relaxing day around the house. I am really praying for a calm winter, so we can have more long weeks like this.  It was so nice spending so much time together.  We are all so busy with our own schedules, that it was great to sit back and spend some time together.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!!

DAD

Our little man spelled dad all by himself tonight!  He did a great job.  It looks a little more like the beginning of Babler, but pretty good for a 3 year old :). So fun watching him grow and learn!

Happy Halloween!!

Shiner

Charlie got a pretty big black eye the other day at day care.  He jumped off the couch and landed on one of his friends.  Everyone who asks him what happened his reply is "I said I was sorry."  He feels really bad but it was a good lesson for him.  He wasn't supposed to be jumping on the couch.   I was finally able to get a picture of it while he was sleeping in the truck.

Note

In had a meeting after school and when I came back to my classroom Olivia had wrote this letter to me on my morning message board :)

Like Father Like Son!

On Saturday the kids and I did a local race at the city park.  I ran the 5K and the kids ran the 1K.  They had lots of fun!  As you can tell, it was a Halloween and the kids got to dress up in their costumes.  Under Charlie's running shirt is a super hero outfit (that is where those big muscles came from) and Olivia was Spider Girl, but it was so cold she wanted to run in her coat. I was lucky enough to get these photos from my cousin who photographed the event. I just love the one of Charlie running.  I had to put it next to a picture of Jesse :)