tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136546192023-11-16T03:38:49.335-07:00Wilde Lifefinding adventures everywhere I look Shihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10624074680861811783noreply@blogger.comBlogger126125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13654619.post-25379103443602327472014-10-08T20:54:00.003-06:002014-10-08T20:54:56.342-06:00What the.... 1.5 years later!?!Oye... my bad.<br />
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I have had quite a few things change since this last post... yeah... A LOT...<br />
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Wow... I am going to summarize... and then give details later...<br />
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After Audrey's birthday I found out I was preggo for Thing 3<br />
Ellie turned 4<br />
Stu and I went to Seattle for a trip to PAX...<br />
At about that same time we found out we were having a BOY!<br />
Audrey went to 1st Grade<br />
Ellie went to Preschool<br />
On January 7, 2014 Calvin Stuart Wilde joined the family!<br />
Audrey turned 7<br />
Stu and I celebrated 12 years of marriage in May<br />
School finished up<br />
Ellie turned 5<br />
Audrey started 2nd Grade<br />
Ellie started Kindergarten<br />
Stu celebrated his 5th Liver Birthday on Labor Day!<br />
and here we are in October of 2014.... and that is just the quick summary of the last year and a half...<br />
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I shall fill in some details... another night I suppose... :)<br />
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Have a great night!<br />
<br />Shihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10624074680861811783noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13654619.post-27436863033080508702013-03-07T09:52:00.000-07:002013-03-07T09:55:57.336-07:00Finishing Audrey's 6th birthday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I hoped that she wouldn't put all the pieces together. As she had gotten several clues. She had seen the Chuck E Cheese web page open in my browser. I hadn't been cleaning the house like crazy. And we were packing all of the party supplies into the cars. She saw the balloons in daddy's car. But we told her that daddy was in charge of decorating for the party. I told her I was just checking the prices of Chuck E Cheese, and she put it to being able to go there on pizza night for dinner. </div>
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I drove past the Aquarium, which is where we went last year for her birthday. But the girls didn't notice... and I drove towards Chuck E Cheese. We were a little late as dance gets out right about 6. But it was pretty smooth driving there, I didn't hit much traffic. As I pulled into the parking lot the girls thought we were going to go shopping a little.</div>
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I pulled into the parking stall, and Audrey turns to me and says,"Mom, I think you are lost...". Me,"Oh, really?". Audrey,"Are we going to have dinner at Chuck E Cheese's!?!". "Yes". "But, what about the party??" (starting to get a little down) "Honey, the party is here." "It is!!!! Yay!!!"</div>
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We had lots of fun with family, friends, pizza and games! And I didn't have to stress to much about all of it. So it ended up fairly enjoyable</div>
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So today, 11 years ago Stu proposed to me. I am so happy he chose me and I was able to choose him. I wouldn't change anything about these years together. I am so grateful for everything that Stu has done for me and our kiddos. </div>
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Shihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10624074680861811783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13654619.post-13990176755910547162013-02-01T23:41:00.000-07:002013-02-01T23:41:03.557-07:00Wow... Water<div style="text-align: center;">
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<li>Bathroom floor, now sparkly clean</li>
<li>bathroom sink/counter, now sparkly clean</li>
<li>basement floor, now clean</li>
<li>Kitty Litter boxes, now much cleaner</li>
<li>I now know exactly how many towels I own</li>
<li>All of my towels are now clean</li>
<li>Table in my Laundry room, now dejunked and clean</li>
<li>Food storage in my Laundry room not damaged! yay!</li>
<li>water did not touch any electrical stuffs!!!</li>
<li>Learning how to listen to those promptings that say, "Check on your kids" or "You had better take care of that kitty litter now before it gets really bad" or "No, you don't really want to throw away those old towels"</li>
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<li>loosing 10 or so unused diapers... (not to bad as Thing 2 is mostly potty trained at this point)</li>
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<li>having to ground Thing 1 and Thing 2... </li>
<li>No tv for 2 days...</li>
<li>No computer/ipad time for a week (eek)</li>
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<li>Getting really upset at my sweet girls...</li>
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I was not paying attention to the girls. Ellie had to use the potty and I just let her go. Audrey went in to "help" and I just let them be. About 15 to 20 mins later they are still in the bathroom, with the water running. And I decide that I really need to go check on them and tell them to leave the bathroom. As I walked down the hall I noticed the water on the carpet outside the bathroom door. I opened the door and they had stuffed up the sink with everything from the counter, plugged the sink and had let the water run. For the entire time. There was probably about an inch of water covering the bathroom floor, and since the sink isn't well sealed to the counter, it had filled the cupboard under the sink with water, and their drawer was filled with water. </div>
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I sent the kids to their room to change and stay in their room and then proceeded to call my mother and Stu. I gathered all the towels I could find upstairs and then went downstairs to get more out of the Laundry/Storage room. And found that the water had leaked through the vent system into my Laundry room and onto my table and blankets and clothing set there, and into the Kitty litter boxes that were stored under the table. </div>
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I was able to calm down while scrubbing and realize that this was my fault too... And as you read above I was able to figure out the good things to come from this Life Lesson... May I never have to repeat it again. Which is also why I am writing it down.</div>
