The Letter A

at our house for a few days we are working on the letter A.

Here are the boys poster boards for all of our A activities.

Today was Apples. you can see the apple stamps on the poster board(we also did some on construction paper). we also did these apple trees. the apples are finger prints.

Tommorow is aquiriam. we are going to do a craft that you put numbered fish in a bowl. we also are going to do sunvisor it will be ocean themed.

later

jessie

menu for the week.

ok i am trying to get a little better. it seems that for the last two weeks i have been grocery shopping about every week and a half instead of week. i usually have enough to pull some kind of meals together.

here is the menu starting with today

Thur: Pizza (tombstone on sale)

FRI: out with the aunts or spaghettin

Sat: chicken Quisidias

Sun Pork Chops

Mon Meat Loaf

Tue Chicken Julienne

Wen: Baked Zitti

Thur: Left overs

ok so that is the plan. now i am thinking of having the chicken julienne tonight, just to try it out. i found the recipe on allrecipes.com

Later

Jessie

FlyLady Zone 5... the living room

so,if you didn't already know i try to follow the flylady to help me keep my house clean. she has a very simple method to organize and help you clean (and we all know i need all the help i can get.) i continue to work on my routines (morning and evening) but in the end a little is better than nothing. so if you are interested. she does more than just gives you a cleaning guide. she also tries to set you up routines that help you keep your house clean. i really like it.

http://www.flylady.net/

houseblessings

Vacuum
Dust
Mop
Polish Mirrors and Doors
Purge magazines
Change Sheets
Empty all trash

this week is the living room. so here is that list


ZONE 5: LIVING ROOM/ FAMILY ROOM/ DEN
1. CLEAN COBWEBS
2. CLEAN WINDOWS
3. STRAIGHTEN BOOKCASES
4. WASH ORNAMENTS AND WHAT-KNOTS
5. CLEAN OUT END TABLE
6. STRAIGHTEN CLOSETS/ DRAWERS
7. WIPE FINGERPRINTS FROM WALLS
8. POLISH FURNITURE
9. CLEAN OUT MAGAZINE RACKS
10. CLEAN PHONE
11. CLEAN UNDER CUSHIONS
12. CLEAN OUT FIREPLACE
13. MOVE FURNITURE AND VACUUM
14. SHAMPOO CARPET

later

jessie

another trip to wal mart

total around 25$
paid around 16$

the big things

Wheat Thins 2$ (i got 3)
1$ coupon on Coupons.com

HoneyMaid Graham crackers 2.50 (i got 2)
1$ coupon on coupons.com

cottenelle 4 pack 1.00 (i got 4)
.75 off of 2 (found in a machine at cvs)

i also got some tomato plants, a gallon of milk, some cinnamon imperials.

thanks to st. louis mommy for showing me these.
really i may go to moms and print out more for the wheat thins we love the tomato basil one and went through one box in about a day and a half.

later

jessie

N Stood up!!!

We were in the sunroom and N pulled himself up on the tub that i have blocks in. i tried to get a pix of that but he fell.

but later on he pulled up on the couch. (the cushion was off)

here are some pix











some pix of B






later

Jessie

The Zoo today and b's last day of preschool

Today was brysons field trip to the zoo and we all went. so it was also nolans first zoo trip.
Bry and i rode the bus, and scott followed in the suv with E and Nol.

once there you could pretty much just go wherever you wanted to so we just did what we normally do. Nol did really good. there were some periods where he wanted to be carried a long time but we just took turns ( i don't remember B or N being like that though.. spoiled boy)

anyway. i had my camera in the diaper bag, but when scott tried to get all of the stuff into the stroller the bag didn't fit, so he moved some stuff into a different bag, not realizing that my camera was in there, so i have no pix, sorry.

i really can't believe that B just finished pre school. (oh and pray for me becuase now i am home by myself with 3 boys the WHOLE day ...lol... at least until school is out.)

i do have stuff planned for the boys to do, so just check back for pictures of what we are doing at home.

later

jessie

Sippy Cup

as i said in my post about walmart. i picked up a sippy cut for N. He did really good with it. at one point he was tipping it up on his own to drink. i am now getting the sippy out at almost every meal. here are some pictures.

Later

Jessie