Catholic Schools week

So Catholic schools week kicked off with a pep rally in which the 8th graders took on the teachers in Volleyball. Bella got to cheer at the halftime. She also got to wear her uniform all day at school

Then on Saturday she was got to read some of the petitions for mass. She sat with her princpal and other schoolmates who were part of the mass.

Monday was PJ day at school. The kids loved that.

Tuesday was oldies day.. we did 80’s

Wednesday was crazy hair day

Not the best picture, totally forgot to get one ebfore I took out her many ponytails and clips

Thurday was dress for Jesus. Bella wasn’t feeling well this day and I wasn’t sure if she would make it all day. Thankfully she did, but I forgot a picture.  

Friday was the fun day of Roller skating and class color.

My girl rocked the roller blades

There were a lot of other events that went on all week, but these were just the ones that I got pictures of.

Happy 80th Birthday Buscia

Sunday we drove up to Buscia’s to help her celebrate her 80th birthday. We got up there early, but the kids enjoyed being able to to warm up and play before a bunch of people arrived. 

 

WE also were lucky enough to see most of the kids aunts and uncles on the Warpinski side.

We also got to see cousins and other extended family

Max Speech update

This was Max almost a year ago. We had just started speech.Max didn’t want to talk for anyone, not even his sister who can get him to do anything.  Shortly after this I think he decided to stop talking all together and we could get a few signs out of him. He would always say Uh no and Ga . I need to find a “ga” video..miss that little phase that meant everything to Max.
here’s Max today :

Granted this is not his best talking, but he’s talking while playing with his toys. He talks back to the tv or sings along with songs. Sometimes he gets mad and will scream, but if we can calm him down enough to understand him, we defuse quickly.  Many of his speaking is one word at a time and prompting from  us, but he’s getting better. Once we started using more sign, he started to try more words. I thought we would backtrack when we took a month off speech due to the move and then changing speech therapist, but maybe the break is what he needed.  I have hopes that he will be able to catch up and someday separate speech will be a thing of the past.

I hope to get a few more videos posted… Cookie is my favorite word along with mommy/

Day off and Ear infection

So I mentioned in the other post that max wasn’t feeling the greatest. he had a slight fever, but it went away with medicine and a cough. I worry about Influenza so the Doctor wanted to see him Tuesday night. She tested him for the flu but it was negative. She said it was a cold and he would be ok. I figure , it’s all good since I had Wednesday off and JOsh had off Friday, so he had a lot of time to rest with out germs of day care.

So Wednesday morning we all slept in, then went outside since it was nice out.

the kids had a blast and lots of fun. The dogs are so good now at staying by us and not running off, so it’s nice to be outside with them. We are also waiting for Lily to calve.. we thought it would be three weeks ago, but still nothing.

got the kids in the house and lunch. Then Max went down for a nap. Bella and I played some games and she worked on reading while I worked on cleaning up the house. Max woke from his nap, and started playing with Bella. Suddenly he comes to me with chattering teeth and shaking with chills. I take his temp and it’s 100. something. So I take him in the bedroom and I cover him up with a blanket. I thought the house is kind of chilly. Well within 20 mins it up to 102 something, then I call the doctor’s office, bc I know this isn’t right. I get told the nurse will call me back . I then give him more medicine when it climbs to 104. I get ahold of the nurse at 455, the office closes at 5. She tells me to talk him to urgent care

. I had to go to Watertown where Max fell asleep in the car. We get in right away and the doctor looks at  us. She sees his ear is looking bad, then she does a swap for the flu again. Then we wait. I asked her to send in his prescribtion right away, so I won’t have to wait for that too. Well we waited an hour and half for a 20 min test. Lucky I called my mom to pick up max’s meds and bring them too us… bc we got released the same time that she arrived. Max fell asleep on the way home and then was hard to get back to sleep that night.

His fever spiked again and he was so miserable that I had to call into work and say I wouldn’t make it in. So I stayed home all day with him. thankfully he started to turn around after his nap. Actually he woke up and I asked him how he felt and he said “great” I let him do whatever he wanted and it seemed to help. He asked to go outside when I knew Josh and bella were on the way home. So we got some fresh air.

Max’s Hair cut

SO I finally got Max’s hair cut.. I know people have been wondering when I could cut it again. But the other day when he was in blue and camo a person called him a girl, I figured it was probably time. I debated where to go and then found out about a place in Ocomomowoc that had a kid friendly salon. They also had 10.00 toddler cuts, my price if he freaked out again. Fates would have it, that my mom was off, so we brought her along too.

Max wasn’t feeling the greatest, but I took him anyhow. He did great. he got to sit in a fire truck and watch Paw Patrol. he wouldn’t wear the cape, but he got his hair cut, so that’s all that mattered.

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Ikea Packer Sunday

Sunday morning, I was picked up by Nikki, Tori and Katie to head south to IKEA for a girls day. Josh left with the kids to go ice fishing for a bit to enjoy the warmer weather. They stayed out for about 2 horus before Josh brought them home for my mom to watch while he went back out.

The girls and I got to IKEA around 11 and meet Heather there. it was three floors of housewares fun. we shopped for an hour, getting curtain rods that were taller then any of us, before stopping to eat in the in-store restaurant. I got yummy meatballs and a salted caramel cake. the food is yummy!!  Then it was back to shopping.

I think it was about 2pm before we got on the road from our shopping and loading up. Just as the Packer Seahawk game was starting. I really wanted to watch it with the family, but instead I got to do play by plays on my phone until we got into WI and found a radio station that had the game on. 

WE got home just as the game got over. poor Packers, but it was a good game. I got to love on my child and husband before it was time for us all to hit the sack.

 

 

my sweet husband took pictures of the kids during the game for me

Family Picture 2nd of 2015

Finally got another family picture in. Our days and nights have been crazy and it’s been pushed to the backburner… no more…

Poms and MaBel Studios

So Saturday was a crazy busy day. We started out with Bella having poms at School. She has to be there at 845, since she was staying at my mom’s with Max(we had Josh’s work x-mas party the night before) Josh and I met mom at school. I also had Bella's poms.

We got there and Josh ended up leaving with Max before the basketball game even started. They started late and Max was overtired.  But I was able to video it for Josh to see. He’s going to try for the next one.

Then Bella and I came home to a napping Max to get our house ready for photo time. As a joke I came up with the name MaBel studios for my photos. I had like three places set up for pictures but ended up just using one spot with different poses. Tori brought over Reed and Nikki brought her four.  We ended up with only pictures of the younger three. I tested out the camera and such with my two.

she had to take pictures too.. here she was with Callie before everyone arrived.