Little Friends

Evie had two little friends over to play with and one of them came and asked me if they could use some of Stewie's G.I. Joe guys as boyfriends for their princesses. (Boyfriends? Really?)  I looked and looked and couldn't find them.  So I told them sorry they'll have to play without boyfriends.
A few minutes later, from the other room, I overheard Alexia say, "Guys, I know what we can do!  We can say a prayer to Heavenly Father and he'll helps us find them!"  Then I heard her give the cutest prayer to find the G.I. Guys.  And then I believe the words, "Oh Crap." came out of my mouth.  I'm not going to lie, I didn't have much faith. I had all ready looked everywhere I thought they could be.  But I knew we needed to find the guys, I didn't want the girls to think prayer doesn't work. So  I began a  mad search and lo and behold I found two of the three guys. Not enough for all of them, but the girls were still thrilled and so was I.   Whew!  Faith restored.

TOP 5

1. Ryan can hold his own bottle.
2. Busting out the old game cube and playing video games with Stew and Evie.
3. Playing outside with chalk for a couple of hours.  (And then it snowed the next day. Our weather is messed up.)
4. Baby Orajel
5. Sweet little notes that keep appearing on my pillow from Evie.

BOTTOM 5

1. Seeing my OBGYN at church.  It was just weird, at least I don't have to see him for a long time.  My poor friend at church just had her exam done by him a few days before.
2. Abandoning two books this week when neither could hold my attention after 60 pages.
3. Formula burps right in my face.
4. Having to crack our windows at night because it's too hot in our house. Our heat hasn't come on yet this winter. I guess that's the one good thing about living above someone.
5. Pancakes, sometimes I just don't like making them. It takes forever to get through all the batter. I should really get a griddle.

100th day of school

Has finally come and gone.  I cannot tell you how excited Evie has been for this day.  The daily reminders of how many days until the 100th day started two weeks into the school year. I've heard from other parents that their child had to bring 100 of something on that day.  So a week ago Evie and I threw out possible ideas- candy, beads, buttons, cereal, stickers, pencils, q-tips, etc.    And then her teacher sent home a note that they want the kids to dress up as a 100 year old woman/man and that's it.    It was very underwhelming.  But we tried our best to make her look old with stuff around the house. 

I'm not so sure we pulled it off exactly.  But she felt good about her outfit.  And I just think she looks cute in glasses, which is good if she inherited my eyesight. 

And it's always fun to be caught off guard by your child taking a picture of you.  Could my teeth look any larger?  Oh and do you see the hearts on the wall behind my head?

I've decided to make that my holiday wall.  And I saw the hearts done on a blog and couldn't help myself. 

Are those 3-D hearts you ask?  Why yes, yes they are!  Our Kitchen is a lot more cheery since they went up.

This Weeks:

TOP 5

1. Stew has been very quick to say he is sorry when he causes problems.  It's nice for all of us.
2. My brother-in-law turning 40.  It just makes me smile that he is now 40.
3. Getting my visiting teaching appointments set up.  It's the hardest part for me.
4. Going to Walmart in the afternoon and miraculously finding a checkout with no line.
5. I've almost lost all of my baby weight. Yay! Although, I'm still not at my ideal weight, but that's okay. One goal at a time.

BOTTOM 5
1. Stew waking up at 5am and coming in and asking if he can watch cartoons. Stewart and I telling him no, it's too early and to go back to his room.  He then came in about every ten minutes asking if it's morning yet.
2. Ryan pooping an hour into his first nap everyday, almost like clockwork.  Is it possible to change someone's pooping schedule?
3. Some weird lady touching the baby's face and hands while he sat in his car seat. You can look......  but no touchy.
4. Still wishing we had our Bumbo seat for the baby.
5. Sunny asking me if I wanted to hear something gross and saying yes, because how gross could it really be?  It was gross.  I dry heaved and we immediately had to change topics.

Scrunchie Faces

On Sunday, we went to support my Dad at his Stake Conference, since he was being released from the Presidency.  He did a great job and you could tell that he'll definitely be missed. 

The Conference was held at the Smith Field House on BYU and the kids thought it was great fun to sit in those folding seats.  Luckily, we sat in the section reserved for families, so we weren't the only ones with kids making noise. 

I had giving Stew a piece of candy to suck on to help with our noise level and he accidentally spit it out onto the nasty floor.  Before I had a chance to grab it, he popped it right back in his mouth and said, "See, it's still good mom!".  I was thoroughly grossed out,  and three girls sitting behind us all gasped and then burst out laughing. 

After the Conference was over, one of the girls told me how much she enjoyed sitting behind us.  I'm happy to entertain.

This Weeks:

TOP 5

1. Finally getting a real haircut from a salon. It's been 2 years since I have had it professionally cut.
2. Being done with church by 12:00, we had so much time to relax on Sunday.  (We've had 1:00 Church for the last 2 1/2 years.)
3. Stewart taking the kids outside for hours on Saturday.  My house was clean and I got some good reading time in.
4. The show "Ridiculousness" , It's like AFV but for adults. I had actual tears with a clip showing a Llama that wouldn't leave this man alone.
5. Evie learning the word "mechanically" from somewhere and using it all the time now.  "I know how it works Mom, it works mechanically." or "I can put it back together Mom, because it's mechanically." I love it every time she uses it correctly/incorrectly.

BOTTOM 5

1. Wasted food.  I hate wasting food and yet sometimes, you can only eat leftovers for so long.
2. Using too much carpet powder.  It was extremely fragrant for several days.  They don't tell you how much to use on the box.
3. Wishing it were Spring all ready.
4. Clear trash bags.  I don't want to see what people are throwing away.
5. One of our neighbors that moved into our building in the Fall will not say Hi back to me.  At first I thought maybe he didn't see or hear me.  But now I will make eye contact with him and say Hi, and I get nothing.  He just keeps on walking or looks down.  His wife is nice.  But apparently the dude is just weird.