Meals

The computer with all my pics still isn't working... so here is another story for you. Monday night, Emma-Grace ate a 2"X5" piece of lasagna, a salad with dressing and croutons, two handful of grapes, a cookie, one string cheese and then an hour later an 8 oz bottle.

On Tuesday we took the girls to McDonalds for a treat, and Anna ate a 4 piece chicken nugget, her apples, chocolate milk, one half of Emma-Grace's cheese burger, one third of my medium french fries, and a whole small french fries all by her self. Emma-Grace didn't eat too much, but she was probably still full from the day before! I think Anna was partially milking the experience because we were sitting at the high top tables and she didn't want to leave!

Not sure what is going on with their diets, but they have been chow hounds!

Responsibility

I know I am very delinquent in posting... it has been so long! Part of the problem is that our computer is going haywire and all my photos and video are on the desktop that is slowly dying. We are planning on buying a new computer after we figure out taxes. So until then, the pics will be a little sparse.

But I do have a story to share... It is about Anna and how much of a big responsible girl she is. So we were sitting home today and Ken decided that he wanted to go to Toys R Us and look at their Wii remote prices. So we told Anna that we were all going to go and I told her to go potty. She started to go upstairs and I reminded her to go potty and she turned around and said that she needed to do something first. So I told her to hurry. A few seconds later she came back downstairs holding her piggy bank and asked us how much money we thought was in it because she wants a new doll... talk about breaking my heart! She made the connection from hearing that we were going to Toys R Us, what was at Toys R Us, what she wanted and what she needed to get what she wanted. What a big girl! Fortunately for her we left the money in the piggy bank because she had a Toys R Us gift card from Uncle Paul and Aunt Lisa from Christmas. Also being the smart mommy I am, I had a $5 coupon for a barbie so she still has money left on her gift card. What a sweet heart! We keep getting teary-eyed when we think about what she did.

She is growing up too fast!

Lots of Stuff...

Well, it has been an exceptionally long time since I blogged... we had about three weeks of sickness (all of us), stress (on my part), sleepless nights, and winter time depression (again, on my part). But we seem to be getting all better in all manner and now I am back to blogging. Here are a bunch of random pictures from way back stating in the fall... Captions provided for explanation:

Anna wearing a Frosty the Snowman hat... we seem to have a lot of holiday hats.Super model Anna again. Notice she is wearing jeans? This is a new horizon for us... she thinks she looks like Aunt Sara when she wears jeans... Cow girl Emma-Grace at Nana's house.

Cousins Anna and McKenna at Nana's house on Thanksgiving.When Anna was little she got the Elmo tool bench, but never was into it. Emma-Grace is all about it and loves wearing the tool belt.

Ken's giant leaf pile for Anna.

Here is a picture of sick Emma-Grace. Considering she operates in two modes: asleep and 100 mph, getting her to lay like this while awake is a rare occurrence. I knew she wasn't feeling well when she did this. Poor baby.

Fall fun in the leaves.

2009 Christmas Card - If you didn't get one, let me know. I lost my card list from last year and am scrambling to be sure to get everyone!

2009 Failed Christmas Card Picture - I really wanted to get a picture of Anna wearing a Santa suit and Emma-Grace wearing this reindeer suit. But kids Santa suits are $30 (I am not interested in paying that much for one), so we went with the Santa had. I envisioned a picture of the girls on our outing to cut down a live tree, but Emma-Grace would have none of it and this is the only good picture I got of her.

Super model Anna was all about her picture...Here is a picture of Emma-Grace having a tantrum when we tried to set them up:

Running away...Temper tantrum
The funny thing is, is that Emma-Grace LOVES wearing the reindeer outfit. She thinks it is a bear and as soon as you put it on her she starts growling and roaring... Then she throws a temper tantrum when it is time to take if off. So here is Emma-Grace wearing the reindeer suit, and being equal opportunity type parents, below are pictures of Anna from December 2006 when she was blessed to wear the reindeer suit... Santa Love...Anna 2006... we were in Florida, hence the palms.

When it Rains...

