Colorado trip!
A couple of weeks ago Audrey, Matthew and I got to take a mini vacation up to Colorado Springs while we left Connor and David back in Arkansas. We went up to see our wonderful friends, the Dunns, and Mimi and Papa Adair!! It was such a great time to just relax and enjoy each other.
On the plane. Matthew was supposed to be in my lap, which I knew would be a disaster, but thankfully the flight wasn’t full both there and back!!
Loved having These friends together. Krista and Jackson made an awesome
Dinner!! Grilled Lobster and shrimp!! Yeah, she knows my favorites!
Every year we’ve been able to have a little Christmas party with our kids, and Krista and I were so happy to get to continue on with this tradition!
The next day it snowed!! So fun for the kids – especially ours. It was our first snow of the year!
These two, as always, two peas in a pod!
Then we got to see Mimi and Papa Adair! What a treat!! They live about a mile from the Dunns in Colorado!
Always a cozy lap!
One of the mornings Mimi and Papa braved the 6 degrees outside for us to play in the snow!
Snow angels!
Audrey’s favorite part of the airport!
Flying home!
Read MoreAudrey these days
Here’s some recent pictures of Audrey…
We found these fun pink boots for
her the other day, and in the clearance rack was the dress. She LOVES the dress. Basically she doesn’t consider any outfit an option unless its a dress
or a skirt!
Audrey had her much anticipated Thanksgiving program today. She was a little Indian and absolutely adorable! She is not shy at all when it comes to the stage. It’s fun to see this side of her!
We went to a fun event on the Square that was called ToyLand. Basically all the vendors for Walmart set out their Christmas toys for the kids to salivate over and then demand them from “Santa”. The fun part was that all of these vendors had free stuff at their booths too! Lots of characters were there too – Batman, Dora, Power Rangers, Barbie, etc. the kids definitely had fun!
Toward the end of our time there, Disney Radio put on a performance. Audrey and Connor were glued to it! At one point they asked all the princesses to come to the middle of the floor and dance. Little Audrey marched right in the middle of the crowd to dance! 
. She was by far the cutest princess!
During the princess dance, they had all the princesses go up on stage and wave. Without turning back, she marched right on up there. I don’t think she understood that she was supposed wave as she walked, but that’s ok! Once she found her spot, she didn’t stop waving!
So, I’ve always heard that every girl
Either cuts her own hair or someone cuts their hair. We made it to 4 1/2 without such luck… Until Audrey and her friend played “hairdresser.”. Yup, Audrey was the client… Thankfully, the part cut was salvageable. But her long golden hair was gone.
I will leave you with this. Audrey really likes to pick out her own clothes. For the most part I let her, but sometimes i have to step in. Today, I did not. She went all out – rain boots and all!
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Matthew continues to be a complete delight! He makes us laugh with the funny/cute things he does throughout the day. Here are a few things…
Doing pull-ups in our closet. He thought this was the best game ever! He was huffing and puffing like David does too!
I was cooking the other day, and before I knew it, Matthew had all the pots and pans out of the cabinet. He was trying to match lids, but also probably seeing how far he could walk with them cause they were ALL over the house!
Matthew also loves to get into the pantry and clear out everything that’s on the bottom shelf. So
this time he took out the Cheerios. To save the whole bag from being scattered over the tile, I gave him a handful. While Connor, Audrey
and I were playing a game, we started hearing Matthew yelling, “Got it! GOT IT!” I looked down to find him stomping and smashing each piece while yelling “got it!”. We were all laughing so hard. He was in his own world “getting” that cereal!
This is another find from the pantry. David’s beloved Count Chocula. Basically chocolate lucky charms. Yeah, he hit the jackpot! The funny thing is that he just quietly does this. I think he’s playing with toys, and all of the sudden he has a box of cereal open on the floor eating it!
Hanging with his sweet friend, Norah.
The cutest monkey around. This was his Halloween costume, but I tried to put him in it as much as I could cause he was so darn cute!
Sweet time with Connor while Audrey was in school.
Connor was being really sweet to Matthew at the park. I need to remember these days!
If Matthew is awake while we feed Reagan, then he is right beside her “helping” her eat. That might be feeding the dog, putting her food in the water
Dish, or sneaking a few pieces for himself…. Yeah, it’s gross. I try to stop it! I’m successful, most of the time!