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Unfortunately, when I am in complete melt down mode I cannot seem to take pictures... so I have no pictures of this disaster when I found it... Though I don't think the pictures could have done it any justice.... </div>
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So I reminded him of a mishap that happened to him while I was not at home, and he was tending a PT-ing Thing 1 and a crawling-stick-everything-in-the-mouth Thing 2. And Thing 2 grabbed Thing 1's #2 and proceeded to try to... yeah... He freaked out about that... and I got to just laugh then... :)</div>
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Ellie was able to start taking dance class with Audrey!</div>
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<br />Shihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10624074680861811783noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13654619.post-75365746381471983952013-01-28T21:23:00.000-07:002013-01-28T21:31:46.359-07:00Adventures in Crazy, January....<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzbXVzWduDS94Y_AN-TbVmImINqwcfZvI_J8gkSyEV1ulMQ2ZM916HABGINL-vwQEZDu7y4-k7IBBE1O9s9KI5TEICVID_xeKJ1ETFLEHGcYcIve-tU2E2aOz4OhOOs8MwCWK13g/s1600/stir+crazy+174.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzbXVzWduDS94Y_AN-TbVmImINqwcfZvI_J8gkSyEV1ulMQ2ZM916HABGINL-vwQEZDu7y4-k7IBBE1O9s9KI5TEICVID_xeKJ1ETFLEHGcYcIve-tU2E2aOz4OhOOs8MwCWK13g/s200/stir+crazy+174.JPG" width="175" /></a>Yes I think this January has been crazy... no not in the I have a thousand things to do kind of crazy. Though, I do like to do that to myself. But in the we are going to do things that we haven't really done before kind of crazy. Or the Stir Crazy kind.<br />
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Two Monday nights ago, Stu decided that he needed to go buy a new car. Which he did... He got a new Audi A6. And he bought it that night, finishing the paperwork at 11... while I was home with the girlies. And yes I thought it was kind of crazy.<br />
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The book on potty training is very good. But I ended up not really using it as what I was doing was showing progress.<br />
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The baby doll had gain a lot of interest. But I didn't really use it's features to get the point across. And when I did get around to trying them out, it turned out that they didn't work. Apparently it is a sort of flawed dolly, and only some of them really work well... and I got a doll that didn't. But the girls still love her. And she helped Ellie become a "big" girl.<br />
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She started telling me she had to go potty without the watch! Which was awesome progress... but then she was going every 15 mins... I should have gotten the clue. But she wasn't having accidents.<br />
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After a playdate last Monday, I noticed that she looked off. She said she had a headache so I asked her to come upstairs so I could look at her. And then I noticed a glazed look in her eyes, and a blood shot eye. She also had a slight fever. So I decided that she needed to go to a dr.<br />
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We got her in. And I am glad we did... apparently she had a UTI. Poor kiddo, and I hadn't noticed the signs. She wasn't acting like she was in pain. But apparently she was. We got her on the medicine and things seem to be getting better...<br />
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Audrey, has learned how to tie her shoes this last week. :) My friend showed me a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=unK3uLilTws" target="_blank">video</a> that has taught my daughter how to confidently tie her shoes! She is way excited, and so am I! And she loves to wear her shoes with laces now.<br />
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We have been stuck inside a lot lately. Due to freezing temperatures outside, and a crazy bad inversion. And we have all gone a little crazy. But Sunday we had an awesome snowstorm that cleared out the air and dumped about 4 inches of awesome packing snow. So today after school I sent the girls out back to play with Penny, until I was ready to go out front and play with them. We ended up building a Snow Castle/fort.<br />
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Hopefully we can do more of the same tomorrow after school... and possibly build our snowman :)<br />
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Here are some pics of the Hockey game we went to... 2nd row near the goalie! We had a blast :)</div>
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<br />Shihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10624074680861811783noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13654619.post-29004758532602405682013-01-08T13:57:00.003-07:002013-01-08T14:00:06.457-07:00I love my kids!Proud mommy moment today! Audrey was trying to play with some boys who wouldn't let her play with them... And she stopped them and said,"My mommy taught me to be a good example... and you aren't being very nice..." After the mom of one of them was repeatedly trying to get them to use their words instead of their fists...<br />
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This first video is just of some of the sillyness in our life... dog, kids, cats, friends, etc. </div>
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We had some good fun with friends and family.</div>
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December, this was the first Christmas Carol that I have missed since I was pregnant for Audrey. And to tell you the truth it was a good thing I didn't work it. I was still crazy busy with everything for Christmas.<br />
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The next week I realized that I needed to plan a party for Audrey's Kindergarten Christmas. The Room Mom didn't tell us, until I asked, that she couldn't get off work that day. And she didn't have anything planned for it either. So I figured that the kids could make "gingerbread" houses for their party out of graham crackers with candy and frosting. the day before the party the teacher put me together with another mom who was willing to help out and had an idea for a craft for the kids to do to. So we had to activities planned for the kids. I found out that night after I had purchased all the stuff for my activity. That the Room Mom's MIL was willing to help us out as well. So I figured we would be good. And when I showed up to the party there was 2 more people there willing to help out as well. They even brought cupcakes and gift bags for every kid there. It was amazing and I will consider it a small miracle that happened to make things a little bit easier for everyone involved. </div>
