{Craft Project} & Sledding with Grandpa

We went to Rexburg and stayed with my parents this weekend and while we were there I made an frame to hold all the hair bows for the girls. I kept the bows in a basket in the hallway or least tried too. I would lose them all over the house, in the car, or I would have to go digging around trying to find the right color.

Very Frustrating.

I like being organized. I like things in their proper place. And when there is chaos in my home I feel out of control. (Like, right now, my kitchen cupboards are driving me crazy. Time to re-organize!)

I have been wanting to make one of these for a while but just kept putting it off due to laziness! Then I told myself, "Enough already! Get to work!" :)

I found a frame at the D.I. took out the glass. I bought foam padding, fabric, and ribbon. I used a hot glue gun and glued it all together. (Sorry I am horrible at explaining things!) And Wal-lah! A beautiful frame for all the many bows we own!
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My dad, the clever inventor he is, built a little ramp off the porch for the girls to sled down. Madi had a blast and didn't want to come inside for nothing.
I love this picture of her and my dad.
It captures the moment perfectly.

My dad showing Madi how to carry the container up the stairs... On the second day my dad got even more creative by taping a rope to the container to drag the girls back up after they went down.

I think my dad was having the most fun!Even though my dad was being careful both girls "bift" it pretty bad. Madi flipped over and smashed her head again the snow and got all cut up. And Avery flipped out and got a face full. But just minutes after they wanted to do it again!

Emily's Progress

Yesterday afternoon I had a lady come by from the Idaho Infant Toddler Program, which is a program set up for mothers and their premature babies to make sure the babies are progressing where they should be. Emily did awesome and passed most of the tests preformed on her. It was such a neat experience as the lady preforming the different tasks on Emily said she had never worked with a baby born so early and was surprised at how well she is doing too. What a little miracle she is, especially after a few doctors had told us she might be a slow learning due to her brain hemorrhage and just being born so early.

She is about 9 1/2 months old and weighs about 15 pounds now. She is getting close to being on the growth chart. Whoo-hoo!

I am so happy to see her thriving and learning so much already. Emily is just a joy in our lives! And I thank my Father in Heaven everyday. She is so smiley and smiles at everyone she meets. She has started to crawl a little and is getting around the living room pretty good. In fact, so good that this morning I left her with some toys for a few minutes and went in the other room to finish something and when I came out I couldn't find her anywhere! The panic set in just as fast as I raced to the kitchen and saw her right by the stairs! AHHH! Looks like we need to put up the gate!

Sisters

I am really sorry about all these video posts I have been posting...well, not really but I thought I would apologize anyway. ;) I have been secretly video taping my girls playing together a lot lately because I want them to see what good friends they are and how well they play together and love each other. I love seeing home videos of my siblings and I growing up and the feelings and memories it brings back. It's a priceless gift.

Before loading this video Avery and I sat here and watched it together and she said, "I miss Madi." (As Madi is at school right now.) I love how Avery asks Madisen in the video if she is ok and helps her up another time they fall. And Madi loves to play with Avery and is so protective of her.

Independence...for her and I

The last couple of days Avery has been very independent about using the potty. She says, "I want to do it myself!" So I have been waiting and watching for her to go in and use the potty today so I could catch in on camera and what I captured I thought was pretty darn cute. :0

The only downside I have found with her doing it herself is sometimes Avery doesn't quite get ALL the pee in the toilet when she is dumping it. How do I know this? Well let's just say to my surprise I got a little wet while using the toilet. Eww! Oh, well. The little potty will be put away soon but for now I will let her be proud of newly independence.

Viewer Discretion Advised: Some scenes include partial nudity.

From watching this clip, it looks like I need to work with her on flushing the toilet, washing her hands and WIPING when she is done. But I am just SOOO happy she is potty trained!

Paper Shredder

This weekend Ryan was going through our file cabinet and throwing out papers that were over 3 years old. We don't have a paper shredder, but who needs one when you have a willing husband to do it. So as he was shredding paper after paper, this was Emily's reaction to it all....


(I took a lot of video of her laughing so I just chose parts of it and pieced it together to share).