Thursday, January 18, 2018
Another broken baby and ABCs!
March 2015 - Amelie was playing in the jungle gym at the aquarium and fell right on this arm! She, however, is much easier to manage than the last cast we had...
And Lisie lou got her alphabet crown! So smart!
And Lisie lou got her alphabet crown! So smart!
Alisa turns 5!
We wanted to have an active, fun party for our active, fun Alisa's birthday and thought of a fun opportunity we'd never have again. We turned the giant basement room (with concrete floor) into a roller rink, mirror ball and all! Here are a few photos:
With lots of glitter, lights and pizzazz it was such a fun time!
With lots of glitter, lights and pizzazz it was such a fun time!
Acelynn update - 9 months! AND 1 year!!
Our Acee-Bee is 9 months old! (Well, almost 10, but...)
At her 9 month checkup, she was in the 70's for weight (20 lbs!) average height, and off the charts for head size! Poor North girls. She was right on track for development, clapping, 2 teeth, trying to use her pincer grasp, putting everything in her mouth, babbling. She was on the verge of crawling for a long time, like she just didn't realize she could do that, and it left her very frustrated.
Since her checkup, she has officially learned to crawl and pull up on everything. She is a MUCH happier baby now that she can scoot around and play. She also got two more teeth, so now she has 4 front teeth - 2 on top, 2 on bottom. She still has beautiful blue eyes and blondy blond hair. She also still has that cute raspy voice - no idea where that came from, but it's way cute on her. Her favorite things are to crawl around, feed herself, baby food (fruits and mixes - NOT green beans!)
For Acelynn's 1 year party, we had a Bee theme (for Acee-Bee, duh.) The only trick was, this poor little girl broke her leg! She had a half body cast for three weeks (only, thank goodness) and she was immobile and just not very happy (especially since she started standing and stepping right before she broke it!) But she's still adorable and had a great Bee-day party!
At her 9 month checkup, she was in the 70's for weight (20 lbs!) average height, and off the charts for head size! Poor North girls. She was right on track for development, clapping, 2 teeth, trying to use her pincer grasp, putting everything in her mouth, babbling. She was on the verge of crawling for a long time, like she just didn't realize she could do that, and it left her very frustrated.
Since her checkup, she has officially learned to crawl and pull up on everything. She is a MUCH happier baby now that she can scoot around and play. She also got two more teeth, so now she has 4 front teeth - 2 on top, 2 on bottom. She still has beautiful blue eyes and blondy blond hair. She also still has that cute raspy voice - no idea where that came from, but it's way cute on her. Her favorite things are to crawl around, feed herself, baby food (fruits and mixes - NOT green beans!)
For Acelynn's 1 year party, we had a Bee theme (for Acee-Bee, duh.) The only trick was, this poor little girl broke her leg! She had a half body cast for three weeks (only, thank goodness) and she was immobile and just not very happy (especially since she started standing and stepping right before she broke it!) But she's still adorable and had a great Bee-day party!
"The Holidays" 2014
Our family is wrought with the Holiday controversy - you know the one. Someone wants to feel the magical feeling of Christmas as long as possible - starts shopping early, listening to jolly music, etc, etc. And the other is.... well, wrong. An Ebenezer of Christmas joy. I know you could never guess which is me and which is Jeff. BUT since I'm the one typing this blog, I get to say how it goes and I say it is "THE HOLIDAYS." Meaning that it is one big family party from Halloween to New Years and Christmas stuff is allowed anytime in that time frame. (But I digress.) Therefore, here are all our 2014 holidays in one!
Halloween:
Halloween didn't seem quite as crazy in '14 as it usually does. I didn't really decorate much, and I missed out on one of the Witch nights, plus I didn't shuttle the kids around to all the different venues for ToT that we usually do. It was kind of nice, though I'm sure I'll be back at it next year. :)
My mom came with me to Chris' annual witch party, where we had soups, treats and made cute black cats. I really love that adult time every year! For Gardner Village, the girls were Elsa witches this year, it was adorable. They reported having a blast. (I missed it, cause I was at a Secret Sister Dinner... More on that later, hopefully.) The girls each had a costume parade at school, too. It worked out that I was able to go to Amie's and Jeff was able to go to Lisie's (I hate missing that stuff, but at least dad was there. He likes being able to be part of that stuff too.) In both parades, there were quite a few Elsa's. :) As always, though, our girls' costumes got many compliments and were the best one's because Chris makes them all by hand!