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The next night was the Winter Solstice and we were supposed to have friends over for games. But no one showed up. So we went on a quick adventure downtown. Stu decided to take the girls and I to Temple Square. And we were going to ride the train. </div>
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When we got to the train the ticket booth we went to first was printing out void tickets. After a little while and a few people trying it we figured out that it wasn't taking any money either. So as the train was arriving Stu got our tickets from another ticket vendor. And we hoped onto the end of the train. However, Stu saw a UTA police guy and hopped off the train to tell him about the broken machine. (He is a good Scout) :)</div>
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At the next stop the girls and I hopped off the train to wait for Stu at the next station. He had gotten on the next train after he finished talking to the police officer. So we decided to get on that train with Stu and get off when it was going to turn from the route we wanted. That way we wouldn't be staying out in the cold waiting too much. So we are riding downtown. When suddenly the train hits the brakes and the horn blows... Stu grabs Ellie who is sitting next to us and braces. We were sitting in the front of the train and Stu was sitting facing the front of the train. So he could see out the driver's window. A car had decided that it was going to flip a u-turn in front of the train. I suppose they didn't see the train or something. Lucky for us we had a good train conductor, and we didn't end up crashing. </div>
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We made it to Temple Square without any more incidents. We walked around for a little while admiring the lights and looking at the Nativities. Taking lots of pictures. Finally, we went in to look at the Temple from the temple grounds. It was peaceful and calm in there. With all the other people out in the square I was sure the temple would be swarmed too, but no one else realized that it was open for anyone to walk around it and admire the beauty in that place. </div>
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I also loved watching Stu as he was talking to Audrey about the carvings on the outside of the temple. It was a very sweet moment.</div>
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Then we got back to the train and had a fairly uneventful ride back to the car. Though Ellie was very cute sing Christmas songs all the way back. When we got home the I made Hot Cocoa for everyone. (The girls won't drink it if I call it Hot Chocolate...) I was finally able to get the girls to bed around 10. </div>
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Christmas Eve morning we got together with the Robisons for breakfast. Cinnamon Rolls at my Aunt Kaye's house. And we got to visit with everyone there. Which was really nice. When that was done we decided to drive down to Orem and visit with my Grandpa Howse. we were glad we went then, because it was starting to be a really bad snowstorm. We stayed and chatted a bit, and Jan had the girls frost cookies with her grandson. They had a fun time doing that. We headed back up to home as the snow storm got a little bit worse. When we finally got home there was 6 inches of snow on our driveway, there had been none when we left. Stu started to shovel and decided he was done. So he took Audrey and finally bought us a snowblower. While he was gone my Mom and Dad stopped by to deliver gifts. (I got a sewing table!!!) After he got home and did the sidewalks it was time to go over to his Mom's and have Dinner. </div>
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Christmas Morning the girls woke up at 4:30 am. Ellie was able to fall back to sleep for an hour I think. But Audrey decided that she was way too excited and she stayed awake until about 6:30 when Stu told them they could go downstairs. </div>
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They had lots of fun opening gifts and oohing and ahhing... over the presents. And after everything was done at our house we got dressed and went to Grandma Jill's house for breakfast, and more presents! When everything was done there we visited Great Grandma Jensen's home for a little while. After that we went and visited Great Grandma Wilde's home. Then we went home and crashed... But still had more to do. We decided this year that we were going to cook our own Chicken Cordon Bleu for dinner. It has become a tradition. Christmas Dinner must be Chicken Cordon Bleu. And we invited a friend over to join us. After dinner the girls watched a movie while the big kids played games. </div>
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The next week we decided to try and take it easy. I went to see Les Mis with my mom. And Stu and I went on a date to see The Hobbit. </div>
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This post is about Audrey's Dance Recital that was on Dec. 20th, 2012...</div>
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So this will be a picture/video heavy post... Enjoy! Also some of my favorite pics from the collages will be pulled out as well.</div>
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Shihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10624074680861811783noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13654619.post-10031021529604422022013-01-02T12:55:00.003-07:002013-01-02T12:55:58.606-07:00The 1st adventure of 2013So I don't typically let my girlies play with Playdoh. I don't like the smell, and how it gets under my nails when I play with it, also I don't like the mess it makes. And last but not least... I can not stand it getting mixed together, while it looks cool. That is one thing that drives me a little crazy. But I am trying to overcome this problem of mine and want to be able to let the kids play with stuff like this a little more often. Also I am overcoming a fear of getting rid of the bad/unused/broken/etc. toys.. And not worrying about if the colors get messed up. For goodness sake, Shilo, just let them play with it a bit and then let it go.<br />
