Kids go to see Santa

The kids were all excited to see Santa Friday night at the zoo. We had dinner, took our picture with him, and then checked out the lights at the zoo.

Emmy was all dressed up for him before we left. Everyone said she looked just like Mommy when she was younger.

 While we were waiting for Santa, there were some other characters walking around like reindeer, snowman, Elmo, tiger. Emily was a little scared of them and freaked out whenever they came near her. Apparently Santa was ok though because she was really excited and anxious to see him.

 They also wrote letters to Santa to tell him what they wanted for Christmas.

Bo sings his school song

Bo's class sung a song on Friday in front of the whole school. It was called, "My Home is In Montana". Bo is sitting in the front row.

They all wore a bandanna since that is a line in the song. He seems a little shy in the video. He definitely knows the words because he sings it in our bed every morning at 6am when we don't get up right away.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlrszWd29pk

Bo's holiday party

Bo had his holiday party at school this morning. They performed a reindeer dance to "Jingle Bell Rock"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COXmKdTMatA
Then they read a Christmas book about Daddy (The Grinch). They made snow glows and ate snacks which included hot chocolate with snow man marshmellows and popcorn in a cup painted like a snowman.

Emily's 2013 Xmas dance performance

Here is video of Emmy's dance performance of "I love Santa Clause"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_GS2hBWp_I

As you can see, she didn't really do much of the dance but she said "she made good choices"and wanted to know if we could go to the candy store.

Bo tube - Joker's funhouse

After a busy weekend, Sunday afternoon was spent putting together one of Bo's lego sets Joker's Funhouse with the Batmobile bike. It took a few hours to build while Emmy napped. After finishing it up and getting it all set-up, Bo wanted to film a video. He was in a silly mood so we had several takes. This was the most serious one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0pkG8dVpx4

Of course, Emmy wanted to do a video also. She was very quiet and helped say "action" for Bo's video so here is her turn. As you can tell, her brother wasn't able to sit as still or as quiet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bntSvKHmttk

Bo's field trip to produce stand

Right before Halloween, Daddy was able to go on a field trip with Bo's class. We walked from his school to a produce stand in downtown Webster Groves. Daddy, Bo, and his partner Sam were one team. They did a great job of following directions staying safe.

When we arrived each group was in charge of selecting something. Our group was to get fresh fruit that the class could eat for snack. They were encouraged to select new foods so we picked a wide variety.

Before we headed back to school, the whole class stood in front of the pumpkin display and sang their class song, "My Home is Montana"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp2LJTNVlL4

December snow fun

Over the weekend, we had a little snow so Bo and Daddy went outside to play. He wanted to make a hideout like last year, a snowman, clear a path for Mommy (shovel the driveway), and have a snowball fight. Basically, a hideout is a pile of snow with a tunnel so you can crawl under the snow into your hideout. Bo named the snowman sheriff because he looked like a sheriff he thought. We were going to walk over to a hill to sled down but I think Bo was wore out because he wanted to go in.

Emmy stayed inside watching a movie with Mommy. She said it was too cold outside and she wanted to go to the beach where there was sun.

Botube - homemade race track with surprise ending

Here is a Botube episode of a homemade race track he made with a surprise ending.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSoymwAsvEs

Of course, Emmy had to do one too. She needed a little help narrating.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urMrVzNI5GY

Halloween

It was a rainy night for Halloween this year. Bo dressed up as a Pirate (Jake from the Neverland pirates show) and Emmy was Peter Pan. We tried to see if Emmy wanted to be a princess or even Tinker Bell but she had her mind up to be Peter Pan. I like how she even had the pose down with her hands on her hips.

Emmy didn't last long outside because she was afraid of ghosts and monsters. I think the wind was blowing away her umbrella which she thought was a ghost. Bo was ready to go. He carried his umbrella around with him and went to all the normal houses. I don't think we did as many as last year but it was raining pretty good for awhile and windy. Emmy went in after about 10 houses and then Bo went to the next court while Emmy stayed inside with Mommy where the ghosts can't get her.

Pumpkin Carving

The kids picked out what they wanted their pumpkin. We looked at quite a few pictures online. Bo settled on Darth Vadar. Emmy chose Arial (she asked if it was ok if she called her Mermaid).

Daddy did the carving so it is hard to make out what they are. We will need to check how they look in the dark with a candle inside, hopefully a little better. The are holding the pictures we used to duplicate. They colored them while we were carving.

