Fall 2017
December 31, 2017 by Woznation
I Loooooove Fall!!
Well….I love the few weeks that it is still relatively warm and there are still leaves on the tree.
Phil had two pretty long work trips in October, one of which was to Hawaii (!!), so we packed in as many fall activities as we could on the few warm weekends. I feel like most of these pictures are from three 2-hour outings. Which is basically ‘Fall’ in Chicago.
Quick run-down of autumn: The kids adjusted well to school, we had an awesome trip to Disney World, then in October I think we got together with other families or had visitors every weekend. We celebrated Zevs birthday, racked in a boatload of candy on Halloween, then dreaded daylight savings time ended and its now dark by 4:00pm. Ugh. Life. Over.
Other stories and memories Ive been racking up:
–At the beginning of the year I had to fill out a questionnaire for Evie’s school and they asked what motivated my child. I couldn’t think of anything but “Winning”, “Revenge”, or “Treats”. I ended up writing “Verbal Praise” but its not true. (Unless I am giving another child verbal praise then shes says, “And me too, mom, right?”)
–Wil is starting to spell which is awesome and hilarious. This is ‘Next Christmas’.
–Evie always has to be “right”, even when she is obviously wrong. (Example: 2+2 is FIVE WIL!!!!!) And it drives Wil bananas. But I started giving Wil the ‘OK’ sign from across the room as a sign to drop the fight and that I know he is actually “right” but its not worth fighting over. We’ve actually been doing this for 6+months with Wil and it helps calm him down, and funny enough, I just started doing it with Evie when Zev is acting crazy!!
–Evie has done this to herself at least 3 times — HOW??
–I have had a few calls from school about Wil’s behavior (as usual). The teacher’s have all been super nice and just trying to help and make sure we are all on the same page to get him focused. But I have come to dread when I see his school’s phone number pop-up on my phone. One day when I saw the incoming call, I took a deep breath and answered — and it was the school nurse saying that he bumped his head on the playground and came in for an ice pack. THANK GOODNESS. I was so relieved it was just a head wound instead of him acting up.
–Zev LOVES to talk these days. But you HAVE to acknowledge him. He will say ‘Thank you’ or ‘I love you’ or the newest phrase “I LOVE THIS SONG!” over and over and over and over and over — until you say ‘OK Zev — Me too.’ or ‘I love you too’ or ‘youre welcome’. I guess that first year of life being put in corners and being completely ignored are catching up to us — HE WILL NOT BE IGNORED!
Still trying to get out on walks before it hits negative degrees.
–Evie loves to play cards — especially ‘Go Fish’. But (as you expect) she cant lose or all hell breaks loose. I have at least tried to give her an advantage by ‘guessing’ which cards I have by giving her math problems. So if I have 7s, I’ll say “I’ll give you a hint — whats 9 minus 2” Then she magically guesses what I have and never loses! Go figure.
Long afternoon at IKEA
–Daily routine: Kids are up at 7:00. Wil’s bus leaves at 8:19 (hypothetically — dont get me started on the bus system — its up to 20 minutes late). Then I have less than 10 minutes to get Evie to school. But then I just have Zev until 11:30 when I pick-up Evie. Then we do lunch and Zev takes a nap from 12:00ish to 2:30, where I just have Evie. Then Wil is home at 3:00. So its relatively easy from 8:30 — 2:30. Then all 3 are together until bedtime at 7:30. (Oy!) We tried to stay busy this fall with dance, gymnastics, soccer and many many play-dates.
–Phil went to Hawaii!!! That was a tough one to swallow at home with the kids — but Im happy hes in a position where he could do awesome things like this.
–Wil is losing teeth! And I am the WORST tooth fairy ever. I cant go into his room while he is sleeping without completely freaking out. I start to go in but then start to laugh. I am so nervous about being caught!! Phil has to do it. And then on one tooth — we forgot!! We just said the tooth fairy was super busy that night?!!? Ugh. We’re the worst. But the tooth fairy paid double the next night.
–I got to meet baby Lilah!!
So yeah — Fall was happening around here!! Here are all of the ‘left-over’ pictures:
This slideshow requires JavaScript.
Like this:
Like Loading...
Related
Woznation 
Leave a Reply