No TV Wednesdays

Alegria had a "wet" accident yesterday because she was too busy watching TV to go to the potty, so I told her that today she would not be allowed to watch TV at all and that we would have to revert back to taking her to the potty on a schedule since she gets too engrossed in what she's doing to go on her own...it ended up being a very fun day and the TV was not missed!!!

We got up and went on our walk.  The new stroller was AWESOME!!!  I had read a lot of reviews of it and some people said that it felt like a workout pushing the stroller (what do you expect with two children and a large stroller, people?!)...I, however, found it to be easy compared to what I was doing before!  In fact, I cut my walk time by ten minutes! Other people wrote that it was difficult to maneuver on turns...I, however, found it quite easy, too!  No problems there!  The only problem was that this morning it was extremely windy and I had not bundled the girls up enough on our walk, so they were a little cold...I will have to prepare better for our walk tomorrow, but aside from that, pushing that new stroller with the girls was a dream!

On other news, Cameron went on a "Thunder Ride" this morning.  He and other soldiers from the 3rd Corps joined up for a two-hour ride on their motorcycles to promote motorcycle awareness.

When he got home, he was chilled to the bone and hunkered under his Giants blanket to get warm:

Is there someone else under there, too...?

 

Oh my goodness!  It's Alegria!!!

Daddy had to go back to work, so the girls and I just played in Odette's room:

An hour later, we were surprised to hear Daddy arriving back home!  He got straight to working on his truck again and the girls wanted to help:



Then Odette got disinterested and instead wanted to try to ride Alegria's tricycle:

She got upset when I got tired of pushing her around since she couldn't reach the pedals herself and told her that it was time to put the tricycle away:

Finally we had dinner and then had a family game night!  We played "Memory" (Alegria's quite good at that game!):



Built a race track with blocks:

And just plain had fun!

We also danced and Daddy chased Odette and we had fun watching her run away from Daddy, but my video function is still not working, so unfortunately, there is no evidence of that part of our fun tonight!

At the end of the night, we made clean-up fun and made putting the blocks away into a shooting baskets game...Alegria did really well at that!

 

Finally we rounded the girls up and took them to their rooms to get into their pajamas...but Alegria beat us to her room and snuggled up with her toys on her bed...she almost looks like she belongs there, like a cute little doll on her bed right along with her stuffed animals!

And that was our very fun day with no TV involved!  I think we'll have to make this a weekly thing...!  :)

Good night everyone!!!

New Stroller!!!

After our walk this morning, we came home, Odette took a nap, and I showered and got ready.  Then we went to story time at the library.

Odette got to work on the craft today!  It was good that for her first craft it was an easy one...all the kids had to do was color two stars which already had slits in them and then put the corresponding slits together.  I should have gotten a picture of their finished products, too, but I didn't:

There's always room for goldfish...!



Back home, once I came out of Odette's room after putting her down for her second nap of the day, I found this in the kitchen:

Alegria cracks me up!  How she even had the idea to have the animals climb on each other to reach up the cabinet, I don't know!!!

Daddy finally was home for the day and he and the girls played outside.  Odette even went down the slide by herself today!

Odette: "Daddy...you stand right there and be sure to catch me, please."



Odette: "You heard him, Mommy...he's going to stand right there and catch me..."

Odette: "Here goes nothing!"

Odette: "That was exhilarating!  I think I'll go again now that I now I'll be ok...!"

Odette: "Weeeee!  That was so fun!!!"

Alegria then decided her elephants needed a turn on the slide, too:

Then of course, it was her turn!

Finally we decided it was time to go and get some groceries for tonight's dinner:

Back home, as I was making dinner, the doorbell rang...and it was the UPS man delivering our new stroller!!!  Woo-hoo!!!

For a while I was convinced this was what I'd do and that by the time Odette was too big for the Bjorn carrier, that Alegria would be old enough to ride her bike alongside me as we went on our walks...

Before:

...but with winter coming and the mornings getting so chilly with the biting wind (and Alegria not ready for a 2.5-mile bike ride in the cold), I realized that there was no way that I could get Odette bundled up well enough to face the bitter cold on our walks and that I would have to invest in something better.  I've seen double strollers and they look so bulky (width-wise) and that did not appeal to me.  Well, my friend, Shannon told me that she'd had a Sit-N-Stand for her two kids and that she loved it and so I've looked into them and read reviews and I finally got one! 

After:

Odette now gets to ride up front, and Alegria gets the back, with two options of riding...either sitting:

...or standing!  

I can't wait to use our new stroller on our walk tomorrow morning!  I'm so excited!!!

And it seems both girls are, too!



Unfortunately, it looks like Alegria really likes the front and Odette really likes the back...I wonder how tomorrow morning will go...!

Have a great night, everyone!!!  :)

Low-Key Day

We went on our walk this morning and then came home.

Once we got home, Odette found Alegria's boots and proceeded to put them on...

...but only got as far as putting ONE on (and on the wrong foot at that!) and then Alegria decided she'd put the other one on!  They wore a boot each for a while...

...until Odette got sleepy and began to get fussy.  So off came the boot and off to bed she went for a much-needed nap!

Here's Alegria taking pictures of me with my old camera:

Later on, when Daddy was home from work, we went out to the front yard while Daddy worked on his truck.  Alegria wanted to play with some flags...

Alegria: "Mommy, here's your flag!"

Odette: "Daddy, can we ride your bike?"

Daddy's Daring Dames:

Aside from that, our day was pretty low-key.  I did get a few videos of Odette drinking out of a small cup...but again, I'm having trouble with the video feature on the camera and we haven't found the manual yet (maybe it got lost somewhere between Iraq and here...?), and so I have no idea what I'm doing wrong, even though it seems to be similar to my old camera.  *sigh*

Oh well!  I'll just have to contact Panasonic and ask them what I'm doing wrong...

Anyway.

Good night!