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Friday, November 7, 2008
Lego Zoo
It is officially cold now. We went from 80 degree weather to like 40 degrees in one day, so we will be spending a lot more time indoors. A couple of days ago Avri was wanting some attention, so I decided to sit down with Avri and Talmage and make some Lego zoo animals. We spread them all out and had an entire zoo to play with. Avri thought it was great, and Talmage was really enjoying pulling them apart. It took a great deal of work on my part to get a picture of all of them put together. The animals from left to right are: my own renditions of a tiger, a lion, and giraffe, then there is an elephant, a sad excuse for an alligator, a zebra, and then a camel. Then we had to have a concession stand, complete with a cook and a customer and benches. Our version of a zoo made from one small box of Lego's.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Interview and Voting
Kendall has a job interview today. I know, he's only been with his current job for a few months, but he got an interview with Caterpillar and it would be a really fantastic opportunity, so we will see. The interview is from 9 until about 2:30 with 1 hour of a break for lunch! Pretty intense!! I think he's a little nervous, but I think he'll do great. We'll keep you posted.
As a side note, I LOVE early voting. Hooray for the chance to vote before the lines are hours long. But if you haven't voted, go do it! I think that in these days it is getting even more important to vote than ever before.
As a side note, I LOVE early voting. Hooray for the chance to vote before the lines are hours long. But if you haven't voted, go do it! I think that in these days it is getting even more important to vote than ever before.
"The" Halloween Post
This wouldn't be a blog without a post about Halloween. So here it is. When Kendall got home we carved pumpkins. I know, a little late. But better late than never. The kids picked the designs, and Avri enjoyed helping, but Talmage didn't want to sit still to do something like carve pumpkins. Avri's is the witch. Talmage's is the smiley face.
Mercedes thought the candy was great! She was chewing on something almost the whole time, until she just got so tired that she fell asleep in the middle of trick-or-treating.
We got home and dumped out our loot and I couldn't get the wrappers off the candy fast enough for Talmage, so I think he ate a couple of them with the wrappers still on. Then we took the silly string that they got outside and had a war.
It was so funny to watch them! They didn't like it until I plastered Kendall with it and he was getting me, then they decided it was okay. Some got on Mercedes though and she freaked out. But I just laughed the whole time. It was pretty funny. We got them all sugared up and my parents came over and decided to take them home for a slumber party. Which was fine with us since they were now BOUNCING off the walls. So we sent them away and watched "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken." (Kendall is a HUGE Don Knotts fan, in case you didn't know!) That is my kind of scary movie!! Fun times.
And here is Kendall's pumpkin. However, it was carved a couple of weeks ago, so it is looking a bit sad and wilted.
Then we ate dinner and got dressed up. Mom is not in the picture because the extent of her costume was an orange shirt and Halloween socks. No time by the time everyone else is dressed.
Avri was SO EXCITED to be Snow White. She was bummed though that I wouldn't let her wear her Snow White shoes, which are the toy plastic heels.
Talmage made a cute giraffe.
And Macie got to be the turtle (you can't see the shell that is on the back.
Then we ate dinner and got dressed up. Mom is not in the picture because the extent of her costume was an orange shirt and Halloween socks. No time by the time everyone else is dressed.Avri was SO EXCITED to be Snow White. She was bummed though that I wouldn't let her wear her Snow White shoes, which are the toy plastic heels.Talmage made a cute giraffe.And Macie got to be the turtle (you can't see the shell that is on the back.Mercedes thought the candy was great! She was chewing on something almost the whole time, until she just got so tired that she fell asleep in the middle of trick-or-treating.
We got home and dumped out our loot and I couldn't get the wrappers off the candy fast enough for Talmage, so I think he ate a couple of them with the wrappers still on. Then we took the silly string that they got outside and had a war.It was so funny to watch them! They didn't like it until I plastered Kendall with it and he was getting me, then they decided it was okay. Some got on Mercedes though and she freaked out. But I just laughed the whole time. It was pretty funny. We got them all sugared up and my parents came over and decided to take them home for a slumber party. Which was fine with us since they were now BOUNCING off the walls. So we sent them away and watched "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken." (Kendall is a HUGE Don Knotts fan, in case you didn't know!) That is my kind of scary movie!! Fun times.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
8 Things Tag
8 shows I love to watch:
1- Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
2- Wipeout
3- America's Funniest Home Videos
4- The Cosby Show
5- #4 shows how long it's been since I really watched TV
6- I can't even think of things to fill in
7- Hmmm, thinking
8- Nothing
8 favorite restaurants:
1- Tucanos
2- Chilis
3- Red Lobster
4- Los Hermanos
5- Pizza Hut
6- Ruby Tuesdays
7- Sizzler
8- Olive Garden
8 Things that happened yesterday:
1- Cleaned nail polish off Avri and the bathroom rug
2- Went to the gastroenterologist with Kendall
3- Voted!!
4- Picked pears at my parents' house
5- Did my daily blog-stalking
6- Ate leftover Marie Calendar's potato cheese soup and Red Lobster biscuits, yum!
7- Straightened almost the whole house in the same day!
8- Did 5 or 6 loads of laundry
8 Things I am looking forward to:
1- Taking the kiddos trick-or-treating
2- Paying off the van
3- Buying a new fridge and dishwasher
4- The holiday season, Christmas is so much FUN with little ones!
5- Watching my kids go through changes and grow up (although, they don't have to do it quite so fast)
6- Visiting Utah this summer
7- Knowing what is wrong with Macie's eye and Kendall's throat
8- Roller blading with Kendall and the kids when he gets home tonight
8 Things on my wish list:
1- More TIME!!!
