King of a Week

Howdy! It's Sunday AGAIN! And this Sunday it SNOWED again! I love seeing snow on the ground. It's January after all.

Monday was MLK day which means I had the day off of work. Rob went in to work and brought Kasper to daycare. I took the opportunity to get a nice long run in on the treadmill and have a lazy morning after that. By lunch time I had convinced Rob to play hooky and spend the rest of the day with me! We met at Old Chicago for calzones and BEER.

The high temp on Monday was -5 degrees or something ridiculous so we tried to limit our time outside. We looked at TVs at Best Buy, hit up the thrift shop and ended up at Rustica for coffees and croissants. It was such a fun day! I'm so glad Rob spent it with me!

When we got home Monday we realized K was running a small fever which got worse overnight resulting in 3 screaming wake-ups. (Side note - I DON'T MISS THAT.) I stayed home with him Monday. His fever wasn't terribly high but he was clearly feeling super crummy. The shoes helped a bit. (Found those at the thrift store!) He is Dutch after all.


I started a bad habit by allowing K to sit on the counter and "peel a naranka".


He peeled the whole thing himself and set all the "skins" in little rows. As he would take one off, he'd say what it looked like (race car, moon, etc) then line it up.
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Mmmmmm..... boogers.


He sat with me for a little Nemo before naptime. Which lasted FOUR hours. He needed the rest.


Thursday was Royalty Day at daycare!

He kept that crown on the WHOLE NIGHT. He loved it.



These pics are part "Isn't Kasper cute?" and part "HOW DID I LIVE WITHOUT THIS FLASH??"




We had a pretty chill weekend. Rob and Kasper went to swimming lessons yesterday morning and had a great time again. When K went down for his nap, Steph came over so we could run out and do a couple things we wanted to do baby-free like go to the running store to get fitted for new running shoes and stop at REI to browse and try on jackets. We stopped by a RedBox on the way home and rented Cars2 to watch on the new TV. I was pretty impressed by Kasper's attention! He watched some and generally stayed out of trouble. Also making an appearance in these - THE BASEMENT!



You can see the new treadmill back there as well as Rob's bike trainer. The basement does double duty as living room with a fireplace and dojo.



Done paying attention!


This is random but pretty funny. He gathered some of his favorite things around him while sitting on the potty. The potty is not the least bit interesting to Kasper. He sits on it for at least a second while his bath is being run but he doesn't actually use it.


Today Rob and Kasper went for a run outside while I got groceries. I'll have to watch the news but I'd say we got about 4 inches of snow over the course of the afternoon! It's beautiful fluffy snow!

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Power out!

We started the week off right with pj day at daycare and silly faces.



Kasper wanted to curl up under the blanket with me and cuddle. How lucky was I??

We also had some fun spelling our names in the tub.




We decided that the long hair wasn't doing Kasper any favors so I gave him a hair cut! He still hates haircuts but luckily when a Katy Perry song came on he sat relatively still so I could cut around his ears. I didn't do too bad a job! I'm done with the haircut at this point so he's able to totally zone out in front of the iPad.




Here's what Lois did during the haircut hubbub. She spent the day at the vet getting her teeth cleaned and nails trimmed. She was there from 7-5!! They said she did great which was a relief. She had to be put under for the cleaning so she was a little out of it for a couple days. She also had 2 teeth pulled so I think she was in a little pain at night even though she was on pain killers.


We had some fun one night after dinner and got some cute videos of the guy.






Playing around... Kasper is such a fun kid.







In other news, who is that big kid??

We went to pal Hudson's birthday yesterday morning where Kasper had fun creepily following the older kids around. He also got to suck the frosting off a perfectly good cupcake and leave the cake for us to eat.


Somehow I didn't take any pictures the rest of the weekend! My Mom came down to hang out with me while Rob was gone for the evening. Steph came over as well and as we were killing time until Kasper woke up, the power went off at our house! This set off an unplanned evening where we all (including the dog) packed up and headed over to Steph and Tim's before our house got too dark and cold. We got to hang out there a couple hours before I ran back home to grab pjs only to get halfway home and receive the call the power was back on. Sigh. Kasper was only an hour late to bed and we didn't have to all crash at Steph's house and ruin their night so it all turned out ok. And to be fair, both Kasper and Lois were perfect house guests which made me very proud.

Today was a stay in your pjs day and we did just that!

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Kasper's second birthday

Better late than never, right?? We celebrated Kasper's second birthday a couple weeks ago and had a great day.



We started the day with our birthday tradition of animal pancakes and of course the drink of the moment, hot tawkyit.







Rob decorated the chalkboard for the day.

So cool, right??

We did some playing in the afternoon and when Kasper woke up from his nap, his party guests had arrived! We had his Grandparents and Aunt Steph over to celebrate. I kept it super simple this year and just ordered a bunch of K's favorite pizzas. For dessert I made chocolate cupcakes.

(They were as good as they look)

Kasper was shy when we sang to him but at least he didn't cry this year!






Birthday boy


After cake Kasper opened the MOUNTAIN of presents he had. He did such a great job opening them! He would open one, get excited about it then turn to the gift giver and say thank you. I was so impressed!



At one point he opened a book, flipped through it and exclaimed "Oooooh! Nice book! Thank you Grandma!" Hahahaha!

A special day for a special boy. Love you, buddy! Enjoy being TWO!