Kids at Sky Zone

Bo had his last soccer game last weekend so they had his end of the season party at Sky Zone (a trampoline place). The kids love the place. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4n3eKWjALo

Pumpkin Patch

Two weeks ago, we took our annual trip to the pumpkin patch. A friend of Daddy's had a pavilion there that we were invited to so the kids were treated to some fun. This is our traditional photo in front of the pyramid of pumpkins.

Bo couldn't decide which pumpkin to pick. He wanted to decorate it and make another pirate ship out of it.

Emmy on the other hand was carrying around this little one every where and wouldn't let go of it. Then when we got our mini wagon she kept filling it up we many. Daddy made a rule that you can get any pumpkin or pumpkins that you can carry yourself.

This is us on the tractor for a hay ride

On our way to the car with our pumpkins and treats.

One funny story is Emmy had to go potty so the only thing there was Johnny-on-the-spots. We went in and she said it stinks in here. Then she looked in the toiler and said ooh gross. Daddy you need to flush it. I tried to explain it to her but that didn't work out very well. She refused to go and apparently didn't have to go too bad because she held it until we got home which was about an hour later. Bo on the other hand went in there and checked everything out. So he needed a major hand washing after his turn.

Lemonade stand

Bo has been wanting to do a lemonade stand for awhile now. Today, Mommy bought some lemons at the store so he was very excited. He squeezed them and couldn't believe not much came out of it. He then tasted it and spit it out really fast because it was so sour. He forgot to add water and "salt" which he meant sugar. We did that a few times and did taste tests along the way.
He remembered to make a sign and sell it for a hundred dollars a cup. Except we made it 25 cents a cup on the sign. He picked his location and waited for customers as he said. He was yelling at cars as they drove me.

It took about 60mins to sell out as 4 customers came by and gave him money for the lemonade. He was more excited to count his money than anything. He is going to buy an angry bird set.

He would tell all the customers thanks and see you next time. By the way, next time he wants to sell strawberry lemonade. When he went to bed tonight, he asked if we were doing another lemonade stand tomorrow.

Disney World Trip

I think the kids were ready to go to Disney

The kids running on the airplane through the "tunnel". Emmy asked "Where are we going?"

We had "Buger King" happy meals to eat on the plane. Emmy was very nervous that her meal was going to blow away or out the window on the airplane. She closed the shade and wouldn't let go of her meal. It was very funny.

Emmy went to Bippy-Boppy-Boo to get her down like a princess. She was dressed like Princess Sophia, her favorite princes. This is a picture of her prior to the make-over all ready to go.

Next store to the boutique was the Lego store. Outside, all the kids were building mini race cars and racing them.

Here is a picture of the princess getting hair done.

She got her nails done of course too

They don't let the kids see themselves in the mirror until they are finished. Then they surprise them by turning the chair to face the mirror.

Here are pictures of the kids when they first see the Castle (Mickey's House) up close for the first time.

The next morning Emmy had breakfast with Cinderella at her castle in Disney World.

Bo meeting his hero Buzz Lightyear.

Emmy and Bo meeting Ariel, the mermaid princess.

After a long day at the Magic Kingdon, the kids passed out right away. Plus, they had a surprise from Mickey and Minnie in the room when we came back to the hotel room from the park.

The next day we went to the Beast's castle to see Belle. The boys made a stop at Gasteau's castle to have a drink.

Bo & Emmy got to meet Woody and Jessie. Emmy doesn't like the people in costumes covering their head. Jessie must be special because this is as close to a character as she got.

Bo went to the Pirates of the Caribbean section and dressed up like a pirate. He choose Jake of course and was hardly recognizable.

The kids meeting Belle in the Beast's castle.
http://youtu.be/kwSi5VasTGw

On Weds morning, we went to Hollywood Studios for breakfast with the stars of Disney Junior. Bo was dancing with his favorite Jake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuV_QNSnBcs

We went on a backstage tour and Mommy volunteered to do some acting. This involved cleaning a boat and then bombs getting dropped down on her. Also, there was a lot of splashing and getting wet.

Later that day, we did the Jedi training which I posted about earlier.

On Thursday, we went to Epcot and did a few of the rides. Bo and Daddy created their own virtual car and did a test drive in it. Bo really liked this one because it involved creating all the details on the car and being able to drive it around up to 65mph.

The kids had a change to meet Mary Poppins in Great Britain country.

On Friday, we went back to the Magic Kingdom. Mickey and crew were putting on a show so the kids decided to dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0854is4ujM

On Saturday, we have video going home
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REKk-hOSG6M

This is a video after a long day getting in the car at the airport to finally come home. I think someone was very tired and sad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5QgSwKY0Ls