2- Loosing 40 pounds
3- food processor
4- LASIK surgery
5- Curtains for the house6- New bathroom towels and rugs (especially now that my rugs have hot pink nail polish on them)
7- Pedicure
8- Ribbon to make more hair bows
8 People I tag:
1- Anyone who reads this
2- Ammon Dietz
3- Heather Kimball
4- Amy Noyce
5- Kendra Fackrell
6- Dannielle Spackman
7- Janie Peterson
8- If I missed you and you want to do it feel free!
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Macie's Eye Problem Update
The short version is: we still don't know what is wrong.
The long version is: Mercedes eye has been swollen and looked kind of bruised now for about 4 months. If you look at the picture above you can kind of see it. It's her right eye. Pictures never show it as well (thankfully), but you can get an idea of what I'm talking about. At first we thought it might be what they call an allergy shiner, just meaning that she was having an allergy to something I was eating. But since it isn't in both eyes and since it's getting worse, it isn't that. Then we had the pediatrician look at it and she wasn't really sure. She thought it might just be blood vessels close to the surface, but I'm not buying that. When it started getting even worse we wanted to look more in depth. Our home teacher is a doctor and he thought it looked like a hemangioma. He said to go to the dermatologist. So we did that. The dermatologist said it didn't look like a hemangioma to him, he thought it was a plugged tear duct and sent us to an oculoplastic surgeon (a fancy eye doctor who performs surgery) and she said it isn't a plugged tear duct. She thinks it's a hemangioma. :( So who knows. We now have an appointment to go see a pediatric opthamologist. I'm hopeful on this one since they specialize in pediatrics. The oculoplastic surgeon did, however, say that she didn't think that it was dangerous and she didn't think that it would need surgery. That's the best news that we've gotten. The unfortunate thing about all of this is that Mercedes is now TERRIFIED of strangers. But can you blame her? Every new person she sees looks right in her face, takes a bright flashy picture of her eye and proceeds to poke her in the eye. I don't think I'd trust people either. But it makes for interesting times when you go to the store and people say "Your baby is so CUTE!" and then she starts to wail. Hmm. What to do. Here's our poor little princess, all tuckered out from her trip to the doctor yesterday.
The long version is: Mercedes eye has been swollen and looked kind of bruised now for about 4 months. If you look at the picture above you can kind of see it. It's her right eye. Pictures never show it as well (thankfully), but you can get an idea of what I'm talking about. At first we thought it might be what they call an allergy shiner, just meaning that she was having an allergy to something I was eating. But since it isn't in both eyes and since it's getting worse, it isn't that. Then we had the pediatrician look at it and she wasn't really sure. She thought it might just be blood vessels close to the surface, but I'm not buying that. When it started getting even worse we wanted to look more in depth. Our home teacher is a doctor and he thought it looked like a hemangioma. He said to go to the dermatologist. So we did that. The dermatologist said it didn't look like a hemangioma to him, he thought it was a plugged tear duct and sent us to an oculoplastic surgeon (a fancy eye doctor who performs surgery) and she said it isn't a plugged tear duct. She thinks it's a hemangioma. :( So who knows. We now have an appointment to go see a pediatric opthamologist. I'm hopeful on this one since they specialize in pediatrics. The oculoplastic surgeon did, however, say that she didn't think that it was dangerous and she didn't think that it would need surgery. That's the best news that we've gotten. The unfortunate thing about all of this is that Mercedes is now TERRIFIED of strangers. But can you blame her? Every new person she sees looks right in her face, takes a bright flashy picture of her eye and proceeds to poke her in the eye. I don't think I'd trust people either. But it makes for interesting times when you go to the store and people say "Your baby is so CUTE!" and then she starts to wail. Hmm. What to do. Here's our poor little princess, all tuckered out from her trip to the doctor yesterday.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Around the House in Fall
Fall is in full swing around here. Kendall raked up all of the leaves in the back yard a few days ago and he had this pile, like 10 feet in diameter. We have enough leaves to make Janie jealous. The kids love to play in them. Well, Avri loves to jump in them, but Talmage just wants to use the rake.
Then I looked up at the tree, and saw that it doesn't even look like the leaves have started falling yet. But the last couple of days we've had VERY windy weather, so once again, you can't see the yard, just leaves.
Mercedes is forever a funny child. Sometimes she gets so tired that she just falls over, and she's asleep. Here she is with my sister, sleeping like a pup folded completely in half.
The kids wanted to go camping, so we set up the tent in the family room and they have slept in it twice. Avri doesn't look like it, but she was really excited about it. Kendall and I are hoping to get the accustomed to sleeping in the same bed for trips that we take.
Then, on Friday I took the kids bowling for playgroup. Avri and Talmage both bowled, and I think they both had fun. Talmage though got tired after about frame 6. And Avri bowled so slowly that the ball actually stopped twice and we had to get one of the workers to go get it for us!
That's our update for now!
Then I looked up at the tree, and saw that it doesn't even look like the leaves have started falling yet. But the last couple of days we've had VERY windy weather, so once again, you can't see the yard, just leaves.Mercedes is forever a funny child. Sometimes she gets so tired that she just falls over, and she's asleep. Here she is with my sister, sleeping like a pup folded completely in half.
The kids wanted to go camping, so we set up the tent in the family room and they have slept in it twice. Avri doesn't look like it, but she was really excited about it. Kendall and I are hoping to get the accustomed to sleeping in the same bed for trips that we take.
Then, on Friday I took the kids bowling for playgroup. Avri and Talmage both bowled, and I think they both had fun. Talmage though got tired after about frame 6. And Avri bowled so slowly that the ball actually stopped twice and we had to get one of the workers to go get it for us!That's our update for now!
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