Bilibo

This is what I toy I was telling Megan and Hallie about. I ordered one for Jaxon and Katie. I think they will have fun playing with them. Jaxon saw the video and was really excited about all the things he could do with it!

https://www.fatbraintoys.com/toy_companies/kid_o/bilibo.cfm

We are Thankful

We have had a great Thanksgiving holiday! We had all the family together for a great meal at Jerry and Amanda's house. The kids had a great time playing together. We are so lucky to all live so close to each other! We are thankful that Bobby and Hallie do not mind driving the distance - even when the bridge is closed!
We are Thankful for having family over during the sad sad LSU game yesterday. We were thankful we were not at the game!

Things kids know

Yesterday while we were at the Dr for Katie- Jaxon said Mommy I know how to spell Wyatt (who is a friend from school) Now I knew could recognize his name but I did not know he could spell it - and he did correctly with out asking what comes next!!
now his spelling voicab is up to 5 words that I know of - I don't know if that is good but I am pretty excited about that!
Katie's check up went fine - she is 23 lbs 9 oz (between 25 & 50%) and she is 32 inches (a little under 50%). We go back in 3 weeks for Jaxon's

End of a weekend

This weekend is over and it was a good family one. Saturday we cleaned out of garage and got rid of all our garage sale stuff that we never got around to having. It is a shame how much stuff we donated. We watched LSU win - at least this time is was not a heart attach waiting to happen game! Katie was so cute yelling "GO GO GO" with me. She would come running yelling it.
Then today we did some shopping - I am done with Jaxon's b-day now we can focus on Christmas shopping. We started to get our stuff from Jerry's house. Yes that is right we still have stuff at Jerry's and my Mom's really sad to admit that since we have been here since July but is it true. We plan on getting more of it on Thanksgiving Day since we will be over there and Erik is not working (days at least)
That is about it. not too fun but very productive weekend.

Young Explorer™

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click on the title on it should take you to the website!

by the way today was worse then yesterday but I am too tried to write it all down!
I have met my match and it was a bunch of 2 year olds!!

wednesday

OK let see how did today go - it sucked. OK it is better now that I am with my own kids. Really makes me happy to have my children.
The morning started with a 50 min drive - yes that is right is normal takes me 20 but because of the time of day it was 50!!
The one"friend" pinched another "friend so hard he broke the skin on her arm.
snack went Well. Even KK is getting use to seeing me so she was not upset when we were in the snack room at the same time.
Now we are in the class room. we had some fighting but it was alright we had to take turns with the play pizza and the bost but besides that we did alright.
circle time was alright besides the friends did not listen and were rolling around while the teacher was trying to do her morning lesson.
The to the gym to practice for the Thanksgiving feast on Friday. their intrest was lost and we stoped practicing and ran after some balls - the teacher in charge actually had another class leave and skip their practice so we could get some of the entergy out! Then we had a baby fight. yeah that was fun!
I had to remove one friend from the group no less then 5 times today for hitting, pushing and kicking.
The funniest part of the day was when the lead teacher said as I was walking out the door - I think today went well! They had a good day!!!!

IN WHAT WORLD IS THAT A GOOD DAY?

any way I think I am the laugh of the other teachers - I am asked all day how am I doing and to hang in there. One actaully asked me if I needed the money that bad or did I not know what I was getting into! I just smiled and said I really don't need money that bad!

So we will see how tomorrow goes. I am here to help till the Assistant can come back or I start drinking when I get home - today I actually smiled when I realized I had some to mix my drink in!! anyway I am done bitching.
I am not unhappy with job just the kids! but that is alright it is not forever. I know I should not bitch because I did do this to myself!

1st day as temp

Today was my first day as a temp for an assistant at the preschool. For it only being 4 hours it is a really long day! The class is between 11 and 16 "friends"
They are a very spirited group. OK really only 4 take up most of your time reminding them what is expected. No hitting, pinching, kicking - you know the little things. I don't know how long I will be doing this. The Assistant is helping her mother while she is ending her battle with cancer. so for her sake only I hope I have this for a while.
Last week I was so busy with taken pictures of Erik's rescue team compete against 4 other Shell teams. It was really fun. Erik was the tied up and droped 4 floors in a basket. That was a little weird to see because you really have to trust the team! We had fun but is was really long 13 hour days.

off to bed yes that is right 9:15 and I am going to bed!

Claire's b-day cake

This was a fun cake to make once I figured out what size to make the cake so the pieces would fit. So when I make it again it will not take as long!
Happy Birthday C and M - very busy birthday weekend!

Oh and how about those Tigers - you can not say that the games are boring!