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I have a video of the girls playing with their Playdoh set that they got for Christmas. And that they love playing with. It is a little long, but it has some good interactions with the girls playing together. And you can kind of hear Ellie's froggy voice... She lost her voice during the escapades of New Year's Eve... :)<br />
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<br />Shihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10624074680861811783noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13654619.post-87653697491553007242013-01-02T11:57:00.000-07:002013-01-02T11:57:23.082-07:00The last adventure of 2012So we didn't have big plans for celebrating the new year... I had thought of maybe having a board game night. And inviting some of our friends over. But our plans changed when one little Ellie got a fever. It wasn't a big fever, just a little one. And she started coughing... nothing too big again. we had hopes of getting things done... but things fell through.<br />
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I had begun another campaign of Potty training the Elle. Taking it a little slower. This time the reward is not having to wear "baby" diapers, getting out of taking naps, and I am not pushing the pooping in the potty thing. In fact she can poop in the pull ups as long as she is "twinkling" in the potty. And so far it seems to be working :)<br />
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So we were doing this with Ellie. And then she got sick... She had a headache and a slight fever. She was just a little lethargic. So I was worried... what if I have to put her down for a nap?? Will it undo all the work that I have done to get her going to the potty? So i gave her some medicine and let her choose. She chose to lay down and watch tv. Of course... and she fell asleep. When she fell asleep I took her to her room so she could be more comfy. But she woke up maybe 10 mins later. Feeling much better.<br />
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We decided to call off the game night. And instead we went to IHOP for dinner. And ended up being the only customers in the restaurant. the waiter was excellent and in the middle of the dinner Ellie decided that she needed to go potty... on her own, and she went!!!!<br />
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Anyway, we went home and I told the girls that they could stay up for the New Year. So they wanted to watch movies all night long. So we started out the night watching The Black Cauldron, and then they followed that up with some Veggie Tales (during which I took a break). Then they watched The Lorax (I joined back up at that point). My turn to chose a movie and I chose Beauty and the Beast. About halfway through the movie Ellie jumped up and told me she had to go potty! It was about 10ish... And Audrey was out cold...<br />
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We came back downstairs and finished the movie... and I took Audrey up to her bed. She was out out... silly kid. We then watched a bit of Lady and the Tramp, we as in Elle and I. And soon it was midnight. And we went upstairs and celebrated with Daddy. Had some sparkling Apple Cider. And proceeded to try to wake Audrey up so that she could celebrate a little with us.<br />
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This is where Ellie went bonkers. She was sooo excited she was running in circles in her room screaming Happy New Year! And then she saw daddy trying to wake up Audrey, so she climbed up to the top bunk to help. She started screaming at Audrey and climbing on top of her and hitting/kicking her. Then when Audrey rolled over... Ellie decided that the best way to wake Audrey up would be to <i><u>JUMP</u></i> on her stomach, knees first... Well Audrey's eyes opened for sure with that... and she groaned... but she didn't' wake up... So we made Ellie climb down... and get ready for bed.<br />
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Also, as a quick side note. At around 7 pm Ellie's fever had come back and she was feeling lousy. So I gave her some Tylenol and some Benedryl to help her out a little. Expecting her to fall asleep. So in all her fighting to stay awake it was quite amazing that she made it to midnight. But it did make for an awesome night of cuddling with the girls for me.Shihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10624074680861811783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13654619.post-90702875256303189492012-11-08T21:40:00.000-07:002012-11-08T21:40:37.080-07:00Oh my...Wow, so much to catch up on. But I will catch up soon.... Things like Audrey starting kindergarten, more zoo trips, trips to Seattle and other places. Lots of things that we have done, Halloween, and such.<br />
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But all I can say right now is, big decisions have been made in my life. Steps have been taken, and hopefully they will change my life and those around mine for the better.<br />
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And with that teaser... I shall leave for the night.Shihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10624074680861811783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13654619.post-68222490731949645662012-07-23T08:31:00.000-06:002012-07-23T21:02:43.998-06:00A trip to the Zoo*Warning* *This is another Picture heavy post*<br />
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One of my friends invited the girls and I to go with her and her kiddos on an outing to the Zoo. She has a pass and can get us all in. So we decided to go with her last Friday. I was a little worried about going as I have been over-booking myself a lot lately. But we decided that if we went early enough and got out at around 12:30 we could do it.<br />
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Our local Zoo has just opened a newly finished exhibit with a polar bear, black bears, river otters, bald eagles, seals, sea lions and a walrus... This exhibit is very neat. Everything is updated and much nicer for the animals.<br />
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The kids are in love with the place. And to tell you the truth so am I. I have always liked the Polar Bear as a favorite at the zoo. And now I really like the Polar Bear!<br />
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Anywho, There is a lot to get through before you see the Polar Bear. And I didn't start taking pictures really until we got to the exhibit with all the previously mentioned animals. :)<br />
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Then we saw the Polar Bear</div>
