catch the moment: week forty-five

Gallery posted on November 14, 2014 by mommyinthemidwest

Another week has zipped by and it’s getting colder and darker and more wintery-er. Yuck. It was a good week with a “date” theme, apparently.

Linking up with Mindi, Sarah, and Stephanie for week 45 of Catch the Moment 365.

309/365: Wednesday, November 5th – just a typical evening around our household. Ryan and Theo digging through tubs of Legos while Dexter wears his “Batman cape.”

310/365: Thursday, November 6th – Mommy/Son date night in the Oak Room at the boys’ Montessori school. Theo showed me a couple of his favorite jobs, including this spider one.

311/365: Friday, November 7th – Mommy/Friend date night at Scotty’s.

312/365: Saturday, November 8th – a Mommy/Daddy date night…yeah, at the home improvement store. This was before we met some friends for dinner and I didn’t want to carry my camera with me so I snapped a quick pic of the day of this unwilling model.

313/365: Sunday, November 9th – While the kids are away, mommy and daddy will…work. Finally got the 3rd window in our kitchen painted. Moving on to the new backsplash soon! Things are finally starting to shape up.

314/365: Monday, November 10th – Finally, no cars behind me on my way home and I could stop and take a picture of this beautiful home’s entrance.

315/365: Tuesday, November 11th – Haircuts for the boys.

So that’s it for week 45 – not many weeks left in this year or this project. Which picture is your favorite from this week? Mine is 310- Theo in action (and deep concentration) at school.

xo,

~C~

catch the moment: week forty-four

Gallery posted on November 6, 2014 by mommyinthemidwest

Hii! Darn – I did so well with my blogging spree last week and now … crickets again since the last CTM post. I do want to recap our vacation before it’s totally irrelevant but STILL have not consolidated all of our pictures from various sources into one place. My pictures these past several days have been pretty pathetic – I know this. It’s been more of a “just get it done for the day” theme than an “I’m feeling so inspired” theme lately. But I am still going strong and have no doubt I will finish the year!

Linking up again with Mindi, Sarah, and Stephanie (a new-again mama!) for this installment of Catch The Moment 365.

302/365: Wednesday, October 29th – The boys saw a commercial for the classic Operation game the night before and I remembered that I had stowed away a Toy Story version of the game that my sister-in-law had given me, new in the package, probably 2 years earlier. I promised we would get it out before school on Wednesday and they held me to it. They cracked up laughing every time it buzzed and were generally terrible at using the tweezers. Pretty cute.

303/365: Thursday, October 30th- Our sweet Cousin Kara sent us this neat and adorable book, which we have enjoyed reading several times since then.

304/365: Friday, October 31st – The crappiest trick-or-treating weather I can remember, but the boys didn’t care. It was almost freezing and drizzling and windy and just gross. Dracula looks a little less scary in a winter hat. We lasted about 45 minutes but live in a great neighborhood for trick-or-treating so their little buckets were full of good stuff by the time we decided to call it quits.

305/365: Saturday, November 1st. The holiday toy catalogs and ads have started rolling in and the boys LOVE looking through them. Theo has started grabbing a notepad and pen or pencil and going through them to make his Christmas list. It is precious, even if it does take him 15 minutes to write one thing. “Hey mom! How do you spell Hulk Lab Smash?” followed by “How do I write an ‘h’ again?”

306/365: Sunday, November 2nd – My mom sent the boys some cash and told them to go out for ice cream or a cupcake for their Halloween treat from her. So we hit up the local frozen yogurt shop and enjoyed having the place to ourselves around 1:30 on Sunday.

307/365: Monday, November 3rd- The first DST sunrise I got to see this week on my way to work.

308/365: Tuesday, November 4th – A week-long Lego organization project is finally complete. I sold their toy tool bench, ordered this organizer, bought some additional dividers for smaller pieces, received the organizer and put it together, and finally spent 7 hours sorting their Lego bricks. They are happy with the result and so far seem to be enjoying that they can actually play ON the Lego table, which was just a wasteland of deconstructed sets before.

This week’s favorite for me? 306. I like the one of them at the yogurt shop. Which one do you like best?

~C~

catch the moment: week forty-three

Gallery posted on October 31, 2014 by mommyinthemidwest

It’s been a very fun and festive week full of Halloween activities. This post is very fall-y. Unfortunately by this time next week, most of the leaves will probably be down and my world will be a lot less colorful! And thanks to Daylight Savings Time, my world will be a lot darker too. Boo.

Linking up with Mindi, Sarah, and Stephanie for this installment of Catch the Moment 365. With only 9 weeks left, what do you think? Should I plan on doing this again in 2015?

295/365 – Wednesday, October 22nd: Just something pretty I saw on my drive home from work. This represents rural Indiana in the fall – farmhouse across from a cornfield with beautiful leaves drifting slowly from the trees.

296/365 – Thursday, October 23rd: A quick play date at the park after work with our sweet little friend.

297/365 – Friday, October 24th. Community Halloween party with another little pal. A pretty wild bunch!

298/365 – Saturday, October 25th: Another Halloween party at our friends’ house and Theo LOVED this Medusa decoration. He kept going back to it.

299/365 – Sunday, October 26th: Little buddy was proud of the pumpkin that he designed and helped me carve for him. I couldn’t get Dexter to cooperate for taking a picture with his pumpkin. Sometimes I see a photo of one of these boys and imagine myself looking at it when I’m older, thinking “I remember that day. He looks so little.” This is one of those.

300/365 – Monday, October 27th: I was backing out of the driveway when the beauty of this shot struck me. We have a lot of work to do on this house, but we’re lucky to live here. Seeing the trees getting more and more bare makes me sad. Soon there will be no color left in this scene other than the red brick on our house.

301/365 – Tuesday, October 28th: Overexposed but I don’t care – I love his little face to much not to share this one. We’ve recently started bathing them separately more than together and while it’s a sad sign that they are getting bigger, it’s so much nicer. Honestly. No fighting, no splashing. So what picture(s) do you like best from this week? I like them all. So there.

xo,

~C~