Snow Days!

This week we had Weather with a capital W.  It was crazy.  We started off the week with a snow day and friends.  

 Then we ended the week with a late start and then they ended up cancelling school all together.  MC1 woke up extremely angry that the blizzard that had been predicted had not happened but then was thrilled when I came to get him.  I even went earlier than the school said to come get them because it was so scary.  To my kids and the two extras I got I was a super hero.  They could not stop listing my wonderful qualities.  It rained and then it snowed and then it thundered and we had lightning.  Crazy.  I have had snow thunder before here but its still so weird.

After weeks of begging I finally did the baby's hair in a pony tail.  There is just hair in the back so it looks funky.  I want to cut it but Brent doesn't want to.

 GC1 has had a loose tooth for a while and when she went to the dentist last week he said the big tooth was already in coming behind it so it needed to come out.  Like the brave little girl she is she asked her dad to pull it out for her.  He did.  No drama there.  Wish her brothers were that brave.  She was so excited to get her money from the tooth fairy she woke me up twice during the night to show me.  Ugh.

 Then she got sick.  And passed it to this little guy.

 Because the Girl Child was sick the girls had to miss out on the ward chili cook off.  Brent made this funky Paleo chili without beans which to me means it not chili.
   Anyway, the girls stayed home and watched girly movies and painted our toes.  Even the baby got her toe nails painted.

 In other news someone is teething.  Good thing she's cute.  Actually she has been great but I can see and feel little nubs coming in.  The patching has not been fun.  Its definitely our least favorite hour of the day and I haven't seen any improvement yet, but we will persevere!

Happy Valentines Day

I don't remember why I took this picture, but wow is she cross-eyed in them.

 I have been thinking about cutting her hair.  GC1 had hair all over the top of her head but the baby only has a long patch in the back like a bad Alfalfa hair doo.  I'm not loving it but Brent doesn't want to cut it.

 The kids are starved for entertainment since its winter and we have a baby so the other day I found GC1 and MC2 in this box under the table singing Frozen songs together.  It was pretty funny.  Glad they can entertain themselves.

 MC2 has a little preschool group we meet with every week and I finally took a picture of them at their Valentines party.

 They're a great group and he loves them all.

 In other news the baby had another eye doctor appointment.  For the last two months I've been seeing a steady improvement in her cross and people at church have been commenting on it as well, so when we went in I was relieved when the doctor agreed with me.  It is so much better she prescribed the baby wearing a patch over her right eye for an hour a day because she tends to just use her right eye now.  She is hoping that this will make the left eye strong and then she'll use them together.  She doesn't think she needs glasses at all or surgery.  Yeah!  The baby cooperated with the visit pretty well until the doctor tried to cover her right eye.  They she squirmed away and batted away her hands.  

 Here is our first time with the patch.  I thought she'd freak but she didn't.  I held her the whole time because the doctor told me to to make sure she didn't pull off the patch.  I don't think she can, but she did rub at it a lot.

 The second day I tried a patch Brent bought at the store and it wouldn't come off so we were left with this...

 Sad huh?  She cried when I pulled it off.  So sad.  I'm not using those ones again.  They are way more expensive than I think they should be.  Poor girl.

The kids had a great Valentines.  I even cut their sandwiches in the shape of hearts.  Here they are enjoying their bounty.

 I got them mustache suckers.  They thought they were really funny.