He is such a happy, sweet boy and full of life!
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For those of you who know David, you all know that he is a pretty funny guy with his dry sense of humor. Sometimes I laugh, sometimes I smile, sometimes I smack him because his joke wasn’t appropriate, and then sometimes he hits a home run! Today was a home run day!
It all started with a sweater.
We were getting ready for church, and I put on an outfit that I thought was cute, age appropriate but also stylish in it’s own earthy – casual – effortless – kind of way. I paired it with pants that I wore pre-Connor (which was a victory in and of it self) and some pearls. I thought it had came together pretty nicely until David gave his critique. David walked in the bathroom, and I asked if he liked my new sweater. Since there was an awkward pause, I followed up my question by asking if it looked too old. (He says I asked if it looked like a Grandma sweater, but I don’t remember offering that idea) To which he responded, “If you want to look like a Grandma, go for it.” As I was trying to defend it, David walked in to our closet to do who knows what. Meanwhile, I decided to try to make it more modern by putting on some skinny jeans and 3-inch heals. So I was feeling more “young and hip” now. Surely that would help, right? It didn’t. David strolled out of the closet, completely serious, wearing a light blue plaid short-sleeved button up shirt from Goodwill, a miss-matched tie, and an oversized navy blue blazer. Without a break in character, he said, “There, if you wear the sweater, than I’ll match you and wear this.” I was dying it was so funny to me! He got me this time! Completely unexpected and hilarious!
Here we are – you decide!
So here’s the sweater with the skinny jeans and cute pearls…
Here’s David dressed as if he was 80 years old. CREEPY!
Once I took this picture of both of us, it did look like we were hitting up a fun “dress like your a Grandma/Grandpa” party, so I decided then and there, I will be returning the sweater! : ) Thanks Babe for keeping it real.
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We went to our annual Charity Challenge Dinner/Auction on Friday night with some friends. It was so fun to get to hang out with everyone and have a night with just adults…
On our way. (I had to crop it this way cause it looked like I wasn’t wearing anything…)
I’m very thankful for this guy. He really does keep me smiling!
oh, and, Happy 31st Birthday!!!
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So my normal camera got pulled off of the table behind the couch by the smallest person in our house, so it is out of commission for right now. I’m having to rely on my phone to capture pictures. It does a decent job, but I’ve missed some cute photo ops. On the other hand, I get a lot more “every day” pictures, so that’s just as fun. Here are some pictures from the last couple of weeks.
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Audrey has begun ballet classes again. She loves it! She has a different teacher this year, and loves her just the same. I’m excited for this class because she is going to have a recital! How fun is that? It isn’t until June next year, so I’m going to have to learn patience. : )
Here is Matthew looking in on the class. He has learned that every time we go to ballet, he gets to have a CapriSun. The juice surprisingly lasts the entire class, and it keeps him from yelling too much! He toddles around with the juice in one hand, Frankie in the other, and a couple of toys if he needs to be entertained. Here he kept pointing and yelling “ma!” and “CaGa!” when he spotted Audrey. It was pretty cute! He still doesn’t really have a name for Aud, but he tries! She is really such a great big sister to him!
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Connor and I went to his school for a kick-off party called Wildcat Welcome. It was really fun getting to hang out with other kids in his class and meet some teachers. There were carnival games (face painting, dunk tank, bean bag toss, etc) and lots of food. The best part was that he wanted to show me everything about the school rather than playing the games. We went to his classroom about 4 times, saw the art and music room, and the gym. I loved hearing it! At one point he made me run around their track to show me what they do… I made it about 1/4 of the way and then called it good! : )
They had all you eat cotton candy and sno-cones. Connor took full advantage of it!
Connor jumped in on a jello eating contest. He was up against two 3rd graders and an older girl. Let me just say, Connor whooped them!! : )
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Waiting to pick up Audrey. My favorite Summer outfit on him. He is SUCH a cute boy!!
It’s Football season around here!
Matthew found these safety glasses the other day and thought they were the best ever! I love his sweet smile!
The other day I was getting ready to leave to pick up Connor and Audrey from school, and I was secretly watching Matthew try on all of David’s hats and flip through his Bible. It was just precious!
