OUR WEEK

PRESCHOOL

I bit the bullet this year and ordered shirts instead of doing them myself with transfer paper. They'll last longer, and it was 5000% less stressful so it was totally worth paying more for! lol. I looked everywhere online, and no one sells xxs anymore so the shirts are going to drown most of them. The xs (2/4) run a little big. Hopefully they shrink a lot when washed in hot water. Haha. 

The most exciting part is we will have our first field trip this week!!!!! We're all gonna look great in our awesome new blue shirts! ;-) 

I had Jay try the shirt on to see how it looked. He took one look at it and said, "MOM it's just like the poster!" And he ran over and grabbed my welcome sign for preschool. Haha. He's more observant than I thought!

EYE DOCTOR
The WHOLE family had eye appointments this week. Jay isn't old enough yet (since he has no obvious issues), so it was really just the 4 of us. Jay actually felt left out and wanted to do it too. Haha.  
Crystal's eyes have gotten better. She barely has any astigmatism and her farsightedness is completely gone. This could actually be concerning because at her young age she could actually over grow and end up nearsighted but we'll just have to wait and see. 
I didn't think to take a picture until it was Lily's turn so that's the only proof I have. Lol. Lily is still pretty farsighted. She could use glasses to correct it, but they are not necessary, so we are just going to watch her for now. 
My eyes haven't changed at all in 4/5 years. The eye doctor says he almost never sees that happen. Too bad I still need contacts. They didn't magically fix themselves. lol.
Ty had his first eye appointment ever. In all our traveling this summer we noticed I could read signs long before he could while driving, so we thought he'd better join us this time. He has astigmatism. He was fascinated by how much better he could see with the lens in. He decided on glasses for now and is actually having a hard time adjusting to them. Hopefully it starts getting better in the next couple of weeks, so he can enjoy sight again! lol.

REAL LIFE MOMENT
I just had to document the fact that we made it to story time this week. I was having one of those days where I didn't want to get out of bed. And when I did (someone had to pick Lily up from school...lol) I didn't want to do anything. Seriously. I had so little energy that just thinking about getting anything done was painful! But I knew I needed to do something to fight it. So we went to story time. Even though I really really really really really didn't want to, we got in the car and drove to the library. I still didn't feel great when we got back and didn't get much done around the house, but I was glad I left the house and did something semi productive.

EGGS

(I already shared this on facebook but I'm going to share it here so it makes it in my yearly blog-to-book. )

We got our first eggs from our chickens today! They are 5.5 months old. And we have been waiting and watching intently for the first eggs to appear. I knew it could take until 6 months or more, but the waiting was killing me. Lol.  Anyway, whenever I was out back doing something and heard the chickens making a lot of noise, I'd get a little excited and go check the nesting box, but always nothing! lol. 

Well this afternoon the kids were out on the back deck playing, and the girls came in and said, "Mom something is making a weird noise outside. It sounds like this (insert sound here)." My first thought was it must have been the chickens. I told them "Maybe one of them is finally laying." Crystal and Lily ran out to the coop and checked the nesting box. Sure enough there was an egg in it! And not just one egg but TWO EGGS!!!! Two of our three chickens must have decided to start laying today!!! The girls ran in screaming like it was Christmas morning. Haha. 

I went out to see (I honestly still didn't believe them... and thought if there were 2 eggs then at least one of the eggs was the fake one we have). Sure enough there were 2 medium sized eggs in the nesting box!!! They were even a little bigger than I expected for their first egg. 

We brought them in to show Ty, and he says, "Oh good I was worried it was going to be 1- $500 egg instead it's 2- $250 eggs. That's way better." Haha. I told him it's okay. That just means the rest of the eggs they produce will be free! Lol.

Crystal is 8!!!!

A LOOK BACK

I am really having a hard time wrapping my mind around the fact that I have an 8 year old! For one I don't feel old enough. Lol. I'm still waiting for that moment in my life when I feel like I'm a 'real' adult. I was hoping it would happen before the kids hit their teenage years... but it's really not looking good. lol. Secondly, it doesn't seem that long ago that the anesthesiologist took this picture of us! 

CRYSTAL'S BIRTHDAY WEEKEND

Well we didn't really mean to do this, but Crystal kinda celebrated her birthday all weekend even though her birthday wasn't until Monday. Haha. Friday night we usually go out to dinner. It's generally our 'date but bring all the kids' night. Lol. This Friday we went to Garcia's after Jay requested to go to the 'Gar Eating Place.' Haha. The first thing Lily told the waitress was that it was Crystal's birthday. Ty and I told her it wasn't really her birthday until Monday (Garcia's won't usually give you a dessert unless it's your actual birthday so I wanted to clarify). We had a kind waitress who surprised Crystal with a Happy Birthday AND a fried ice cream! 

After dinner we decided since we were in the mall parking lot already that we should go get Crystal her birthday present... pierced ears! She's been waiting for this day for at least 4 years now!!! Haha. We decided she needed to wait until she was 8 and old enough to decide for herself if that's what she wanted. Well she decided that's what she wanted for her 8th birthday! I was pretty nervous for her, but she did great! She was even still smiling after the first earring went in! She was a little more nervous for the second one but the smile never left her face! Then we wandered Claire's for a bit and let her pick out a few more earrings. 

Saturday I took a break from working on things at the house to take Crystal to ToysRUs to get her free Geoffrey plush, book, balloon, and crown! We missed the little party they had for all the birthday kids but she still left with a smile on her face.

After working on the lawn, the front porch, and party preparations for the next few days, we were exhausted and no one wanted to cook so we went out again (we're bad I know). This time we went to Lucy's Pizzeria. The kids loved drawing on the pizza boards with dry erase markers! Lily again announced her beloved sister's birthday (she has clearly figured out birthday girls get free dessert and wasn't going to pass up the opportunity to help her sister out. haha). After we ate they brought out a Reese's/cream cheese cal-zone.  It was huge. Haha.

THE CAKE
I made her a Frozen barbie cake this year. It wasn't my best work, but I was just glad it stood until we were ready to cut it. Haha. We cut into the cake a little early this year because I didn't want to have cake at her 'friends party' and then turn around and have cake again as a family an hour later. It just felt like too much for one afternoon. So we had her cake at Grandma Gordon's during our usually Sunday dinner at their house. Grandparents Cook and Great Grandparents LaPray stopped by to see the birthday girl and have cake with us too! 

FROZEN PARTY
First I want to mention that for her birthday Crystal walked home from school by herself for the first time ... well she walked with a friend so not totally alone. I think they made it home faster than they usually get out to the car after school. Lol. Crystal was super excited and wants to do it again! I wonder how long the excitement would last if she had to do it every day. Haha. 

Crystal requested a Frozen Party this year with her friends. We had a Frozen Ice Palace (bouncy house), Elsa's Magic Bubble Wands with a water table full of bubbles, and SNOW to build a snowman with (Baking soda and shaving cream mixed together. It was awesome and my preschoolers loved it the next day too)! We also had crowns/antlers to decorate and wear! We had Frozen cupcakes (thank you Walmart...I wasn't baking 2 cakes this year...), and icicle suckers, as well as Glacier Juice! I think the kids all had a good time! And Crystal said on more than one occasion that this was the best birthday ever! So I'm going to call it a success! 

The birthday kid gets to choose what we have or where we go for dinner. Crystal chose Leo's Place and requested that instead of wristbands we got lots of tokens to play the arcade games. So that's what we did. The birthday girl won the most tickets and even though she didn't quite have enough, the guy at the ticket counter let her get a pink sword! What a way to end the day!