Routine Disruption

My regular morning routine is driving Ashton to seminary each morning at 6:30 a.m.  Luckily Bowen is old enough to stay home and he watches Cadence for me until our return around 8 am.  The seminary building is a 15 - 20 minute drive so it makes no sense to drive home in between so I just wait for his 45 minute class to be over.  I either read my scriptures, or my bookclub book, or let's be honest some mornings I sleep.

This past week Bowen has been away at Band Camp, so it has altered our routine a bit.  Tuesday morning Bowen needed to be at the school at 7:30 a.m., so at 6:30 a.m. I loaded all the kids into the truck and off we went.  About half way to the seminary building Bowen informs me he was supposed to bring his baritone saxophone to band camp as he isn't supposed to take the one he uses at school.  Ugh!  I dropped off Ashton at seminary at 6:50 a.m. and headed back home.  Got home, Bowen grabbed his instrument and we were off to the school.  7:30 a.m. dropped off Bowen at the school for his band camp.

Headed back to seminary and picked up Ashton and finally headed home. 

The past 3 mornings with Bowen away I've had to bring Cadence with me to do the seminary run.  She doesn't seem to mind.

Toys, snacks, drink, movie to watch, comfy blanket, she looks pretty content to me.  Looking forward to getting back to our regular routine tomorrow. Hope Bowen has had a great time at Band Camp.

Valentine's Day 2019

We had a great Valentines Day at the Atwood house this year.  It started the night before with Cadence preparing valentine treats for her preschool friends.  Last kid to make valentine cards! I'm afraid we went with some store bought cards and added some tattoes and candies.

The kids were off school on Valentine's Day, so they surprised me with breakfast in bed.  Sweet kids.  It was very yummy.

When Jason got home from work we headed out.  We decided we would try and leave the kids overnight by themselves for the first time.  We got a nice hotel room just down the street (so we were close just in case).  Went to The Keg for dinner.  It was very busy.  We usually don't go out for Valentine's Day since it is so close to our anniversary, but we weren't in any rush so we didn't mind the wait.

We had a delicious meal.  Bacon wrapped scallops for appetizer and an amazing dinner of steak and lobster.

The kids did great on their own overnight and weren't nervous at all.  It was a much needed break and was so nice to spend some one on one time with my hubby.

A Day in the Life of ..

Our little Cadence is a growing concern and I'm enjoying having a little girl in the family.  She keeps me busy.  What Cadence has been up to the last little while:

Cadence loves girlie things like painting her nails.

Loves going to the library.

She loves preschool - this was beach day at school.

Loves playing dress up with mom's shoes.

Loves her brothers, especially when they play with her.

Putting on lipstick before going to preschool.  Like I said - a girlie girl!

Trying on a new outfit. She loves clothes.

Showing off craft projects from school.

She is still enjoying ballet class.  She goes on Saturday mornings to a City of Calgary run program.  She has 3 more weeks and then I think I may have to consider putting her in a studio in September.

Sometimes she wears her hairband as a sleep mask at night.  Crazy girl.

Crazy hat day at school.

How lucky are we to have such a fun, independent, smart, sassy girl to call our own.

DIY Dentistry

A few weeks ago Cadence said one of her teeth hurt.  So I thought we better get everyone back to the dentist.  Bowen had a broken tooth and one small cavity to fix.  Cadence unfortunately had 3 little cavities and one quite big cavity.  She was so brave and didn't cry or complain once.  She took the needles great and was a trooper for 3 appointments.  I may or may not have bribed her with getting a toy afterwards.

Ashton had 3 cavities to fix.  I was in the waiting room during Ashton's appointment.  After he'd been in the dentist chair for awhile I got a test from Ashton - "The dentist still isn't here.  I think I'm going to pull a Mr. Bean and fix my own teeth."  A few minutes later he sent me this picture.  He cracks me up!