Mick, Nat, Fischer, and Grant

Babysitting?

When Mick is in charge of the kids you will either come home to find all of them playing or watching basketball, or you will find this.....

Valentine's Day at our house is not about Mick and me. It's all about my boys. They always wake up to a decorated kitchen and a small Valentine gift from mom and dad. This is the first year we've had to worry about being somewhere in the morning with Fischer having school, otherwise I usually have an all pink/red breakfast with things like heart shaped pink pancakes and pink milk, strawberries, etc. So I planned ahead this time for a fast Valentine breakfast and got special donuts from Dunford the day before. So that is the super healthy breakfast they got to have.

Here is Fischer with one of his teachers. She is amazing and she loved the Valentine gift we made for her. It was a big hit.

Later that day we delivered a small Valentine to Paw Paw, and then one to Grandma and Grandpa too.

Sweets Candy Factory

I've taken a tour of the Sweets Candy factory a couple of times, but this was the first time I've been with my own children. The other times I was just setting up appointments for nieces and nephews and stuff. So it was different for me this time. Fischer was so funny responding to everything the tour guide was saying. Grant was a total pill. I had to hold him pretty much the entire time so that I could hold his hands down so he didn't pull off his hair net or they would've kicked us out of the tour. He got pretty heavy after a while but he LOVED the samples they gave us throughout the tour. If you haven't ever done this tour, you should totally do it because you actually get to be on the factory floor and see stuff up close instead of just in a video or from a walkway above the factory. It's really awesome, and like I said before, free samples of what they are making.

RaNdoMnEsS

We've been doing all sorts of fun stuff lately. So, I thought I'd throw a quick post on about some of the fun things we've been up to.

JAZZ GAME

The boys and I rode the "Jazz Train" (aka Trax) from our house to the Jazz game the other night. They LOVED riding the train! Grant did so great even though the ride lasted about 45 minutes.

We got some pretty great seats in the lower bowl and the boys watched the game intensely like they always do. It's so funny that they can sit and watch these long games and be so good paying attention and cheering. (But they won't go to a movie theater with me to watch a movie). Here is Fischer. It's half time which is why all the seats are empty in the background.

RODEO

We also took the Sweenys (Mick's sister's family) for a real "American" experience and went to the Rodeo with my family. Audrey (the oldest of the two cousins) loved it. Jasmine just likes to be the social butterfly. Here they are with their dad Matt. They loved meeting "real cowboys" and taking pictures with them.

As usual, Fischer couldn't take his eyes off the show. He didn't even want to go with Uncle Matt to get a treat because he didn't want to miss anything. I had to wait until they were changing events and nothing was happening to take this picture.

SMALL WORLD DAYS AT SCHOOL

At school Fischer has different fun days throughout the year and they get to dress up. They had Cowboy days that I posted about before, and this time was a cultural day where they got to dress up in a different culture's clothing. Lucky for us we are well equipped to handle these fun dress up days. This was an outfit Mick brought back from one of his trips over to Japan.

COOKIES AT KATE'S

We got to go to Katie's house and make cookies with the Sweeny cousins and Aunt Sara. The kids had a blast and made a mess. The adult sisters just had fun hanging out and chatting.

Oh, and earlier that day Jasmine had her super hero stuff on, so Fischer wanted to wear his thinking she would still have hers on, but she had taken them off. That didn't stop Fischer from wearing his the whole evening though.

Team Hewitt Pictures

We've been trying to make sure we get in everything we can with Mick's sister Molly (who is in town from Singapore) and her little family before they head back. So the Hewitt clan did the dreaded family pictures. Other than Grant, everyone was GREAT. They turned out really cute. Here are the kids waiting in the lobby. Fischer, Grant, Carter and cousin Jasmine (visiting from Singapore).

I wasn't real excited about doing family photos being giant and pregnant, but I did it anyway of course, thinking that I would get to be in the back and hide my hugeness. Didn't turn out that way though. I was right in front. Here are a couple of pictures. My boys are darling, but I'm never happy with the way I look in photos.

3 Generations of first sons all named Michael.

Cousins

The Whole Hewitt Team

Sweenys on the left front corner: Matt, Molly, Audrey, Jasmine
Sofonias in the back left corner: Brad, Sara, Taylor, Carter
Gobles in the back right corner: Trenton, Amy, Elliot, Maggie
Hewitts in the front right corner: Mick, Natalie, Fischer, Grant
Mike and Karen in the middle, with Katie

First School Picture

I know that this is a little late in posting, but I just got the CD and put the picture on my computer. This is Fischer's first school picture and it's darling right? He never does a real smile like that for me, it's always just one of those smiles where he's just showing his teeth and he's not really smiling. I'm so happy it turned out so cute.

The Annual Reading Party!!

We were lucky enough to go again this year to the annual KUED reading marathon party. Fischer read all his minutes and got his invitation to go to the party! We went with our usual party companions, Aunt Moey and family. We got lots of fun stuff, did lots of fun activities, and of course we met lots of fun characters. Here are a few fun pictures.

Martha the Dog from Martha Speaks