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The Parrot decided to be playful today too, he chattered at us and did some tricks for us. So I decided to take some video of him as well.</div>
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When we walked out of the building we saw this lovely bird strutting around. And the girls had to have a picture because he is the same bird as the bad guy in Kung Fu Panda 2. "Except he is white and wears a skirt. So does that make him a girl???", Audrey said to me...</div>
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And Audrey was soooo excited she said, "Mommy! Are these the Nine-Banded Armadillos?!" I looked at the sign and said why yes they are honey! Thank you Diego, for teaching my child about odd creatures like this one. </div>
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And yes we did actually get out of the Zoo at 12:30. We had fun and I think it was a nicely successful adventure out and about with friends! </div>
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<br />Shihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10624074680861811783noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13654619.post-45865814344773537452012-07-19T14:06:00.002-06:002012-07-19T14:06:25.639-06:00GlimpseJust a quick shot at seeing what the down time in my life brings me :) Ellie and Audrey had been singing "I Like to Look for Rainbows" all morning long. And started singing it again, while sitting down for lunch... and I thought I would grab the camera and catch the impromptu duet... and this is what I caught instead.<br />
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I have some amazing little girls :)Shihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10624074680861811783noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13654619.post-52926048955868460872012-07-09T21:34:00.003-06:002012-07-10T08:45:06.897-06:00Cloud Dough<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE7zcM8lautlKGX2kRJUFsGYW8ZSO9vEUKT3A-VjP_OmSNH5mV_MLtK7c5Mi2EQV0SnWfsBEQ8xIbSgt_F_yBCqzQHpoWi9UKhIuRdxFqv9Btz_6nh6CaOzqecM55vb1r8XkX22Q/s1600/cloud+dough+7-9-12+005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE7zcM8lautlKGX2kRJUFsGYW8ZSO9vEUKT3A-VjP_OmSNH5mV_MLtK7c5Mi2EQV0SnWfsBEQ8xIbSgt_F_yBCqzQHpoWi9UKhIuRdxFqv9Btz_6nh6CaOzqecM55vb1r8XkX22Q/s200/cloud+dough+7-9-12+005.JPG" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR9WO3BOVTi9dLr5QSQ3SEFjPbJwpXX5tVArFM9PL2_kfqFZk_b63sFU1AHCXSLWECi_4SXrjip4pmtksTITVhDBWykmpc_J_dkscmjj5g3iwAVaoeK3-ypr-A8OXBVDsUdskTfQ/s1600/cloud+dough+7-9-12+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR9WO3BOVTi9dLr5QSQ3SEFjPbJwpXX5tVArFM9PL2_kfqFZk_b63sFU1AHCXSLWECi_4SXrjip4pmtksTITVhDBWykmpc_J_dkscmjj5g3iwAVaoeK3-ypr-A8OXBVDsUdskTfQ/s200/cloud+dough+7-9-12+001.JPG" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpfxxGS-TrReWAsIe551aGL0cIiRiTUlo_-W7_XF7XUe79AKZRqedw2iiRZmbL8t_YdPOwSaDEQuGEva9jEmxNrwxgaeOKy58cNLeZBsLA1g4v_UM2UbfgEYP8KDJ7UnKWcgdN1Q/s1600/cloud+dough+7-9-12+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpfxxGS-TrReWAsIe551aGL0cIiRiTUlo_-W7_XF7XUe79AKZRqedw2iiRZmbL8t_YdPOwSaDEQuGEva9jEmxNrwxgaeOKy58cNLeZBsLA1g4v_UM2UbfgEYP8KDJ7UnKWcgdN1Q/s200/cloud+dough+7-9-12+002.JPG" width="200" /></a>So I just barely joined Pintrest... I didn't want to because I didn't want to get sucked into another internet world where I would see lots of things and want to do them... and so on and so forth... But I am in my Relief Society Presidency. And I am in charge of the activities we do in our ward. And realized a few weeks ago that I could get some good ideas from this. And felt that I needed to join so that I could help my sisters in the ward. Anyway I joined and as I thought I found lots of cool stuff right off the bat.<br />
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I found a recipe for some stuff called Cloud Dough. Super simple. And fairly easy to clean...<br />
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So I pulled it up online and showed it to her, and she agreed that we should try this out today.<br />
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I told the kids they had to clean up the rooms that they had messed up and then we would do a science experiment when they were all done.<br />
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Now, I didn't realize that this would work so well...<br />
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Once we got them started... All 4 kids were entertained and played nicely with each other for 3 hours straight... It was amazing! We felt it would be successful if they played with it for 15 mins...<br />
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<br />Shihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10624074680861811783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13654619.post-2839913361983803692012-07-09T08:45:00.000-06:002012-07-09T08:45:44.634-06:00Eleanor is 3 now<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_3DVmENX3oSUdoOKnNorQlX77xw9vHgRUGBrfjx4922EAlTarpsaGsSv3-bmM_EFZk8Agl8aHhhlqCtO0GVB5rbHeqLscE1mH_02t6dxYCmCR0uao4EN3uRPPSKdBnNz-IZKQig/s1600/July+3rd+and+4th+039.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_3DVmENX3oSUdoOKnNorQlX77xw9vHgRUGBrfjx4922EAlTarpsaGsSv3-bmM_EFZk8Agl8aHhhlqCtO0GVB5rbHeqLscE1mH_02t6dxYCmCR0uao4EN3uRPPSKdBnNz-IZKQig/s320/July+3rd+and+4th+039.JPG" width="172" /></a>My little girl just turned three. On the 3rd of July... We had a lot of fun celebrating her birthday. We may have had too much fun. Anyway, some notes on my little one.<br />
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She is just as much of a handful as her big sister.<br />
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She is quite the conversationalist.<br />
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She loves animals.<br />
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Her favorite bird is the Macaw...<br />
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Favorite Movie: Rio<br />
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Favorite color: I believe it is purple right now...<br />
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She likes to eat food that her sister won't eat...<br />
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She wants so badly to be a big girl but stay the baby and not have all of the rules that big girls have... I know that was a mouthful.<br />
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She loves and adores her sister. But they do tend to fight a lot. (I suppose that is normal.)<br />
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Her favorite food: Lasagna? (sometimes this changes)<br />
