Saturday, January 21, 2012

Can't kick the sick!

 I feel like our family has been sick forever!  I can't wait until everyone feels better.  It's so sad seeing my little children with that blank pathetic stare. Just about everyone is on the mend now.  Elizabeth is still sick (she had a temperature of 103.9 at one point yesterday), but I'm
hoping she'll pull through soon. We've been giving her a lot of baths, frozen gogurts and of course, medicine.  My poor baby...
 


Okay, so on a happier note, here are some pictures of the kids before the bugs.  We had a really fun family home evening the other night.  We spoke about choosing the right.  The highlight of the evening was making, "CTR" pretzels.  The kids had such a fun time.



This picture of Isabella cracks me up...pure joy!

Bella's been doing this fake smile thingy recently.  Too funny, but I want the real smile back!

These were totally yummy by the way.  The recipe is in the January 2012 friend (if you're interested).  It was super simple.

Libby walking (53 sec)

Dad and Libby do the "la-la" talk (49 sec)

Elizabeth gets a kiss (1:23)

Elizabeth plays chase with mommy (1:17)

Bella and Luke show off their mad skills. (1:56)

Thursday, January 5, 2012

It happened....again.

I didn't think that I would be seeing Luke produce so many messes in so little time.  I tell you what, this boy has been biiii-zay!  Over the last week he has shown a fascination with soap.  He often times will be caught in the bathroom washing his hands.
Well, this desire to have clean hands has been taken one step further.  He not only likes to wash his hands now.  He like to wash the counters and the mirrors.  In my last post I was able to document this new found "hobby" of his through the use of air freshener.  He also enjoys brushing his teeth (a lot), coloring (on walls too now) and of course, playing with multiply ingredients that can be found in the fridge like, hmmm, I don't know ...EGGS - need I say more?  
Well, in one day Luke has managed to make bigger messes than the last two weeks combined.  Unfortunately for you, the reader, I only have one video to share for that wonderful, blessed day.
On this particular day I was helping out a friend by watching two of her kids.  This made my day a little more busy, but nothing too bad.  Luke seemed to develop the ability to accomplish a whole lot of mischief while I was otherwise occupied (be it changing diapers, making lunch for everyone, looking for binkies, etc.)  During the course of the day I found two minor soap messes which led to soap in the eyes.  I also found a BIG soap mess for which there are still remnants that need tending to.  He also is the author (or so I believe) of a major refrigerator mess.  Within this mess there was sprawled about the floor parmesan cheese (my arch nemesis), the entire box of baking powder, salad dressing, cottage cheese, brown rice and a sippy cup of milk.  I am quite fortunate that the cheese and baking powder where the only items that were found in a dusty scatter all over the floor.  It actually could have been a lot worse.....there could have been eggs involved.

Luke is loving his spiderman stuff.  I find it funny that he was a better spiderman before he had the costume.  I might have to have either me or Josh train him in the ways of super hero combat posing.  I have a funny feeling that this job, if it were to be done would fall on my shoulders.  So, we'll see what happens.  I guess it depends on whether I'm feeling outgoing or not.  We'll see...
Luke is actually shooting webs at me in this picture.  He's definitely going to have to work on this pose. I'm so not intimidated.
It's a good thing that Spidey is the "friendly" neighborhood Spiderman.


 Elizabeth is growing up so fast.  She jibber-jabbers a lot now.  It kind of sounds like "leego-leego-leego-leego".  I have yet to capture it on film, sorry.  I just love this little girl.  She's such a happy little child.
  She was being so cute the other day.  I kept placing her on her new rocking horse from Christmas.  At one moment she was giggly and happy.  The next, she was sad and crying.  She either has an extreme love/hate relationship with this horse, or else she was just really tired.  I happen to know for a fact that she was just really tired.
Love

Hate
I couldn't finish this post without mentioning a little bit about Isabella.  Last week at church we learned about the gift of agency and that there are consequences for the good and bad choices that we make.  While we were at Costco one morning she asked me, "Mama, when is grandpa coming to visit?"  I told her that he'd be here in a couple of weeks, but that he would be really busy with work and may not be able to stop for a visit. She then replied, "Grandpa is going to stay at the lake and not see us.  That is a bad choice." Ha!  I thought that was so funny.
On the same say I was taking her to school.  I can't remember what we were talking about (we're always talking about something make no mistake) when out of the blue she stated, "I love my grandma."  I thought that was very sweet.  I then asked her why she loved her grandma so much.  She said, "Because she reads me stories."  This was also very sweet.
There was also a funny thing she said today. We were driving home from school this time.  I had looked in her bag and found two fliers.  One was promoting a children's play/theatre group and the other was for flag football.  They both cost over $100 to join.  When she asked me when we were going to go and do those wonderfully fun things I said that I didn't know if we could.  Her response was something along the lines of, "Oh no, but we've already been invited mom!"  I'm hoping that this is coming across as funny because it sure was at the time.  I was laughing out loud.  I wish I could remember every amusing thing that my children do, but I just don't remember that well.  I guess that's what videos are for.

So, without further ado, I give you, your videos:

Luke practicing his Spiderman moves

Luke and Spiderman Theme Song


Bella chases Libby.

Mom chases Libby.


Luke's fridge mess...

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Gotta love the mess!

We went to the park!  This happens very rarely, so I always make sure to bring my camera to document it all.  I need this documentation so I can show my kids later that, yes indeed I took them to the park.  I then can show them my blog where on display will be pictures from all of our many exciting adventures (which are actually very few and far between.  Below are some of our favorite moments at the park.  Luke loves the swings best.  He rarely wanted to go do anything else.  I'm not quite sure what Bella's favorite park activity was.  She seemed to like a variety of things.




 Isabella received a Hello Kitty scrapbook for Christmas.  She absolutely loves working on it.  She is learning to be very patient because she can only complete 2 pages at a time (per day).  Waiting for glue to dry can be very hard on a 4 year old.  Mommy, however, loves the fact that we have to wait for glue to dry. 

D-O-G somehow got bejeweled during our scrap-booking fun time.

Luke has been into everything these last couple of days.  I have to watch him like a hawk or else....I'll be paying for it later. The latest messes he has created have been caused by crayons, markers, toys, air freshener and eggs.  I've attached a few videos so you can better understand the way things have been lately.

Air Freshener

Park Video: Bridge

Park Video: Slide

Park Video: Elizabeth (Take 1)

Park Video: Elizabeth (Take 2)

Isabella's First Scrapbook

Eggs!