Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Sledding

I took the girls sledding on Saturday. 
It was their first time ever, which seems really sad seeing as we do live in Wyoming.  However, we don't get very much snow here, and what we do get usually melts away quickly or blows away.  Thus, not a lot of sledding opportunities.
Saturday had just barely enough snow to almost cover all the grass and make sledding possible.
The girls had tons of fun.
 They were going down the hill soooooo slowly, but they thought it was so fast!

 Molly and I watched a little,
 and participated a little.  Molly seemed to like sledding down the hill.

Ashlee:
 The hardest part is going back up the hill time after time.
 Caitlin:

On one of Caitlin's runs down the hill she took an awesome face plant right into the snow.  She was fine and we had a good laugh about it.
We will try to go out again as soon as we can!


Friday, February 22, 2013

11 Months

We can't believe Molly is almost a year old!
She is a fun little girl. 
She loves to crawl around exploring everything.
Her new favorite game is to crawl into the bathroom and unroll all the toilet paper. We might have to leave the bathroom doors shut with this girl.
She still puts EVERYTHING in her mouth.
 She loved to sit in this little chair and kick her feet.
 She likes to play near her sisters.  They usually get her out of her crib after she wakes up.
They love her and she loves them.
She seems to still love her mommy most of all.
She thought it was the best game to put her toy basket on her lap and tip it up and down.
Her hair is still pretty thin in front, but getting longer everywhere else.  It still sticks up a lot, but will sometimes curl a little bit near her neck.
She can wave goodbye. She usually does it when she is going to bed.
She has mostly been weaned from nursing- down to just 2 feedings a day.
She takes a bottle great, and loves food, so she doesn't seem to even notice being weened.
She still only has 1 tooth on the bottom.
She says "mama" to me, or at me, sometimes.
She loves to take a bath, but doesn't really splash the water at all.
She goes to Zumba with me every Tuesday and Thursday morning and takes a nap in her carseat/stroller.
She can click her tongue, so cute.
And she loves to cover her top lip with her bottom lip in concentration.

I think she has roseola. Which would explain her unexplained fever earlier this week, and the light rash she has now. Caitlin had it when she was a baby too.

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Peruvian

Annie has traveled to South America many times this past year for work.
In her recent visit up to Rock Springs she brought the girls some winter hats from Peru.
The picture is not the best, but the hats are sooooo cute. Thanks Annie!!

These three girls are the best sisters! We love them!

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Again

We have a little girl at our house who isn't feeling well, again.
Although, this time she is no where near as sick as she was last time.  
She is just cranky, clingy, tired, irritable, running intermittent fevers, and grouchy. 
This is how she's looked a lot of the time the past few days.
She just wants me to hold her.  Only me, not her sisters. (maybe Chris, but he is out of town so we will never know)
I'm not sure what the problem is. No runny nose, no cough, no new teeth that I can feel, no diarrhea, no rashes, I don't think its an ear infection? Maybe just a virus passing through? I hope she feels more like her regular self soon.

Monday, February 18, 2013

Spinning Coins

One of my favorite games I played with my siblings while I was growing up was spinning coins.  We would all sit at my little sisters picnic table and get out all our coins and try to get them all spinning at the same time.

Today I taught it to Caitlin and Ashlee.
They weren't interested in getting them all spinning, they were just excited to get one spinning!
 Their game was to try to get it spinning and travel the furthest distance.
 It was a good game for them for 20 or 30 minutes.

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Just Dance

We gave the girls Disney Just Dance for Valentines Day.
I had to work that night, so Chris, the girls, and Annie tried it out.
Annie came to visit for 5 days, and I didn't even take a single picture!
Luckily she took a few pictures of the Just Dance fun.
I tried it in the morning when I got home from work, and was thoroughly exhausted.  It's hard to say how much of that was from the game and how much was from working all night.

The girls love this new game, and we love it to!

Monday, February 11, 2013

Up the Stairs

The video of Molly's first time climbing the stairs- with Ashlee's great commentary.

Mobile

Over the past few weeks, Molly has become very, very mobile.  She isn't walking, but she has mastered everything else.
She stands up with anything and everything now.
I'm sure everything looks so much different from this vantage point!
 She can kneel for as long as she pleases without losing her balance
She only crawls now.  No more army crawl.
She figured out how to go up the stairs. 
She loves to stand up in her crib.  Which has been a bit of a  problem for her naps.  I lay her down and then she starts crying the second I walk out of the room and stands up and cries and cries until shes decided that she is tired of crying and lays down to go to sleep.


This was her first day pulling herself up on things to stand.  January 28th.

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Dress-up girl?

Caitlin and Ashlee love playing dress-ups, but Molly has been kind of little to play. 
Grandma Berta gave us a new dress-up for Molly over Christmas break.
Last night we tried it on to see how she liked it.
She did not like the hat and took it right off. (in the picture above her hands are moving up to take her hat off, I had to snap the picture quick)
But she didn't seem to mind wearing the dress at all.
She likes us telling her how pretty she looked and what a big girl she was.
After about 10 minutes we had to take it off because there are little puffs on it that she was trying to pull apart and eat.  Maybe we should just remove them as they really don't do anything for the dress anyway.
This girl will probably like dress-ups just as much as her sisters.

Monday, February 4, 2013

Ashlee's Pledge

Ashlee handed me a card yesterday and told me that she would love me forever, even when she was gone. I asked if she would still love me when she is a teenager, and she said "yes!"
So Chris recorded it for her.

