Oozing with Cuteness

This little lady is far too cute!

Fabulous!

My favorite thing Dayton does these days... impressions...  Seriously!  He'll say "Mom, Jersi do this" or "Daddy dood this"  Each statement is followed by a hilarious impersonation of what that particular person had just done.  If he's repeating something they said, he raises or lowers his voice accordingly. (When impersonating Kamron, he pulls his chin in towards his chest with a funny face to get his voice deeper. Such a hoot)  This little dude even goes so far as to mimic the ways people fall or hurt themselves.  He never misses a beat - "Mom! Lella do this" And then he goes running only to trip himself up and land flat on the floor in a perfect copy-cat of what Oaklee had just done.  He is far too comical for his own good.  Love that kid!!

Here's some cute pictures of the little Muffin Man (and some not so lovely of me...)

 He's laughing so hard here...

 He took this one himself...

Oaklee's Fabulous Hair

Oaklee has he hair I always dreamed of having.  She can literally roll outta bed each morning and look fabulous.  The only time her haid isn't quite so fabulous is when it gets into her food while eating and then gets gross and crusty.
Her hair is super long and just keeps growing. And it curls fabulously!

Here are some pics of a day that Morrissa decided to curl her hair for fun...

See fabulous hair! And I am so jealous!!

Obbie-gots

When my sibling were little - they invented the game of Obbie-gots. They'd pull their shirts down over their knees in a crouched postion, so that the shirt encompassed their bent knees and legs all the way to their ankles - and then they'd proceed to walk about the house this way.  The funny way that Jersi was sitting in her Jumping-bean today made me think of the obbie-got days of old...

Seriously - how can she be comfortable?? I fixed her two or three times and she insisted on returning to this position every time.  Silly Girl. (And oh so cute!)  (Please ignore the U of U socks, her feet were cold, what was I to do??)

Tyson in Time Out

The littles are always sneaking into food and often they end up in time out over it.  On this particular day, Dayton caught Tyson sneaking into the chips. He unsisted I put him in time out. So I did. (And boy did Tyson put in a show!!)

Acid Reflux + Juice = Oops

This is what happens when you give too much juice to my acid reflux baby...

She completely projectiled! I was covered, her blanket was covered and even the wall had a river run down it! It was madness! And she just thought it was funny.
I put her straight in the tub and she ended up with this problem:

Sheesh girl!

Oops

Here's some snowy time pics I took in December I believe - I just stumbled upon them.  It's Dayton on the tube! What a brave boy!

All Too Often

All too often Oaklee puts her undies on backwards. And all too often she ends up with one whole cheekie hanging out...

Wall Transformation

This is the state of my bedroom walls as of late...  Kyndi's and Oakee's latest art - and a giant note too...

"Mom and Dad   I luv my mom and my dad  The ar nis  To mom and dad  ther th best  I luv thm  frum Kyndi" (Translation: Mom and Dad. I love my mom and dad. They are nice. They're the best. I love them.  To Mom and Dad. From Kyndi)

The Derby

Tate recently particpipated in his first pinewood derby.  He was so excited that they day after receiving his car kit, he couldn't sleep - it was better than Christmas!!
He picked the design for his car out of his scout book. (prior to stumbling upon that design, he came up with a few creative ones on his own...) Kamron cut it for him and did most of the sanding.  Tate sanded the rest and painted it.  He was so proud if his car!
Day of the Derby finall ycame.  He participated in 5 heats (I think) 3 times he came in 4th, once he came in 5th (out of 5, because he sent the car backwards and it got wobbly) and the final heat he took first!! What a proud moment/1 He was absolutely beaming!  Cute kid.  He got the award for "best wedge".
I think he's all excited for next years derby!!

Oaklee's Mis*hap

A few weeks ago, Kam took all the kids to the Jr. High behind our house for a fun game of basketball.  Less then twenty minutes later they returned. As they walked in the door, Dayton was freaking out and Kamron was carrying an overly bloody Oaklee. 

I took this picture after wiping down her face a bit.  This picture also does not show how completely bloody her hair was.
Apparently she fell on the ice and got a bloody nose.  Dayton was horrified by the blood and completely concerned with her well being.   put her in the tub to get the blood from her hair and realized as the blood was washed from her face that her lip was severely swollen. Prior to the bath she had asked me, "Is my tooth still there?"  I thought nothing of it until noticing the swollen-ness of her.  As I peered into her mouth, her gums were a deep shade of purple. above her two front teeth, and one of the two teeth looked slightly crooked. Oh dear.  

By the next morning her gums had turned a deep shade of black I was panicked. It was Sunday and I figured I'd make an appt with the dentist first thing the next morning.

Dentist found that both front teeth were loose. And both had been pushed far up into her gums.  He warned that they may have caused permanent damage to her adult teeth. (They may come in with a piece missing or black) (Yikes)  But for now, he decided we will watch her teeth for a couple weeks and see what happens. So we scheduled an appt for 2 weeks (ish) later.

At the follow-up appt, her gums were normal color but one tooth looked slightly yellow to me... The dentist however, found something more. Her already chipped tooth (from last January) was now an abscessed tooth. (Definition: A tooth abscess is a collection of infected material (pus) resulting from a bacterial infection in the center of a tooth).  He deemed the tooth un-savable and also stated that the other is also doomed as well.  He told me they needed to at least extract the one and preferably both. I opted for both (and good thing because by her appt (3 days later) the other was abscessed as well)

The night before her appt I was a mess.  I had nightmare's all night. Oaklee however was thrilled!  The toothfairy was gonna visit her! And she was gonna lose teeth before Kyndi.  She was so excited, she got up at 6 AM the morning of her appt. Sheesh!

When we arrived they gave her a medicated drink and within ten minutes she was one loopy little girl!!  She was sitting on my lap while the meds kicked in and she kept moving her face (with wide eyes) close to my face and then far from my face - back and forth. Pretty funny. 

Once the meds kicked in, the total extraction time was like 3 minutes total. It was quick. Went a little like this: "put your right tooth in, you put your right tooth out, put your right tooth in and wiggle it about." Then her right tooth was out.  Then the Dentist proceeded to sing it for the left tooth. And then she was done! They put her teeth in a cute little tooth box, put her on some oxygen for a bit and we were on our marry little (albeit loopy) way.

She was pretty out of it for a couple hours. We went to Walmart right after to buy things she could eat and it was fun! I laid her in the cart and she just kept saying things like : "I love balloons.  Balloons are cute..." So i bought her a balloon.  Then quite suddenly she was overly concerned with the gender of Jersi and her dad. "Wait, is Jersi a girl or a boy?" "A girl" "Wait, is my dad a girl??!" "No, he's a boy" "A big boy?" "yep" "Oh okay. And Dayton is a little boy?" "yep.  Then she went back to loving balloons and the cuteness of them.  Hilarious.

It became stressful for me throughout the day as she couldn't walk on her own for a good 5 hours.  And after the loopy-meds wore off she was super grouchy.  She finally fell asleep around 7 pm on my lap. That was fabulous.

Now she's just stinkin cute missing her teeth! (I'll be honest though, I worry about her not having her front teeth for about 3 1/2 years...)

BEFORE

AFTER

Love that girl!!