Then the next day we are playing with sidewalk chalk and I hear, "Mommy, come and look! Mommy! Mommy! It's an A! I did an A! And another A... two A's!"
She was so, so, so excited!
Much Love,
Jenny
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
"Mommy, it's an A!"
Ashley had never really been into learning her letters like Anna was at her age so we haven't been pushing reading letters and writing letters at all. This past weekend Ashley asked Daddy how to spell her name. Daddy then wrote her name, brought the tracing table up and Ashley traced her name.
Then the next day we are playing with sidewalk chalk and I hear, "Mommy, come and look! Mommy! Mommy! It's an A! I did an A! And another A... two A's!"
She was so, so, so excited!
Much Love,
Jenny
Then the next day we are playing with sidewalk chalk and I hear, "Mommy, come and look! Mommy! Mommy! It's an A! I did an A! And another A... two A's!"
She was so, so, so excited!
Much Love,
Jenny
Me in a Bag
Today Ashley was the lucky one in her class to do their version of show and tell. She got to pick 3 things that fit in a paper bag that she wanted to share with her class. And it's no surprise what she took!
1. Jake and the Neverland Pirate puzzles pieces (two birds with one stone- she loves puzzles and Jake!)
2. Snow White
3. Puppy Dog
She was already bringing blue paci for nap time.... :)
I so wish I could have been there to watch her share her favorite things. One of the many times I wish I were a fly on the wall!
Much Love,
Jenny
1. Jake and the Neverland Pirate puzzles pieces (two birds with one stone- she loves puzzles and Jake!)
2. Snow White
3. Puppy Dog
She was already bringing blue paci for nap time.... :)
I so wish I could have been there to watch her share her favorite things. One of the many times I wish I were a fly on the wall!
Much Love,
Jenny
Pics from a last minute dinner with Kate!
A couple weeks ago we all went with Kate and Uncle Todd on a last minute cousin dinner at a Mexican place near our house. We had so much fun!
Love,
Anna and Ashley
Love,
Anna and Ashley
Monday, October 28, 2013
Someone's ALMOST sitting up opn her own!
Folded Taco.....
To the Tripod...
To almost sitting!
All on her own. Wow- she's growing up :)
Much Love,
Jenny
Much Love,
Jenny
Pumpkin Carving
Last night we started on carving our big family pumpkin. The girls were super excited to see what was in the pumpkin; Anna had remembered a little from last year about seeds. When I took the top off both girls went crazy and starting bringing the guts out. As Anna touched the guts she got grossed out and said it was too gross. Ashley on the other hand de-gutted that pumpkin better then any 2 year old I have ever seen de-gut a pumpkin. She just LOVED it!
Then we talked and talked about what to carve and no surprise they chose Ariel. And not just any easy Ariel but this one from online.....
Here are the girls acting "sad" like Ariel does when she wants to be a human....
They LOVE it!
Much Love,
Jenny
Then we talked and talked about what to carve and no surprise they chose Ariel. And not just any easy Ariel but this one from online.....
I considered it for a brief moment and then realized that I would be doing this with no help from anyone, so I decided on an easier Ariel template. And here is the final product!
Ta-da!
Much Love,
Jenny
Pumpkin Decorating
Yesterday was pumpkin craft day while Daddy watched football with Abby (and mommy watched while helping us). We had so much fun!!
We did water colors on halloween coloring sheets, painted a small pumpkin and put cut out eyes, mouth and nose (both girls cut theirs out on their own), glue, gems, glitter and hair all over our big pumpkins. They did everything pretty much themselves (I just made the mess minimal). There was glitter everywhere but we had so much fun!
Love,
Anna and Ashley
This doesn't happen much since her sisters are always in her face. Daddy loved this while watching our Chiefs become 8 and 0!
The finished products!
Anna's
Anna's small pumpkin that she made look like Izzy from Jake and the Neverland Pirates.
Ashley's
Ashley painted Captian Hook (she hook if the line on the left side)
Ashley wanted glitter on her preschool pumpkin
We did water colors on halloween coloring sheets, painted a small pumpkin and put cut out eyes, mouth and nose (both girls cut theirs out on their own), glue, gems, glitter and hair all over our big pumpkins. They did everything pretty much themselves (I just made the mess minimal). There was glitter everywhere but we had so much fun!
Love,
Anna and Ashley
The finished products!
Anna's
Anna's small pumpkin that she made look like Izzy from Jake and the Neverland Pirates.
Ashley painted Captian Hook (she hook if the line on the left side)
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Dental Nightmare
I have been putting off on this post because honestly I don't want to relieve this nightmare.
So, here is the quickest recap I can give you.....
