Last random things….

One day for school the kids gotta make fossils out of clay, well pretend ones.  They would find small objects around the house and the idea was to imprint it in the clay, we would cook them, then bury them out in the dirt hill and later they could go find them.  Well unfortunately Savannah and her friend found the clay, and since it was still soft….figured they could wad it all up and play with it again.  Bummer….fossils gone.

Also pictured:
Emma’s bandaged up chin so she won’t keep splitting it open!
Playing in the bath on her birthday….her favorite thing

 

Our neighbors and friends, Michi and Bryan, had their baby girl last week.  We got the pleasure of having their other two kids at our house for a couple nights.  A few days after they were home we were able to go to their home to visit and bring in a meal. They even let Maliyah and Ky hold the darling 4 lb 13 oz baby!

And yes, she is sucking her thumb in that picture….how cute!

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The kids were asking how to cross eyes and I explained to duck that I can’t very well.  Either my eyes are crossed facing down, or if I move them up, then one eye starts to go straight! So we both tested our cross eyed abilities.



The kids finished up their session of swim this week. Savannah did awesome for her first session. She never did make it off the board, but she got really good at walking up to the edge to show the teacher her toes, and then would jump off the side.  The rest of them LOVE the diving board.



Fun Friday this last week was a trip to the childrens museum. We didn’t used to go much because the daily price was, well, pricey. But we finally got the year membership so I think we’ll go a lot more often! We stayed for a good 2 hours and the older three weren’t ready to leave and hadn’t even visited half of the museum (and it’s not that big, just THAT fun!). 

Savannah {Project.12 | Windows & Doors}

This months theme for Project.12, was Windows and Doors.  I had a great plan in mind.  I mean, we live in Klamath, home of one of the biggest manufactures of Windows and doors!  Well, that didn’t work out. But I think I love what I got even more, because the background is more personal.

Our big kids have been taking swim for years.  YEARS.  They are required to swim across the pool before they can sign up for any other extra activities.  This took a little longer for some kids than others, but they are getting there. 



As the kids would take swim lessons, they would all wait at this window until it was time for their lesson.    Savannah often would stand there looking through the window with them, but she was always left behind to go to the child watch.  This girl loves the water and I know she just watched….wishing she could go be with them! (and often this was manifested through more than just looking!)





Until last week.  Savannah finally got to start swim lessons for the first time.  I haven’t had a child so excited for swim lessons!  Usually after they get started, fear starts to set in a bit before each lesson.  But not Savannah.



She gets giddy when I mention swim.



And even after 30 minutes of freezing her tooshie off, she always begs to stay and swim more!



I just had to throw in this one of Jayden.  This kid is a crack up in swim. He beats the water (literally) and is all over the place.  Today he finally swam across the pool and the first thing he says as he gets out to sit on the side?  “mom, can I sign up for tball now?”  Love that kid!



Back to Savannah, cause really this post is all about her right?.  At the end of each lesson the kids get the chance to jump off the diving board.  It’s a low board, but to a 3 year old I’m sure it seems awful high and scary!  Savannah has yet to jump off. Usually she needs help walking up to the end to practice showing teacher her toes.



Today though…she did it all by herself!  She bravely walked right up, showed teacher her toes then asked to jump off the side. (teacher lets them jump off the side as long as they show their toes).  It won’t be long before she surprises us all and jumps off!



I love this little girl.  She has such a tender heart, a fun personality and loves making her family happy.  I’m excited for this new door in her life to open!  I have a feeling she’ll be swimming before we know it!

(freezing, waiting for her towel!)

A quick run down!

(there is a second page of posts again, so feel free to look at the previous posts!)

Update:

It’s been a crazy busy week as I hurt my back the beginning of it, so that slowed me down quite a bit. But knowing we would be potty training this next week and i would get nothing done, I worked hard the rest of the week to try to catch up! I even was able to make 3 skirts for Easter today!
After our little update, there are a few posts that have been sitting waiting to be posted for months….so yes they are outdated. But just some family sessions I had done this last fall.  It’s not even close to all of them and I probably never will. Sorry.

Moving on…..

Jayden is SO close to swimming! Our requirement is that before they can do any other extra curricular activities or sports, they have to be able to swim the 15 ft across the pool by themselves.  Jayden is ALMOST there!!!



I’ve been trying to spend more one on one time with the kids during the week.  Thursdays Maliyah and Kyson visit an elderly lady in our ward, so this week my activity with Jayden (while the little girls were sleeping) was making this super hero cape! Not too bad considering we didn’t measure anything, didn’t iron anything and used scrap fabrics.  I let Jayden write his Initial for me to put on it.  After cutting it out, I laid it on the cape getting ready to pin it. When I came back from getting the pins….he had ‘fixed’ it and put it backwards again.  Love it.



Getting ready for St. Patricks Day!



Jayden had been wanting to make these bird feeders forever and we finally were able to squeeze it in!



Girly PLay date!  Good thing we have TWO doll houses. Thanks Tracy!



Sunday, St. Patricks Day, we invited some friends over for Dessert. We played Don’t eat Pat, and ate these yummy marshmallow cookies!





This week Savannah had her little friend Sammie over to play. They hadn’t played in a long time, and were too cute together. They played in the hall playing with their little animals and playing make believe forever!



Splish Splash!!



Last night before spring Break started we had a late night and got to make cookie and candy creations.  Savannah was trying soooo hard to get her tower to stay up!



Too cute!



Love this cute little girl that has such a HUGE imagination!~  God help me remember my intense love for her this week as we begin potty training!



Also, if you wanna see my photo's from my March submission for Project.12, go here