November 24, 2012

 

 

 Conner showed us his cool blowfish.  It looked pretty freaky with sharp spikes.  I'm glad I never have to have a run in with that at sea.

November 23, 2012

Rachel gets to know the family dog - zoey.  Rachel loved Zoey and Zoey tolerated Rachel, as long as there was a glass window protecting her from the pinching fingers of an overeager baby.  But it was cute watching Rachel try to get to the dog.

November 22, 2012

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.  We had a wonderful day down in Pasco with some family.  The turkey was delicious.

November 21, 2012

Rachel in her truest element - making a mess of toys.  And look at how pleased she is with herself.

November 20, 2012

Whitney and Enoch like to push a chair up to the back of the couch and then kind of roll forward to slide down the front of the couch.  Whitney especially loves doing this and will do it even without Enoch around.  So far there have been no casualties.

November 19, 2012

We had a Family Home Evening lesson on being grateful and Whitney wanted help drawing certain things. It is hard to draw when you cannot really see the paper with a different head in the way, so the pictures were a little funny, but that is okay.

November 18, 2012

Rachel has a great love for bread lately.  I take off the crust and just give her the soft inside and she is a happy girl.  We are still working on taking smaller bites to not choke herself.

November 17, 2012

Rachel's new great love is to pull down the toilet paper.  Are roll always looks funny because we have to re-roll it so many times.

November 16, 2012

There were a couple of chocolate chips on the table that accidentally got smashed by the carseat.  Rachel found them before we cleaned them up and was helping "clean up" with her fingers and mouth.

November 15, 2012

Whitney is becoming a good kitchen helper.  Here she helps shred the chicken needed for dinner.  She was really excited to be doing it too.  I need to think of more ways to get her involved.

November 14, 2012

Rachel had another physical therapy appointment today and she did so great.  We found out that feeding her chocolate chips and turning on videos while doing the exercises seems to make her cry less.  She even let the therapist hold her for a bit.  Yeah for progress.

November 13, 2012

I didn't take many pictures today.  So here is Whitney looking out the window and Rachel playing with the exercise machine.  Not much excitement here.

November 12, 2012

Happy Veterans Day!  Thank you all who have served, or are currently serving, our country.  Whitney was invited to a birthday party at the church.  Here she is with a bunch of friends making party hats.  Whitney loves anything crafty.

November 11, 2012

Rachel in a new pretty church dress.  I love the little red flower against the black and white dress.  I think it is a perfect winter like dress.

November 10, 2012

Rachel was pretty fascinated by the snow that was on the tree.  Here she is all bundled up with Will trying to touch a branch.

November 9, 2012

As part of letter G day, the kids acted out with finger puppets the three billy goats gruff.  Whitney picked to hold up the bridge, Jess was the troll, and Emma was in charge of the goats.  They did a pretty good job.

November 8, 2012

Whitney builds a robot - or takes apart an old box.  Who really knows what is going on in that mind of hers.

November 7, 2012

It was a nice day yesterday.  I took the kids to the park.  We stopped and jumped in a pile of leaves on the way home.  Whitney loved kicking all the leaves around.

November 6, 2012

Rachel explores the bag of candy.  She couldn't open anything, but it made her very happy to be holding several pieces at one time.

November 5, 2012

The girls made pudding turkeys today.  You spread pudding on paper plates and then glue on cotton ball eyes and construction paper feathers.  The girls loved spreading the pudding - Whitney loved self cleaning afterwards. 

November 4, 2012

We matched the girls dresses for Sunday. They both had purple long sleeve shirts and long green dresses.  This was the best picture we could get of them together.

November 3, 2012

Our stake has a big dance once a year for everyone.  We got a babysitter for the night and went out to dinner and the dance.  It was a lot of fun.

November 2, 2012

I made a new dessert tonight as a yummy treat.  It was cornflakes and peanut butter chips. Then you can melt chocolate or put on ice cream as toppings.  We tried both ways and also just plain and it was yummy.  It reminded me of a treat my mom use to make occasionally.

November 1, 2012

Rachel tries an orange and wasn't impressed.  They were a little sour and Rachel kept making funny faces.  But she kept wanting more - go figure.

October 31, 2012

Happy Halloween!  I plan on putting up lots of pictures of our Halloween adventures on our other blog, but just look at all this candy.  I do not know what we are going to do with it all but Whitney is super excited.  We had a great day.

October 30, 2012

It was pretty late this evening and we had a tickling fest before bedtime.  I was tickling Whitney and Rachel at the same time and both were giggling.  It was really fun.  Then I told Whitney to go tickle the camera man and he ran away.  So this is the only picture of our tickle adventures.

October 29, 2012

We carved pumpkins tonight for Family Home Evening.  Here Whitney and Rachel give their pumpkins a little attention before the big carving event.  The girls had a fun time with their pumpkins. 

October 28, 2012

Will played with the aprons with Whitney and Rachel while I was busy in the kitchen.  Here he becomes a kitty robber - or something.