Aschers 3 Year Interview

Ascher, age 3

Nicknames: Bubby, Ash, Buddy

How old are you? 5 (after prompting…3)

What is your favorite color? Blue

What is your favorite animal? Spiders (bugs), lion (cats normally)

What is your favorite book? The animal book with spiders in it

What is your favorite TV show? Blaze and the Monster Machines, Paw Patrol

What is your favorite movie? Mickey, Cars

What is your favorite song? Let it Go –  All About the Bass

What is your favorite food? Strawberries, smoothies, pizza

What is your favorite drink? Lemonade

What is your favorite breakfast food? Waffle, Donuts

What is your favorite snack? Cheeze-Its

What is your favorite outfit? “jama” shorts (basketball shorts)

What is your favorite game? Playing with the neighbor boys

What is your favorite toy? Excavators (trucks, legos)

Who is your best friend? Ms. Alisa & Ms. Brook (preschool teachers), Daddy

What is your favorite thing to do? Play cars

What is your favorite thing to do outside? Ride my powerwheel

What is your favorite holiday? Christmas

What do you like to take to bed with you? Scout, blue lovie

Where is your favorite place to go? The zoo

What is your favorite restaurant? Chickfila, Sonic

What makes you laugh? Daddy does, when we play jump and catch

What are you afraid of? Monsters

What is the best time of day? WINTER!!

What do you do really good? I can run fast.

Where do you want to go on vacation? With daddy, the beach

What do you want to do when you grow up? Have a computer

What did you do for your birthday? I played..I played for my birthday. (We had a firetruck birthday party and had all our friends over. Everyone played in the backyard and it was a BEAUTIFUL day).

Christmas Tree Photos Take 1

One night we were having a quiet night and I thought what a perfect opportunity to take some cute photos of the kids in front of the Christmas tree. What follows is how they turned out. 

Love my sweet babies under the Christmas tree!! 

PooDink- Our Elf & Other Christmas Around The House

Yes. We have an Elf on the Shelf. No. I am not one of the crazies that does extravagant things with it every day. Multiple times thru out the holiday season Ascher would say...Ooo poodinks still there! Then I would say things like, "oh well I bet during your nap this afternoon he is going to go tell Santa what kind of day you've had" and then during nap move him from the picture ledge to the plant on top of the fridge. ; )  I also only did "good" ones if Ascher had a super good day or we had something planned (like gingerbread house).

The day Poodink arrived he brought Ascher a book (the elf book), pjs and hot chocolate. Ascher was so excited when he got home from school and the Christmas tree was up (not decorated) and sitting on the mantle was an elf with wrapped presents just for him.

Ascher also LOVES his Christmas tree in his room. He insists we plug it in every morning.

 The Christmas tree before the decorations were hung

 Ascher playing with his little people nativity. You see who made an appearance? Santa of course!

 Ascher in his new PJS Poodink brought him "holding sister"

 Reading one of his 25 Christmas books- he opens 1 every night. He likes opening them more than reading them. However, some of them- such as this Thomas book caught his attention and he would read and read.

We also have been doing the Advent Story out of the Jesus storybook bible. I love listening to my husband read the word of the Lord to our children. (Granted he is reading Frosty the Snowman in this picture) but that is what our nights looked like. Ascher would open his book. Then we would crawl into our bed. Read his book then read his bible story then bedtime. He loved it. He would say MY WHOLE FAMILY is here. Granted- as the month wore on it was mostly just Justin who did it with him as Brynn was sick and/or going to sleep the same time as the books were happening.

Visiting Santa

The week after Thanksgiving Justin took the whole week off. It was WONDERFUL! We got the majority of Christmas shopping done, we decorated the inside and outside of the house and it was just a pleasant week together. One of the things we did that week was go visit Santa. I apparently was not the only one excited to go see Santa...

We go see the Santa at Bass Pro Shop. He apparently works there so it is the same one every year. He is a great Santa. I also love that at Bass Pro the photo is FREE and you get to use your own camera and take more if you want. So of course, I brought my own camera. 

However, I didnt really get "dressed" or do my makeup because why on earth would I BE IN THE PHOTO!? Other than a frightened 2.5 year old. I even asked Justin before we left, maybe I should change and do my makeup. His response, why its not like your gonna be in the photo!? Lesson learned. 

I also was glad Justin was with us to use our camera since Ascher wouldnt let me put him down. Secondly, Justin was able to zoom in and crop Ascher and myself out of the photo so Brynn has her first picture with Santa- just by herself. Go figure she would be sleeping. Also, she NEVER has that paci- yet when I tried to take it out of her mouth- she was NOT having it and Santa was not happy about me trying to take it. He was happy holding a sleeping baby- not one that would scream if paci was removed. 

After visiting Santa, we wondered around Bass Pro. They have a whole Santas Wonderland set up. Ascher drove the train, raced cars and drove monster trucks. We then walked around the store and looked at the fish, tried out the 4-wheelers and recliners. And of course, as soon as I took Brynn off of Santas lap- she woke up happy as can be. Go figure.

After our visit to Santa, we walked around the mall and picked up some matching Christmas PJs for the kids. And headed home. We ended the night with all 4 of us in our bed watching The Polar Express, As you can see, Justin was thrilled to take a family selfie ; )

Aschers Christmas Program

I have really enjoyed Aschers preschool program up to this point. I love that he inneracts with other kids twice a week other than me. Before school let out for the Christmas holiday they put on a Christmas program for the parents. I was a nervous wreck- Sad. He still cries most days when I drop him off and so I just knew he would NOT perform especially if he saw us.

The day of the program comes and  I drop him off after singing some of the songs he is going to perform in the car on the way to school. He was so cute and so excited about jingle bells and feliz navidad. Justin and I head to Chicfila for breakfast before going back up to the church for his performance. I was so glad Justin was able to take the morning off so he could see Ascher in his first ever Christmas program.

I had the flip camera and my cannon. We were totally THOSE parents. But not to worry- so was every other parent in the sanctuary. He did FABULOUS. He saw us, waved and did what he was supposed to do. I was so proud. 

SO SO proud of my little man! He is getting so big every day. My heart adores him. Every day I love him a little bit more. When I picked him up we stopped by target for a few things and I let him pick out a "treat" for doing such a good job at his program. He was very excited about his ninja turtle fruit snacks.

Thanksgiving: So much to be thankful for

For Thanksgiving we were so lucky to be able to see both sides of our family. Granted, Brynn was having a REALLY rough week the week of Thanksgiving so by Saturday Justin and I were both exhausted and I don't know how much fun we were but we were with family and thats all that matters. Wednesday we drove to College Station and stayed with his parents. Around 10:30 that night a van arrives and it is his sister who has surprised us all and flown in from Virginia for a couple days. The whole family would be together- which never happens because Justin has 4 other siblings. It is a rare occasion that everyone can be together. Thursday we got up and got cooking- Ascher was exhausted and took a morning nap which worked great for cooking purposes. By the time he woke up all his cousins had arrived so he was READY to play! He has 15 cousins on that side so he was having a blast playing with them all. After lunch, we took a quick family photo before Justin left with Daniel to go to the A&M football game vs LSU (we lost).

After Justin left Ragan, Carla, and I took some photos of the babies. We had three babies born this year. Carla had Korbin in February, Ragan had Everett in May and I had Brynn in June! Crazy- they are so close in age! We love it!

Korbin, Brynn, Everett (Brynn not sure about her aunts jumping around behind me)

Then we took a photo like we did when we were all pregnant in January.

The rest of the afternoon we hung out around the house. Joe took all the kids on a nature walk and they ended up playing all evening in the game room outside. The cousins had so much fun. I felt super sick and Brynn was super stuffy so neither of us felt too hot but we still had a great time.

eating olives Thanksgiving night- singing Daddy finger song while eating each one at a time- cracks me up

Friday morning we got up and told everyone goodbye before leaving ourselves. We drove to Kingwood to see Jessica & Hadley. Roy had flown back to Dallas Friday morning but it was still nice to see Jessica and Hadley. However, by this point in the week Justin and I were at wits end. Brynn was sick and not sleeping at all so we both were exhausted. Ascher was exhausted from playing with his cousins all week so we were a motley crew but we still managed to have a good time.

Since I felt like such poo poo the only photos in Kingwood are on the phone.