For the Poynor family party, the girls dressed up as the Twin Princesses of Legendale, Dawn and Eve. (I know- you've never seen that movie.) Carson was Olaf, but since I used face paint and he is 2, he turned into a scary clown of your nightmares! Oops.
Our ward does a really great Trunk or Treat at the elementary school, where the kids got more candy than ever! (Our candy bowl ran out halfway.) They had soup and bread and donuts, as well as movies made by the youth in our ward. They leave Church out of it and invite the whole neighborhood - I think the entire neighborhood came! Since we did that, we decided to go spend Halloween at my mom's again. That is always fun. Trick or treating, movies, etc. For both, the girls were dresses as Elsa, Carson was an ADORABLE cop, and Acee was a ballerina, then a reindeer (I was a Christmas tree and Jeff was a protester against Christmas-before-Halloween.) Here are some pictures:
Halloween:
Halloween didn't seem quite as crazy in '14 as it usually does. I didn't really decorate much, and I missed out on one of the Witch nights, plus I didn't shuttle the kids around to all the different venues for ToT that we usually do. It was kind of nice, though I'm sure I'll be back at it next year. :)
My mom came with me to Chris' annual witch party, where we had soups, treats and made cute black cats. I really love that adult time every year! For Gardner Village, the girls were Elsa witches this year, it was adorable. They reported having a blast. (I missed it, cause I was at a Secret Sister Dinner... More on that later, hopefully.) The girls each had a costume parade at school, too. It worked out that I was able to go to Amie's and Jeff was able to go to Lisie's (I hate missing that stuff, but at least dad was there. He likes being able to be part of that stuff too.) In both parades, there were quite a few Elsa's. :) As always, though, our girls' costumes got many compliments and were the best one's because Chris makes them all by hand!
For the Poynor family party, the girls dressed up as the Twin Princesses of Legendale, Dawn and Eve. (I know- you've never seen that movie.) Carson was Olaf, but since I used face paint and he is 2, he turned into a scary clown of your nightmares! Oops.
Our ward does a really great Trunk or Treat at the elementary school, where the kids got more candy than ever! (Our candy bowl ran out halfway.) They had soup and bread and donuts, as well as movies made by the youth in our ward. They leave Church out of it and invite the whole neighborhood - I think the entire neighborhood came! Since we did that, we decided to go spend Halloween at my mom's again. That is always fun. Trick or treating, movies, etc. For both, the girls were dresses as Elsa, Carson was an ADORABLE cop, and Acee was a ballerina, then a reindeer (I was a Christmas tree and Jeff was a protester against Christmas-before-Halloween.) Here are some pictures:
For Thanksgiving, we ate a fabulous meal at my parents' house, and then a bit later, more family came for leftovers, pie and games. We mostly played Ripple and it was a blast! (A loud, loud blast!)
Christmas Eve and Day were spent with our families and fantastic as always!!
Halloween 14!
Halloween didn't seem quite as crazy this year as it usually does. I didn't really decorate much, and I missed out on one of the Witch nights, plus I didn't shuttle the kids around to all the different venues for ToT that we usually do. It was kind of nice, though I'm sure I'll be back at it next year. :)
My mom came with me to Chris' annual witch party, where we had soups, treats and made cute black cats. I really love that adult time every year!
For Gardner Village, the girls were Elsa witches this year, it was adorable. They reported having a blast. (I missed it, cause I was at a Secret Sister Dinner... More on that later.)
The girls each had a costume parade at school, too. It worked out that I was able to go to Amie's and Jeff was able to go to Lisie's (I hate missing that stuff, but at least dad was there. He likes being able to be part of that stuff too.) In both parades, there were quite a few Elsa's. :) As always, though, our girls' costumes got many compliments and were the best one's because Chris makes them all by hand!
For the Poynor family party, the girls dressed up as the Twin Princesses of Legendale, Dawn and Eve. (I know- you've never seen that movie.) Carson was Olaf, but since I used face paint and he is 2, he turned into a scary clown of your nightmares! Oops.
