Friday, May 13, 2016

Peter's 2nd Grade School Papers

Here is a hightlight of things that Peter completed in or during 2nd grade.

He wrote: I hope that we get to do expanded form in the a thousands. I hope that I can bring my rock caleschin. I hope that we do a lot of math on the last day of school. I wish I can be on be safe.

Under Favorites He Wrote: Food: bannana split; Movie: The lego movie; Book: pokemon Dictionary; Subject: math; Color: blue; When I grow up I want to be: math teacher.

This was one of many late night projects/reports that Scott and I helped him complete the night before it was due. He was so proud of it when it was done. He is always telling me how he likes to get A's and always knows exactly how many non-A grades he gets.

Peter dressed up as a Brooklyn Dodgers player in Jackie Robinson's day to present his report.

His class had a poetry reading near the end of school. This is the poem that he wrote for it. I really wish I could have gone to at least one of his school events, but they have a very strict policy on no younger siblings (annoying).

He is not keen on most art projects, but he does love to create geometric patterns (obsessed with math even through art!).

Here are some fun papers I have found around the house that represent Peter.

Guess he was mad at us when he drew this! The red stuff is blood.

He does math problems on his own for fun.

He calls this picture his Ruby Sapphire Snake.

Peter loves to create things on the computer. He is really interested in collecting rocks and their names.

Peter may deny it, but he really enjoys learning at school. Unfortunately, he inherited my perfectionism and always thinks he is not doing well enough. We are trying hard to reinforce to him that he is doing just fine. He was able to test into a more advanced reading, writing and math class which has been a good challenge even if he will not admit it. Even with all of the drama between he and I during homework, I really do enjoy helping him with his school work and watching him progress. 




Random Pictures

Gulfport, Mississippi Children's Museum
March 2016



He organized them by color, a child after my own heart!


Reuben
December 2015 - He is at the age where I am ALWAYS putting on his shoes.
 

 March 2016

April 2016


Adeline
January 2016 - I showed Adeline my wedding dress the other day and she talked about it for days afterwards (it was tight, but it still fits!). She also loved trying on the "princess crown."


Rigby
February 2016


Peter
February 2016 - Peter has joined the glasses club!


March 2016 - Peter's first Pinewood Derby

Marissa's Wedding

Because of job uncertainty combined with the expense of plane tickets, I was planning on going to Marissa's wedding by myself for the weekend. However, one morning I randomly had the thought to check on plane ticket prices before I checked my e-mail (I usually do it the other way around). I pressed on search and tickets for $200 on Delta popped up! Scott and I felt that at a price like that we could afford to have our entire family travel to Utah for the wedding. Since then, I have never seen a flight for less than about $400 for the same trip. It really was an answer to some prayers. Marissa and Chandler Roetker got married in the Mt. Timpanogos, Utah Temple on April 16, 2016. We are very happy for both of them and hope that we get to see you both again soon!



Here are all my parent's grand kids (except Reuben & Evalyn) watching a show before we left for the reception. This was the only way we could get them to stay looking nice before pictures!

Great Grandma Farrow with all of my parents grand kids. This is one of my new favorite pictures! The boys looks so handsome and the girls look so cute!

The entire time I kept thinking, "I cannot believe my little baby sister is married!" Then I look at this pictures of those wrinkles starting and I realize that I am getting old. I don't miss the inexperience of my 20's but I do miss the youthful look of my 20's. And yes, I know it only gets worse.

Adeline LOVED dancing with her daddy at the end of the reception. This is another one of my new favorite pictures! Melts my heart!


It was a very fast and busy trip, so we don't have and more pictures. I will have to post some professional ones when the photographer is finished with her edits.

St Patrick's Day and Easter 2016

 St. Patrick's Day
I try not to establish too many elaborate traditions around the holidays because it gets too hard to maintain them with four kids. Rainbow cupcakes on St. Patrick's day happen to be an exception though. The kids love them and I find that the little kid in me cannot resist it either!


I could not resist $2 clearance St. Patrick's Day shirts!



Easter

We usually do an Easter Egg hunt on Saturday night, so that we can focus more on Christ for Sunday.

The kids ended up gathering somewhere around 100 eggs (25 each). That is a lot of eggs, a lot of candy, and a lot of wrappers that had a hard time finding their way to the trash can. Peter has found out that our "Easter Bunny" likes to put loose change inside the eggs to cut down on candy consumption, so he goes around and shakes an egg before putting it in his bucket. 

Easter Outfits

Thursday, May 12, 2016

Adeline's 4th Birthday

Adeline really liked her presents, but I think her favorite memory was going to Circle K with daddy. She talked about going to Circle K the entire morning and was so excited. I think she sees Peter and Rigby go to Circle K after baseball games and she gets a little jealous. She also went to work with Scott and the hardware store where daddy bought her some flowers.







Adeline likes all things girly and pink, yet she is feisty enough to handle three (soon to be four) brothers. She loves clothes, bows, shoes and especially necklaces. She loves to get dressed up and go somewhere, yet as soon as she gets home, she will ask me to take her necklaces off and her bows out so she can be comfortable. She loves to play with her brothers, especially Rigby. Peter and Reuben are starting to tease her A LOT these days, but every once in while they do get along. Something that I love the most about Adeline is her natural mothering instinct. She is always wanting to help me do something around the house, and she is always the first to go comfort one of her brothers if they are hurt. She will make a great mother some day! We love you, Adeline!


Friends Forever

In March I was able to leave ALL the kids and go to Utah for a weekend to spend time with some of my best friends from college. We talked about anything and everything. Even though it has probably been ten years since we have all been together, it feels like we are still close and have been friends forever. I consider these women eternal friends. I love ya'll!

Ogden, Utah Temple
Kendra, Katie, Rachel, Brekke, Shannon, Shauna

Crazy Selfie
(except me cause I didn't hear, he he)

Shauna and I next to Angel Moroni


I brought some masks from New Orleans for fun. Between this and going to see Pride & Prejudice and Zombies, it felt like we were back in college.

Hopefully the next reunion will be less than ten years away!

Flooding!

While I was gone to Utah, there was an incredible amount of rain in Southern Louisiana. It was so bad that church was cancelled. Unfortunately, there were a few people from our church whose homes flooded. Thankfully, we escaped flood damage, but our backyard, ditches and neighborhood were full of more water than we have ever seen before.





Grandparents Visit

We were able to go to a plantation and just have fun together between Mardi Gras parades while my parents and Scott's parents were here for about 10 days. I will let the pictures do the rest of the talking.

Evergreen Plantation



They had the largest amount of original slave quarters of any plantation in the United States I believe. However, they would not let you walk by any of them except one. Lame!

One family was assigned each side which consisted of one room with a fireplace. Those poor people had no personal space!

The mansion started out a bit smaller and grew into the grand house it is today.




Fun at Home



The kid's loved Grandma Flamm's tickle tortures!



The kids loved having a marshmallow gun fight.