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Favorite Drink: Breakfast Drink- Chocolate Peanut butter Shakes or Chocolate Milk<br />
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She is still my child who likes to sleep. She still needs and will still take her naps during the day. And she tends to sleep longer when not being awoken by her sister.<br />
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She has gone to the dentist for the 1st time this past year.<br />
She has attempted to potty train this year. As of right now we are still only kind of potty trained...<br />
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She loves the water. And just started swimming lessons. She now believes that she can do anything in the water... which of course is fun to watch but makes the need to watch her even more needed.<br />
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We have taken her on her first hike. She did very well through most of it.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">And now some pictures of my sweet Eleanor Moleta</span><br />
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<br />Shihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10624074680861811783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13654619.post-57324628538683629922012-06-15T20:16:00.001-06:002012-06-15T20:16:50.968-06:00Blessings...It has been a fairly hectic week around here again. Meeting, scouts, work, clean, try to do fun things with the girlies, work, clean, get things ready for the YM/YW Carnival tomorrow, start some of my own projects, take care of the plants, laundry, get the girlies signed up for swimming lessons, exercise, take care of animals, the list goes on and on...<br />
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All the while trying desperately to keep my head above the water and stay sane... at times I was more successful than others I will admit I had a few rough hours. But I had help from some good friends and family.<br />
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Now today. I started out with a good workout at dance at 6 am. I got home and got the girls fed and Stu off to work. I fed the animals and myself. Yes in that order. Unfortunately, I couldn't get myself going, in any sort of fashion, to get what I needed to get done. In fact as I sit here now I should be doing more.<br />
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However, I did get my house more cleaned and then I got my Thing 2 down for a nap and when I did that I found that I lost all of my energy. I needed to sleep. So I took a short nap my own self. And then I found I could get going on some of the projects that needed doing.<br />
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First on the list. Bread dough, I want to make a bread sculpture for the Auction at the carnival tomorrow. Ok, done... Next, I shall make the fudge I promised... No sugar in the kitchen, it's all right I have some in my food storage, right? Go downstairs to check... What... NO SUGAR!!!! Well I can't do anything with out sugar... and I used the last of my eggs to make the bread dough... can't make the cupcakes that the girls want to make and decorate for the auction... Stu is on his way home... do we want to go bowling... I would love to get out and go but... Too much to do... He meets up with his dad and picks up the dunk tank that he rented for the carnival. He wants to drive his dad home in the Pilot... Sure it drives nicer and such... he comes running in to tell me that my Pilot's rear tire has a huge bolt in it and is completely flat... What!?! I have been driving around that car all over the valley this week... No I didn't notice anything... Well they take off the tire and get it fixed and while they are gone I feed the girls and give them a bath. Stu drops off his dad and picks up the missing ingredients and comes home. We have now made the cupcakes and they are in the oven as I am sitting here...<br />
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The Blessing that I am talking about... My lack of energy, made me wait until Stu was home with his Father to get my cooking done. If I had tried to go out and get the ingredients earlier in the day I would have probably been in some trouble and had the girls with me. Instead, I taught my Thing 1 a lesson on why I want her to clean up her messes with out my help. And I got some rest in my busy life... Even if I had a little more stress this afternoon than I would have liked.<br />
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Sometimes, I need to take a step back out of my life, and see myself for who I am, who my family is, and where we need to be headed. Also if we are not headed the right way, why and how to fix that. Clear my head find my Father in Heaven and listen. He has answers. I know it. Sometimes they just need to be seen.<br />
Good night all!Shihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10624074680861811783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13654619.post-88580614252570128802012-06-11T09:17:00.000-06:002012-06-11T09:21:14.605-06:00Okay, Okay.... Audrey turned 5<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Yes, I know she turned 5 three months ago... And I have been putting off this post for a little while now. She has had so much going on, and I have had so much going on... but some how I can post about other things...<br />
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She is growing up in so many ways. She now sleeps on the top bunk of the beds put together, she adjusted very well to that. She loved Preschool so very much and was constantly learning all sorts of things there. </div>
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She has graduated Preschool and is impatiently scared about going to Kindergarten. </div>
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She is growing taller and taller all the time... And her hair just keeps getting longer... It goes down past her waist... In fact I need to get her into a salon to get it trimmed up and looking nice... But first I must work up to that... </div>
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She can read more and more. But mostly she only reads when she thinks no one is paying attention. Like when we are driving down the road, and she reads the store signs. She knows a few sight words and I need to work on those more with her before she starts school up. She can count random objects. And so forth...</div>
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She is becoming quite the little dancer. And absolutely loves her dance class still! </div>
