Its sad that birthday season is what has finally reminded me to post again! I need to be better at keeping a better record of these precious years - I stopped scrap booking to blog but then I just have been really bad at blogging regularly. So heres about a years worth of random stuff - most of which has happened int he last week or so and is fresh in my mind. So first, Happy birthday Cadie and Libby! We had such a fun time at your parties this year! Libby had a slumber party with some of her closest friends: Amy, Mya, Aliya, Naomi, Isabella and Solene. (and of course they all included Cadie!) They were all so polite and happy and good - I only had to give them what for a few times around midnight to get them to finally go to sleep! We had fun playing flashlight hide and seek in the dark, painting nails and doing glitter tattoos, we made glow in the dark pillowcases with fabric paint and watched wreck it ralph. We had waffles bacon and eggs for breakfast and then it was on to Cadie's party - she wanted a fiesta as she still remembers how much fun mexico was last year! We had 12 of her closest friends over: Hanna, Josie, Ainsley and Alfie from school and Ashley and Averi from church, Summer and Corbin, Elena and Mya and Monet. Cadie spent most of her time with her friend Alfie - her teacher told me that almost every day she hears Alfie come into the classroom and walk over to Cadie and say "you look beautiful today." Cadie introduced me to him as her special friend and proceeded to hold his hand or hug him or sit beside him the rest of the party. (should I be worried??) Again, everyone was happy and helpful and had a great time. I was lucky my mom came to help out with Cadie's party as corey was working and Elise came to help me set up for Libby's party as Corey was working :)
(Fist pump at the top of the hill!)
We have had a fun birthday week - Corey took some time off so we went to Banff - hot springs and Eddie burger and just hung out together which was so nice. We also took the kids skiing for the first time - again my parents helped out a lot - they came and sat in the lodge (and cheered for us at the bunny hill!) so the kids could take turns skiing with us. I thought the kids would have been tired after one run but they all did really well. Libby especially wasn't feeling great but she persevered and kept trying and trying until she got it. Cadie puked in the car on the way to the ski hill but it was a wonderful thing because we finally figured out (after numerous motion sickness experiences without ANY warning at all from her) that when she says "I'm hungry" in the car it actually means "I am going to throw up all over Libby"But once we got her cleaned up (ha she only had underwear on under her snowsuit as her clothing was soiled!!) she had a blast on the ski hill. She's fearless that girl and a ball of energy - after her first run with me she said I want to try it on my own now and a few runs later she asked if she could go on the chair lift! My mom tried to talk me out of it but I'm a little bit of a daredevil too so I took her anyway and the first couple runs from the chairlift were awesome!
They we tried to show Daddy that she could go on the chairlift so he came on chair right behind us and we were a little distracted and she is so short I thought she was all the way on the chair and so did the attendant but after the chair started picking up speed and we were already quite high in the air she started slipping - I dropped my mitts and poles to catch her and thankfully I was able to grab her and hoist her back on the chair! Corey saw the whole thing from behind us and wasn't super happy :) Other than that our first ski trip was awesome! What else this year? The kids are doing great at school - especially with all the adjustments of having new teachers - both girls have had 2 teachers this year - maternity leave and class sizes too big. David is also doing well - Corey and I have noticed he has been stuttering a lot lately but hopefully that is just a phase he will grow out of? He is starting to read - he can read small words like cat and sit etc, and he can play the piano beautifully and sight read easy music but he is still not fully potty trained. I am getting terrified for kindergarten next year. The specialists that we have been going to have not been very helpful at all... But he is my baby and the sweetest boy in the world - he's still a mama's boy and will protect me to the death (seriously, corey just has to look at me wrong or if the girls try to poke my neck he freaks out at them) BUT he's starting to warm up to his dad!I've had fun going on a few field trips with the kids lately: skating and to the science center!
Here are some quotes from this year from all 3 kids: ( I was really bad at writing them down this time :(
I have been getting up early to do some house work before the kids wake up so one morning I had put some waffles in the toaster when I heard david waking up - I quickly ran back to bed because he likes to snuggle with me first thing in the morning (you will remember it takes David awhile to wake up after a nap - same thing in the mornings he can be a bit of a bear until he's all the way awake) so I was back under the covers by the time he came into my room and after he snuggled in he heard the pop of the toaster being done. He tensed up and asked: "Is Daddy home?" I replied "He's at the gym" after a thoughtful pause he said " Humph, well he must be really loud at the gym for us to be able to hear him all the way from home. That or we have ghostes."
