Kite Flying

For Christmas the kids all had a kite in their stocking. Well, sadly almost 4 months later we pulled them out. This was more due to my laziness than the weather, but it was cold!!!
It was a warm and somewhat breezy day, so I blew them up and off they went. Thankfully all you had to do was throw the kite it the air and run and it worked great. Grace was especially excited, and once Jed figured out he had to put his hand above his head, it worked well for him too! Olivia tried for a while, but decided it was more fun to take her shoes on and off.

Big Girl Bed

We have officially moved Olivia into a "big girl bed". She has been the longest to sleep in a crib, and this is the first time the crib has been down in 6 years. Funny the way I now measure the passing of time. For each of my children, I have made them a quilt when they moved to a big bed. They all are just strips of fabric, but it is easy, and then they will kind of coordinate when they share a room.

She hasn't figured that she can get out whenever she wants, which is just fine with me. She does look like a tiny little thing in bed though.

Happenings

We have had really uneventful times here at our house. It finally warmed up enough to get outside and enjoy life here. It has been the coldest winter in 30 years or something. Of course it would happen when we are here.
Anyway...I made a picnic dinner for us the other night, and the kids loved it. I was nice to not have to worry about too many dishes as well! The other exciting news is Grace finally lost her fist tooth. She it came out one morning, and she was so happy to try new tricks with a gap in her smile. We had spaghetti to suck and straws to carefully place. She is growing up too fast.

I am happy to report she is doing very well and hasn't even acted sick. Olivia now has a touch of all illnesses, so now she is on meds too!

By The Numbers

5-hours spent at the doctor and pharmacy

4-days of missed school this week

3-prescriptions needed

2-pharmacies I had to go to

1-sick little kindergartner

Grace had a goopy eye Monday after school, so I took her in yesterday and found out she not only has pink eye, but strep throat AND the flu. She is out for the rest of the week. She is a trooper because even today she would have gone to school because she is so chipper and happy.

10 Days

Only 10 days after her sixth birthday, Grace has her very first loose tooth. She found it this morning while brushing, and it was all I could do to keep her still long enough to check for myself. She is beside herself with happpiness, and I think she may expect it to come out today. I don't think she realizes that it is a little scary to loose a tooth, but I will play up the excitement as long as she is unafraid.

Happy 6th Birthday!!

Six years since I received my best Valentine present ever! I can't believe where the time has gone. We had 3 days of celebration, so I am officially tired. Tonight we had the missionaries over so Grace could open presents with them(by her request). Then we ate dinner and had cupcakes. Blowing out her candles! She is so big now. She loves Taylor Swift and knows all the words to every song.

We had a small party for her on Saturday. She had 5 friends come over and we had a craft party. We made pillow cases and painted and played with stickers.

Eating lunch with all her friends.

She is such a fun, smart little girl. She is reading at an almost 3rd grade level and wrote her own talk to give in primary yesterday. For her birthday she got a new bike that we are trying to teach her how to ride with no training wheels, and an IPod shuffle that she walks around the house with, singing all her songs. She is an amazing girl , and we love her so much.

Blizzard 2010

We have dug ourselves out and are back to normal. It was a pretty exciting Friday. The kids didn't have school so we had lunch with dad (we braved the roads!) and played in the snow. Here is our lawn before the madness began. During the "storm". The kids were more excited for snow than for Christmas. They loved to watch if fall and would get really excited when it started coming down hard.

A glance at our accumulation. This tiny snow cancelled schools, colleges, state offices, and closed roads. I guess when it only snows every 15 years...

Olivia thought it best to use her time in the snow playing T-ball.

Grace and Jed spent their time throwing snowballs and running from each other. Good good fun.

We now are snow free and had wonderful weather yesterday. It was fun to have snow for a day, but I realized I don't really miss it that much.