whatever shall we do with this dolly?
Liza is 14 months old today. She is such a pro at walking. She walks with her legs spread so far apart – to balance… with her arms up in the air. She loves to walk in circles and claps for herself often.
She understands so much and imitates many sounds or gestures… but doesn’t say much other than “dis”, “da-da”, and maybe ‘Ni-ni.”
She loves having siblings. The other night Jimmy took all the kids swimming. Liza stayed home with me and she cried, cried, cried when they left. She loves being included. Don’t worry about her… she helped me in the kitchen (p.s. it’s amazing how much one can get done with only one child in the house!)
Little Miss has been teething. She’s been quite fussy the past week. I would be too if I had several molars and several eye teeth coming in at the same time. She’s also a picky eater with textures. She seems to love flavor … just not different textures. This is definitely a common face lately … not so much into smiling when her mouth hurts. She will forever have a triangle mouth… I’ll be curious how she looks as a teenager.
Eliza folds her arms so very well for the prayer (she also loves to lead the music for fhe). We tried to get her to fold her arms for this picture, but she knew we were fooling. Her hair is getting longer and her curls are turning into ringlets, like that one in front.
because it’s 10 . 11 . 12
Hey, hey. Cool date today. First day of Fall Break. Wahoo. We spent the morning cleaning, cleaning, cleaning, fighting, and cleaning. We’re working on the “work together as a happy family” routine. But the kids made many efforts… so we’ll give them some credit. My angel of a mother watched the busy tots at home while Hannah and I zipped to the eye doctor. This was the result:
Darling child! She picked out her favorite glasses while I heard about all fishing in Alaska and chatted about church callings had my appointment. We threw a bunch of other ideas at her, but she was determined to stick with these pink beauties. They really are cute on her.
And since I know my sistah’s want to see how soft my cheeks have grown my new glasses, here’s one of the two of us together (with Super Man thrown in there for comic relief).
I know – I know I had Lasik… but I really need glasses for night-time driving (just ask my Presidency about the night I drove us all to the temple. Scary!). I had a hard time picking glasses. My last few pairs have been lovely wire satin silver (they blend in more that way). But the styles now-a-days are chunky and bold. The girls at the office convinced me that I could go colorful since I don’t have to wear them all the time. So red it is!
Crazy Hair
I’m not sure why they have crazy hair day at school. Does it really have anything to do with Red Ribbon Week? I don’t want to encourage my kids to enjoy weird hair. Sigh… But Abe was really anxious to have a fun hair-do. So I put some non-toxic washable paint in his hair gel. Hannah was not excited to have crazy hair. She was worried that no one in her class would do it… or that it was only for the younger grades.
So – we got the kid’s off to school and then Liza woke up. I guess she wanted to join in on the crazy hair day.
Oh, what fun it is to have 3 children under 4 (at home during the day)
And this is a principle I need to improve on, especially on the dig-deep days. A lovely message for parents.
Constellation Jar
This was a really cool project! I just love stars and have spent many hours in my life gazing upward at night. I saw this constellation jar idea via pinterest on DesignMom.com. I just bought inexpensive battery-operated tealights on Amazon. Hopefully the kids learned a bit more about the beautiful stars in the universe.
I found some Astronomy Papers so they would hopefully learn something. Nothing too spectacular … but perhaps educational. On the second to last page, I printed a strip of simple constellations. We taped that paper on the aluminum pan so the kids could poke the holes to make the constellations. Four of the kids used Quart-size jars and Max used a pint-size jar and that strip fit in both.
Download PDF here.
My favorite resources were:
MrPrintables.com
Lie Back, Look Up
Scouter Mom
the walking tot
I guess Eliza is now part of a video game … we’ll see what her high score is next week. She really has been doing well toddling about.
Not a super-star walker quite yet, but she’s got quite the cheering section with all the siblings around. Truman claps and cheers for her when he sees her standing and walking. “Yay, ‘Wiza.”
Last week during family home evening, she all of a sudden just started walking across the room. She had only take one or two steps at a time, that we had seen. It was so hilarious to see her going so fast (momentum carried her) to get to something she wanted. We interrupted the lesson and all laughed and cheered. She loved the attention.
Here’s a video of her toddling:
a happy chap
I hope my kiddos reading this some day don’t feel upset that I have so many Max quotes on here. I wish so much I would have written down more funny things that all my kids said when they were 4. It’s the best age for funniness because they are so innocent still and they don’t think before they talk. One thing that makes all of Max’s comments so great is his intonation and voice and big smile when he says things. His voice is a little husky or something because his tonsils are so huge (poor thing). I’m hoping by jotting them down, I’ll remember his cute mannerisms and cheery smile that brightens many a moment for me right now.
Power to Choose the Right
Seriously – this kid is a crack-up.
And for the record. This was Max during shots…. oh, crumb… the photo doesn’t show how excited he was. He was so chill and got his shot and was happy.
I told the kids to show just how they felt about shots. Yah – Abe ended up getting the flu mist. Hannah was brave. Tru… not so brave. But he tried.