Mommy was irreverent

OK kids do as I say, not as I do on this one.  Emmalyn has been a good pray-er by folding her arms during a prayer since she was about 8 months old, so now we are working on the bowing your head and folding of arms. 

This Sunday we had stake conference.  When the person got up to give the opening prayer I reminded her to fold her arms and close her eyes, which she promptly did.  I peeked and checked on her about halfway through the prayer and she was so cute, trying so hard to keep her eyes closed I just had to get a picture.  I had to dig my phone out of the diaper bag, turn it on (because of course I turned it off during church, don’t you?) and then I snapped this cute picture moments before the prayer finished.  Isn't she just so cute trying to be a good little girl sitting in her little chair!?!   I have decided that my next phone is going to have to have a great camera feature so the pictures turn put a little better. 

A day in the life of a 3 year old

Well really this is just probably 1/2 to 1 hour at the most before I realized that she was taking pictures with the camera.  I was on the phone and kept checking on her but she always hid the camera when I was around, and did a good job of it but eventually got caught.  She took 127 pictures but most of them are her fingers over the lens.  Here are the ones that turned out.  I thought it was an interesting insight into her life and what she finds important.

Her feet, she loves shoes but this is the most worn out ugliest pair of shoes she owns.

  

She loves lining her babies up all over the house, sometimes it is on one of the couches, anyone’s bed, the counters in the kitchen, in the bathtub, even just down the hallway on the floor.

 

I guess she remembers me taking pictures of Emmalyn’s feet as a baby because these are her doll’s feet. 

The Tinkerbell movie.

  A stuffed animal she put to sleep with a kitchen towel.  I never have towels in my kitchen because she is always using them for baby blankets.

The floor.

 Spencer’s bike.  (And if you look real hard you can see the start of my first square foot garden in between the bike and the shed.)

 

The garden hose.  Her partner in crime who is not too happy with the camera in her face.

  Glow stick bracelets.

And one more shot of Emmalyn.  See I was doing something, Emmalyn got dressed and a cup of milk during this whole process!  I hope you enjoyed the tour of Hannah’s morning!

Make sure you read through, I have posted 6 new entries in the last 24 hours or so, trying to catch up!

So Proud of our Little Spencer Boy!

We love and are proud of all of our babies, but today we have to brag a little about Spencer.  On the last day of school Spencer received a very special award from his teacher.  He received the All Star Student First Grade Award. 

There are 3 first grade classes at Spencer’s school this year.  One of the other teachers ordered trophies for her class and while she was at it she added in one more trophy for the other two first grade teachers.  When Spencer’s teacher was presented with the trophy to give out to one student she knew it was going to be hard to pick.  But she set out to find a student who was excelling in school work, was a friend to all, best citizenship grades, looked up to by other students, always trying to help out etc.  When all things were done she came up with one student who she felt exemplified all of the characteristics of an All Star Student and it was Spencer.  Great Job, Spencer, we are so proud of the wonderful boy you have become!

Kaitlyn’s Baptism

Kaitlyn turned 8 a few months ago, sorry I am so far behind, and was baptized.  She is getting so big.  They just grow up way to fast.  Her big day was Saturday April 10, 2010.  On Friday, the day before, I packed all of the kids up and headed down to the temple to take some pictures of her in her dresses.

These shots are in her actual baptism dress. 

I had the hardest time to get one of Kaitlyn’s cute smiles to come out during this little photo shoot.

 

It was about here that I noticed that she is wearing blue nail polish.  The first thing we did when we got home was remove it so that it would not get past us for the baptism.

After taking this last shot, I notice that my camera was almost out of batteries.  I was no where near being done with what I wanted to shoot but we had to change into the other dress and take some pictures in it too.

This dress is her dress to wear after she was baptized.  Mom made this dress, I would like to say I helped but all I did was cut out the pieces of the dress.  Mom put in tons of hours actually putting the dress together and it turned out absolutely gorgeous.  Thanks again, Mom!

For some reason knowing that my battery was just about done, I was rushing and didn't end up with any really good pictures in this dress.

  While we had actually met Scott at the temple (he works just a few miles away) he spent most of the time on his cell phone and Spencer was such a trooper helping with the little girls.  I thought this was really sweet.

And this was the last picture before the camera said goodnight.

 

Now for the big day!

 

KK and her Daddy.  Look at how big she is getting, she is only 8 and her dad is 6’2”! This picture shows off the gorgeous dress a little.  Thanks Mom, You’re the Best!

Here is one shot of the family that was there.  Grandma, Poppa and Grandma Jean were also there but did not get in the picture.One down 3 more to go!

