Our Little Adventures

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Unplanned

On Saturday I woke up wanting two things. 1) to be alone and 2) to caulk my living room. Unfortunately, my children weren't going to let me have either.

It turned into a day of unplanned activities. I had a hard time letting go of the things I wanted and didn't enjoy it as much as I could have, but they did. We ended up playing a lot more and the highlight of the day for them was making clothes for their loveys.

The day before we had been at a friend's house and the friend (7 yrs old) had made a felt skirt for Emily with "appliqued" hearts (they were stuck on with tape). In fact, the whole ensemble was assembled with tape.

So on Saturday, when Emily told me she wanted to make clothes for Missy, I thought she meant with tape. Actually, she meant that she wanted to sew clothes for Missy. And of course, if we sewed something for Missy, we had to sew something for Fraggle (Nathalie's puppy). I was unsure at first because it meant a lot more effort on my part and because I didn't think I had enough felt to construct an outfit that would fit this teddy bear.

But we went for it. And you should have seen Emily's face when I squeezed Missy into her "ballet outfit". It wasn't easy, trying to sew with Em or Nathalie on my lap and the other children standing behind me on the chair. (This is an understatement. I actually despise sewing when my children are awake because they're either standing behind me, holding on to me or in my lap or trying to touch the sewing machine.)

I never did get any alone time or time to caulk. But Missy got a new outfit and Fraggle got a Valentine's Day scarf.

And we all got some precious memories.

Friday, January 25, 2013

Best News of the week

Charlotte had an ENT appointment on Wednesday and her hearing tests came back normal!! The audiologists took "pictures" of both her ears (echos and volume tests) and both tubes are still open and functioning, and the structures in her ears seem normal. Her hearing test results were also normal.

Her ENT doctor say s that we don't need to worry about permanent hearing loss anymore from her accident, and she won't need to see Charlotte for 6 months until it's time to check her tubes again.

Matt and I are so relieved. We feel so blessed that Charlotte's hearing is normal. We are especially grateful for the ear tubes because we've seen Charlotte go from unintelligible talking to complete phrases and sentences in 7 weeks. We just feel really blessed right now.

Friday, January 18, 2013

Emily's reading and writing teacher showed this to me after school yesterday. "This is amazing!" she said. Emily loves to write and create and apparently she came up with this all by herself.

"My bunies (bunnies) and my family are taking a wack (walk). Me and a new baby. I am holeding (holding) my mommy's baby. She is very wigll to (wiggly too). My sisters are holeding my mom's new baby.
Writtn by Emily"

Monday, January 14, 2013

Murphy's Law

That my washing machine breaks at 4 pm on Friday and the Charlotte gets the stomach flu Sunday morning and Nathalie gets it Sunday night.

If the washing machine can't be repaired today I am going to have to go to the laundromat. It's getting desperate around here.

Friday, January 11, 2013

January Life

We are back! It's amazing how nature can ruin one's plans...Matt, Emily and I have all had the stomach flu in the last week and Charlotte woke up this evening and she may have thrown up (I know, that's a weird statement to make but it looked and sounded like she was throwing up but there was no vomit. So we'll see how it goes tonight.) Here are some pictures of our daily life.

We got a dusting in December and played early one morning before Emily went to school. It was 15 degrees outside and freezing. We were only outside about 90 seconds.

And then today it was 66 degrees so we played Princesses all afternoon.

Cute girlies with morning hair. Charlotte refused to eat her breakfast unless she was straddling Emily and Nathalie's chair.

More princesses. I LOVE Charlotte's shoes.

Look at those sweet heels!

Ariel is getting married.

Nathalie is posing for the camera. And hilarious.

Another pose from the funny girl. She thinks this is a "Sleeping Beauty" dress....

We then got snow at the end of December/early January and it was a lot warmer so we made snowmen and played, played, played.

Funny things said by the girls lately:

Nathalie was being loud (surprise, surprise). Emily said, "Nathalie, let's use a 6-inch voice" but Nathalie wouldn't stop being loud. So Emily leaned over closer to her and said, "Nathalie, use a 2-inch voice!"

Charlotte has learned the word "mean" and uses it whenever she doesn't get her way. This little girl is now more toddler than baby. Anytime she doesn't get what she wants she looks at the offender and says, "Mean! You mean!"

Nathalie is overall obnoxious and hilarious at the same time. Her only volume level is stage-without-a-microphone. Her only energy level is bouncing off the walls. But today she was playing with her exercise ball (she requested one for Christmas and an indulgent aunt got it for her). She figured out she could jump from the coffee table to the ball, which would catapult her into the couch. It was hysterical for her. Every time. Oh my Nan, don't lose the spunk.

It's a busy life around here.