Halloween pics

pay check

I got my first pay check today in almost 4 years - Ok so it was only for one day. It was a whopping $33.
Erik laughed at me.
But I have 2 more days lined both in Katie's class so that should be intresting. Tomorrow I am not going in till 12:00 so she will be asleep but on Monday I will be there the whole day as the Asst.
I also just added a day for Katie - her teacher let me know that Wednesday was open now and not to wait till January because people were asking for that day so we went ahead and added so now she will learn to skate - I can't wait to see that!

Halloween weekend

Here are some pictures from this weekend. We went to a Halloween party, boo at the Zoo and the our annual carving party. Fun fun weekend.

more pictures

I love photobucket! So easy to use ya'll are going to get sick of seeing pictures of the Kids!

The ones of Jaxon and Katie are really to show Mara how cute Mya's clothes look on Katie - Thanks Mara!!

Then Katie's halloween dress. I just love that dress style.
and then the kids trick or treat bags. I had fun making those.

I forgot to tell ya'll I finally worked at the kids school as a sub. It was fun - a little over whelming at first - 12- 2 year olds that don't know you and the main teacher was who I was there for. We had some moments like when we did not know if we could give a child something because of his allergies and was crying because he wanted what everyone else had. Anyway it all worked out in the end. the kids liked me so that was good.

Anna-Karin's pictures

Ok so you can go to
http://www.annakarinsphotography.com/EZPhotoSales/
go to swanson
the pasword is Katie

Let me know what you think - which one is your favorite.

I also have it set up that you can click on the title and go to the website.

pictures

here is the link to the photographer that took Katie's 18 month pictures - My high school friend Vonnie gave me the session as a gift when Katie was born. I can't wait till the rest are posted! I'll let you know so you can go look at them.
http://annakarinsphotography.com/blog

and here are some more pictures from this weekend.

busy weekend

Here are a few pictures from this weekend. I tried to upload more but there was an error so I gave up.

The first one is from the maze in Port Allen and the second one is from Boo at the Zoo - which I so did not know was going on. But we had a great time anyway.

fun at home

So I got my Mom to play the Wii - I think she had a really great! She may have stayed all night if she didn't have to get Claire & Emma before 5. The Wii will eat your time if you let it!

She was playing bowling here.

She was really good at that one!

Jaxon and MaMere played a few of the games she did the best at bowling and the shooting ones.

Ok so both Hallie and Hillary's blogs made me cry! You both ROCK 3-days 60 miles and over $6200 between the 2 of you all for Breast Cancer!!

Here is a sneak peek of Jaxon's Halloween look! He looks so cute! I tried to uplaod another picture but I gave up since I got errors twice.

picture of the day...

Just wanted to share this picture with you! Gotta love photoshop!

after the kids go to sleep

OK so I went a little crazy last night with the Halloween ribbon! I was playing with different was to make the ribbons - I even made a Halloween ladybug (is that possible?)

I have to let everyone know how proud I am of Hallie - she is doing the 3-day walk for breast cancer tomorrow. 60 miles in 3 days - why to go Hallie you inspire me! Full time mom and full time worker and yet you found the time to raise or $3200 for breast cancer! WAY TO GO HALLIE I am so proud of you!!

Since Hallie has successfully met her goals she inspired me to set some. I have my sight focused on doing the walk with her in 2 years. I have talked to my PT about getting my back ready for this. We have started to build our team - everyone is welcome so if you want to walk let us know.

I have started doing WW again . I believe the more people I tell the more motivated I will be. Then it because something I have to stick with and be accountable for.

so once again I am so proud of Hallie and send her lots of best wishes and prayers!! GO Hallie and Hillary - you make of proud!

Magnolia Mound Plantation

We went to Magnolia Mound Plantation today to take some pictures for Katie - Thanks Vonnie for the gift cert for the pictures - once they are online i will put a link so you can see them. These are a few I took after the session was over.

It was a really pretty place so I would love to go back and take more pictures.

It was hot! Jaxon found a frog so Anna-Karin got a lot of pictures with him playing with the frog - should be super cute.

I also went to the open house for St. Theresa's Pre-K . It is werid I almost feel like I am cheating on Jaxon's school that he is in now since I am looking into another school. He can go there next year but I really want to get him in for K so I need to start now. enough babble for now

slow people

today I was checked out by the slowest woman in the world at Target. I was so upset with her. She was sooo slow - I had 20 minutes till I had to pick up Jaxon and it takes 15 minutes to get there, yes I was cutting it close but I did not get to my car till 3 mintues till - yes it took that woman over 15 to scan all my items. Crazy. Thank God Jaxon's school knows me and and we have a good realtionship so being late was not that bad. But come on that is too long to scan all the products.
Then I hit every red light on the way there. oh well lesson learned!
He was already in the gym playing when I got there and he did not want to leave. And I was afriad he was going to be upset I was late - silly me