While we were buying crickets for the frog – yes we actually feed it – we found a bunch of kittens needing to be adopted. They were all so sweet with the cats and each other. This is kind of a random picture, but I want to remember how much fun they always have when we go to a pet store. It’s almost like a zoo for us! : )
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Audrey and I waiting in the LONG car line to pick up Connor. Since we are in the car for forever, I let Audrey sit up in the front seat with me. It is a sweet time with her. I’ll miss the company when she’s in Kindergarten next year… Can’t think about that yet!
Audrey and I have been on a fun craft kick lately. We’ve been making these awesome rosettes for headbands, and this day we decided to make one for her baby. We also made a skirt too. She did a great job sewing, threading the needle, gluing, and focusing through the whole project! I was proud of her! We also made a head band holder and some presents for some new babies.
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Connor made this sign the other day – “No coming on my bed”. He taped the sign to Reagan’s dog leash and tied the leash in a slip knot in front of his bed by his ladder. He fixed it in a way that he could slide the sign out of the way when he was climbing up and then close it back when he was up there. Pretty good engineering if you ask me. Now the funny thing is that no one is allowed on his bed, so I’m not sure who he was keeping out! I remember putting duct tape down the middle of my cabin room when I was little and shared a room with my sister, so I get it! : )
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Connor’s first playdate with a friend from his school. We had a great time with them. The highlight for the kids besides popsicles were the crazy big frogs they found swimming in the pool!! I was grossed out by them, but they had a blast!
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Preschool, Kindergarten, and sweet time with Matty
Life in the Adair house the last week!
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Here my baby girl is all dressed and ready! She was very excited to pick out her clothes the night before. On school days, she doesn’t come out of her room until she is dressed from head to toe. I think it makes her feel like a big girl to be able to do it all by herself. : ) I took the picture like this so it could show how absolutely huge her backpack is! Inside of her backpack is a pillow, blanket, her baby, and change of clothes. So cute!
She was determined to wear these shoes from her Aunt Cappy’s wedding, and wanted to accessorize with her purple necklace and matching headband. : ) She was bounding into class happy as can be. She sat down with her “mates” (as she calls them), and immediately made some friends. After I picked her up, she excitedly told me about her day. She told me that she got to be the “lead-ah the whole day!” and that everyone followed her. (she is used to following Connor, so I’m sure this was big stuff to get to be the line leader all day!) Her favorite part of the day was getting to check out a book from the library. I think she’s going to have a great year!
Day 2 of preschool! This was a LONG wait from Thursday to Tuesday to get to go again. Every morning she asked me if she could go to school again! This week they are learning about the color red, so the teacher asked if the kids could bring something red to class and wear something red. She was all over it – down to making sure her rubber band was red. We also made her headband the night before so she could have more red!This is so different than Connor. Connor hates days where he is supposed to dress in anything other than his normal clothes. It makes him so nervous that he’s going to be made fun of or be the only one dressed up. Breaks my heart! Audrey, on the other hand, loves to be a part of the class activities! Her favorite part of the day yesterday was getting to hand out snacks and going to Chapel. Her worst part was carpet time. Not sure why…
We are having fun making headbands. Here’s another one we made this morning!
I found gold shoes that matched mine. How cute is that?? I think they might be a little big for her still, but they are too cute!
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Here is Connor’s class with a giant hershey kiss. The funny thing about this – I got this picture after I picked up Connor and asked my usual 1000 questions about his day. This did NOT come up. How would this not come up??? He did mention that they all got a bag of chocolate and treats, but said, “I don’t know where this came from??” Really, a GIANT chocolate hershey kiss comes to your class, and you didn’t remember???? Crazy! : ) Connor is loving school and doing a great job at it! He moans about having to do homework (think practice writing his name, numbers, two letters, locate shapes in house, etc), and looks forward to Fridays when the weekend comes. Is he in high school or Kindergarten??
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The days when I just have Matthew are very sweet. This was our lunch yesterday. He continues to be such a joy and a sweet heart. He is learning how to use a fork, which is adorable, and says “bus, ball, bye-bye, uh-oh, hi, mama, dada, mimi, off, neigghhh (the sound of a horse), meow, and ruff.” I do love the time I get to be with him while the big kids are at school.
