Our Week in Instagram Photos

There really isn't way too much going on here, other than everyday life things. On Monday Lilly and I had Daisy's. I usually bring Sadie-Mae with me and Ruby stays with Daddy. Sadie has been really enjoying spending time with the bigger girls. She is so mature for a 3 year old, it's really hard to tell that she's not one of the kindergarteners. She does everything they do and is memorizing the promise just like the others. Lilly is thoroughly enjoying herself. She would have it everyday instead of every other week. I'd be exhausted if it was like that- ha!

 Tuesdays are Story Time days. You know how much we love Story Time around here! Ruby has had such an attitude lately. Even worse than normal. She's been driving me nuts! She has one molar coming in hgvband is trying to do away with naps completely. This day was no exception- I ended up strapping her into the stroller and make sure the straps weren't loose. If they are even just a little loose she can maneuver herself out in seconds.

We got Lilly a new bike this week. She was getting pretty big for the one she had. Girl has grown ridiculously since we went back to the states last November. Every time I turn around she is outgrowing something else. She usually rides her bike to school so it got a lot of usage. I picked her up from school on my bike with Ruby in the trailer. Ruby was ecstatic and we had a nice bike ride home.

Sadie has been pretty interested in taking pictures lately. The only problem is when we let her, she takes a billion random photos of a billion random things. Like the other day, she was taking pictures with my iPod and I caught taking photos of the couch cushions. No exact reason as to why, they were just there. Occasionally I'll try to get her to take a picture of the two of us to distract her for a bit, but the child just makes silly faces and I'll get maybe one or two of her actually smiling. She's such a stinker.

 We started Christmas shopping on Friday. Luckily Sadie's a genius and lacks in the common sense department. You've just got to love the girl. Last year I managed to actually shop for Christmas with her in the cart and she had no idea. At all. This time Steven and I tag teamed to shopping by him actually doing most of it and then I'd go in and give him an opinion/find some stuff to add to the cart. He paid for everything and then asked to leave the cart at the store and he's be back in an hour to pick it up without me or the kids. Best part, Sadie looked in the cart of already paid for gifts and sighed because it was all the stuff she wanted. Poor kid had no clue, but we love her anyway! I swear she's a genius, just without the common sense. She reminds us of Sheldon Cooper on The Big Bang Theory. She's hilarious.

That day, Lilly had a half day of school. Steven picked her up and we headed out to lunch at the club. Steven has been working crazy days and then one day off, but he's still working nights so half the day he's sleeping and awake all night. It's been especially hard on Lilly because he usually has a week day off and she's at school. We tried to make the day as fun as we could for her. And don't you just love how Sadie and Ruby are making the same face?

I'm happy that we got most of the kids Christmas shopping done. We need to get each of them a movie for their stockings and a few books for each of them. We have a few ideas for movies and the books will probably be the best of whatever the BX has. And hopefully, God willing, next Christmas we'll be in the states!

And these are just a few more photos from the week. All of them except for the last one are from Monday while we read bedtime stories. The last one is of Sadie when we went to pick up Lilly from school. She's getting to big!

-K