We all got somekind of sickness during this cold and flu season at least once. It was sad to see the kids so sick, but then that much better when they were feeling better! Like to see Lucy smile and play again after being better, so great!
Em lost another tooth and has 3 more wiggly ones. She kinda freaks out when they get wiggly and she will wobble them but is afraid for them to fall out.
We started back up with preschool in January. I've taught 4 times since then. Are these kids not so cute? We have so much fun and do a little learning, too!
The kids went to a fun birthday for their friend, Lily. She is so cute and the party was a Puppy theme, which was just as cute! The kids had a great time!
We got a gym membership to the YMCA, which has been awesome! We've been working out in the gym, going swimming, and attending classes. And the kids like to go to the Child Watch there. When we can't make it, we exercise at home. Cal loves to work out with Mom!
I finally conned the kids into watching Cool Runnings, one of my faves. Since, they've been having fun pretending they are bobsledders.
Lucy is quite the mischief maker now and definately has a mind and a will of her own! She is also saying such funny things. Like "Look, it's Mommy!" when she saw this physiology book. Compare that to when we pulled out Sleeping Beauty and she insisted that Daddy was the Prince. :)
Lucy loves her sheet, and has been getting into my underwear drawer lately, and loves getting my slips or other under clothing to put on around her, over her head, through any limb she can. Silly girl!
Lucy has been getting into everything lately - the vaseline, makeup, electrical sockets, dumping water out and mixing foods and drinks on the table, getting all of the toys out and not putting them away. It's been fun, NOT! :) But it's all a part of learning and growing up I guess.
Emma's been working hard at home and school. She's such a great girl and is so good at her school work, practicing, and helping around the house (once she finally stops complaining that she's the only one who has to do chores and practice)...
Emma was even Star of the Week at school, which was pretty cool for her!
We've been doing lots of activities to try to keep the kids from going stir crazy! One day, we had Popcorn & Puzzles Day. We did tons of puzzles, made our own puzzle using photos the kids picked from the computer, printing them out on heavy paper and cutting them out into puzzles. We also made some popcorn, talked about the science of popcorn a little bit, and did the popcorn dance. One day, we did our own Zoo. We had some friends, the Whitings, over that day, and we made tickets, set up the animal exhibits, took care of the animals, took each other on tours, fed the animals, etc. The kiddos loved that! We've done lots of other fun things to keep these busy ones busy. One day, we did potato prints. Lucy decided to eat the paint...
We've been enjoying the snow while we can, and have had a lot of it, especially in January! We had a snowman day and went outside to make snowmen and we made our family. Then we came inside and sang the snowman song, had snowman bagels for lunch, and hot chocolate and snuggled up to read some good books and play inside.
We had tons of fun sledding in what we call the sand dunes behind our house. It was a blast! The kids discovered their snowpants worked better than sleds, and so they just slid down on their bums. It was cute! Emma also made a cool snow cave with her friends in the backyard. Here she is popping out of it.
Outside it may be cold, but inside it's been toasty! Sometimes it gets hot in here with our wood stove burning! Sizzling...some days its been up to 90 in here!
Cute Cal! He's so tender and has been loving snuggling lately with me. It's so cute and I will take his snuggles while I can.
Besides snuggling, Cal has been way into gaming lately - games on my phone and on the computer. He loves Angry Birds and a motorcycle game, PBS Kids, Kidzui and some preschool learning games we have. He also loves animals and is very sensitive to animals and loves reading about them. This dog is from a friend of ours, they just got a new weiner dog puppy! He loved it and was delighted to play with it!
Besides preschool, snuggling, playing games, animals, Cal enjoys playdates and going to the library. Here he is at a ward playdate when we had a big playdate in the gym complete with a huge blow up bouncy toy.
In February, the kids started swimming lessons. This was their first time, and they loved it! Cal was fearless and did really well, passing his class! He had a hard time staying on the wall sometimes though, because he just wanted to swim on his own. Emma did really well too, but we're going to put her in the introductory course again because she wanted her teacher to help her every time. So she needs to gain a little more confidence. They smiled and loved every minute and can't wait to do more!
Emma and Cal are like little best friends and it's so cute! I love seeing what they come up with on their own to do and listening to the little conversations they have. One day, we were cracking open a coconut. They loved smashing it to try to open it and talked about the coconut bombs from Swiss Family Robinson. "I hate coconut bombs!" Cal said. Emma just laughed.
Dancing with my stars...they just started dancing together one night, doing all kinds of fancy moves!
As for me, I've been doing pretty well. I've been feeling really good, and am now 16 1/2 weeks. And the headaches are going away now, yay!
Besides cooking, cleaning, playing with the kids and keeping up with everything, I've been trying hard to catch up on family scrapbooks. I finished Lucy's baby book, finally, and 2010. Now I'm working on 2011 old school scrappy style, and I've been doing 2012 digitally. I'm trying to do one page a day and I've been doing pretty well sticking to that and hopefully I'll catch up pretty soon! ;) Right....
Also been working on some fun sewing projects and started making the girls' Easter dresses. It's early this year, you know! I like sewing, when my sewing machine isn't being wierd, it's been having some problems lately and it's getting frustrating.
I've also been into the wreath making thing lately. I made three wreaths. One for Christmas I never got to in December made out of starlight mints, a felt ruffle heart wreath for Valentine's Day, and a scrap fabric wreath for our bedroom that matches the quilt on our bed. Love me some late night or nap time crafting, it's pretty therapuetic and quiet time for me.
And Dave has been busy working on his graduate project almost 24/7. This is where you'll likely find him if you come over to our house. Or at the school at the library. His topic has been changed several times and he's worked on several projects, so it's been very stressful for him because his committee says they love something, he does it and they then decide they want to change directions after he's devoted tons of time. For a while, he didn't sleep much, hardly ate anything, and was having panic attacks because he was getting so stressed. But he's doing a great job and pushing through with a happy attitude and is getting so close! He's comparing magnet hospitals vs. regular hospitals and their rankings and ratings. He had a lot of data to compile, math to do, statistics, and then interpreting the data and researching the topic. I'm so proud of him, less than 2 months left of this, which is crazy! He also has been applying for jobs a little, he was devoting lots of time to that in January but now is side tracked getting this project done on time. So soon he will hit the job hunt hard again. He got one job offer, but it wasn't really wanted to do, so we'll keep on looking!
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