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A while ago I entered a contest to create your own sub.  It is in the final four.

Please follow this link and vote for my sub.  It is the chicken one.

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You can vote once a day.  Send it to your friends.  If I win I get a $2500 gift card to get go.  That can buy a lot of gas and some food.

this voting ends on Sunday.  

Thanks so much!

Brooke

PS.  you have to vote for a sandwich on each side of the bracket or it won't take your vote.

Amelia is 4!

Amelia is turning 4!


Some fun Amelia facts:

Loves sweets -- pop, candy, lollipops, cake, fruit, etc.  She sneaks food too so we have to watch.

Likes to watch: nightmare before christmas, the box car children, phineas and ferb, spy kids

still super tall and very skinny

registered for preschool

watches muppet babies on you tube

loves going to the gym.  She has tons of friends there.  She is a little miss popularity.  Even the older kids like her. She was the only young kid invited to an 8 year olds birthday party.  Ack!

Her favorite friends are :  Ella, Ava, Tatum, Morgan, Harper

She loves dance school.

She is still the best player.  She has such a great imagination and nice that she can entertain herself when needed.   She loves baby dolls, barbie, doll house, any crafts, play kitchen, dress up, you name it.

she really wants make up.  she loves chapstick...Lippy as she calls it

She wants to go out to eat all of the time.  She asks every time we are in the car.

she loves to listen to music on the radio.  Her favorites the past few months are :  Taylor Swift songs, all about the base, Centuries (which she sings in baby voice) ,pitbul, uptown funk, take me to church, kelly Clarkson, Bang Bang, and tons more

She is excited to turn 4 because she thinks she gets a booster seat in the van.  i will have to check that she may not weigh enough.  We are excited for her to turn 4 because the deal is she has to wipe her own bum!

Favorite books:  look and finds, princess books, pinkalicious

likes to go shopping with mom

still a huge mess maker but getting better

still a messy eater.

still a  pretty happy easy going kid.  She is so smiley and has the best dimples.
She loves to cuddle and give me hugs and kisses and just be at my side.
I think I am going to be sad when she goes to school and isn't home with me anymore.


Edited to add:  One of my favorite things Amelia and I do is our bed time routine (or if i drop her off somewhere).  We give a hug, then a super tight squeeze, then a kiss, then an "ugga mugga" kiss.  Every day.   Amelia calls its a "hug, giss, geezz, and ugga mugga".
 

Baby its cold outside

We had had some cold days this winter.  Many in the negative temperatures.  So we have had a few delays and cancelled school days.

We also have had some snow days.   The kids love playing in the snow.  Tubing is their favorite.

Even Amelia loves it.

We had some friends over the one snow day and the kids often play with the neighbors too.

We got caught in a small snowstorm and someone slid and hit our van.  No damage thankfully.

Several times is snowed then got super cold.  So the driveway is a sheet of ice.  Not fun.  The kids like to go out and chip at it with me.  Too bad our one set of neighbors never do their side.  We laugh at them when they get stuck (they also don't chip in for salt and drive by us when we are shoveling, so we aren't just evil).

The kids like to sit by the fire place in the basement when its really cold.
 
We built this big snow man on our last winter storm.
 
Hopefully the snow is done.  It finally melted (after flooding some areas near the house).
I had every intention of taking them real tubing and ice skating but it doesn't look like that is going to happen.  

Oops...Hayden's 6th birthday

I was starting to get things ready for Amelia's birthday post and realized that Hayden's birthday was never posted.  So a few months late but here it is:


Hayden had a 4 day birthday celebration.

Day 1 -- Pap came over and gave him his present.  Lots of fun TMT stuff.  We sang happy birthday.  hayden picked out a small oreo cake from giant eagle.  it was pretty good.

Day 2-- hayden's real birthday.  The Birthday elf stopped with some treats and a balloon.  We gave him our gift -- A Nintendo 2d DS.

Day 3-- Thanksgiving.  We had family dinner and since most of our family  was here celebrated haydens birthday.  He chose chocolate chip cookies so we stacked them and sang to him.

Day 4-- Since he didn't have a real birthday party we let hayden pick 2 people and go to the trampoline place.  he choose his friend aidan and his cousin John.

Indoor soccer

Hayden has been busy with soccer these winter months.  He comes with me every Wednesday and trains at the clinic I help coach.  Sometimes Amelia plays too.

I signed up him up to play at the Brookline Rec Center and he seemed to like it.  His team never won but he didn't seem to care.  He liked being the "goalie" (not really an actual goalie because they couldn't use hands but did stand in goal).   He gets to play in the all star game in a few weeks.

He is funny to watch.  Sometimes he skips around while playing.  He loves to kick it hard and will wind up and fall every now and then.  he jumps and yells when playing goalie.  His last game he was a maniac -- yelling I am going to destroy you, hurdled some girl and pushed her head into the floor, and boxed out a goalie.  He usually is not aggressive at all.  He is crazy.

He likes to wear his socks over his knees.  I have no idea why.


He was very happy to get his medal after his last game.  Later he did ask Mike why he got a medal when his team was in last place.  :)


Here is a quick video of him being goalie: