Wednesday, January 7, 2015

CHUNKA MUNKA BABY

As I scramble to catch up the past three months, I figure I should just throw in a post with updated photos of my Chunka Munka Baby Kadir :-)

3 days old

My first friend
3 weeks old
1 month old. Yup I'm already holding my head up!

Best Sleep Ever

Working on my swagger  :-)
Our first selfie!

Is she about to cook me too?

I'm TOTALLY adorable :-)
Khyri loves being a big borther

This is one Chunka Munka Baby!

Wow is life always this fun!?!? not bad!

Sooooo.. this google thing - tell me all about it...

I'm so happy to be part of this family!




THANKSGIVING 2014

Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday. I know we should say thank you as often as possible throughout the year, but if we forget from time to time, we can always make up the difference and say one great big thank you on Thanksgiving! hahahah.

We had a wonderful Turkey Day! We started the thanksgiving season off with a turkey lunch at Khyri's school. The food was surprisingly good! We had turkey, stuffing, veggies and cranberry sauce. Decked out in his pilgrim hat, Khyri chowed down :-)



Khyri's class did a mini skit that talked about the differences between life back in pilgrim days and life now. Khyri's group talked about food. 


At the end of the skit, we were invited to use some butter, that the kids had made earlier in the day, and put it on cornbread. It was tasty! I liked all of the Thanksgiving festivities, but I did notice that it was all about Pilgrims. Unless I'm mistaken, two parties sat down for the Thanksgiving dinner... Pilgrims and Native Americans... They were not represented at all. I need to follow up and ask Khyri's teacher why Native Americans weren't included. Let's not try to rewrite history folks...

For another class project, Khyri had to decorate a turkey, so we went on a nature walk and gathered items from around the neighborhood to use as the feathers. We got dirt, cattails, bark, leaves, and acorns.


It was so heavy I had to reinforce it with some poster board. I think it turned out pretty well! Kielle had to create a board about her family for the thanksgiving holiday. Now I gotta admit I went over board. It was just supposed to be a simple poster or maybe a picture but what do I put together...


I promise in 2015 I will scale back my over crafting :-)

For the actual turkey day, I set my menu and the kids helped me cook. We made all the standard sides and ordered the fried turkey from Copelands. My friend Jennifer came by and shared in the festivities bringing some corn that was to die for. Overall, thanksgiving was super fun and yummy!






Next year I'll dress up the table with a table cloth and a runner, but this was as good as I could get :-) After dinner, Jennifer snapped some family photos...




The Mosleys 2014

We truly  have a lot to be thankful for. Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

DRESSING UP IS SO MUCH FUN

October brings falling leaves, cooler weather and of course - Halloween! This year we were a little behind due to Kadir's arrival, but we were still able to get some dressing up in!

I decorated the house with ghosts 3 ghosts hanging from our front tree. Instead of white sheets (we don't need to harken deep south circa 1900s) I purchased an orange table cloth from dollar tree. I used the balls that we had in the backyard and hung them from the tree - voila! simple and cheap. I also went to Aldi and bought three large pumpkins for $3.99. Now this was definitely the way to go. These pumpkins added so much decoration to the front of the house. The decoration that made the most impact however was the spider web cotton from dollar tree. two bags of that stuff and we covered the whole front yard.

We kicked off the dress up season with the Hubby's fall work picnic. In addition to cotton candy, train rides, jumpy houses, and good BBQ, there were face painters onsite.


Khyri was Spiderman and Kielle was a fairy princess. This fairy princess face would prove to be the beginning of Kielle's princess infatuation phase (more to come with the Christmas post).

Kielle had multiple outfits during this Halloween season. For her school parade on Wednesday, she was Zoe from Sesame Street. Check her out rocking heels!



Then for her ballet class she had a special Halloween themed dance outfit with festive tights and a black and orange tut.
Then finally for Halloween she was ... you guessed it - Elsa. I swear every little girl was Elsa this year. Disney had everyone drinking the Koolaid :-) Nana Yvie even spruced her outfit up with a glow in the dark tiara!

Before heading out for some candy, with our friend Sidney, the munchkins sat down for a quick bite - and I mean quick. They were too excited to go trick or treating :-)

We had a few treaters come by the house and the kids liked handing out candy, but that was short lived - the real action was out on the streets! So after bundling up, it was drizzling, and getting Kadir snug in the Maya Wrap, Elsa, The Construction Engineer, and Batman headed out for some goodies.


This new neighborhood is awesome! These people go all out decorating their houses and handing out candy. I can only imagine how much better it would have been if the weather was nice. We went house to house for about 45 minutes and then it started raining too hard and we high tailed it back inside. Halloween was for the big kids, but we did have a mini Halloween celebration for Kadir.


We hosted a Sip & See for Kadir since we didn't have a baby shower earlier. We played Halloween bingo and the kiddos went trick or treating from room to room upstairs. It was really nice and Kadir was in his glory :-)

We did end up dressing him for All Hallows Eve as a mummy :-)


He's too cute to be scary though :-) hahahahahhaha


Monday, January 5, 2015

TOUCH THE TRUCKS?!? YES PLEASE

There are so many cheap fun events for kids in Metro Atlanta. Back in October we went to an event sponsored by Cobb County which promoted safety for children. The event was called Touch the Trucks. It was held in the parking lot of Towne Center Mall in Kennesaw. The sky was overcast, so it wasn't too crowded which meant short lines and plenty of time for fun - instead of whining :-)

The hubby and I were extremely pleased with the hands on attention the safety officers gave the children. It was a great for them to learn not only about the vehicles, but also the different people they can go to if they are in need of help.






Khyri looooooooooves trucks! I mean loooooooves! He knows all the "regular" trucks - bulldozer, steam roller, dump truck, etc. but he straight up wows you when he gets to talking about mini profilers, diggers, excavators, and backhoes. So he was on CLOUD 9 when he spotted this ...
 

In addition to the "worker trucks", there was also a news van onsite that the munchkins could go inside. They got to see how things looked on the new stations. I think they just liked pressing all of the colored buttons :-)




There were fire trucks, school buses, Fedex trucks, telephone repair trucks, garbage trucks, and even helicopters!


For $20 for a family of five, this was a great afternoon outing. The kids left with hard hats and exposure to a bunch of possible careers! This is how I love spending Saturdays :-)