I didn't know how to put just a sound recording on the blog, so it is a boring video (just close your eyes).




Ashlee (and Caitlin and Molly)- I love you. No matter when you are gone, I will still love you. Even when you are a teenager, I will still love you. Even when I am 100 years old, I will still love you most! (Mom)

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Crazy Day

This week is anti-bully week at school, and each day there is a different dress theme, i.e. yesterday they could wear clothing with peace signs and today was crazy day.

So Caitlin wore mismatching clothing and had crazy hair. 
 (What a beautiful girl she is, even with crazy hair.)

Tomorrow she is excited to dress like a super-hero, which I guess will just entail a cape?  Boys have super-hero clothes, but do girls?  Ours don't.

Thursday, January 24, 2013

10 Months

This silly little girl is 10 months old!
She is still pretty serious, and doesn't laugh unless she really thinks something is funny.  
She still can be pretty shy at times, turning her head to the side or hiding her head in me.
She loves, Loves, LOVES toys or anything else she can play with.  She will start crying if she is set on the floor with no toys to play with, and by play I mean eat.
Her hair is filling in, but she still looks like a balding man with a strip down the middle and lots in the back.
She had a well child visit yesterday and weighs in at 17lbs 7oz (14th percentile) (which is a significant drop in percentile, but she was sick this past week so they aren't concerned.)
She is 29 inches long (around 80th percentile).
Her hips still click when rotated.  She had an ultrasound done at 6 months, and had an x-ray today to check for any hip dysplasia.
She is feeling a lot better now!  She was exhibiting many s/s of RSV, but the doctors office didn't test her since she was on the mend.  If she did have RSV, she handled it like a champ because I never was worried enough to take her into the doctor.  Whether it was, or wasn't, she is doing much better!
She still has an umbilical hernia, which she has had since birth.

She loves to take a bath and play with toys!
She doesn't splash around, she just plays with the toys.

She has gone down the stairs twice, not fallen down- just gone down.  I'm not sure if she slides down head first on her belly, or what, but she has managed it twice while no one was looking.  We are glad she hasn't fallen down the stairs, but we are keeping a closer eye on her- she is so fast.

She still likes a bottle, but is still primarily breast fed.
She likes to eat whatever we are eating for dinner, although she can't always have what we are eating.  She likes feeding herself with her fingers better then the spoon.  She likes vegetables much more then fruits, I just have to boil them until they are super soft so she can gum them.
She has 1 tooth!  On the bottom right side.

She mostly gets around doing any arm crawl still.
She is an expert at getting in the crawling stance, but can't keep it up once she starts moving.
She pulls herself up to stand on low things.
She figured out how to kneel down, and thinks it is a great trick.
 She doesn't clap her own hands, but likes to grab my hands and make me clap.

We love this little girl, she brings us joy everyday!

Monday, January 21, 2013

Fabric Wipes

Yesterday I went through our old Family Fun magazines before throwing them out.  
I ripped out the ideas I wanted to save and tossed the rest.
Today I made one of their ideas that I thought would be fun for Molly.
I cut out pieces of fabric and then folded them together
 and put them all in a wipe box.
 Now she can pull them all out to her hearts content and then we just refold and put them back in.
Super cute, super easy.  We tried it out, but she just wanted to play with the flip up lid part.  It will just take a few times of us helping/showing her I think.

Home Sick

Our poor Molly babe has been sick for the past few days. 
Because she was sick yesterday and Chris was out of town, we all stayed home from church.

I think she is saying, "Please, no pictures"
She felt crummy and slept for a lot of the day.  When she was awake she mostly needed to be within touching distance of me and her nose ran constantly.

It was a pretty long and boring day, staying home with all the kids when Caitlin and Ashlee felt fine.
We did our best to try to stay busy while still trying to keep some sort of Sabbath spirit.

Before dinner the girls set up a bunch of toys in their room (on the ladder and night stand) and played Primary.  Their primary consisted of prayers, a talk, the spotlight, hello song for visitors, the Article of Faith, and a Scripture.....they were very thorough.

Caitlin was actually assigned to do the scripture for real Primary and had been practicing it during the week.  She was sad that we weren't going to church, but perked right up when I told her she could read the scripture for us.

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Jan. Cupcakes

For Christmas I got a new calendar that has a different kind of cupcake each month. 
My goal (although I don't make goals :) ) is to make each months cupcake.
January was the donut shop cupcake.
Ashlee and I made them for FHE last night.  Because they called for coffee in the cupcake and the frosting we made a few changes.  Plain chocolate cupcakes and hot chocolate frosting.
They were delicious!

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Failed Celebration

The girls got out all the musical instruments to play and celebrate when the Broncos scored a touchdown.
They had fun doing it, but then the Broncos lost and all was so sad at our house :(

Visiting Logan

Ashlee, Molly and I drove to Logan Wednesday morning to visit Grandma Garrett and Grandma Berta (who was there visiting).

Grandma Berta was teaching Ashlee how to count her pennies into groups of ten.

My Aunt Shirley lives above my Grandma, and she has a fabulous doll house.  Ashlee wasted no time getting it out and playing with it.  It is a great doll house and she finds everything for it at garage sales!

This poor family has quadruplets, but at least they have enough potties for them all!

Ashlee and Grandma counting all the pennies.

My Grandma has had these peg board tiles since her kids were little. We opted to just cover the board instead of making pictures.

 And a photo of us all just before we had to head back home.
Maybe next time we go Chris and Caitlin will be able to come to.