For Memories Sake

     I have nothing super exciting to post, just little things I want to remember about the kids in the future. Andi lost her second tooth this week. I finally pulled it for her when I realized the permanent tooth had already broken through and started growing in behind it. Gonna need braces much?! She also had what she considered a near death experience Saturday evening. Thad and I were out to dinner and the kids were playing outside with the babysitter. They had left a whistle out earlier in the day and Andi picked it up to use and ended up having a pincher bug crawl out of it into her mouth instead. Needless to say she freaked out, and it took the babysitter a few minutes just to decipher what had happened, and then another ten to calm her down about it. When we got home Andi told us about it, and burst into tears again reliving the moment. Totally gross yes, but big sobbing tears just talking about it hours later?! She's a mess.

     Almost everything Sammy say's is funny, either because of the way he says it, or the facial expressions that go with it. He does not say the S at the beginning of words, lobber, melly, lippers, are all things we hear regularly. And yes, he does talk about slobber, and tells Thad he's smelly. Actually, Thad passed gas the other day and Sammy told him he needed to change his diaper. Boys are gross. He makes the dramatic exasperated sound at me all day long, ugh! often accompanied by throwing his head back all the way and staring at the ceiling as he stomps away. Now that he is potty trained(90%) he has discovered that he can use that as an excuse to get out of bed at night and down from the table.

     We also had the inspection done on the new house and the more I see it, the more excited I am to move, and the longer my project list grows as I envision the possibilities there.

Birthday Week

Andi turned 6 on Friday, and we celebrated a full birthday week this year.  The Sunday before her birthday we had family dinner at my brothers and had cake and presents for Andi & Bradon. Andi's birthday is the day after Bradon's so we always have a joint party for them.

Friday was her actual birthday, so we started the day with birthday pancakes.

My mom brought over birthday donuts a little later in the morning. Just so you know any food automatically becomes "birthday" food if you stick a candle in it. Saturday was her friend party. This year Andi wanted a Magic Treehouse party. She has been reading the books for a while now and absolutely loves them. So we planned some activities that incorporated the books like hatching dinosaur eggs(popping balloons), solving riddles, going on a treasure hunt, and they had a great time. Here is the whole gang after they turned Wyatt into a mummy.

And blowing out more candles.

Saturday night we went to Rosemary's and since she is six now, she ordered for herself. I have been hearing a lot of that this week. "I'm six now so I can do (fill in the blank)." "Six year olds can do that by themselves."  Sunday night we had dinner with Thads family to celebrate all the January birthdays and she got to blow out more candles and open more presents. And today she got to go to lunch and shopping with Grandma Bulkeley to spend her birthday money. I believe the celebrations are finally complete and that her birthday has been sufficiently recognized for the year ;)
In other pretty huge news, we bought a house this week. We have been looking for months and months and last weekend we found the one. We are more than a little excited, and have big plans for our new place. At least I do. Thad's main priority is getting some big trees in the back yard, but I've got lists. Long, exciting lists ;) We are supposed to close mid February, so cross your fingers it goes smoothly.
This picture has nothing to do with anything, other than these are the diaper ninja masks Thad introduced the kids too.

Wow, just wow

So I've been waiting to post till after this weekend after Andi's birthday party when I'd have pictures to post, but today deserves a post of it's own. I took the kids to the dentist this morning, Sammy's first visit. He was all excited when we got there because he finally got to go back with Andi instead of being stuck in the waiting room with me. So they do Andi's check up and they let Sammy watch everything so he won't be nervous when it's his turn. Then it was his turn. "We are going to need you to come back and help with Sammy." Did you know that dentists now have a "quiet room" for the insane children? So I held him while the dentist brushed and flossed his teeth and did the flouride paint thing. No x-rays, no pokey dental tools. Toothbrush and floss just like at home. You would have thought he ripped his finger off again. He screamed bloody murder the entire time and I pulled something in my back restraining him. He literally popped blood vessels in his face screaming so hard, he's got all these little red dots around his eyes and cheek bones. All the dentist did was brush his teeth!!! His reaction was pretty much the same as Andi's when she had her blood draw for school. Completely insane. Next visit our goal is to get some x-rays and maybe sit in the big chair for a minute by himself. Seriously I don't know where these children came from.

Relaxing in the New Year

It seems like Christmas was a month ago already. Not that we have had a very busy week or anything. We've actually been pretty lazy, and Thad has been home a lot to enjoy the lazy with us. He took the kids out to fly his plane and shoot Sammy's new rockets.

 

We took them shooting one afternoon, and Sammy could not get enough of it.

 

The kids have been playing a lot of super hero and secret agent, but for some reason they only wear the capes when they have their pj's on.

Story of the week. Kelsie and Porter came over one evening when the kids were getting ready for bed. Andi was in the tub and all of a sudden we hear her yelling, Help, someone help! and then she screamed super loud. Of course all three of us went running to see what was wrong and we found this.

 

I guess Porter really likes baths, so he climbed in with Andi fully dressed. 

Thad and I have been watching a lot of documentaries lately, it's amazing what you can find on netflix. Two in particular have given us some major motivation to be healthier in our eating habits and change the way we cook and grocery shop. If you need some extra motivation for your new years resolutions, watch Food Inc. and Forks over Knives. Serious food for thought.