Life always gets really fun all at the same time. This is how our holiday weekend finished up:

Saturday Night/Sunday Morning - Anna not eating, having a tummy ache, totally out of it. At one point she had a fever, but I took her temperature right after a crying jag because Emma-Grace rolled over her foot with a push car. Emma-Grace developing a case of conjunctivits in both eyes. (Once you see it you know exactally what it is when it comes back).

Sunday Afternoon - Take Emma-Grace to emergency to fix her toe that she split open.

Monday Early Morning - Ken spending quality time in the bathroom. However, no fever.

Monday Afternoon - Olivia take Emma-Grace to doctor for eye medicine, which they do not have a generic for, so with insurance it is $20 copay for a 0.5 oz bottle. Ken done needing to live in the bathroom, but now has a low grade fever and pretty much incapaciated. So Ken definately has the flu, but is it the dreaded swine flu? Lets just pray that the girls regular and swine flu vaccines work... although Ken got the regular flu shot ... so lets pray for science to work!

4 Years and 2 Months

Well we made it Four Years and Two months without an emergency room visit for the KIDS (Ken had his trip in the summer!). I think 4 years and two months is a pretty long time with all the acrobatics that kids do. Anyway, Emma-Grace was in her and Anna's room opening and closing her closet door and she must have rolled over her big toe, as the door is a sliding door... she sliced it right open! I was putting away clothes right next to her and the next thing I know she is screaming and blood is shooting everywhere from her toe. Anna was napping in my room and Ken was working outside. I run and grab a towel, dripping blood all over the carpet yelling for Ken. He comes in and we call my aunt who lives down the street from us. Meanwhile Anna is crying because she was woken up from a serious nap from Emma-Grace crying and me yelling for Ken. So my aunt arrives and we whisk Emma-Grace to the hospital, dripping blood all over the house on our way out. We felt bad for Anna because she was all confused after waking up from a nap, but thankfully the lure of making cookies with my Aunt settled her down.

Good advice from our friends: If you ever have to take your kid to the emergency room, don't make them stop crying. Nothing will get you faster through the emergency room than a screaming kid.

Although hectic, I was able to recall their advice. Thankfully, Emma-Grace is of the age that she screams at ALL people she doesn't know, so our simple entry into the emergency room escalated her to full alarm. True to what our friends said, I stood in the entry no more than 5 seconds and we were taken back, registered, checked in, and ushered to a room. Less than 10 mins later, Emma-Grace's toe was glued beck together and we were getting discharged (with Emma-Grace screaming the entire time). On our way home, I was telling Ken how much blood there was and how I was sure that there was a lot that we would have to clean up. I guess my adrenaline kicked in, because when we got home, there was only three drops on the carpet and some smudges on the kitchen floor.

Funny note, when we picked up Anna from my Aunt's house she asked me what was the "new red colors on the floor..."

We are all fine now... (sorry, no pics of the event). We ran out of the house with no coats, no diaper bag and Emma-Grace was barefoot. I did not remember the camera.

A Blog Worthy Fortune

We had Chinese for dinner last night and I wanted to share Ken's fortune with you all from his fortune cookie. We have both been stressed out about jobs, economy, work and all that, but this puts things in nice perspective:

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."

I love how God helps puts little things like this in our way.

Temper Tantrum, the Donald Look, Catching Air and Extras

Here is a bunch of random stuff...

Emma-Grace has Donald Trump hair in the front and a mullet in the back... business during the day, party at night! Aunt Sara got Anna a "sign peace" (as Anna says) shirt. Anna loves peace signs... This is Grammy's influnce! Thanks Aunt Sara! Anna loves the shirt!

This is what Emma-Grace would look like with hair.

Emma-Grace also learned how to stick out her tounge on cue.
Just a left over pic of the girls on Halloween.

Saturday night, Anna and I went grocery shopping at 7:00 pm. Emma-Grace, who goes to bed at 7:30, did not want us to go and had a tantrum that Ken taped. Notice that when he says "bottle" how fast she gets up and goes to the stairs. He thinks she is getting the Kitty, but she wants to have a bottle and go to bed!

Here is Emma-Grace roughing up Gus. She loves him and we are lucky that he is a dog trapped in a cat's body!

Check out the air Anna gets on her purple Ariel bouncing ball.