Abby's birthday...again

We did our January and February birthday party celebrations today which were Abby, Rachel and Aubree. We had a really good time the kids all played in the basement, which was wonderful, and Abby got a lot of great presents from everyone.

Here is a picture of all the grand kids

The theme for this party was lots of Barbie, Dora and Abby stuff. Here she is with the very popular Barbie movie. Tonight after naps Abby asked to watch it. She was in and out, but I did notice Chris watching it when she wasn't in the room. I am not sure if that is just desperate TV time or he was really enjoying it?

Lastly what party is complete without a bathroom accident and a major injury? Well of course we had to have both and of course they were both my children. At the end of the event, Tori decided she had been left out of the action long enough, saw the open door to the basement and headed down the stairs. Now keep in mind that these stairs are not carpeted and so we don't let her go down them for fear she will fall down them. Well of course she did just that and landed at the bottom, Jakob came running upstairs and said "emergency, Tori fell down the stairs" which I of course came running for. I ran down, grabbed her, looked for blood, there was none, good and took her upstairs. I was holding her as she was crying again checked for blood, none, but missed the huge goose egg on her head. Jakob then said, she has a big bonk on her head, which sure enough, there was a huge goose egg. I ran to the kitchen where Aubree was mixing a solution of oil and salt and then applied that to her head ( a good trick for taking the swelling out) and I was trying to comfort her.

About that time Abby came out of the bathroom with poop on her hands, which she kindly announced to everyone in the kitchen. Unfortunately that was the better part of the situation. Aubree went in to assist her with clean up since I had Tori in hand and when I went in the bathroom it was everywhere (yes everywhere) so I handed Tori to my Mom, Aubree took Tori upstairs to her Dad for some work and I started to clean the bathroom. Abby said she had an accident and was trying to clean it up (at least she was helpful). This is the fun part of having children!!

Needless to say Tori was okay and we got Abby into new clothes after being cleaned up. I took a picture of Tori's bump after about 30 minutes, and it still looked pretty yucky, however within a couple of hours the swelling was all gone and it is just black and blue now. They made a joke about not getting a picture right away, but this will have to do.

Eye exam

I decided it was probably time to go get my eyes checked, I thought it had been 2 years so now would be a good time to go in. Let it turns out that it had been 4 years, yikes, but no need to worry. They did the whole "better one or two, one or two...three or four, three or four and that seemed to go really well. They they put those numbing drops in my eyes along with those that dilate your eyes. Wow that was fun, especially as it got harder and harder to see up close. Needless to say my vision hasn't changed that much, but I still did get updated lenses. I worked at home that day and had to use sunglasses in our office because the glare from the computer hurt my eyes.

Here is a picture I took of myself after I got home. I couldn't even see what it looked like for several hours, but it was one of those must have shoots

Cookie fun

Tonight for Family Home evening the girls and I made sugar cookies for my visiting teachies and some for us. The girls helped make the cookies, pressed the shapes and of course wanted to decorate once they were done. Don't mind the naked child, I forgot that I had told her she could be naked before wanting to snap this picture.

Tori really enjoyed her cookie. She sucked that frosting off so fast, you can't really see here but she had a lot it on her face.

The passing of Gordon B. Hinkley

It with sadness that I add that Gordon B. Hinkley the 15th Prophet passed away today . He was a very great man with much influence through out the world. He served though out his life always giving to others. I am sure he is a happy man now to be reunited with his wife who passed away a couple of years ago. He was 97 and just as sharp as when he was 50. Here is a nice article on him from LDS living that highlights some of his many accomplishments.
He will be missed.

My little helpers

Abby and Tori helped me clean up tonight after dinner. Tori swept and Abby vacuumed. I have to say that they did a great job. I put this in here as record that she did ask to help and enjoyed it too, see the smile on her face? Earlier we did a cleaning of the house and I had to tell Abby that if she didn't listen to her Father that I wouldn't let her help me clean the bathrooms. Now for most children, they would say fine, but Abby actually likes to clean the bathrooms, so she listed right away.Oh if only that would continue for many years to come. Don't mind the outfit, Tori's pot belly was showing here, oops.

Our big girl

First let me say these are not the most beautiful pictures of my children, there is more to this then meets the eye...read on.

Tori wants to do everything her sister does and this can be problematic sometimes. Today for breakfast I was feeling brave and decided that I would let Tori sit with Abby at their table in the kitchen. I was very proud of how well she did.

Because Abby is a mommy now she has to take her baby with her almost everywhere. This morning she decided that the baby should eat with us. I was able to talk her out of the real food and into some play food. It is hard for a 3 year old to understand why they can't eat what she is eating and I was happy she let me choose the meal for her baby.

The Binkie Fairy??

Well I was talking to Stacie today from work about Abby's appointment and how we need to get rid of the Binky's before we cause 4-5 thousand dollars of damage and she introduced me to the Binky Fairy. She said it worked for her girls. For several nights you talk about the Binky Fairy and how she trades you all your Binky's for a lot of cool presents. She said they wished every night for a while for her to come and in the morning the girls would check and see if their Binky's were still there, which they were.
Then one night she did come while they were sleeping and brought them all kinds of toys and best of all it was sprinkled in Fairy dust (glitter).
The girls ate it up. Needless to say when I mentioned all of this to Abby she said she would rather have her Binky than all the toys. Well I guess we will work on that some more.