2 weeks ago we went in to get Ashley's space maintainer (pretty much a retainer that wraps around her back molars, lines her existing teeth and fills her missing space with a fake tooth) put in. A month ago after she had the surgery to get the tooth removed, the dentist had said that it should be a pretty painless procedure but she wouldn't like it. He said it might take 10 or so minutes to pop the retainer in and cement it to her existing molars.
Ha ha.... if only it could have been that "easy."
So we get to the dentist office and right away Ashley remembers the trauma of the previous time there where she was forced to go without paci for 24 hours. She tells me over and over that she doesn't want to be there and that she doesn't want a new tooth or to see the tooth fairy. I convince her that it's going to be ok and the rest of the time in the waiting room she is fine. Thankfully my mom decided to join us and got there right before we were called back. We head back and after 5 minutes of trying to get Ashley to sit on the dentist chair (Thankfully Abby was there to comfort her and cuddle with her on the chair) they started what was supposed to be quick and easy.
They tried the retainer on Ashley and after a minute Ashley starts to not like them in her mouth. So, Abby is removed from the chair and after a big 5 or so minute fight by Ashley and 3 nurses needing to restrain her, they find out that the retainer is too big for her mouth and they needed to make another one. So then for another 10 minutes or so they are trying to re-size this screaming child with metal brackets that wrap around her molars. She is not having any of it (come on, who would?) and the nurses are continuing to pry her mouth open and fit her for the retainer while telling her not to scream because she might swallow the metal fasteners. Yes, I am dead serious. Then after 30 minute of bloody hell breaking loose, the nurses give up and the dentist comes in who then spends almost 10 minutes in her mouth trying to fit her with new brackets. At this point Abby had started screaming and I was in the corner breastfeeding and not about to leave my daughter alone with these people (and they had requested that I leave the room). Then after they fit her with the molar brackets they then inform me that they have to take another mold of the roof of her mouth (she had had a mold done on the roof of her mouth when she was under anethesia during the last visit). I sit in horror as I watch my daughter get her mouth stuffed with the molding stuff, gagging on her spit and being told to breathe through her nose. It was a nightmare. The nurses asked me how I was doing at this point and I said my first words in over 30 minutes. I told them, "As good as you could possibly think I could be doing." And to make it worse, my poor baby girl had NO clue what was going on. So finally after 45 minutes of pure hell, she is back in my arms when all I can do is hold her and try my hardest not to scream at the dentist.
Then the dentist asked me if I had any questions. I almost blew my top. I took a deep breath and asked if I should be preparing myself and Ashley to go through this again. He told me no. And then I looked him straight in the eye and said, "Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't Ashley already all of this done, the bracket fitted and a mold of her mouth, while she was under anethesia?" Then he had the nerve to look me in the eye and tell me that sometimes you get a better mold of a child mouth when they are awake. Come on doc. I may not be in the dentist field but I am no dummy...... I just gaped at him with my mouth wide open, turned and left the room. Ashley got 5 warm cookies to bring home with everyone and was still toothless.
We set the appointment for the retainer to be put in on Nov. 9 since the only other opening they had was on Halloween and honestly I wasn't ruining my child's Halloween (or mine for that matter).
Then this past Wednesday we get a call saying that the retainer is in the office and they needed to get Ashley in ASAP to get it in. I informed them that the soonest they told me was Nov 9th. Then the girl I talked with asked if we could come in the next day and they'd get me in right after their lunch break at 1. She said it shouldn't take longer then 15 minutes. So as unhappy as I was with the dentist I wanted to get this over with and decided to go the next day.
We get there at 12:55 and Ashley is all fear about going in. Luckily Anna was there to help her remember the good things about the dentist (the toys, cookie, neat movie on the ceiling, and how Anna was brave last time she was there and etc....) so Ashley was ok with being there. At 1:10 the nurse comes out to tell me that they are just finishing up getting everything ready and that we would be called back soon. Then she made a comment about how I had all 3 kids with me and I just smiled. Minutes passed and slowly Ashley is clinging more and more to me saying she is tired and wants to go home for her nap. She is mentioning how she doesn't like the tooth fairies house (the dentist) and how she doesn't want a new tooth. I am getting nervous and as the minutes continue to tick away I am getting furious. At about 1:30 Ashley completely wets herself (which she hasn't done in months) and refuses to go to the potty because she doesn't like it there. After I clean that mess up, I go up to the front desk at 1:45 and demand that we be seen now. I told them that I have people coming over (which I did) at 2:00 and that I live 15 minutes away. You won't believe it.... we are finally called back at 1:55 and NO APOLOGY is given.
