Random October-ness

Beside all the excitement in October

you have already read about,

we stayed busy doing all sorts of stuff.

Cleaning & Organizing & Purging

With a house full of 6 people,

5 of which are home

all day

every day,

our house is very lived in

and 

rarely "tidy".

Certain rooms are in better shape than others.

The schoolroom,

however,

is not one of them.

It can get out of hand REAL QUICK!

How in the world can we work in there? - you ask.

Easy, just step over stuff...

but school always takes priority...

cleaning, not so much.

Til I finally just took a day off from school

and did it!

Whoa!  What a difference a day makes! - you say?

I know!!!

While I was at the cleaning and organizing thing...

I decided to clean and purge our playroom.

A pre-Christmas ritual around our house.

Then,

I took on our entertainment center 

turned playroom storage unit.

It houses all of our games.

I really wish I had taken a before picture.

But you will just have to use your imagination.

All of these game and such...

Were 100% in here!

With a 3 yo, 4 yo, 7 yo & 9 yo

in this house...

yes, you can imagine what it looked like.

And it was seriously a hazard to attempt to retrieve

a game out of here.

OSHA would have fined us BIG TIME!

After a quick trip to

the local home improvement store for some 

premade,prepainted shelves.

Then telling my husband what I wanted...

He whipped out his handy dandy drill 

and a handy dandy drill bit adapter thing.

And drilled some holes for me

so I could have adjustable shelves!

Then I put all of the games back.

Now the kids aren't scared to get games out!
(I am not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing!)

 More Football Games

 As per our norm during the fall season,

we trekked to Carter-Finley to 

watch the Wolfpack play.

We noticed this billboard

Our seats are below the "CK" in the word Wolfpack.

So we decided to take a closer look,

just to see if we could find ourselves.

Low and behold,

we see two little boys

perched in their "game day" locations.

No one else knows they are there...

but we do.

And that is all that matters.

My babies are famous!

(sort of)

We got to hang out with Wolfie

for a whole 20 seconds.

But it was the best 20 seconds of that game!!

Cheerleading

 Never, ever, ever, 

in my wildest dreams,

did I think that

I 

me 

this girl

would be fluffing 

POM-POMS!

For anyone!

But there I sat,

fluffing pom-poms

watching my one and only daughter

practices her cheerleading.

Co-op

Just a few quick pictures of 

finger painting in co-op.

Mr. T had fun, 

but like any 3 yo,

enjoyed the mess

more than the concept.

Ms. Priss,

on the other hand,

I was SHOCKED

at what she came up with.

They just gave the kids colors,

cool colors,

and let them go.

This is what she came up with...

at 4 1/2!

And what is finger painting without getting a little on you.

How, I have no idea.

And off...

Mr. T also got to burn off some energy 

during PE.

He did toe touches and jumping jacks like a champ!

 Health & Wellness

Then the big boys had 

a push-up competition

and Rico is pretty good!

Mr. T had to jump in and give it a shot.

He has great form!!

Got to start them early!

I did not participate in the push-up

competition.

I just watched.

But,

when thinking about what we could do to be healthier...

especially after single handedly eating 

my entire birthday cake...

by my self.

I selfishly did not share ONE BITE!

Lucky for me,

Tony's cake was still in the fridge,

so when the kids asked for some of mine,

I kindly and gently steered them to his cake.

It was twice the size of mine, afterall.

I realized that

I did need to find a way to drink more water.

It dawned on me that I hardly drank anything all day.

I had gotten into a rut 

where I nursed a cup of coffee most of the day,

then switched to a single glass of wine at dinner.

And that was it!

I found one of these nifty things.

My step-sister-in-law (?)

Has one and I loved the idea!

I got lucky and found one

on sale at TJ Maxx!

It is a diffuser!

I don't fill it full of fruit or herbs yet.

We are starting inexpensive and slow!

Right now we put one tea bag (whatever we are in the mood for)

and a little bit of fruit.

I had purchased a bunch of lemons,

so we hit the lemon flavored water hard for a while.

Then they started going bad before we could use them all.

So I frozen them...

in ice cubes.

Well, ice.

Now they are frozen and ready to go into our diffuser!

The kids like this water too,

anything to get us drinking more water

and less juice!

It has worked!

For everyone!

Score!