lets play catch up !

Okay, seems to be my going rate here. A month between each post. Well, lets get caught up here. In November: 11/9-11th Bailey and I went on a Girl Scout Mother/ Daughter weekend to Trout Lodge. It was a weekend FULL of adventure! Bailey spent the weekend in trouble most of the time, but I hope since then we have worked through her issues. She got to do the rock climbing wall (which she LOVED) and did great at. She made it to the top in no time flat.

When we got home, we received some bad news that Dan's Uncle and Godfather had passed away. We were very sad.

Then Emily and I celebrated our Thanksgiving Feast at preschool! Very fun.

We had Thanksgiving with Mom and Dad and then off to the Lake we all headed. Gene and Marie invited us to stay with them this year at her Mom's house and we went and did our morning after Thanksgiving shopping! I really struggled. I stayed up till 2:30 AM with Dan, Dan, and Uncle Gene just laughing our butts off, only to get right back up at 4:30 am to head out shopping! Got some good deals and a great jump start on the shopping though!!!

After that weekend, we headed back for the stretch before winter break: We watched the Tigers get there bottoms beat with Pat and Carol & Kids, and Matt and Taunya & kids and had a nice relaxing evening!- Which let Carol to call me Martha Stewart- I still can not decide if she was being mean or nice- watch out Carol- Santa is watching you!!! HE he, just kidding, she was being very nice. (I think)

We had Brunch with Santa at Norwood on that Sunday morning! The kids had a blast!!!! Lots of face and body painting, lots of balloon animals, and a real REINDEER! Bo jingles, he crash landed at Norwood and broke one of his antlers. The kids are really into "Is this the REAL Santa, or is this one of the helpers?" We told them the Santa at the mall is the REAL one (my reason was that he had a real beard, and he was the first one we had seen this season) so all the Santa's with fake beards are his helpers. (Bailey feels his beard as he is talking to her and she knows the fake ones)

So on : Emily got the stomach flu that Wednesday morning (11/28) so I had to do some heavy duty cleaning! Danny got it then this Thursday night into Friday morning. He got up at 12:45 am to tell me he had a puke accident in his bed, he and I were up all night that night, poor guy go it bad!

He then could not go to the Winter Wonderland party at his and Bailey's school. It is a huge fundraiser they through every year. Pancake dinner, crafts, games, raffle baskets,and so on... Well, I am on the PTC board so it was a must that I was there, and well, I made it AFTER Dan got home from work. I felt really bad not to be more help but what is a MOM to do????

I promise to keep better posted (well at least I will try)

Time to reward them now!!

You see, we started something last year......................When Bailey would get a good report card, we would let her pick where she wanted to go (some place fun like roller skating, the park, ice skating, etc.) This time Dan and I decided WE would pick the fun for both of them. Aunt Kath called on Friday and asked Emily to spend the night on Saturday............. So let the FUN begin. We took Emily to Aunt Kath Saturday around noon and headed to Union Station for some lunch (the 4 of us, Me, Dan, Bailey and Danny) We were looking for Hooters (Danny loves that place) but they no longer exists there. So we each picked out our own lunch place. Went to the Fudgery (kids loved the songs and such) and headed to the CITY MUSEUM!! WOW what a day. We spent almost 7 hours there. Climbing, Running, Jumping, Crawling, Sliding, and a little eating. What a BLAST all 4 of us had. We had to drag the kids out of there after 8 PM. I was a little sore on Sunday morning, but it was all worth it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What great report cards they have!!!!

Well, that time of year.................... Parent / Teacher conferences and 1st round report cards!!!
Danny did excellent! We are very proud of him. His teacher says that he is very polite and contributes much to the class and is right on track in school. Bailey did great as well! She is doing very well and her teacher sees her as a leader, and uses her for special helps. We both agreed we could see her being a teacher!!

Wow I am getting my chops busted here!!!

Okay for all my blog readers!!!! I have been getting emails that I am not keeping you guys updated enough about the lives of the Bloomfield Kids.................so here it goes......................

Bailey- She has recovered from the tonsils and adenoids, back to school and back to soccer!! Yeah she is happy again. Her and I went on our first school field trip to the Magic house. It was a lot of fun. She hates to share me with the other kids so her and the little girl I had to watch had a little tiff but all turned out well. We ended our day with a wonderful rainy picnic at Rabbit Run park in St. Peters and we froze out bums off but hey the kids had a blast. This is her last weekend for regular season games, with just one make up to go after this weekend!! Yeah for Mom's schedule!!!

Danny- Well lets see he is doing great in soccer. He loves school. He hates that it is getting colder and he has to were pants (he absolutely hates pants) and he just goes with the flow. I am assisting with his Halloween party tomorrow at school and he is very excited about that. He got to go to Kids Choice Child Care center today after school so that I could be on Bailey's field trip (my friend Heidi owns it) and he now wants me to get a REAL JOB so that he can go every day after school!! I swear, if I did work they would want me home!!!!!

Emily- Well you see Emily is a story in her self. She is with me all the time now that I teach at preschool, so her famous line to me these days is...... "Mom, I would like to just do _____ with Dad, cause you know I see you ALL THE TIME". The other night I asked her if she wanted to go to the store with me and she told me " I think you should go by your self and have some alone time with out us kids, sometimes you need a break so that you don't get crabby and tried of us", wow out of the mouth of a 4 year old!!!! She is finishing up her soccer season this weekend also. Her team did very well this year and Emily did a great job scoring TONS OF GOALS for them. She really enjoyed Daddy being coach and she did very well with being fair about the other kids and not expecting special attention. She likes school but does not like all 4 days (or at least at 7:45 am she doesn't) but she is adjusting well.

Dan- He is doing great in his new job. He really likes it but gets very stressed out. He is loosing out on a lot of golf time these days I think!! He is spending the weekend with the boys at the Lake golfing. I am sure he will have a blast AND come home to need a big nap!!!!!

Me- Well, the life of MOM is always fun. I am enjoying my job, I love the kids I have in my class and I am so crazy with all that I am involved in some days I don't know what end is up, but it is what I want to be doing so I am.

Till something in my exciting life happens.......ta ta for now!!!

Clear picture

Here is a clearer picture of the tonsils and adenoids