Amber 2 years old

Friday Night at the movies...

Here is Amber, she is too funny! Here she is singing....
Five little monkeys jumping on the bed, one fell off and bonked his head...

She is always making us laugh, while she destroys our house and messes up everything. I had cleaned our front room, putting all the toys back in the buckets and vacuumed and all. I was feeding Samantha and Amber came in and grabbed her bucket of blocks, looked and me and said, "can I make a mess?" I smiled and said, "Yes, you can make a mess."

Last night, Robert was on a camping trip with the scouts, so we had the night to ourselves. I thougt it would be a nice night...put the kids to bed and just have some relaxing time... It didn't really go that way at all. The girls had fun though. These pictures all just from last night. The girls had a movie night and had 3 bags of popcorn, m&m's, chocolate eyeballs, and got some old shleves and put them on the stairs and slid down them. (I should have gotten a picture of that!) It seems like most the house is back in its normal order this morning.

We had corndogs for dinner, we really have easy dinners when Robert is away. Amber always thinks she has to sit on the table to eat. She seems to clean up everyone else plates when they are done or just spills their leftovers all over the table. Here she is eating the crusty part of the corndog off the sticks. Yummy!!

Ward Halloween Party

We had our church halloween party last night. My camera battery was dead, so we left it charging while we were at the party. By the end of the party the girl's makeup and costumes where a little frazzled.

This is after--Lauren was reading poor Amber a book. Amber was so sad and whiny! She just kept throwing herself on the floor and crying. She wanted the candy and we kept telling her no. She managed to eat through Emily's sucker wrapper, she ate a little snickers bar I had gotten, but just took a bike out of the middle and then she signed I don't like and said "I don't like it." So much for my candy bar. This was one of the better pictures I got of Amber, and she still looks pretty grumpy.
Amber somewhat cooperated for this picture although she was telling me, "Mantha too heavy" and kept trying to push her away. Both Samantha and Amber where Utah Jazz cheerleaders, or fans or something. Amber was to be a cheerleader, but she wouldn't have anything to do with the pom poms, luckily they were just a dollar.

Lindsey's costume and make-up was shot by the end of the night. When we got home, the girls were so tired and I was wiped out, I didn't feel like really doing much to make their pictures better... Lindsey said she looked more like a cat at the end of the night then a vampire. Of course a week ago Lauren was playing with Lindsey's vampire teeth, the ones she really liked and Lauren lost them. Bummer!! Linsdey was stuck with the ones that hurt her mouth, so she ended up not wearing them at all. I am not sure if anyone knew for sure that she was a vampire or not... Her cape wasn't the greatest either. I may have to go look for a different cape for her...

Samantha seemed pretty happy. I tried to find some purple and greenish color ribbon for her hair, but no luck. (Of course I waited for the last minute so on Wed. night when I went out to look, at the ONE fabric store, I didn't see anything I really liked, but I did get elastic for Emily's new skirt I made.)

Amber wasn't in any mood for pictures. She was so tired and wouldn't sit still for a picture. Her outfit turned out cuter than I had thought it would have. Although none of the pictures really show it off in the right way. She was crying and crawling up the stairs....

Or throwing herself on the floor....

Lauren loves to get her photo taken so she is always posing just so... She makes me laugh! I am sure you can tell by her pictures from last night and from other things.

Lauren wanted to be a "China girl princess" for halloween this year. I thought I could figure out how to make her kimino and then I found a great website http://www.asianideas.com/ that had all sorts of really cheap assesories to go with it. They even had the socks that seperated the big toe from the other toes to go with their cool sandles that look like flip flops on blocks. I got her shoes, fan, and umbrella all for a little over $15 and $7 of that was shipping/handling charges. I wasn't sure if I could find anything cheaper or better around here. I did want to get her some fun flowers for her hair, but I ran out of time and forgot.

Emily decided to be a witch this year. Last night she was upset before the party saying "everybody is being a witch I don't want to be a witch anymore." She has already requested the "china girl" costume for next year.

