I bopped it!

Lincoln likes to "bop" things lately. He'll bop just about anything & then tell you "I bopped it". So the other day when I made tandoori chicken, he needed to bop the chicken. And here he is bopping...

Risky Business

The kids did exceptionally well with dinner one night so got ice cream for dessert. They were messy afterwards so I stripped them down to skivvies. We had some music on in the background so it got turned up & we ended up with our version of Dick Clark's American Bandstand or Risky Business... whichever way you want to look at it. 

He's crafty...

Lincoln is our crafty kid. We often find him into things he shouldn't be into... These 2 pictures show him sneaking frozen peas before dinner. The peas were waiting to get added to dinner, but apparently Lincoln couldn't wait. And then the other night, I was in the kitchen on the computer. I heard the television go on upstairs in our bedroom. So I start thinking... Chris is out of town, I'm downstairs so that leaves a crafty kid awake at 9:50pm. I head up stairs with camera in-hand to find this. He turned the TV on with 1 remote, the Dish with a 2nd remote & the over head light with a 3rd remote. 

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Another Batman?

This just cracks me up. If you know our kids, you know that for the most part Lincoln is our 1 that doesn't like to dress up. The other 2 are constantly changing identities. So this touches my heart. He is so enamored with Ba-Ba, that he put his Bat Wings on so they could play Super Heroes. For this all to work out, the Super Heroes have to play with the trains or cars & then everyone's happy.

New Year's Eve & Day

We were grateful to spend some time with our buds from Ft. Wayne over the New Year holiday. They brought their Wii & we had a non-stop marathon that even Sloan & Lincoln wanted to get in on. It's amazing (to me) how a child who has never played a game before picks up the controller & hits a few buttons & viola, is off! I feel like I pick up the controller & am still bumbling over it when the game is already over! (Needless to say, I wasn't the greatest competition but apparently just a workout for whomever I played against.) But I suppose this is how others felt when Atari 1st came out.... Am I showing my age to mention Atari? At any rate, the B5 had a great time with the H4 & here are some pictures from those couple of days. I've included the picture of Sloan & Alexis eating pepperoni because up until this night, Sloan would peel her peps from her pizza & hand them over to Tiernan (aka Ba-ba aka Pepperoni Monster). But since Alexis, who had done her hair, made her a door hanger, & played with her, was eating peps Sloan is now eating them! 

Jumpin' in December!

On December 29th, we had crazy warm temps (48) AND it was sunny! A perfect time to bundle up & jump on the trampoline. Everyone blew off some of the pent up steam. Lots of laughs & giggles were had as the kids remembered just how much fun they have jumping. The sweet end to the deal was everyone got hot coco when we all came back inside. It was Sloan & Lincoln's 1st time to have hot coco. So imagine their surprise & delight!

That's my girl!

This is how my girl rolls... If she's in the "Pin-cess" frame of mind, that's just how the day will go. So here's my take on these:

1) Princess Hulk - can hang with the boys but is also a girly girl

2) Headband with tiara on the phone - real estate agent

3) Tiara with sunglasses - Sporty Spice or Posh Spice?

4) Tiara with boa in the car - just Sloan!

5) Double tiara with "purse" - my Mormor! Who LOVED jewelry & was known, at times, to stash food in her purse (which is what was in Sloan's - chock full of play food from her kitchen). My grandmother I could cut some slack since she lived through the Depression. However, Sloan doesn't want for a thing so what's she doing stashin' plastic food?!?

The Tu-Tu

I'm not sure I need to explain much on this segment... The girl just has her own way of doing things... This focus here is the many ways Sloan wears her tu-tu. She wears it just about everywhere. She's learned that she can't eat in the tu-tu & she can't sleep in the tu-tu but she tries to do just about everything else in it... Seriously, the pictures without pants are her doing. She will be mortified when she's 16. "Moooowhooohaahaa" laughs the evil momma.

Christmas Eve

Oops, I managed to load Christmas morning before this so have to backtrack here. We have developed a family tradition over the years to such: I make a shrimp cocktail that was my great-grandmother's (handed down by word of mouth) that we eat before we go to church (the picture of the 3 at the table). After we get home from church, we fondue. Chris makes a homemade Caesar salad (handed down from his dad), & then we have some other stuff (changes yearly - no tradition here just yet). So yes... 2 2-year-old's & a 5-year-old fondue-ing... Needless there was some chaos involved. Sloan didn't eat a thing except the cranberry pecan salad although here she's pictured serving herself some Caesar. Lincoln took to eating shrimp since we were cooking steak & shrimp (uh-huh - we might need to watch this potentially expensive habit). Tiernan had a blast as he's old enough to do this all on his own. Actually, it was Christmas Eve 3 years ago that got T eating salad because he tried "Da's" & he's been eating salad ever since. What's not to like about a homemade Caesar? Sloan got to sit next to Nana (my mom in the red) so they had themselves quite the time back & forth. Sloan really liked Nana's rocks with the occasional "mine" coming out as she tried to pull them off her fingers. The Bass Boys enjoyed their time at the pots, with Chris finally commenting that he thinks he benefited sitting in between Tiernan & Lincoln because he was always helping 1 of them but by the time they petered out, he had 6 forks to dunk! The kids ended their night with a cookie (1 for me, 1 for Santa...) which has Lincoln pondering in the top picture.  

Christmas Morning

Of course the kids were up at the crack of dawn... Or at least it felt that way to us! It was probably sometime in the 7 o'clock hour. The kids ran downstairs to see what Santa had brought. Tiernan specifically asked for a Flash costume so here he is wearing it with Fargo giving him a kiss. He also got his 1st Webkinz (yes, we've managed to hold off that long) so he has been taking care of "Lappy" his new Black Bear. Lincoln was all over his trains and football. While this picture of Sloan totally sums her up right now - ponies & princesses. We had a great day with Nana & Grandpa Bob who were able to join us for a few days. 

HO HO HO

On Monday the 22nd, we were suppose to meet Santa at our playgroup. One of our friends graciously set up the meet & greet for all the kids so that we would have a great photo-op without suffering through the mall, park, etc. Unfortunately, Tiernan woke up that morning with Pink Eye! What a bummer! The kid was so excited & he was completely disappointed not to be able to go. Well, this great friend called Santa (because she has connections) & ta-da, we have our own personal meet & greet with Santa at our house! It was fantastic. Tiernan was thrilled that Santa knew their names & that he got to ask for what he wanted. Sloan & Lincoln kept saying "HO HO HO Momma - look it's HO HO HO!" And of course, all 3 certainly enjoyed the candy canes that Santa left. So a side note here from "Momma" - I was trying to get all 3 to match & look festive but this just goes to show the dynamically different personalities we have here... I start with Tiernan because up until lately, he's the one that has to be talked into certain outfits. Tiernan just had to wear a super hero so that Santa would know that he loved super heroes... (because he doesn't already know whether you've been naughty or nice?!?) He was easy to convince to wear Spiderman because his Spidey shirt is red & that's Santa's favorite color. Going with the red theme, Lincoln was easy to get into red because his Lightening McQueen sweatshirt is red. He ran around prior to Santa's arrival yelling, "I Lightening Momma!" Sloan on the other hand... wanted to be "Pin-cess Pink" & wanted nothing to do with the cute red outfit I had selected. Really, it's the crazy metallic pink headband that started the whole thing. She calls it her pin-cess headband & got it in her head to wear it that day. So scraping the original outfit, I had to find pink to match the headband... pink's in the same family as red so I had to roll with it. Either scrap the whole photo because she's upset with what she's wearing or tell myself that pink's in the same family as red & it really doesn't matter anyway....