Our ward does a really great Trunk or Treat at the elementary school, where the kids got more candy than ever! (Our candy bowl ran out halfway.) They had soup and bread and donuts, as well as movies made by the youth in our ward. They leave Church out of it and invite the whole neighborhood - I think the entire neighborhood came! Since we did that, we decided to go spend Halloween at my mom's again. That is always fun. Trick or treating, movies, etc. For both, the girls were dressed as Elsa, Carson was an ADORABLE cop, and Acee was a ballerina, then a reindeer (I was a Christmas tree and Jeff was a protester against Christmas-before-Halloween.)
My mom came with me to Chris' annual witch party, where we had soups, treats and made cute black cats. I really love that adult time every year!
For Gardner Village, the girls were Elsa witches this year, it was adorable. They reported having a blast. (I missed it, cause I was at a Secret Sister Dinner... More on that later.)
The girls each had a costume parade at school, too. It worked out that I was able to go to Amie's and Jeff was able to go to Lisie's (I hate missing that stuff, but at least dad was there. He likes being able to be part of that stuff too.) In both parades, there were quite a few Elsa's. :) As always, though, our girls' costumes got many compliments and were the best one's because Chris makes them all by hand!
For the Poynor family party, the girls dressed up as the Twin Princesses of Legendale, Dawn and Eve. (I know- you've never seen that movie.) Carson was Olaf, but since I used face paint and he is 2, he turned into a scary clown of your nightmares! Oops.
Our ward does a really great Trunk or Treat at the elementary school, where the kids got more candy than ever! (Our candy bowl ran out halfway.) They had soup and bread and donuts, as well as movies made by the youth in our ward. They leave Church out of it and invite the whole neighborhood - I think the entire neighborhood came! Since we did that, we decided to go spend Halloween at my mom's again. That is always fun. Trick or treating, movies, etc. For both, the girls were dressed as Elsa, Carson was an ADORABLE cop, and Acee was a ballerina, then a reindeer (I was a Christmas tree and Jeff was a protester against Christmas-before-Halloween.)
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Amelie's Bowling Birthday
My Amie Jo turned 6 this year - it's blowing my mind! In some ways she does feel more mature and advanced, but mostly, she seems like my little 5 pound nugget that just came home from the hospital.
She wanted to do a bowling birthday party this year (no idea where that came from, but no complaints here.) She got to invite 5 friends and she picked Alisa on her own, despite having an agonizingly long list to choose from. The others were twins in her class (Charlotte and Audrey,) a girl she described as liking but never getting to play with because so many other kids come and play with Amie more loudly (Layla) and the boy she likes (Gavin.) Gavin's mom told us that they would be out of town during the party and that he was devastated! He brought Amie a present at school. So, Amelie invited another girl from church who was split out of class with all the other girls her age (Clover.) Even her choices of party attendees make me so proud and remind me how blessed I am to have her.
We went to Big City Bowl and had a blast! The 6 kids got to bowl, but by about frame 6, they were struggling so we had an open presents break, then bowled some more, then a pizza break, then bowled, then a cupcake break with intermittent bowling. At the end of 2 hours, we finally finished the 1 game. :) We had pink and black bowling ball cupcakes, pink and black balloons, and Amelie got some wonderful presents from her friends and later at home with family. That evening, we had the family over for cake and ice cream, and they always have a blast! Plus, that night for her birthday dinner, she chose Olive Garden - score!
I, again, lost birthday pictures with my stolen phone, but here are the few I salvaged.
Layla was in love with Acee Babe.
The whole crew! Not looking, of course.
Lots of little-girl-fun happening.
The girl of honor, being all big and 6!
There was an abundance of bumpers and ramps going on.
Our Amelie is such a joy! She is an excellent helper, loves to get Acee out of the bassinet in the mornings and play wither her, she is so so smart and loves Alisa and Carson specially, too. She is constantly loving and snuggling me. Lately, her favorite things include drawing and writing (art of all kinds,) turkey or roast beef and cheese sandwiches, Caesar salad, chocolate, riding the scooter she got for her birthday and an Australian mermaid tv show. Her latest obsessions are growing her hair long and doing extra chores for money to put in her piggy bank. She also got her first loose tooth on her birthday - she said "It's like my body is giving me a present!" It hasn't come out yet though!