Here's the girls all together. Again you can see Lauren really posing!

Amber was too sad to be in the picture. I was lucky to get any of her at all.

I think for the most part the girls had fun. It made for a really long night, and super tired girls this morning. In fact, Robert's brother stayed here last night, so that meant Emily was out of her room and in Amber's room, which then put Lindsey and Lauren in the same room. They stay up forever fighting, argueing, or just laughing and talking when they are in the same room. So at like 10:30 or a little before they were still up yelling at each other "Lindsey stop that!" "Lauren don't do that!" and I told them they needed to go to sleep or they would stay home from school today and miss their farm field trip with their class.
Shortly after that I took a shower... Lauren got out of bed having to go the the bathroom, noticed the bathroom door shut, she went back into her room, got on the bottom bunk where Lindsey was asleep and wet Lindsey's bed. But before this, she took off her pants and all headed into the bathroom, then noticed the door was closed so she went back into her room. Robert was downstairs on the phone, trying to figure out what Lauren was doing half naked in the hallway. Lindsey was alseep through all of this. Robert told me what had happened and then I put Lauren in the bath, Robert is trying to clean the top bunk where Lauren was sleeping, to find that is was dry... (of course because she got out of bed first, and then got back in Lindsey's bed.) Then he asked Lauren again if she wet the bed and she said yes. After much confusion, he discovered Lindsey's bed wet, and of course Lindsey was wet too. He woke up Lindsey who wasn't too happy to be woken up, and then told her that Lauren peed on her so she needed to go get in the bath, which even made her even more upset. Poor girls where totally exausted this morning. Lauren ended up sleeping on the floor. It is ALWAYS an adventure around here... we are never short of anything exciting!!

Teething Problems

Samantha turned 5 months yesterday, and she already has her bottom two teeth. She is getting more, which is making her unbearable at times, and quite a little slobbery mess! I keep thinking any day she will have her top teeth in. She has been waking up at nights...
I was looking at her gums and all, and I noticed her gums and lips and what not are much like Ambers. Amber has a gap in her front teeth due to that little skin flap, muscle, whatever it is... that comes down in the middle of your top lip to your gums. I am sure Tracy could explain it, since she is the expert in that area. Amber's is thick and so is Samantha's.
I thought maybe you could see for yourself, and see what you think. I think as Samantha gets more teeth, you can tell better. But there is a striking resemblems in their teeth now...

Red RIbbon Week-Crazy hair day

This week at school the girls are having a red ribbon week, for drug awareness. They got little red plastic bracelets that say something about saying no to drugs (I can't remember the exact wording). Each day of school this week they have different fun days to dress up or do funny things. Yesterday was red day, they were to all wear red. The class with the most red or most people wearing red wins a prize.

Today is crazy hair day. Lindsey and Lauren gave me strict instructions on how they wanted their hair. Then once Lauren was done with her hair, Lindsey just told me to do her hair like Laurens. I was telling the girls last night that their hair was pretty dirty and we needed to wash it, then I remembered today was crazy hair day, and thought of all the hair spray that would go into their hair and decided to wait one more day.... Tomorrow is pajama day. That should make for a easy morning to get the girls dressed.

I finally did it!

So I have been thinking about starting a blog to keep in touch and give updates on the things the girls are doing. It seems like I never have time to start a blog when I am thinking I need to do that. Then I don't think about it until I have something to report on.... such as the other day...