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Pink is, as always, her most favorite color... and she also loves to wear anything that is animal print or pictures of animals...<br />
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She was marvelous... :)<br />
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After her birthday but before the Dentist visit... Audrey took 2nd place at her first Pine Wood Derby with the ward! Here are some pics of her winning car and our not so winning cars...<br />
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Audrey and Ellie painted their car's themselves. And Dad and Grandpa Wayne engineered and built the cars. The race was lots of fun! We can't wait for next year's race!<br />
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Audrey loves hockey so we took her to the local Hockey Team's Game the night of her birthday... The Utah Grizzlies! She loves them!<br />
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sorry for the jumbled ramblyness of this post but that is what my life has been the last little while :) I hope you enjoyed this summary of my Little Audrey :)</div>
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When getting her ready for the pictures, and getting her jammies on I talked to her a little bit. She talked to me about how when she is older and gets married she will want to move into the house with me. So that we will never be apart. I tried to explain to her that she would probably want to live in a different house, so that she could start a new life with her husband. She burst into tears, and told me that she never wanted to do that. And I laughed and hugged her and told her to remember that, because when she is older there will be times when she doesn't want to live with me. She shook her head and cried a little more. So I hugged her and told her I loved her and that I would always be near her no matter what. And I really do love her no matter what. </div>
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You are my pride and joy.</div>
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<3</div>Shihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10624074680861811783noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13654619.post-73896260815566705082012-05-21T21:56:00.003-06:002012-05-21T21:56:41.474-06:00Having fun with their Aunt And UncleWe decided to go to the Children's Gardens at Thanksgiving Point today... And we invited our Aunt Whitney and Uncle Herschel to come along and join us. We played in water, explored and had just a good time... so here are some pics and a fun video :) Enjoy!<br />
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<br /><br /><br /><br />Shihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10624074680861811783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13654619.post-33355208953321255672012-05-16T23:07:00.001-06:002012-05-16T23:07:39.677-06:00Oh What a Day... or Night...So I have been pretty busy... with stuff that I want to do, and things that need to be done, and things I get asked to do. Well basically, just really pretty busy. But I do like to be busy, doing things, and going. *Light bulb moment, Ahhhh I see where my Audrey gets that from....*<br />
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Anyhow, I feel I need to put into writing what happened to my little family today. I knew that today was going to be difficult but that things would be really good if I could get it to happen the right way. Audrey had preschool this morning at 8:45 instead of 12:30... So I had to get her there early, and they had a school picture to be taken. At 9:45 they would be having an assembly, where a guy from Scales and Tails would come and talk to them about reptilian creatures: snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles and such. He would also show them some snakes, lizards, turtles, and an alligator skull. I had been informed of this and wanted to go, but couldn't find a babysitter so I asked if I could bring Ellie along with me.<br />
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In the mean time I went home and cleaned up the backyard, because we were going to be having a previously scheduled playdate with some kiddos from the ward and my friend from work and her kiddos. Which I had previously scheduled for 10 to 12, and then realized my mistake and rescheduled it to 12 to 2ish... The kids like to go outside and play with Penny for part of the time.<br />
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I made it back to the school for the assembly with Ellie. And the presentation was awesome I have a few pics to show of that. However right before Audrey and Ellie got up in the line to touch the snake my camera died so the pics I got were from my phone, and yes they actually look better than the pics from the camera because I was closer to them and didn't have to zoom. And with out the flash my camera gets a little blurry if I move even the slightest bit while zoomed or otherwise...<br />
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Anyway back to the story.<br />
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Got the pictures, and went back to the classroom with Ellie to help with snack time. Got that all set up and then realized, while all the kiddos were eating snacks, that we still had about an hour left before school was out. So they read some books and did some songs and so on and then watched a short video. Then we finally left the school and got home 10 mins before the playdate was scheduled to start. Lucky for me everyone showed up a little bit late. So I could do some finishing touches on the cleaning of my house. I got Audrey to eat a Gogurt, and Ellie wouldn't eat anything, but she had eaten several graham crackers at the school... So I wasn't to worried about them food wise. Though they were a bit worn out from all the excitement at school. So the playdate went well for about 10 mins. And then my girls had had enough. But us moms wanted them to play some more...<br />
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By about 1:45 we called the date done and my friends had all gone home. And I set to the task of trying to get an overly stimulated overly tired almost 3 yr old child to sleep. It took me a few mins but then she was out like a light. I turned on the tv and let Audrey color and that seemed to calm her down tremendously.<br />
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And then Stu called and told me he was stopping at a store before he was coming home and he wanted to know where to go. So I sort of helped him to a Walmart and then waited for him to come home. I thought he was going to the store to pick up something for scouts. (He was called to be the Scout Master of our Ward.) Then I woke up Ellie.<br />
