Un-Casting call

Sam got his cast off last week! For anyone who doesn't know, he broke it during one of our family home evening activities about 7 weeks ago! Both bones, all the way through. OUCH!

He was pretty brave when they took this big loud saw to it, and no one else liked the sound very much either!

Check out the big bump on the bottom of his arm. It's technically broken but he got invited to a swimming party with a friend and we convinced the Dr. that he could go for 2 more weeks without so much as moving beyond walking (ie, no bikes, trampoline, scooter . . .) and they let him keep it off so he could swim.

What a trooper!

We did it!

So tonight I'm dreading bedtime because I know I need to put my foot down with Kyra again. I'm kind of avoiding it a bit and I let the kids stay up watching movies thinking I'll make sure she's REALLY tired before we try it again.

Kyra's sitting with me reading books and she hops down from my lap, goes to her bed and takes off her shoes, gets her favorite doll, and she climbs into bed!! No less than 2 minutes later and she falls totally sound asleep.

She did it all by herself. I didn't even kiss her goodnight! Now I'm torn because she no longer needs me but man was that ever nice to have her just go to bed on her own. No bedtime prayers, no cuddly kisses. When did my baby get so big?

Emma's hair

Emma decided to cut her hair and donate it to locks of love. This was about a month ago but still definitely noteworthy!! It was down to her waist and was causing more fights between the two of us when it came time to brush it than it was worth. The shorter cut is still so cute and still long enough to do but we definitely love the ease around here.

Add pictures?

Someone tell me how to add pics to the body? So confused about this blogging world!

We'll try again tomorrow

So everyone's asking what the number is tonight! We didn't make it to the bottom of the stairs on our way to bed and she was asleep in my arms. Whew!

We'll try again tomorrow. . .

78, but who's counting???

So I decided it's time I'm in control a little more at our house, especially of the darling little two year old with the big blue eyes!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE supernanny and decided to try out her theory on her "sleep technique" tonight with Kyra.

I put her in bed and she stayed put! Ha! I thought I must be the best mom around, I didn't have to deal with tears! That is until her sippy cup was empty. . .

Out she crawled and I quickly picked her up, kissed her goodnight and put her back. Second time, said nothing (supernanny would be proud, I listened to her!) and put her back. Third time, the same, fourth . . .

You get the picture.

30 times of putting her in bed and she's still bouncing out and running as fast as she can to my arms.
40 rolled around and she was still laughing.
50 rolls around and she's taunting me "na, na, na, na, boo boo"
60 hits and she adds "you can't get me mommy" to her little taunt.
70 I start crying but won't let her see me.
75 she starts crying and I keep telling myself I can do it more because I'm not sure I really can and there's no one else here to tell me I can so I have to encourage myself.

Guess how many times it took?

78. No joke. I shouldn't have counted maybe, but I did. 78 times to of scooping up my warm smiling and giggly little girl to plop her back in bed between her dora dolls and pink blankets.

I'm not sure who I want everyone to be prouder of, her or me! Either way, we did it. Maybe tomorrow we can do it in half the times!

My crazy week

John took JT to Southern Utah for a biking trip with the scouts and had his own insane adventures, but while he was gone everything seemed to explode at our house!! Car died, Zeke ran off because he didn't want to do his chore, printer stopped working, kitchen ceiling fell in (ok, not all of it but still a big hunk on Sam's favorite cereal!). . .

Not sure if it's trials or just lack of being prepared, but it made for one crazy week. Now I'm in the beginning phases of siding the house. I've decided I can do it and will probably start on Monday or Tuesday. THe kids are excited and love that we have such a big new project to work on, I'm a bit nervous, but keep telling myself one board at a time . . .