The nurse tries to slam the retainer in Ashley mouth once again and fiddles with her for 5 minutes before finally going and getting the dentist. 5 painful minutes later the dentist has gotten it in place and has cemented it in. All this time I was practically on top of Ashley on the dentist chair because we couldn't pry her off of me she was hugging me so hard and pure fear. As soon as the dentist finished I took all 3 kids (luckily Abby slept the entire time) and walked out. As I was passing the lady at billing she called me back and I turned and gave her the look of death and said, "Just send me the bill." And then I walked out of Dr. Fales office for the final time. There is no way I am ever going back to that place. Poor, poor Ashley.
So then we spend the rest of the afternoon/evening with Ashley telling us she doesn't want that tooth anymore and that it hurts. She continues to cry and whine and says that she doesn't like her paci's anymore because they don't squeak. It took 3 hours to get her to fall asleep at night and she was constantly crying and whining that her tooth hurt. She did take these pictures of her tooth with the ipad that night while in a short lived successful attempt to calm her down....
Luckily she slept great and when she woke up the nest day she was in good spirits. She found out that her paci doesn't hurt in her mouth (she was over the moon excited) and she decided that she actually likes her new tooth. I was very relieved because I don't think I could have handled going back to the dentist one more time.
So there you go, our dental nightmare. Poor, poor Ashley.
Much Love,
Jenny
So, here is the quickest recap I can give you.....
2 weeks ago we went in to get Ashley's space maintainer (pretty much a retainer that wraps around her back molars, lines her existing teeth and fills her missing space with a fake tooth) put in. A month ago after she had the surgery to get the tooth removed, the dentist had said that it should be a pretty painless procedure but she wouldn't like it. He said it might take 10 or so minutes to pop the retainer in and cement it to her existing molars.
Ha ha.... if only it could have been that "easy."
So we get to the dentist office and right away Ashley remembers the trauma of the previous time there where she was forced to go without paci for 24 hours. She tells me over and over that she doesn't want to be there and that she doesn't want a new tooth or to see the tooth fairy. I convince her that it's going to be ok and the rest of the time in the waiting room she is fine. Thankfully my mom decided to join us and got there right before we were called back. We head back and after 5 minutes of trying to get Ashley to sit on the dentist chair (Thankfully Abby was there to comfort her and cuddle with her on the chair) they started what was supposed to be quick and easy.
They tried the retainer on Ashley and after a minute Ashley starts to not like them in her mouth. So, Abby is removed from the chair and after a big 5 or so minute fight by Ashley and 3 nurses needing to restrain her, they find out that the retainer is too big for her mouth and they needed to make another one. So then for another 10 minutes or so they are trying to re-size this screaming child with metal brackets that wrap around her molars. She is not having any of it (come on, who would?) and the nurses are continuing to pry her mouth open and fit her for the retainer while telling her not to scream because she might swallow the metal fasteners. Yes, I am dead serious. Then after 30 minute of bloody hell breaking loose, the nurses give up and the dentist comes in who then spends almost 10 minutes in her mouth trying to fit her with new brackets. At this point Abby had started screaming and I was in the corner breastfeeding and not about to leave my daughter alone with these people (and they had requested that I leave the room). Then after they fit her with the molar brackets they then inform me that they have to take another mold of the roof of her mouth (she had had a mold done on the roof of her mouth when she was under anethesia during the last visit). I sit in horror as I watch my daughter get her mouth stuffed with the molding stuff, gagging on her spit and being told to breathe through her nose. It was a nightmare. The nurses asked me how I was doing at this point and I said my first words in over 30 minutes. I told them, "As good as you could possibly think I could be doing." And to make it worse, my poor baby girl had NO clue what was going on. So finally after 45 minutes of pure hell, she is back in my arms when all I can do is hold her and try my hardest not to scream at the dentist.
Then the dentist asked me if I had any questions. I almost blew my top. I took a deep breath and asked if I should be preparing myself and Ashley to go through this again. He told me no. And then I looked him straight in the eye and said, "Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't Ashley already all of this done, the bracket fitted and a mold of her mouth, while she was under anethesia?" Then he had the nerve to look me in the eye and tell me that sometimes you get a better mold of a child mouth when they are awake. Come on doc. I may not be in the dentist field but I am no dummy...... I just gaped at him with my mouth wide open, turned and left the room. Ashley got 5 warm cookies to bring home with everyone and was still toothless.
We set the appointment for the retainer to be put in on Nov. 9 since the only other opening they had was on Halloween and honestly I wasn't ruining my child's Halloween (or mine for that matter).
Then this past Wednesday we get a call saying that the retainer is in the office and they needed to get Ashley in ASAP to get it in. I informed them that the soonest they told me was Nov 9th. Then the girl I talked with asked if we could come in the next day and they'd get me in right after their lunch break at 1. She said it shouldn't take longer then 15 minutes. So as unhappy as I was with the dentist I wanted to get this over with and decided to go the next day.
