Artwork and Quotes

Olivia. Here is some of her art from school from before Christmas. That is how long ago I started this post! And here are some of her funny things she said that I jotted down.

While looking for a Christmas tree we went to two places. After we found one Eric said this one's a beauty. After we got back in the car Livy told Rae that we had to come to this place because the other place had no beauties.

If Rachel is upset about something Colt does, Livy comforts her by saying, "don't worry, I will teach him a lesson." But totally doesn't know what that saying means! She says is in a sweet, comforting way, not a mad and punishing way.

We were watching the movie Enchanted when she is singing and all the rats and cocroaches come out and help her clean the apartment. During it Livy got all upset and started crying. I asked her why and she said "how come all the bugs and animals in our city don't like us like that?" Poor girl, crying that the roaches don't play with her. She is such an animal lover and bug lover. She loves playing outside catching rolly pollys and naming them Sparkle!

She ran down stairs one morning saying "Mom, come quick, there is a wing flipper on Grandma's bed!" A what?  That is what she named the kind of bug flying around. She cracks me up how straight forward and logical she is. It had wings, and it was doing flips.

Trouble. They wanted to paint their nails and I wasn't fast enough in getting to it for them. Luckily they took it outside! First self paint job.

Rachel's artwork from school and just a few of the many hilarious things she says on a dail basis!

They had a pajama party at school and I asked Rachel what kind of pajamas everyone else had on. She replied "Nothing too impressive." And that was that.

She is trying not to suck her thumb and I caught her sucking it while watching a movie. She said "oh, I just got carried away there."

I don't even remember what she was talking about but she uses the expression "We've got a duzie here!" She comes home from school with all sorts of funny expressions that are so funny coming out of her mouth! She has gotten better about being so sensitive and people laughing at her.

We were playing with the stuffed animal dogs and I was the vet and Livy was the groomer. Rachel told each dog where to go and she could not for anything remember how to say groomer. I was laughing so hard. She'd say "take him to the broomer, the roomer, the froomer, I mean the groomer." Funnier when you were there but she is not one to mix up words normally so it was entertaining.

Talking about the nail polish remover in the previous pictures of the nail polish mishap, "it can clean anything, it's cleanarific!"

We were at the mall and she saw a girl with huge hoop earings that touched her shoulder. Rachel leans over to me and whispers "Now that's what I call fashion." Oh, boy, we are in for it with this little girl.

Happy 5th Rachel and Livy!

Today is Rachel and Olivia's 5th birthday! I rarely get a chance to look back at these pictures but I love it when I do. It is unbelievable to me that you guys were so tiny at one point!

You are both amazing girls. I am so proud of you and happy to be your mom. Thanks for being patient with me and sweet just when I need it most. You are wonderful big sisters and Colt and Ellie adore you. You're the coolest to them. I love seeing you grow spiritually, intellectually, emotionally, and physically. It is a pretty amazing plan Heavenly Father has for us to experience here on earth. I'm grateful for you and I want you to know I am proud of you and I love you each and every day, even when I'm cranky! 

I will forever love you Rachel and Livy.

Happy 5th Birthday!

February

Of course I wrote about how things are good and all that a few posts ago and this is what I get for it, a month of barely hanging on there. Crazy, trying, long month with some gratefulness and sweetness thrown in. Busy with callings, hard having Eric be so busy, grateful for great family, fun having visitors, hard watching them leave, sad watching people suffer, grateful for the gospel, hard with sick kids and non stop laundry, grateful that every month is not like this one. Savoring the sweet moments when they come and keeping them as reasons to keep doing this!!

Ellie enjoying the world of real food.

Olivia's dinosaur and writing. They talked about dinosaurs in school a few weeks ago and Livy really loved it. Dinosaurs are some of her favorite things. It doesn't matter what kind of art project it is, her paper is always full of stuff. Opposite of Rachel. 

Rachel's dinosaur and her name. She's a minimalist!

Gamers. Livy loves playing games with her daddy on the ipad. And he loves helping her out and teaching her how to build stuff in their games.

This little guy spends a lot of time in time out, or the corner as we call it. He is getting better about biting but loves hitting people with toys and squeezing the girls really hard. He asks why about everything and says "cause" whenever I ask him why he did something. We go around in circles with the questions.

He loves riding his tricycle and wearing a helmet. He will play at the park the whole time with this thing on.

Miss Ellie. She's picked up the phony baloney routine from Colt. She's got a whole phony baloney cry face too. It would be kind of funny if she didn't do it about 50 times a day.

Rachel and Livy love taking care of Ellie. They like to hold her and play with her and can't wait for her to get bigger so they can have another sister to play with. I feel bad for Colt a lot because most of the time they don't want him around. Poor kid. Maybe he gets it that is why he hits them so much!

There are a lot of these pictures. I liked someones face in each so I just put a bunch of them.

Here begins Ellie's torture. Move #1

Move #2

Move #3

"Rachel pleas save me!"

Colt's got the crazy look

Happy Valentine's Day. We started the morning with a sick Grammy (post to follow) and saying goodbye to visitors. Last year I made a trail with hearts from the girls bed room to their little surprise and they requested it again this year. They actually requested it a few weeks before v-day and I had no idea what they were talking about, like it was another person who did it. It took me  few days to remember! So, they like that. Then off to school for a fun v-day party for the girls and play time for me and Colt. Eric brought us all home some roses and then we went to Kevin and April's house for some pizza and cousin play time.

Eric sold his beloved Trans-Am on Valentine's Day. He was really sad to see it go. And even though I am happy with the extra room in the garage, I'm kind of sad for him to let it go because I  know how much he loved it.

More pretend cooking. Colt got to play this time too.

Cupcakes!

His "handsome" shirt. Every time we pull it out to wear he tells me "has-some." His mixing up of words cracks me up. When it is dark out at night, he says "dark in." When requesting an orange, he calls it "pink blue." ( I know it is one of those colors!) When we ask what he wants to eat he says "Dinner." What do you want for dinner "McDonalds, chicken, chinese food, sandwich cheese, taco." Sometimes all of them sometimes just one or two. Can you tell his mom doesn't cook?

This little guy is loving Toy Story now a days. He likes Jesse and Buzz Lightyear. He calls him Fuzz Year. It is so funny because it takes a minute before I know what he is talking about.

He wore this watch as his laser so he could shoot me like "Fuzz" does. He is always telling me "I shoot you mommy" with all sorts of stuff. Boys are just so different than girls!

Ellie is all over the place. I was ready for it to get easier but it is now getting harder. She is pulling up on everything now and moving from one toy to another. But she still falls and cries and gets pushed over sometimes by other little people. She is almost 9 months old and loves eating anything I will give her. She is getting more attached to me and cries every time I put her down and forget about walking away from her. Then comes the real cry. It is like a wrestling match to change her because she is constantly flipping over to her belly. She goes to bed great, she loves her bottle and holds it by herself most of the time. She is so cute still and I can't believe she is so old already. She started clapping last week and it is adorable.

New favorite game of theirs, tie ourselves together and do everything like this! They really are great girls and I am grateful to be their mom. Even when it is tough.

Everyone tells me she looks just like Colt now. She acts like him in that she is nonstop moving and wants to climb on everything already. I'm going to miss lots of thing about not having a little baby anymore but I know I love this age that she is getting to now also!