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While I was waiting for him I decided to make scones for dinner. The girls were all for it. I defrosted the dough, in a ziplock bag, in the hot bath water that hadn't completely cooled down from processing the jam. Stu came in and handed the girls 2 nerf guns and let them practice for a little bit and then disappeared.<br />
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I went out with her to chat a little with my dad and then found Stu in the garage loading up 2 more nerf guns and getting all the extra ammo that he bought ready for a battle with the girls. He wouldn't let me have a gun just yet. So I proceeded to the kitchen to finish the dinner. So the whole time I am frying the scones, they are battling in my dinning room and down the hall...<br />
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I am about to put the girls to bed when the doorbell rings. Our neighbor has come over to talk to us about our flowers in our gardens. She wants to know what kinds they are. We can't remember but tell her it is fine if she wants to take some flowers with her to the store she can come and pick a flower at anytime. The girls are running in and out of the house, the sun is setting, the night time bugs are coming out. So I tell Audrey to close the door. All four of us are outside, and 3 of us didn't have shoes on. Audrey had run inside to get her sandals on after she stepped on something and hurt her foot. We get done chatting with the neighbor and head back inside. Stu tries to open the door... Locked... He doesn't have a key, I don't have a key... I go around to the backdoor and try it... no luck, it's locked as well...<br />
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I call my parents, they say they will be right over. I come back to the front of the house and Stu is trying to open the side windows to our front room. He gets one open and as he is lifting Audrey into the room and I am trying to not worry about Audrey climbing through the window and possibly falling. I call my parents back and tell them not to worry, we got in. And Audrey opens the door for us.<br />
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We get inside and get the kids to bed finally... And I am just in awe that today went as wonderfully awesome as it did. Wow...Shihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10624074680861811783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13654619.post-18024141350502212732012-04-19T22:34:00.003-06:002012-04-19T22:34:54.184-06:00Another Deep Thought from Thing 1So, Audrey woke up in the middle of the night 2 nights ago. She was sick, I was already awake so it didn't really bother me. But I kept her up a little while longer after she was finished being "icky" and we chatted for a little while. While she was eating some yogurt to calm her tummy. She was being goofy and making faces at her reflection in the glass door to the deck. I told her to stop looking at her reflection (teasing her). She looked at me and said, "Oh I thought that was a ghost...". So we giggled a little about that, and then I said, "No, silly that is your reflection." And she turned to me and said, "Sometimes I look at my reflection and think, what if that was another dimension..." (She did have a tough time pronouncing that word...) I said, "Oh, that would be cool...". And we finished up the conversation talking about monkey's or geese or something or other like that. I know that she got the other dimension thing from watching <span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">"</span><i style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_and_Ferb_The_Movie:_Across_the_2nd_Dimension" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension">Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension</a></b></i><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">". </span><br />
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Wow... she shocks me from time to time... I love that girl and all of her crazy brain power :)<br /><br /><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;"><br /></span>Shihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10624074680861811783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13654619.post-89369985145557482572012-04-12T14:29:00.000-06:002012-04-12T14:29:33.156-06:00A Philosophical ChildI needed to tell you a story about my Audrey before I forget it. Sorry things have been a touch busy around here. I will update everything in another post or 4.<br />
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We received 4 free tickets to the Children's Museum here, and we went on the 31st of March. I however forgot to take the camera so we didn't get any pics, sorry. The girls had lots of fun. Though Audrey seems to be too big for the younger kids area and not quite big enough to really have fun in the big kids area. (More on that another time). However this story happened when we got home that night and were eating dinner.<br />
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We were sitting down to eat our Mac & Cheese. I was a little tired so, while we were chatting I wasn't really thinking about what Audrey was saying to me. In the middle of our conversation she said, "I wish the museum had things about outer space.". All I thought at this point was, "okay, next time we will go to the Planetarium." Next thing I hear from Audrey, "Wouldn't it be cool if all of outer space was just a giant book? And we were still alive but just really, really small and living on one of the pages." (I may have gotten a little of what she said written wrong here, but this is really close to what she said.)<br />
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I nodded and said yes, yes, eat your food. And I didn't think much about what she said.<br />
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The next day I took a nap and when I woke up, it dawned on me what she had said to me. And how really deep that thought was. Just a strange thought but it showed me that my 5 yr old little girl can understand or at least comprehend some really abstract ideas. And that she has those really abstract ideas floating around in her little brain.<br />
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Any how, I felt I needed to write that one down. So sad that I didn't get it down sooner.Shihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10624074680861811783noreply@blogger.com1