Zoo and Park...More Fun on the Go!

Here are a few pictures that I took of the little field trip to the Zoo on Tuesday morning and our picnic at the Fish Park this last week.

Zoo pics!!

Finally I have finished uploading the pictures of the Zoo. This was our big all day first summer field trip of the year, but believe me we have every intention of going to the Zoo and other places fun all summer long. I always just like to kick off Summer field trip time with an all day visit. We had a lot of fun and no one had any major meltdowns or tried to run away. We ate our turkey sandwich picnic lunch outside the aquarium and enjoyed watching the Sea lions get fed among many other fun things. I hope you enjoy the pictures. I took a lot that day and try to always take pictures of our outings so you can see the things we do. Hopefully I'll be better about posting this summer of all of our field trips and fun adventures!

Tess Virginia Coffey

Tess Virginia Coffey was born on Jan. 12, 2010 at 11:39pm. She weighed 8lbs. 11 oz, and was 20 1/4 inches long. She has long dark hair and at first looked a lot like Raymond, but I think she is looking a little less like him everyday. She is definitley mostly Coffey. She and I are doing great. She has had to have a blood test every day for Jaundice because she's a little yellow, so we are waiting to hear the results from today's lab, hopefully it has gone down now.

I will call everyone with a status update on my reopening date as well, but I will be closed all this week and reopen on Mon. Jan. 25 at normal times! I hope this is not too inconvenient for anyone with taking the extra three days from last week off.

I will keep you all posted on our new little one, but as of right now I am spending my time mostly trying to get my house back in order, work on daycare paperwork for taxes, and set up some sort of routine with Tess and the boys. I hope everyone is doing well and can't wait for everyone to meet her!

Blizzards and Christmas!

Once again it is one of those busy times of year. Getting ready for Christmas and New Years and in my families case a new baby as well. On top of all this hustling and bustling we have been dumped on with snow (which I cannot say I am not unhappy about - I LOVE snow at Christmas time). However much I love snow, doesn't reflect the fact that all of you have no doubt encountered many troubles getting out of your house to head to work or my house, or traveling scary slick roads as well.

Last week we had a full list of festivities for the kids to help them enjoy the Christmas season. I wanted it to be a fun and relaxing time, while also getting to do many things we don't always get to do.

Monday we had a free day, where the kids got to pick all day what they wanted to do next and we had to do it (within reason of course) without complaining. That turned out ok.
Tuesday we had a pajama day and the kids love it. I don't know why I don't do it more often. Maybe from now on, when the boys don't have school we'll have a pj day. I think my main reason for not doing it more often is because we have to load up everyday to make the school run.

On pajama day we got to run around in our pajamas and draw and have a daytime slumber party! I know I enjoyed wearing my pj's all day too!!Wednesday we had our green day and our Christmas party. It was a lot of fun. No one forgot their green! We watched the Santa Claus 3, made and decorated sugar cookies, had gifts from Matt and Alex's mom (thank you), treat bags from me and made a couple of cute crafts. I love the handprint Christmas trees the boy's made, and I hope you all liked yours too. We played Christmas Bingo and listened to Christmas music all day. It was a fun snowy day!

Thursday Matt and Alex were my only kids for the day, but we still enjoyed our game and movie day. Matt and Alex brought a Mickey Mouse movie to share and the game Hot Potato, which my kids had never played before. We decorated some more Christmas cookies and had a relaxing day.

Friday of course we were closed, but I hope everyone had a great holiday! Here are some pictures that I wanted to share of our week last week. Also, my Midwife has decided that unless Tess has a major growth spurt, her intentions are to let me go into labor on my own (so that leaves it up in the air as to when she will come). My mom comes this Saturday (the 2nd) for if she comes next week, but that leaves us wide open for this week. If for some reason she comes this week, I will call you if it's during the day to come pick up the kids, while also calling my mother-in-law to come watch the kids if need be until they get picked up. Whatever day she comes, that next day until a week from then I will plan on being closed. For example if she were to come Wednesday, then I would be closed Thur. and Fri. then the whole next week. But we can figure that out when the time arrives.

If you have any questions please let me know! Enjoy the pics. and I look forward to having everyone back.

Oh, the Weather Outside is Frightful...

Many people totally hate the snow. Maybe it's because school was closed today and tomorrow and I don't have to leave the house or it's just December and I think that there should always be snow this month to make it more Christmasy, but I didn't and don't mind all of the snow we are getting right now!

We tried to take advantage of it today since the kids were so upset that I wouldn't let them play in it yesterday. Today we had a REAL snow day. We got bundled up and played outside, we listened to Christmas music and drew Christmas pictures, we played a couple of games and we had popcorn and hot cocoa for a snack. At the end of the day we relaxed with a good old fashioned movie.

I thought it was a very fun day, and I hope the kids did too.

So I took a few pictures of us playing out in the snow and thought they turned out really cute! I hope you all enjoy and made it home safe and sound.

Still able to play on the swings, even in a snow storm!

Almost Christmas Time!

Brown day...


I know, once again it has taken me a little while to update our blog. We've been keeping busy with Thanksgiving projects, the letters and numbers and practicing rhyming words.

Now we are gearing up for winter and Christmas projects while continuing our letters etc. We will be doing lots of fun things in the upcoming weeks and I think the kids will enjoy some of the crafts and activities we will be doing. I love celebrating Christmas time with the kids, because they always have so much fun with it!

Please let me know what days you might be gone for vacations etc. so I can plan what day our Christmas Party will be. I am planning on only being closed Christmas day (unless something happens with baby Tess).

I think the kids have already been restless with the cold weather the last couple of days after such nice days the beginning of the week. We will be practicing our listening skills a lot more over the next few months, because in my experience, for some reason kids have more trouble listening when the season changes to Winter and I think it's just because they don't get as much time to run and exercise.

I will keep you all posted on any baby news as soon as I know something. Please have backups at the ready just in case she decides to make her debut unexpectedly! Also as a reminder Christmas Day is a paid holiday.

Playing in the Leaves!

Today we spent a considerable amount of time in the front yard playing now that the leaves have finally dried out after all of our rain! The kids went a little crazy playing in the leaves and I thought it was so cute! They were throwing them and playing chase and rolling in them and it was a great photo opportunity. So I took a bunch of pictures of them playing. Since the weather is supposed to be so nice this weekend, my goal is to get as many leaves raked up as I can (we'll see how that works out!) and so this might be one of the last times they have this many leaves to play in for awhile.

So I hope you enjoy the pictures of your kids playing and enjoying the beautiful Fall weather!