After school care

After a few comments from friends and bloggers, I am seriously thinking of doing after school care and summer care instead of all day care of toddlers. That would solve a lot of issues I was facing. I still wanted to the freedom during the day to do things. And our house usually has a few kids over after school anyway. I love working with older kids as well. So I think I will put my feelers out there to see what people want. (And Tracey I would always have room for your gang!)

Sorry

I have been in a bit of a blogging rut. I just need to get back in the saddle and start blogging again.

And I'm not going to be able to post any pics for a bit. Beck pulled my camera off the table and it hit the ground lens first. I have the worst camera karma with this camera! Now the lens is toast. The feet that hold the lens onto the camera are broken. Why do they make them out of plastic? So now I am searching for my new lens. We have already replaced the lens once before when it fell on the NICU floor the day the babies were born. And then we had to send the body in to fixed the cracked insides. So basically I have bought this camera twice. Its a good thing I LOVE it. :)

I am also in a bit of a life change mode. The photography business has slowed down a lot! And we just weren't getting enough business in for me to go in and work and to keep our bills paid. I also have really enjoyed these last few months off with the kids and my man. So now I am on the search for the perfect stay at home job that brings in just enough money to pay the bills.

Any ideas? I think I am going to try and watch a few kids at home. And when I say a few, I mean 2. With 2 soon to be toddlers at the house already I don't think I can handle much more.

But I figure I have all of the toys, space and time on my hands, might as well have some playmates for the babies during the day as well. I would love to find some kids right around the twins age. At the moment I'll take anything. But it would be great if they were close in age. It would make it easier to plan age appropriate activities.

So if you are in the Allen/Plano/McKinney area and need some child care, shoot me a message! If you were looking for at home care, where would you look for it, other than word of mouth? I'm trying to figure out what would be best.

Updates

For those of you who have been praying for my friend Deanna and her father, Bob, thank you all very much. You can check her blog to read the latest updates. I'll update more later on our "Staycation" but just wanted to let you all know where you could check up on them. Thank you again for all of your positive thoughts and prayers.

Staycation Day 4

Our Staycation took us out to Bonham today. My dad has some land out there that has a 3 acre pond. So we decided to take a little fishing trip. H loves to fish and B can take it or leave it. But he loves to play in the car, so we were set.

Brandon getting H's Pole ready

My girl who actually likes worms.

B trying his hand at fishing

H and Brandon and Beck taking a little boat ride in the pond

Ella enjoying the day

and exploring

Me and my baby girl

She loves to put things on head and then have them fall off.

B having a blast playing in the car

Dandelion Picking (not allowed at home!! we hate those things in our yard.)

getting lines untangled

Drool much?

and then we were done.

It was a fun day! This has been a great week. :)

Some baby love

Ella was my super happy baby girl today. We got lots of smiles. I had to work much harder for Beck's but he did give me some in the end. We had a fun day!

(Side note: when you look through these images can you tell which ones were taken with natural light and which ones had flash? I didn't color correct any of them and it amazes me how much difference there is. Natural light makes everything look so much better!)














And this is how the room looked after the babies were done playing. Can you say whirlwind?!?!

Staycation Day 3

H and I decided to try and make some Po (from kung fu panda) rice krispie treats. They were on the back of the the rice krispies box and looked fun and easy. And it was pretty much. Except for the black icing we had on hand. It wasn't very easy to spread and decorate with so we ended up with multi-colored Po's instead.




They were so yummy!!!

Staycation Day 2

Not much happened today. Sort of boring but the kids enjoyed themselves. B and his buddy played outside pretty much all day with a few breaks to play Wii. H played all day and ran some errands with us. The babies got to tag along in their little backpacks and see the world from a higher view. More tomorrow.

Spring Break- Staycation Day 1

We have Spring Break this week with the big kids. So we decided to have a little Stay-cation instead of going somewhere. Today's first outing was the Cavanaugh Flight Museum. We loaded up all of the kids, B's best bud M, his dad and little bro and off we went. The kids loved seeing all of the airplanes and pretended they were army men. It was great. The place wasn't too small and it wasn't too big. We were able to make it through fast enough that they didn't get bored. There is also a lot of room to run around, so it got even more bonus points!! Afterward we went and had lunch at Jake's and enjoyed this beautiful day on the patio.

Do you see a resemblance?

And my girl strapped on for the ride.

Its always nice to have a tall dad to help you see things up high!

Best Buds!!!

Army men on a mission

and the tour ended.

waiting for some grub

chill-axin

The 2 year old throwing back a beer...a root beer that is

The big boys enjoying their frosty mugs of root beer

It was a super day!