Emmalyn Says Hi

I cannot belive that my baby is already 18 month old.  I took this picture just after we got out of the car after church. She ran around the car and to the front door, I guess she did not want to go in the garage door that day.  Unfortunately it was taken with my cell phone so the quality is not the greatest but she stood at the door saying and waving hi to the cars as they passed. I had the big kids watch her for a second so I could run in and get the camera and take a decent picture.  And this is what I got from her.

   Lots of turning around and running away. At least you can see her cute little curls.

A wink from Hannah

Hannah forever will be the queen of expressions.  You can always tell exactly how Hannah feels by her face, and boy if looks could kill she has a few lethal ones in her repertoire.  How ever this is a super cute one.  She is learning how to wink and it is so fun to watch her. 

She almost has it down, if you look closely her left eye is open just slightly.   

School Spirit Week

I’m back and I have lots to share!

The last week of school was filled with many fun school spirit activites and theme days.  Some of the days were crazy hat day, crazy sock day and crazy hair day.  We had fun coming up with crazy hair do’s with out going too over the top.

Kaitlyn ended up with hair that looked like she belonged in Who-ville.  Spencer was in need of a hair cut at the time.  I first put his hair in a bunch of little pony tails down the middle of his head to create a mowhawk but he decided he couldn't go to school with ponytails (even though they were the little clear rubber bands) so we just made a mowhawk out of his hair and lots of gel.  Here he is showing off the newest version of his cast that he had put on the night before.  The best part is that the cast is waterproof!

Spencer's Trip to the ER

Many of you know that we spent Friday night and Saturday morning in the ER and that Spencer has broken his arm.  Here are some pictures Scott took from the ER with his phone.

They used a notebook as a splint, this picture was taken while in the waiting room:

All Spencer ever really complained about was how thirsty he was.  He had been playing hard before this happened (around 8:30 pm) so he was really thirsty.  He is our big water lover and has never been denied any water in his life so he really struggled with the fact that he could not get a drink.  Spencer listened to my ipod, to try and relax.  Just that morning I was looking at the playlist I had and almost deleted the one that I had made for when Emmalyn was born, which had lots of piano music and lullaby's, at the time I decided I would wait until I was at the computer before I deleted it but I think it was inspiration not to delete it because it really helped him calm down although this particular picture does not show it.  This is also the only time I have ever even carried the earphones in my purse. 

This is as fun shot of Spencer waking up from the sedation after they tried setting his arm the first time.

This is a picture of the x-ray taken from the side of his arm.  The break  is just to the right of the "x table" notation.  His elbow is to the left and hand to the right side.  Not only did he break both the ulna and radius he bent the bone as well.  (I had no idea that bone could even bend, I thought that they just broke!)  

This is the top view x-ray.  The break is just to the right of the letter "L" on the x-ray. The bones in the hand were pulled back and shifted to the side.  

The break was pretty severe, the orthopedic surgeon is still saying that there is a pretty good chance that they might have to go in and do surgery and put in some pins.  We are lucky that it is his left hand.  Today he is doing much better and in a lot less pain which is a really good sign as to that they are setting properly and hopefully wont need surgery.  We will go back to the orthopedic surgeon tomorrow to get more x-rays and find out if they can cast it or if it needs more correction.  

Spencer has been showered with goodies and gifts and is loving it.  He received a nerf gun from a friend that he loves, but cant load by himself because he can only use the one arm, but he has fun with it nonetheless.  Spencer love chocolate chip cookies and this is one of his favorite treats:

 

Since it is national Scrapbooking month here is the layout I made:

Biirrrrrs

I have a few more pictures to write about and share but today the girl are occupying the computer.  The other day on the news they showed an owl box where they were waiting on 5 eggs to hatch.  I remembered it this morning and found it on the web.  One egg has hatched, I think it did yesterday, but the two little girls are just sitting watching this owl and are amazed. I have been able to just leave them sitting in the chair together and actually get a few things accomplished.  Emmalyn is so excited she has even started saying bird, well she is really saying biirrrrrs but we all know what she means.  There are 4 more eggs to hatch and they say that they should hatch every 2 days so the next should happen tomorrow.  After the eggs all hatch they will be in the box for about 80 days before they all "leave the nest".  So if your little ones are curious or like birds here is the link to check it out. http://www.ustream.tv/channel-popup/the-owl-box

I don't like this white stuff….

A week or so ago we were driving to go pick up the big kids from school when Hannah muttered something about “this white stuff”  from her seat in the back of the car.

I had to ask her to tell me again what she was trying to say.  She said,

“Mommy, I do not like this white stuff.

What white stuff, sweetheart?

This white stuff that is coming in the car and going on my legs.

Hannah, that is just the sun because it is not rainy or cloudy today. 

Mommy I see some clouds, so make the white stuff go away.” 

Luckily at that time I turned a corner and the sun was on a different side of the car and I was her hero, well at least for a little while until we had to turn again. 

Isn't it sad that it has been so yucky for so long that she forgot what it was like to have the sun shine on her?