He is loving being big enough to sit at the little table. More times than not, he uses the chair as a step to climb onto the table, but when he does actually sit there, it is super cute! I love that his feet aren’t even close to touching the ground!
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After church on Sunday. Love those kids.
Read MoreChange…
Changes in routine is always challenging for Connor, and Kindergarten came with it’s share of trepidation but also excitement. Connor had been playing it pretty cool when I would point out his new school or talk about it … until the night before the first day of school. I had him take a shower, and while he was in there, he must have been thinking about it more than normal, because when he came out, he had lots of questions. As a parent, you’ve gotta jump on every opportunity where you get a glimpse into their little hearts. We probably talked a little over an hour. He wanted to hear all about Kindergarten, practice his sight words, count numbers, basically do as much as he could to feel confident that he could “do” Kindergarten. It was such a sweet time with him.
The morning came, and Connor was ready. With a good breakfast in his tummy, we set out to drop him off. We were told to get there with ample time to spare since everyone brings their kid the first day, and sure enough, it was packed!! We waited with him in line, and then at 7:25, we all went back to his classroom. He had one little moment when he thought he was supposed to go but shouldn’t have, but that was it. He found his cubby and his seat, and was happy to be there. I made sure he remembered where his lunch box and water bottle were, and then kissed him and left. Crazy feeling. My baby is in Kindergarten.
When I picked him up, he ran into my arms in a way that doesn’t happen all that much because I’m always with him. It might have been one of the best feelings ever. Like he was just so secure and at home when he saw me. I loved it. He said he played with one kid, and got to do lots of fun stuff. I think I might have asked him about 100 questions so I could know what was going on. He divulged more info as the day went on – all good – just trying to get a 6 year old to give details is not always the easiest thing…
The days went on, and Connor got more and more comfortable with his new routine. The mornings were a little rough as he wasn’t used to being dropped off at the front door, but by Friday, he confidently went in alone. The second week went good too, and because of the year-round schedule he got to have Friday off. I was so excited to spend the day with him, doing the “normal” stuff with him. We hung out at home, did some crafts, ate lunch together, and played real Monopoly while Audrey and Matthew took a nap. It was such a sweet time, and I truly was in the moment and didn’t want to do anything else but hang out with my Munchkin.
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Connor turns 6!!!
The day after we drove home from Colorado, Connor officially turned 6! He woke up, and to his delight, there sat a pile of presents on the coffee table! David and I bought him a snake terrarium, so I wrapped all of the accessories and had him open that first. (I grew up with my Mom doing that, and I always loved to figure out what the theme was) At first he wasn’t getting it – why was he getting a light bulb and bark for his birthday? Why did Mimi and Papa Connors give him a water dish and a snake home? Finally he opened the actual terrarium, and figured it out!! He was SO excited! We told him that at lunch we would meet up with David and go pick out a snake at the pet store. He was SO excited!
I love sleepy, happy eyes!
Audrey was figuring out all of his presents before he was! We kept having to stop her from giving it away!
He got it!
Before we went to the pet store, we had to go up to his new school to meet his teacher. She was awesome and sweet with Connor. I think it’ll be a great year! (another post for that…) After that we picked up Audrey and Matthew along with a couple friends for a surprise party! Connor felt pretty special!
The crew at the pet store.
The pet store lady gave Connor lots of advice. She was very patient as he took his time choosing the right snake. One of the snakes that was a finalist bit Connor on his finger, so that quickly knocked him out of the race. He ended up choosing a baby one that seemed the most docile of the bunch.
Cheers! They were all pretty excited to get to have pop as their drink! They all chose RootBeer, except Anna. She chose lemonade at first, but then when she realized that it didn’t have caffeine, she asked me if she could have a “beer” now. I clarified that they were all drinking RootBeer – I can just see the kids reporting on their fun, and say Mrs. Meredith gave us all beer! I might get some calls…: )
Connor with his snake cake.
Happy Birthday to Connor!
After Chuck-e-Cheese, Joey came back to our house and helped Connor get Reggie’s home set. Shortly after that we all went down to Siloam to celebrate Jack’s birthday! What a whirlwind of a day, but a good one!
So my baby is 6 and starting Kindergarten… Oh my.
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