Bugs is 7!

Holy moly crazy, Bugs is 7! That’s so crazy to think. I mean it doesn’t feel like just yesterday that she was a baby, yes I remember it but it’s wasn’t just yesterday. We’ve been through so much in the last 7 years. The fun joys of infancy, moving to an apartment, then moving again and Robert coming with us. Then we moved to Daddy’s house, got a few more animals, became a big sister, learned firsthand about loss and now becoming a big sister again. She’s grown up so much it’s sometimes hard to believe she’s 7. Though we’ve come to the attitude stage (yes worse than the 2s ha), you’d swear she was a teen already, I don’t know what I’d do without her. I love seeing her grow up and learn about life and grow into her own little-miss-self. Though somedays can be stressful, I’m so happy and blessed she calls me Mom.
She’s had a fun birthday day and it’s only going to continue this week.
Woke her up singing Happy Birthday and she just laughed! I made some treats for her to take to school…well I made two. It was a disaster! [Key info, two kids in her class have peanut allergies] I thought I was doing really good, got white cake and was going to make apple cupcakes with homemade frosting (butter, brown sugar and powdered sugar) thinking that would be great, no peanuts right? Not! I wasn’t really thinking and before I made the cupcakes I made peanut butter cookies and used the same bowl (washed it with hot water and soap but not through the dish washer) so scratch that batch to be safe. Then I decided I would make the cereal chocolate mix I made for her party a few years ago…again no peanuts right? Just Corn Chex, Lucky Charms, white chocolate and sprinkles…yeah got everything ready then read on the chocolate bag and it says “may contain peanuts”, what the heck! So I decided scratch the chocolate and use marshmallows, like rice crispies…what a sticky mess that was. Well out of time so we’ll just go with it. Then I picked up Bugs at school….those kids don’t eat the snacks anyways! Grrrr. I mean I understand better safe than sorry…but still grrrr it was very stressful for me, I tried really hard so they wouldn’t feel left out of the fun. So Bugs and I decided that from now on we’ll bring like fruit snacks and juice boxes. After dance class we made salad, spaghetti & breadsticks, Bugs choice, and she got to open “all” of her presents. She’s gotten a few here and there this past week but she was really excited to now get to open all of them ha. Silly girl.
Then tomorrow it’s up to Auntie Angee’s then to Papa’s for lots of food and you know more presents ;) .

Drive-in Theater & Halloween

Wow it’s been a while since I’ve kept up with this… oops. Guess things just got away from me.
I’m kind of sad to see summer/fall go away. Yes right now the weather is still wonderful out I know we live in MN and that may not be the case in a few days ha. The snow could come whenever it decides.
We have enjoyed the weather these last few weekends though. Two weekends ago we took a trip up to Chetek WI. We had different plans for the weekend but with a few changes we ended up deciding to go for a Sunday drive (on Saturday) to Stardust for Bugs and Barry’s first drive-in movie experience. [ps. totally recommend the trip up if you have the time. From our place it was about 3 hrs but it's so much fun!] We had so much fun driving up, Bugs had no idea where we were going – early birthday surprise ha. We decided to bring Mable along with us. Thought it would be a good trip to help get her used to the car, don’t need another Robert who stands and cowards the whole drive  . She did great. Sat nicely, hardly cried and no accidents. Not to mention she slept through both movies ha. Bugs had so much fun going up there. Was even more excited when the movie started and she found out we were watching Hotel Transylvania 2, which she was Mavis for Halloween. We also saw Pan but she fell asleep pretty early in that one ;) . It was such a great way to spend a leisure Saturday. There’s been so much going on lately we all needed a relaxed fun day.



Then there was last weekend, of course Halloween! Bugs was so excited. We found her costume at Walmart for like $15 and I was happy about that ha. Just a black dress and some black and red leggings = Mavis! She looked so cute. She had glow in the dark fangs and did her makeup. I love Halloween with Bugs. She’s never been one that major needs candy. As long as she gets some goodies in her basket/bucket she’s happy. I think on average we hit like 15 houses and then she’s good. This year we decided to go to her school first for hotdogs, cookies and milk then she decided she just wanted to go to some of the houses there then go home, fine with us. Went up and down a few blocks, stopped by Crunchy’s of course and then headed home to watch a movie and have some popcorn. Love our Halloweens. The only thing we didn’t get done was our pumpkins…oh well now they can hang out as decoration for Thanksgiving, if they last that long.