Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Feb 29th

The highlight of the day: it is snowing!

The bad part of the day: Carson came home from school sick today and has been vomiting all evening. I just want to cry for my poor little guy!

Feb 28th

More fun in lab! This time we dissected squid!

Monday, February 27, 2012

Feb 27th

Aaron is reading Harry Potter to Carson. The boys thought it would be funny to take a different photo though!

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Feb 26th

We ate dinner tonight at historic Colonial Inn Village Forge Tavern here in Concord. We got to dine surrounded by wooden floors and heavy wooden beams that were once the storeroom for supplies during the Revolutionary War! I just love history!!

Feb 25th

Took Carson to build a bear today.  
This was on his birthday wishlist so he was so excited to go and create his own stuffed animal which was a dog he named Buddy.  

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Feb 24th

Stir Fry for dinner tonight. Yum!

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Feb 23rd

Happy Birthday to my wonderful husband! Carson says happy birthday to daddy!

Feb 22nd

Another great test score in Chemistry, out of 80 students only 16 got A's and I was a lucky one of those!

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Feb 21st

I am taking Invertebrate Biology this semester. As 99% of animals on earth are inverts this class has already been challenging! But then I get to do fun stuff like pry open clams to study their anatomy. Too bad I don't like to eat them too!

Monday, February 20, 2012

Feb 20th

Went to the New England Aquarium today...I managed to lean over the huge open tank to get a picture of the kids watching a sea turtle below.

Here is the sea turtle the kids were watching.

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Feb 19th

Today Carson turned 6!
We started off the day by opening a few presents of which a Ninjago set (he has wanted this set for months) was the biggest and most welcome surprise!


Then Carson and all his friends gathered at his gymnastics place to have some fun!


Carson's friends wrapped him up like a present!



I managed to sneak the camera under the parachute.  The kids all formed a bubble with the parachute around Carson and sang Happy Birthday to him.  It was so sweet!


The best of the best was of course the cake! 
(as you can see Carson is wearing a shirt that a friend of ours who is in Afghanistan right now sent to him.
It has three wolves on it standing for this friend in Afghanistan, Carson, and Aaron 
who are all part of the 'wolf pack')


Managed to sneak in one family photo!


To end the day we had dinner with friends at Carson's favorite restaurant!

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Feb 18th

Today was yet another full day! Tomorrow is Carson's 6th birthday so we had a lot of preparing to get done. I am putting the final touches on the gift bags then tomorrow we pick up Carson's cake! Then it is party time!

Friday, February 17, 2012

Feb 17th

Since Carson's birthday is on Sunday he had a celebration at school today.  All of his friends made him a big card and his teacher gave him a couple gifts.  When he got home from gymnastics we realized he had a present that had come from his Nana in the mail so he of course couldn't wait to open that.  He got an angry bird t-shirt, finger puppet, and bandages.  He does love angry birds!  And he also got a puzzle that he has to put together to reveal a secret surprise.  We will try to get that together tomorrow!

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Feb 16th

Today was Carson's last day of swim lessons at the Air Force Base so as a fun ending, the instructor decided to have a battle between boys and girls.  The girls chickened out but both boys completed the race and won bragging rights over the girls.

Here is a link to the video of the race.  This is very funny watching a couple boys try to get a wet t-shirt over their head and then trying to take it off after swimming in it.  *Ignore my horrible video taking skills-it was hard for me not to jump up and go help the boys!* 



Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Feb 15th

Big news of the day: I had a horrid migraine! I made it through the day of school but I had to come home and miss my night class. I have just been resting so hopefully tomorrow I will be fine. I have a Chemistry exam tomorrow so I have to be fine!!

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Feb 14th

Happy Valentine's Day!!

Feb 13th

Today I got back a great grade for my Chemistry quiz from last week! But to offset my good feeling I got my grade back for my exam in molecular biology and it was bad! I am thinking maybe I might need to become a Chemistry major.

Monday, February 13, 2012

Feb 12th

Carson decided to bake some brownies! Yum!

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Feb 11th

Today was an eventful day. Carson had ice skating lessons this morning then after lunch he went swimming with a friend. Aaron and I got some shopping in while Carson was with his friend. Then after dinner Aaron took Carson to the movie theater to go see the Adventures of Tin Tin. Around all this I have been trying to study for 2 exams this upcoming week but I have a miserable cold that is sapping my brain power! Now I am trying to keep my focus to study for my Invertebrate Biology exam but all my brain wants to do is go to sleep. I might have to call it early tonight in hopes that tomorrow I will feel better.

Friday, February 10, 2012

Feb 10th

I just had to do a comparison between our weather this year and last!  The difference is phenomenal!

2011 The front of our house

2011 
Carson is in our back yard digging out a snow fort.  
He could have climbed onto the snow and onto our 2nd story balcony!

2012-It was a Balmy 52 degrees today with not an inch of snow on the ground! 
(tomorrow that could change )

Feb 9th

Today was Carson's 100th day in Kindergarten!

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Feb 8th

I spent 13 hours at school today. This day of the week is just brutal! Now I am home and it is time for bed!

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Feb 7th

Working on home work tonight. Chemistry is on the menu although right now I feel like I am in a Physics or thermodynamics class!

Monday, February 6, 2012

Feb 6th

We got Carson's half year progress report from school.  He is doing really great in school.  Last fall we noticed he was not enunciating some of his sounds very well though so we had a Speech Pathologist evaluate him and found out he has an extremely sensitive gag reflex.  Some letter sounds would trigger his gag reflex so he would then alter the sounds so it did not trigger his gag reflex.  His speech pathologist has been working since December to help desensitize his gag reflex and so far the change has been amazing.  He can now say sounds he was struggling with, without the worry of gagging.  And did I mention the speech pathologist was a free service from his school?!? We are so incredibly blessed to live in an amazing school district where taxes are high but residents are happy to pay their taxes knowing their hard earned money is going into programs like the one Carson is in.  

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Feb 5th

Carson got his wish, the Giants won the super bowl!

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Feb 4th

Watched the original Muppet Movie now it is time for table tennis!

Friday, February 3, 2012

Feb 3rd

Took Carson and Eileen to go see We Bought A Zoo at the movie theater. While half of the movie was funny and light hearted the rest was not appropriate for younger children. Maybe I should have looked a little more into this movie but all the previews made it seem about a zoo and animals! It was not that way at all.

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Feb 2nd

Happy Groundhog Day! It is swim lesson day for Carson today!

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Feb 1st

The longest day of the week for me just happens to fall in the 1st day of Feb! Not a good way to start off the month! The clock is in the Chem lounge (aka my 2nd home) but it wasn't changed after the fall time change so although it says 5:15 it is actually 6:15pm. Now it is time for my 4th class of the day-environmental biology.