I had Amber and Samantha with me, we were running some errands right before the girls were to get out of school. I told Amber we would get an ice cream, which she LOVES!! I stopped at Artic Circle got her an ice cream cone and got myself a plain burger, I hadn't eaten all day and it was 2pm and time to pick up the girls from school. I gave Amber her ice cream. She started to eat it and then noticed that I had a bag with food in it and wanted to know where her chicken was. I told her I didn't have any for her and to just eat her ice cream. Then she told me she put it down and she was ready for her chicken. Of course I didn't have any chicken so I break a piece of my burger off and give it to her. As I am driving to the school to get the girls I think back on Amber's words, "I put it down" and start wondering where did she put it down? Thinking she has dumped it on the floor of the suburban I am thinking Rob is going to kill me! He is always upset about how the car is ALWAYS trashed with food bits, garbage, and lost belonging the girls leave in there.... i.e. socks, shoes, jackets, papers from school. About this time I figure I will soon see where she has dumped it figuring I will check when I pick the girls up from school which I was now headed to go get them. I then focus on Samantha and try to soothe her. She had gotten fussy in the last little bit. As I am talking to Samantha, Amber tells me that she is done and wants her ice cream back. I am thinking, YUCK, there is no way you can eat it off the coats, blankets, socks, and garbage that is on the floor in front of her seat, and so I ask her, "where is your cone?" She replies, "I gave it to Mantha" (which is how she says Samantha.) I am now thinking maybe that's why Samantha has been crying since about the time we left Artic Circle. I pull over and get out of the car and look in Samantha's seat, and sure enough there is the ice cream cone, tucked on the side of Samantha, all nice and cold! Poor baby. Amber is going crazy trying to get her cone back, I remove the ice cream cone from Samantha's car seat and give it back to Amber. And everyone was happy again, and I continue my drive to go get the big girls from school.

I also plan on putting on emails that I have sent to my family/friends with pictures and stories like this and what has been going on.  So even though I am just now starting my blog... it will date back further... hopefully!  {fingers crossed}

Amber's 18 month pics

Here are the pictures from Amber's photo session. I wasn't super thrilled with our photographer. She was saying, oh that was a cute one, but in my opinion, Amber never REALLY smiled like she does at home. They did turn out cute, but I wanted them cuter!

Amber Loves Suckers!

Amber LOVES suckers! She went through a time where that was the first thing she asked for in the morning when she first woke up. We went to the drug store to get an RX for Lauren, and I had told Amber that we would go get a sucker at the store, so we looked for one and I saw the blow pops with gum in them, I didn't really want that one, and then I saw BAGS of suckers, I didn't really want that either.

So this is what I found. I think she really liked it. Although it seemed a little dangerous because she hit Samantha in the head with it in the car. She was trying to show Samantha her sucker and she bonked it on Samantha's head. Poor baby! Amber has been pretty concerned about her sucker too. She will eat if for a while and I think because it is so heavy her arms starts to hurt from holding it. She starts telling me her sucker hurts her and then I tell her we will give her sucker a break. She has woke up a few times saying, "My sucker, Amber's sucker!" I am not sure if she is having bad dreams about someone taking her sucker or what, but it is kind of funny. I have to keep reassuring her that her sucker is fine.

Of course the rest of the girls are jealous of the big lollipop that Amber has. Lauren keeps asking to eat it and I keep telling her that it is all fuzzy because Amber lays it on the floor sometimes, but that doesn't stop Lauren.
Hope you enjoy the pictures of Amber and her Lollipop!!

School starts and lost teeth

Lauren had a wiggly tooth from WA, I think she got bonked by the teeter-totter, or was that Lindsey? Her tooth has been quite wiggly and I have noticed her gums above that loose tooth not looking so great. I told her on Saturday we were going to pull that tooth out. It was ridiculously loose. We took a picture of her with her wiggly tooth, it reminds me of Nanny McPhee if you have ever watched the movie. Kind of a gross picture of her lost tooth. She took pride in all that blood.

Today was the first day of school for the big girls. Lindsey and Lauren were VERY excited to be in 1st grade and all day, and have lunch and all those exciting things of an "all dayer" would have.

Amber was even sporting the spirit this morning, as the girls were getting dressed, Amber kept putting on things too. She found Lauren's jammies and her underwear and had both of those at different times on. Then all morning Amber kept asking, "Lauren go?" and "Lindsey go?" and "Emily go?" Poor thing, she will miss them for a little while, but I am sure she will also enjoy more time with me without the big girls.