We get there at 12:55 and Ashley is all fear about going in. Luckily Anna was there to help her remember the good things about the dentist (the toys, cookie, neat movie on the ceiling, and how Anna was brave last time she was there and etc....) so Ashley was ok with being there. At 1:10 the nurse comes out to tell me that they are just finishing up getting everything ready and that we would be called back soon. Then she made a comment about how I had all 3 kids with me and I just smiled. Minutes passed and slowly Ashley is clinging more and more to me saying she is tired and wants to go home for her nap. She is mentioning how she doesn't like the tooth fairies house (the dentist) and how she doesn't want a new tooth. I am getting nervous and as the minutes continue to tick away I am getting furious. At about 1:30 Ashley completely wets herself (which she hasn't done in months) and refuses to go to the potty because she doesn't like it there. After I clean that mess up, I go up to the front desk at 1:45 and demand that we be seen now. I told them that I have people coming over (which I did) at 2:00 and that I live 15 minutes away. You won't believe it.... we are finally called back at 1:55 and NO APOLOGY is given.
The nurse tries to slam the retainer in Ashley mouth once again and fiddles with her for 5 minutes before finally going and getting the dentist. 5 painful minutes later the dentist has gotten it in place and has cemented it in. All this time I was practically on top of Ashley on the dentist chair because we couldn't pry her off of me she was hugging me so hard and pure fear. As soon as the dentist finished I took all 3 kids (luckily Abby slept the entire time) and walked out. As I was passing the lady at billing she called me back and I turned and gave her the look of death and said, "Just send me the bill." And then I walked out of Dr. Fales office for the final time. There is no way I am ever going back to that place. Poor, poor Ashley.
So then we spend the rest of the afternoon/evening with Ashley telling us she doesn't want that tooth anymore and that it hurts. She continues to cry and whine and says that she doesn't like her paci's anymore because they don't squeak. It took 3 hours to get her to fall asleep at night and she was constantly crying and whining that her tooth hurt. She did take these pictures of her tooth with the ipad that night while in a short lived successful attempt to calm her down....
Luckily she slept great and when she woke up the nest day she was in good spirits. She found out that her paci doesn't hurt in her mouth (she was over the moon excited) and she decided that she actually likes her new tooth. I was very relieved because I don't think I could have handled going back to the dentist one more time.
So there you go, our dental nightmare. Poor, poor Ashley.
Much Love,
Jenny
Rumpelstiltskin
Yesterday Grammy took us to go and see the Paul Mesner play, Rumpelstiltskin. We had so much fun and had so much to tell mommy when we got home (she had stayed home with Abby). Grammy also took us to McDonald's for a yummy lunch! Thanks Grammy :)
Check out the mask's we made with the puppet mask kit Grammy bought us. Awesome!!!
Love,
Anna and Ashley
Check out the mask's we made with the puppet mask kit Grammy bought us. Awesome!!!
Love,
Anna and Ashley
Baby Food!
This week I had some other mom's from our church playgroup that have kids Abby's age over to make some baby food. It went great. We had a good time chatting and cooking while the big kids played and made close to a months worth of 10 different foods!
Pumpkin
Butternut Squash
Green Beans
Peas
Carrots
Sweet Potatoes
Pears
Apples
Peaches
Prunes
Definitely the way to go when you want lots of food with tons of variety! It took us less then 2 hours to whip this all up and only cost $11 for probably a month of food (most of which was organic too!)
Can't wait to do it again in a month :)
Much Love,
Jenny
Pumpkin
Butternut Squash
Green Beans
Peas
Carrots
Sweet Potatoes
Pears
Apples
Peaches
Prunes
Can't wait to do it again in a month :)
Much Love,
Jenny
First Veggie
Avocado!
Yum Yum! But the only downside... I have been a HUGE poop machine so mommy and daddy are scaling back in my baby food intake. BOO!!!
Love,
Abby
PS Abby totally knows when she's going to get food. She gets put in the high chair or sees us get a bib or the food ready and she starts chomping her lips. It is pretty darn cute :)
Yum Yum! But the only downside... I have been a HUGE poop machine so mommy and daddy are scaling back in my baby food intake. BOO!!!
Love,
Abby
PS Abby totally knows when she's going to get food. She gets put in the high chair or sees us get a bib or the food ready and she starts chomping her lips. It is pretty darn cute :)
Tomato Anyone?
Does anyone else know of a 4 year old who eats tomatoes this way?!?!?
Much Love,
Jenny
Much Love,
Jenny
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