Yummy treats

We went out to get a red box last night, which is conveniently located inside a McDonald's. And who can go there after dinner without treating themselves to a soft serve vanilla ice cream cone?! Not me! The kids loved it. I think this is Andi's first time with an ice cream cone and I think she liked it.

I think these may say a little bit about us: Jefferson's is the one that is almost gone. Mine is the nice, neatly licked cone. Carter's is the melted lopsided one. And Andi's is the one with the spoon scrapes going up the side of it because I wasn't quite ready for her to make a mess of herself.

As many of you know I hold card making classes once a month in my home. I cannot tell you how much I look forward to these girls' nights. Not only do I love designing the cards and cutting everything, but I love making all the treats, and even more so, love spending the evening with my fabulous friends. Thank you to my dear friends who humor me and come out to my silly card classes every month. I love you ladies!

Here are 4 of 5 of this month's cards. Now if only I would remember to take some of the girls who come; they are way cuter! :)

In case you needed more of us...

So, we really haven't been up to anything blog worthy this week, but I feel like my life has calmed down a little bit. It's not that I have been super busy, but I have been a little busy and had a few stressors to deal with and have been a little emotional on top of that. Bad combination, all of it. But we are surviving and have had a good week over all.

Last Saturday Ben, Sharon, Gray and Cal got to stop by for a few hours and we went out to lunch. It is always fun for the boys to play together. 

This week has just been playgroup at our house, open gym, story time, mutual, and a card party tonight. The norm. 

Here's a little update on our kiddos:

Carter loves to sing and is good at it. He is still doing amazingly well with potty training. Just working on the #2 thing still. He is super active and energetic. He is in love with the television and that's about the only thing that can get him to stop jumping. His little head is healing well. He has never picked at it or anything. I think the fear of it hurting has prevented him from touching it. 

Andi is just her pleasant little self. She loves pretending to talk on the phone. Her vocabulary is finally starting to grow a little: body, potty, hi, bye, mama, dada, Carter, thank you, love you, please, more, up, binki, baby, yes, beam, nope, yeah, shoe, yay, betty... She has also started singing, mostly just her ABC's and Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, it's pretty cute. 

Here we are playing dress up:

This week:

Well I heard you got pinned

Last night was Jefferson's pinning ceremony. This means that he has graduated from the student health clinic, where he just treated other students, to an out patient clinic where he treats "real people"! There are about 25 students that got pinned. There was a message from a retiring professor, some very funny remarks from one of the students, the pinning, and then closing remarks by the school president. I must admit that I got a little teary. I am so proud of Jefferson and how far he has come and for all the hard work he has put into schooling. Way to go babe! We love you Dr. Harmon! 

ER

It's happened. Our first of many bloody accidents that will send us to the emergency room. Is two years old kind of early to be starting this? Let's hope that this was an isolated incident and not the beginning of a trend. 

Our apartment has a loop that goes around the living room and through the kitchen and we run around it a lot. Carter was doing this while I fixed lunch and I kept telling him to slow down because he was going to get hurt. Wait, back up... just a couple hours earlier Jefferson text me that he was in his minor surgery class and that they had just stitched up pigs feet. He then proceeded to tell me that he felt quite confident that he could stitch up our kids. Ha.Ha. 

So, I am just busy fixing lunch and I see Carter come flying around the corner, lose his footing, and ram full speed ahead into the corner of our wall. Usually I am a kiss it and make it feel better and brush it off kind of mom. But I instantly knew this was not a "brush it off" kind of thing. Maybe the instant gush of blood that went running down his face tipped me off. The nurse in me kicked in and I got a cold washcloth and held it against Carter's head, much to his dismay. After a minute of pressure I checked it and there was a huge gash about 1/4 inch wide and the blood was not slowing down. Luckily Teri and Abbey were here, so Abbey stayed home with Andi while Teri drove Carter and I to the ER.

Here we are in the car. I got Carter to make some silly faces for me. He is so TOUGH:

Luckily they fast tracked us and got us in pretty quickly. Here we are waiting for Doctor Leaf to come back and see us:

And here is the final product. Luckily it was such a clean split that they didn't have to do stitches and used dermabond (skin glue) to glue Carter back together again. That was really hard as a mom. The doctor had to lay Carter down with a really bright light in his face. Then he had to clean the wound- OUCH! And then push the two edges together to seal it. Luckily I had given Carter some tylenol before we left, but it still hurt a ton I could I tell. Nothing will break your heart like your son telling you that it hurts and to make them stop. Then he had to lay there still while the doctor kept pushing the edges together and wait for the glue to dry. Carter kept trying to sit up and just wanted that bright light off and I was the lucky one who got to lay on him and restrain him. It was really sad, but boy was my little man one tough guy. He was back to his normal self in no time. And hey, chicks dig scars, right?

Grandma Mitchy and Aunt Abbey come to play...

This week was a great one! We got to have Jefferson's mom, Teri, and his sister Abbey come in for a couple of days. It was so great to see them and a ton of fun for Andi and Carter to have them around. We just did a lot of playing around the apartment, lots of yummy eating, and lots of talking. Abbey is leaving on a mission in a week and a half, so we feel so blessed that we got to spend some quality time with her before she left.  Thanks Teri and Abbey for coming! We love you!

I love make believe

I just remembered that I had a box of dress up clothes that I started putting together a few months ago for the kids. It's been sitting up in my closet, and it seemed like a good thing to get out and let the kids play with while I baked and cleaned in preparation for a meeting and Jefferson's mom coming into town. My kids loved it, especially Carter. He put together some awesome outfits from a bear princess to a bear ninja. He likes the bear claws. 

I love electricity. Without it I…

-Cannot make a hot breakfast, or cook/bake anything

-Have to have cold cereal for breakfast

-Cannot vacuum up the dry cereal that is mashed into the carpet

-Cannot start my full dishwasher

-Cannot give my kids a hot bath

-Cannot blow dry my hair (it is looking awesome today!)

-Cannot watch television

-Have a great reason not to turn on cartoons that Carter keeps begging for

-Have to play with lots of toys and play lots of games- that part has been really fun

-Have to be careful that the food in my fridge doesn’t go rancid

-Have a very cold house! Brrrrrrrrrr.

-Cannot listen to music, unless it’s on my laptop, and that is only limited to the battery power that we have

-Cannot do laundry. I am not doing it by hand.

-Cannot turn on the bathroom light to see myself to do my hair and makeup. I sat in our living room trying to glean light from our bay window.

-Do not have internet!

-And much much more

Our power was out for about two hours this morning and continues to flicker on and off for a few minutes at a time this afternoon. It has really made me appreciate electricity and has also made me painfully aware of how emergency prepared we are not. This will be our wake up call to get our booties in gear!