She wanted to do a bowling birthday party this year (no idea where that came from, but no complaints here.) She got to invite 5 friends and she picked Alisa on her own, despite having an agonizingly long list to choose from. The others were twins in her class (Charlotte and Audrey,) a girl she described as liking but never getting to play with because so many other kids come and play with Amie more loudly (Layla) and the boy she likes (Gavin.) Gavin's mom told us that they would be out of town during the party and that he was devastated! He brought Amie a present at school. So, Amelie invited another girl from church who was split out of class with all the other girls her age (Clover.) Even her choices of party attendees make me so proud and remind me how blessed I am to have her.
We went to Big City Bowl and had a blast! The 6 kids got to bowl, but by about frame 6, they were struggling so we had an open presents break, then bowled some more, then a pizza break, then bowled, then a cupcake break with intermittent bowling. At the end of 2 hours, we finally finished the 1 game. :) We had pink and black bowling ball cupcakes, pink and black balloons, and Amelie got some wonderful presents from her friends and later at home with family. That evening, we had the family over for cake and ice cream, and they always have a blast! Plus, that night for her birthday dinner, she chose Olive Garden - score!
I, again, lost birthday pictures with my stolen phone, but here are the few I salvaged.
Adoring every present as she opened it.
Our Amelie is such a joy! She is an excellent helper, loves to get Acee out of the bassinet in the mornings and play wither her, she is so so smart and loves Alisa and Carson specially, too. She is constantly loving and snuggling me. Lately, her favorite things include drawing and writing (art of all kinds,) turkey or roast beef and cheese sandwiches, Caesar salad, chocolate, riding the scooter she got for her birthday and an Australian mermaid tv show. Her latest obsessions are growing her hair long and doing extra chores for money to put in her piggy bank. She also got her first loose tooth on her birthday - she said "It's like my body is giving me a present!" It hasn't come out yet though!
Carson man's 2nd birthday!
The duder turned 2 in September - so crazy. All the games and food and party details pictures were taken on my phone, which of course, was stolen... Sigh. :( But Jeff got all the presents, so those pictures survived!
We threw a Frozen party, as he is the biggest Frozen fan in our house - he particularly loves Summer (his name for Olaf) and so most of the stuff was themed after him. We sent do you wanna build a snowman invitations, ate "We finish each others' Sandwiches", "ice blocks" (blue jello cubes), "Sven's carrots", "Olaf's snowballs" (marshmallows), aurora borealis juice and Anna and Elsa's Chocolate (fondue, with all the dippers!) The cake was a beach with Olaf laying on it. Out in the back yard, we played pin the nose on Olaf and had ice block races. It was a fun party.
At 2 years old, Carson is very energetic, running and jumping just about everywhere he goes. He loves chasing after his older sisters and gets very concerned for his younger sister when she is unhappy. He is momma's shadow and wants to snuggle me every night. His favorites are cheese sticks and spaghetti, Animal Mechanicals and Bo on the Go, "rolling down the hill" (our driveway), and Frozen of course. He is just starting to sleep in his car bed some nights... let's get him out of that crib! He is average tall/heavy in his measurements and still wakes once at night. He is very sweet and happy, we all love him to pieces.
We threw a Frozen party, as he is the biggest Frozen fan in our house - he particularly loves Summer (his name for Olaf) and so most of the stuff was themed after him. We sent do you wanna build a snowman invitations, ate "We finish each others' Sandwiches", "ice blocks" (blue jello cubes), "Sven's carrots", "Olaf's snowballs" (marshmallows), aurora borealis juice and Anna and Elsa's Chocolate (fondue, with all the dippers!) The cake was a beach with Olaf laying on it. Out in the back yard, we played pin the nose on Olaf and had ice block races. It was a fun party.
At 2 years old, Carson is very energetic, running and jumping just about everywhere he goes. He loves chasing after his older sisters and gets very concerned for his younger sister when she is unhappy. He is momma's shadow and wants to snuggle me every night. His favorites are cheese sticks and spaghetti, Animal Mechanicals and Bo on the Go, "rolling down the hill" (our driveway), and Frozen of course. He is just starting to sleep in his car bed some nights... let's get him out of that crib! He is average tall/heavy in his measurements and still wakes once at night. He is very sweet and happy, we all love him to pieces.
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