Mischief

In the past week Macey has:
Dumped out food coloring in the closet.
Dumped out a box of cereal all over the floor.
Dumped out a container of nuts all over the floor.
Colored all over the floor with marker.
Colored on the floor with pen.
Covered a chair in thick lotion.
Multiple other offenses which include any time I don't hear from her for more than one minute I KNOW she's in the bathroom eating toothpaste.
Peed on our bed.
Peed in her crib at nap time six consecutive times. The first time was annoying, the second time I saw it was going to happen again. The third time was my fault for not preventing, the fourth, fifth were crazy because I duct taped her diaper, the sixth was pure resignation. But now, I successfully duct tape all the way around. Anyone that wants to potty train my child is welcome to come over at 6 am when she gets up and get her out of her crib and take her. I'll be up at 7.

It's like she's two...what a long year this will be!

Update: Just now as I blogged this I heard Cody and Macey say "This is fun!" And then I went out and found spaghetti noodles COVERING our entire house. Guess that's my cue to stop blogging!

Passed

We just found out today that Ben passed his board exams with flying colors! Way to be...officially on his way to Dr. Crosland. Also on the check list-senior paper, he leaves for a month to Montana, then...graduation.

Christmas in Utah - Collage style

Ben had to work, so the kids and I came down an extra week early. One of the highlights is that I got to meet my two 3 month old nephews. Benson was born in Florida and is a cute little chunk...14 lbs at 3 months! Lynette and Jon are there while Jon goes to school to become an anesthetist.

Brody was born with several birth defects and will get open heart surgery in a few months. Here he is being fed through his feeding tube. Steph and Ryan do amazing with everything, they've never complained once. He is a sweet baby.


The kids went crazy one day at Kangaroo Zoo.

They also got a visit from santa at grandma's house. This is significant because it's the first time Cody has sat on santa's lap and enjoyed it. Vanessa clung to her grandpa in a vice grip the whole time.

I took a picture of Macey and Vanessa because I think they look a lot alike- at least they definitely look like cousins.

We took a ride on The North Pole Express with Ben's family up to the North Pole (somewhere south of Heber City).

These were the reactions to santa. I love it. Macey told Santa, out of the blue, that she wanted a bear and Cody said a train.

We had a family party with Ben's extended family. My favorite part was playing Taboo with his grandparents. Ed didn't talk, just did actions until people told him he could talk. Then he said "It goes like this..." and continued to do actions.

LaRae couldn't see her word so it was whispered to her, but she's a little hard of hearing, so we could all hear the word. Once, her word was Loaf and as soon as we all heard it she howled like a wolf.

Christmas Eve

We spent a day at Discovery Gateway. We found out that our Science Center passes here get us in. sweet. It's an amazing place, but super crowded. Ours in Pullman- a little (lot) less cool, but much less crowded. It's a trade off.

We had so much fun and already miss everyone. I'm not sure when we'll all be together again so we really cherished our time, even amidst all the chaos of our children!

Insult to Injury

We returned home safely from our adventures in "Newtah" (as pronounced by Cody...adventures coming soon!). It was a big day of cleaning, laundry and putting everything away, and Cody and Macey were restless.

They got into the pantry, pulled out Ben's protein powder and dumped it all over the carpet.

THEN, Macey took off her pants and diaper and peed, all over it.

Turning Two

Our little Mace turned two today.
When we sang Happy Birthday:
("Do I like this?... Yes, I do.")

And, stifle your laughs about the cake. It's a CAT, although I don't know what kind, and neither does Macey: she was somewhat perplexed when I told her what it was.

Here's Macey enjoying some cake with her friends. She would probably prefer spending all her time with my friends, probably especially if they would play with toys:)

Yum.
One of her birthday presents was a 'batman cape.' She even told someone at church today she was batman.

Cody loves the way the wind blows his cape around:)!

Macey very nonchalantly picked up this yellow bat today and said "Can I hit Cody?" as if she were asking for a glass of milk. I'm not sure if it was the backwords cape, the huge bat, her cute face or random question that made me laugh so much.

Sugar and Spice - that about sums her up. She knows exactly what she wants and how she wants it and really honestly is a sweetheart!:)

On a video chat today my mom wanted to hear her sing her ABCs and so she said "Macey sing your ABC's" and I knew before Macey responded that she wouldn't. I also realized why-it wasn't Macey's idea. A wise friend of mine told me once that one of her children wouldn't do anything unless it was his idea. That is her to a T. So I said, "Macey, grandma heard that you can sing your ABC's, you could show her that you know them." She sang as much as she could remember at the moment.

Here's some of the reasons we love Macey:

-Every evening before before she falls asleep and every morning before we get her out of bed we are serenaded by her. She also loves singing in the car. She does not like me singing

-She loves to serve others

-She has three blankets, yes THREE, that have to come in & out of the crib every time she does.

-She LOVES kitties.

-She is an amazing sleeper. thank you thank you thank you

-She talks nonstop.

-She loves her nursery worker friend. If he has other children on his lap she will very carefully squish her butt in the middle of them so she can sit on his lap.

-She LOVES fruit like blueberries, peaches, pears

-She does not like anyone she first meets and will let them know, but if you get to know her, she LOVES and adores you.

-She will follow me around making sure I put things away correctly.

-She loves reading books.

strange surgery

This is: A. ugly and B. weird. I cropped this picture down and you get a close up of the ugly thing in all its glory.


A growth on my stomach. They cut it out with just local anesthetics. It was about an inch thick and the size of an apple and super painful when I'm pregnant, if you can imagine! Oh, and 99% sure it's not cancer, so it's aalll good.