Playing in the snow

The kids love playing in the snow, and luckily we've had several snow storms so there has been plenty of opportunities to play.

First snow storm:

Photo Dump

These are a bunch of photos from my phone.

I made those tiara's for the girls out of some pipe cleaners, they loved them.  Lexi is so cute, doing a curtsy. 

Bath time!

We had to go to the Riverton Hospital to get Lexi's glasses fixed, and they had this Lorax display in the lobby.  Colton LOVES the Lorax, so we had to get a picture.

I took the girls across the street, and my neighbor cut their hair.  She did such an awesome job, and the girls love any photo opportunity;)

Colton had to get in on the photo fun!

Walk around the lake at Daybreak

Wow!  It's been forever since I posted.  So that means there is going to be several posts so I can get caught up on the busy last couple months.

Back in November we invited some of the girls friends over to spend the night, and on the way to taking them back home we stopped at Daybreak and went for a little walk.

The ducks and geese that are there must be very used to people feeding them cause as soon as they would see us coming, they would start to waddle over, and follow us.  It was so funny, and the kids thought it was hilarious.

There is a bridge that we walked across, then there is this little "track" at the top that the kids ran around and around.

Colton, 18 months

Colton is 18 months old!

These too and their blankies :/  Birds of a feather flock together...

He had his checkup today:

Weight:  25.2 lbs-25%
Length:  33.5 in-75%
Head: 48.5cm-75%

The last 18 months have just flown by.  I can't believe he is old enough to go to nursery (but actually getting him to go might be another story...).  

What's he up to?

• Talks a lot.  He's learned so many words, especially "NO!"  So fun;)
• He loves to wrestle with Daddy
• He is still attached to his little blanket.
• Right now baths are his favorite time of day.  He cries every time he has to get out.
• Thomas the Train is still his favorite, but he also likes Elmo, Batman, Firetrucks, and I'm sure there's more
• He likes to color with the girls.  But it's my least favorite thing of mine that he does, cause I end up cleaning crayon off the walls and furniture almost every single time he gets a hold of a crayon.  He also likes to put crayons in the toilet.  So the number of colors we have are slowly diminishing.
• He loves to play outside.
• He's perfected the art of throwing a fit.  We are talking throwing himself on the floor, kicking and screaming, drama, he does it all.
• He's still pretty attached to me, and gravitates my way almost always.  But he also does really good with other people.  I've had to rely on friends and family to babysit a lot, and he goes with pretty much anybody that's willing to hold him.

Halloween

This year, we kept Halloween pretty low key, and pretty much only celebrated on Halloween day.

When we picked the pumpkins from our garden and put them out front

My Mom gave the kids a "Pin the nose on the pumpkin" game to play

We invited my friend Marci and her kids over to make caramel apples one day

Lexi, Abby, Dani

Marci, Jordan, Colton

Colton wouldn't wear the mask/cape for his costume, so Abby put it on

Lexi was a ballerina

Colton was Batman

 Abby was Merida (the princess from the movie "Brave)

Abby in her costume parade at school.  So very reverent:)

The kids had a blast trick-or-treating.  Colton's little legs just couldn't get him from house to house as fast as he would have liked.

Student of the Month

Last Friday Abby brought home a note saying we could come to her class on Monday because she was going to be given Student of the Month.  Cam took part of the day off so he come too, and we were all able to surprise Abby at school when she got her award.  We are so proud of her!

Sitting with her class.  She's on the top row, second from the right.

With her principle and teacher

Family update

Ok, so I guess it's time to do a post.  It's been awhile.  It's been a crazy couple weeks, but also at the same time, pretty boring too...

Anyways, going from youngest to oldest:

Colton:  He is growing, growing, growing.  He is really starting to be able to communicate with us which makes life a little easier for us when we are trying to figure out what he wants.  He says so much, and understands even more of what we say.

Lexi:  She is so dang funny, all her little expressions and things she says.  She still mimics nearly everything Abby does and says, which is cute, but I'm sure a little annoying for Abby.  The girls get along so good and play together all the time.

Abby:  She is loving kindergarten every single day.  Last night was parent night and I took her, and she was able to show me everything in her class.  She was bursting with excitement over everything, and pretty much took me through everything she does everyday at school.  I love that she loves school, and loves learning.

Me:  Well, I had surgery.  It's been 3 weeks.  3 long and crazy weeks.  The surgery went good, they ended up doing a lot more than anticipated, and then it took quite a long time to get my pain managed (turns out this surgery is one of the more painful surgery's) so it was a long day at the hospital.  I was asleep, or totally drugged up, so the day went quickly for me, but poor Cam was sitting in the waiting room for hours with no idea what was going on, and why it was taking so much longer then expected.  I think we left the house at 8am didn't get home till after 9pm.  I spent the first couple days laying in bed completely drugged up, and hooked up to this cold therapy machine.  Cam took care of me those first days, and he was amazing!  Since then, it's been a lot of people taking turns to help around the house.  My friend Marci came for a day, Cam's sister came for a couple days, Cam's mom came for a day, then my Mom came for a week and a half.  It's definitely taken longer than I thought it would to be able to care for the kids on my own.  Being on crutches really limits what I can do, namely carry Colton.  That's been my biggest hurdle, Colton doesn't know how to climb down the stairs, so there is no way for me to get him up and down the stairs.  We've been trying to teach him to go down, cause I feel like people are going to start to get sick of being here, just to carry Colton around.  My mom left this morning, so hopefully he'll either learn to get down the stairs, or my physical therapist will clear me to start carrying Colton soon.  Thankfully, both my Doctor and physical therapist say I'm recovering faster than normal, so that helps give me hope that I'll be back to my usual self quicker than anticipated.  Anyhow, obviously I'm super grateful for all the friends and family that have helped me out.  

Cameron:  He's just busy working a lot, then coming home and taking care of the kids since I've been out of commission.  He's been so amazing, and I'm so glad he's here by my side.  Next week he starts a class for work to get certified to drive the truck (he can drive the engine, but not the truck).  He's constantly trying to get all sorts of extra certifications for work and stuff.  I love that he loves his job, I know it makes it easier to go to work so much.

So that's pretty much it.  I think the next few weeks will be more of the same.  Just trying to get back into our old routine eventually, and try to recover as quickly and safely as possible from this surgery.