As we drove over a texas cattle gate:
Libby: "What was that sound!?"
Cadie: "Uhh, I think that was just our car farting!" (I hate it when they use that word!)
Cadie: "Victoria invited me over to her house to play!" (a new friend from school)
Libby: "Oh. Well if she has an old woman at her house there will probably be an attic. You should ask if you can play in her attic. There will be lots of cool old lady stuff up there."
Cadie: "Mom, this is a list of all the people I'm falling in love with. Daniel, Uncle Jay, President Monson and Captain America." (see why I'm not overly worried about Alfie?)
Cadie: "MOM. When I get back to the table I expect that onion to be GONE!"
David: "Hey! Remember when we had fun doing that stuff last-er-day?"
Cadie: "I know I'm a little bit weird but I actually like mom AND my dad!" (libby always claims to like dad and David likes mom)
Libby: "I keep thinking of buts. NO! not those kind of BUTTS!!"
Cadie: "We don't even want you in our family anymore, mom."
me: "WHAT!! But I care for you!"
Libby: "I only care for your neck..." (she likes to poke my neck...)
Libby is turning 8 in a few days but her sweet primary president has already given her her faith in God book that she is so eager to work on we have already completed 5 goals and it's not even her birthday yet! One of the goals she chose was to write a poem about a principle of the gospel or about Heavenly Father's creations. She took that a little literally and wrote (a not very accurate poem) about creation. (to the tune of the 12 days of christmas) straight from her journal: (although I've edited spelling)
On the first day on earth my God created for me: ground and some plants.
On the second day on earth my God created for me: water and some fish.
On the third day on earth my God created for me: darkness and lightness, sky and sun.
On the fourth day on earth my God created for me: moon and the stars and clouds.
On the fifth day on earth my God created for me: animals and colours.
On the sixth day on earth my God created for me: friends and family and love!
On the seventh day on earth He rested reverently and sleeped the end.
One of my pet peeves is that our kids have too many toys. I don't really like clutter so much and I love dejunking but we are so so so blessed to have so many kind and generous people in our lives who give us wonderful things - like toys - that my spoiled (they're really not that bad) kids play with for one day and then not ever ever again. To illustrate this I picked a random day during christmas holidays - after christmas but before school resumed to write down what my kids did all day. Shortly after receiving tons of cool new toys. Here is the list:
fortune telling. (a game they made up using a glass of water)
kittens. (a common game in our house using only a towel and bowls of very spillable milk)
magic rocks. (the rocks were my couch cushions. Apparently you had to jump on the magic rocks)
Green monster. (the monster would eat anything green - to be fair this game did involve a few green toys)
Babies. (another common game - bus as usual Cadie was the baby and Libby the mom - no toys)
frog orphans. (I didn't even really get this one... but there were definitely no toys involved)
shark bite: (chasing each other around the house - beds/chairs are safe - ie. out of the water, the shark did use one of my rubber spatulas, but alas, no toys.)
Poor David - the girls are usually pretty good at including him in their games but whenever they don't want him to play but know that they still have to be kind and inclusive they always make him the mailman. Unfortunately we actually had a random mailman in many of the aforementioned games. If he didn't like being the mailman so much I would take issue with this but he seems OK with it?!
So even though I'm not fully supportive of this is knew I didn't want any more toys in my house so cadie got a video game for her birthday and Libby is getting an ipod. I know.
Can you tell which snowman is who? The one with broccolli on it's head is obviously David with his spiky hair! :)
Libby enjoying what was supposed to be asian sweet potato noodles in the odd form of a sandwich.
David and I like to throw around the football sometimes - when we're not playing cars or bad guys. Poor sweet david told me the other day that I am his best friend. When we play football he's made up a rule that you have to say something weird before you throw the ball. If the other person catches it you keep saying the thing until they miss. You gotta see it in action to get it I think... So this video (sorry you can see my pile of CLEAN laundry) is funny mostly because david has no clue what he's saying - he learned this song at a friend's house which I was not so happy about and after this phrase was repeated at my house a few times I found an lds copy of the video edited with those words to say "hey modest lady" but it never did catch on... To this day my kids think "saxy lady" is referring to a saxaphone-like woman...
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