I maybe should have waited until school got out, to report on their stories and what not. I figured I would take advantage of the quite moment now.

Samantha 2 Months

About 7/22/08

I can hardly believe Samantha (I almost typed Amber) is 2 months old. It has gone by so fast and yet so slow, if that is possible.

I took her to the Dr. for her check up, she seemed to be doing great. She is now 13# 2.5 oz and 23 inches long. Just to give you an idea... Amber at this age was 11# and 21.5 inches, Emily was 16# 9 oz and 23.5 inches. It looks like Samantha is growing great... I am thinking that she may catch up to Amber pretty quick.

The dr. did notice a heart murmur, which he said sounded like a hole in her heart due to the tone of it. He recommended going to see a Ped. Cardio dr. to have them look at it more. We won't go until the 8th of Aug. I guess it is one of those things you say, oh no big deal, it is common... I am sure it isn't anything to worry about, but yet I keep thinking about it and hope it isn't serious.

Samantha loves to smiles and she coos and bubbles a lot. She is pretty strong in her legs, when I put her down for "tummy time" she straightens out her legs, and sticks her bum in the air and pushes her upper body forward, mostly on her forehead.

Lauren continues to "mommy" Samantha. She is always caught holding her and picking her up and carrying her when Samantha is crying. For the most part though, Samantha is a really good baby! She has been sleeping for most of the night, she will usually get up at about 6 am in the morning. Once in a while it is 7 am and once in a while it is 3 am. After she eats in the early morning, she typically goes right back to sleep. I think she will continue to do better and better at nights. During the days she is eating about every 4 hours.



Yesterday was a busy day! Samantha got 4 shots at her dr. appointment so she was pretty sad, Lindsey had a CT Scan at the hospital for her clavicle. Amber had been at the neighbors earlier in the morning (they baby sat while I took Samantha to the Dr.) and Amber just seemed tired. We were headed up to the hospital and I was dropping off the girls at Karla's for her to watch them while I took Lindsey to her appointment. I figured I would take Samantha since she was so sad and then of course Lindsey too. We got off the freeway and not long after that Amber threw up in the car. She turned her head and threw up on Samantha too. The older girls were freaking out, "Yuck, Amber just threw up! OH Gross, it stinks in here... Yuck, I can see the cheese Amber ate..." and they just went on and on. I wasn't to a place I could really pull over, I was on a busy highway, so the next place I could get off I got off and pulled into a parking lot and started to clean everything off as good as possible with baby wipes. Luckily Samantha had a blanket over her so most of the throw up was just on that blanket and the side of her car seat and her hand. It was much easier than I was anticipating. I had to call Karla and the hospital and tell them I wasn't coming...

Poor Amber has just been awful since. She is just crying and sad and REALLY tired. She just lays around. She threw up again last night. When we first got back from the attempt to the hospital Amber went to bed at 2 pm and I went in there at 6 pm to get her up. She was awake but just laying there. Last night in the middle of the night she was calling out for some water. Sweet little Lauren was sleeping in her room and got up with her and gave her a giant cup of water that was on the dresser in her room. I saw it just as I went in there, and quickly took it away from Amber. Amber cried then and wanted more. I was telling Robert that with the heat, she is going to get dehydrated really fast. Today she has seemed to be keeping small amounts of water down. She is angry though because she wants MILK.

Well, I better go... poor little Amber is in need of some loving and maybe another pedialite popscicle. I just wanted to send an update of little Samantha...

Samantha

Monday, July 14, 2008 2:42 PM

Here is this little picture of Samantha and her little perfectly matching flower that I got for her. I bought some flowers for headbands at the store. (My friend Adrian had showed me this cool idea of how to make these headbands). As I looked for something to go with her dress, I found in my stash of flowers a little purple one that matched the little purple one on her dress. I even had time before church to make the headband and flower really quick!

I can't believe how fast Samantha is growing! It is amazing me! I forget how fast they grow out of being little.

That's it for me! Gotta get back to the family! And think about what to do for dinner and family night tonight!