January Activities

-Prep for my surgery: we went out to eat at all my favorite places, I got all my medicine filled and ready (some of them I have to do the day of surgery), and enjoyed as much family time as we could before I knew I'd be down.

-Gwen is OFFICIALLY potty trained! She has been fully trained during the day for a long while now, but she's such a deep sleeper that night was a bit harder. She was doing good before my surgery, but we wanted to keep her in pull ups until after the Nana sleepover (just to make sure she didn't have accidents there, with it being a new place). She reported dry that whole weekend so we've made the switch and she hasn't had an accident since! We're so proud and happy to have 3 full time potty trained kids and just have one in diapers now (what a great way to start the year!)

-:Lucy got her recital costume and she's SO excited to wear it. She loves any chance she can to try it on. We're all so excited to see her dance!

-Finding ways to keep entertained while being stuck in the house was challenging. Good thing we got a bunch of games and crafts for Christmas. Pierce is obsessed with Zingo and asks to play it multiple times a day.

-One boredom buster is making homes out of boxes, which the kids have been overly excited to do. Cara even gave them addresses:

-One of the "Memory Makers" we did this month was letting the girls go to Parents Night Out at their Gymnastics. Really, it was because I felt bad keeping the kids inside on weekends (since weekdays they have school), so we saw the Parent's Night Out flyer and I decided to sign them up last minute. They went out on a Saturday, it runs from 6-9, and kept Pierce in for mom and dad time (you have to be potty trained to go).  They came back talking about how much fun it was and how they want to do it again. It is extra $$ to go, but I may just let them do that more with how much they liked it.

-We found out that Cara passed her A.L.L. test and gets to start taking honors classes next year! This will mean transferring schools, but we're so proud of her and cannot wait to see what this girlie does in life. It doesn't surprise us she passed, she's so smart and loves going to school.

- Another thing we did was hit up the dollar store and we found some fun shrinky dinks to have the kids do. I thought they'd get to color them, but turns out they came pre-colored so they weren't too exciting, but still cute.

- We had to hit up the dollar store to get some things for the kids big "100 days of school" celebration day. We got the kids some fun dress up stuff and they were really looking forward to dressing up. They all also looked so cute!

-Some other silly kiddo pics:

Even after the 100 days, she's
Obsessed with wearing the 
Glasses still