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Monday, March 9, 2009

fuel '09

northridge church had a glow in he dark event called "fuel" for the k/1 and their families. dave had already made plans with a group of people to go see the watchmen movie so i was on my own with the two boys.
we got to the church where they had a pizza dinner and then the kids were able to make little "puppets" where they would color them, put stickers and glue other things on them that would glow in the dark for the main event. hayden did an ok job eating his pizza...only so he could eat his brownie. and talan only ate the pepperoni, carrots and brownie.
we ran into our friend leon and his daughter noelle, so that was nice to be able to hang with someone we actually knew.
after the kids made their puppets, we headed upstairs for glow in the dark tattoos and then we were seated for the glow in the dark puppet show.
i was told at the beginning of the evening that they wanted me to park my stroller upstairs as it was so crowded. that only lasted through dinner and then i finally had to go get it. talan is just not a kid that will stick near you. and i could never be a single parent to these two!!!
the puppet show was a little long and hayden was getting kind of restless, but we made it through and then headed home. i asked hayden what his favorite part of the evening was and he said "the brownie!"
i guess the past several years about 60-70 families have gone to this event. this year, there were over 150. they said there were over 600 people there! we had a good time and it's nice to be getting a little more involved at the church. hayden seems to really enjoy it and was even stopped by several of his teachers whom he gave hugs to.
on our way home, i stopped off at 7-11 to pick up some slurpees as we were all really thirsty. hayden had fallen asleep in the car but quickly woke up to drink his "frozen drink." then unfortunately, hayden ended up getting sick early saturday morning and he's been down and out ever since. poor kid!
here are a few pictures of our evening. not too many as i had my hands a bit full with tray's of food and a busy talan!

making their glow in the dark stick puppets:

the finished products:

noelle and hayden:

leon, noelle, hayden and talan waiting for the puppet show:

maybe i should have realized earlier that he was getting sick...:

talan loved my slurpee:

Monday, February 16, 2009

first attempt at a 2-wheeler

the other week we loaded up the car with the hummer and hayden's bike so that they could ride around dave's shop after church. we let hayden ride his bike for a little bit before we took the training wheels off and had him attempt to ride a 2-wheeler.
he was not happy about it and used the words "i can't" more than i thought was possible.
hayden has always been really smart and things have just always come to him without much work on his part. so if he comes across something that he can't do immediately, he tends to give up right away.
i do think he had it for about a split second, but that was about it for attempt number one. hopefully we'll start getting some nicer weather so he can practice and be up and running by late spring!

dave showing how not frustrating it is to work with hayden:

i think this is around the time dave let go for a split second:

Friday, January 16, 2009

cold day

today hayden had a cold day from school. not a snow day. a cold day. when i woke up it was -12 and that was without the windchill. apparently most places around here were between -25 and -30 with the windchill. monroe was at -38! so that equals no school for over 100 school districts.
hayden has not been to school on a friday since before christmas break. he had a snow day on the friday that was to be his last day of school before break and his streak has continued. i realized he won't go to school on a friday at all this month as next friday he has off for teacher records day and the next friday he will be going back to the dentist to have a tooth pulled and some cavities filled. friday is his library and show and tell day but he hasn't seemed to mind having those days off.
yesterday we went out to a few stores and when we went to target i stopped by the toy aisle to see if they had marked anything down further. mainly this magnext icoaster that hayden had asked for for christmas. it was the one thing that he commented on on christmas. "santa didn't get me the magnet roller coaster!" no, santa did not, because said magnet roller coaster was $90.
i had noticed target marked it down the other week but it was still $66. so yesterday i saw it and it was down to $22. so hayden used some of his birthday and christmas money to buy it.
when dave got home and after we all ate dinner last nite, we all headed to hayden's bedroom so that we could set it up. he was able to play with it for a bit before bed. and when he went to bed, we took out the power supply to ensure he would not be playing with it when he should be sleeping.
so this morning at 7am he comes into our room saying "mom, it's 7 o'clock. so i can play with my roller coaster now, right?" so off he went to his room to set it all up.
i got up around 7:20 to find that he was dressed, but had not eaten. so he headed into the kitchen for some breakfast asking me "do i have school today?" and at that time i thought he did. so he says "ahhhh. but i want to stay home and play with my roller coaster!"
i head downstairs and check my email and find that he, in fact, does not have school. when i told him this, his face lit up and he said " i told you i didn't have school! no wait. no i didn't. but now i can play with my roller coaster!!!" it was the perfect day for him to have an unexpected day off.
at noon, he was still in his room and i called him out for lunch. he told me he was setting up a new one and he would eat when he was done. at 12:40, he finally came out.
this is the greatest toy EVER!!!!!

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

glow golf with justica

jessica and justin were really bummed that they had to miss hayden's 6th birthday party as they were in alaska with fireflight. so when they returned, they picked up hayden and took him out for a special afternoon of glow golfing. we weren't allowed to go but jessica took pictures for us. they said they all had a great time. thanks justica!

this looks like a fit to me. could it be that they told him it was almost over?!:

hayden turns 6

on december 30th, at 5:49am, hayden michael turned 6 years old!
this year, with a few suggestions from me, hayden decided on having a lego themed birthday party.
unfortunately, jessica and justin had to leave that day for alaska as fireflight would be playing a show there on new years eve. dad also wasn't able to make it as their power went out the nite before and he had to stay home with the generator to make sure the house didn't flood. mom did bring him so cake though!
we still had a basement full with mom, jenn and rainah, the howard family, tina, and jack and caroline skiver.
i made 4 cakes shaped like lego pieces and hayden and dave had been building lego things all week to use as decorations. each of the kids got a box with a lego set, lego fruit snack, stickers and lego candy in them.
hayden got some more wooden trains and accessories, some games, some leapster games, some cd's and some gift cards and some money. we actually just went to target the other day so he could spend his gift cards and he got himself some blendy pens and 2 new trains.
after bringing his new trains upstairs to play by himself, he realized he was lonely and decided to share. all of the kids jumped right in and they had a great time playing with the train set. hayden, of course, tried telling them just how they should play but he got over it after a bit and they all played together really nicely.
hayden is so excited to be 6 and kept telling us "now i'm bigger than a 5 year old, cuz i'm 6 now!" it's hard to believe it though. time just seems to be speeding up.
we love you, hayden! happy 6th birthday!!!!