weather

we have encountered the strangest and most eventful weather since we moved here.

i checked weather on my phone last night and there's a little bit of everything - cloudy, sleet, sun, thunder, fog, and snow. from 21°-66° - in one week.

cra-zy.

after our 4-day weekend for mlk, the kids went to school for 2 days and then enjoyed another 4 day weekend + 2 hour delay because of the snow.

we didn't leave the house from thursday morning till sunday morning.

and i'm not complaining.

 

i tried to keep the kids occupied by doing more than just watching tv, so i brought up their easel, which they love. it usually stays in the basement, but addie still doesn't love going downstairs without a grown-up.

silly girl.

this little prune eating baby had a rough weekend.

i realized a few weeks ago that days would go by and i really hadn't fed her any solid foods, and i probably should. so i've been making a concerted effort to feed her solids more. it's tough cause she doesn't love 'em, and she and i do love to nurse. but she is coming on one, and she's kind of a scrawny little thing, so we've been plugging away. but then she started getting constipated. at first it was just super cute grunting and red face. then after a few days of not producing much (i know, too much poo info, but that was my weekend!) she would grunt and then cry.

by saturday she was crying a couple times an hour. she'd look at me and just cry and cry, it was so heartbreaking! i started her on prunes, which she'd eat about 3 bites of before she's done, apple juice, and tummy massages on thurs but it wasn't doing much. and then because she was getting out little bits all the time, she was rashed too.

 my poor pooper-scooper.

she'd start to cry and look at me and i'd go to her and soothe and rub her belly.

i finally started vaselining her little bummy after each (numerous) change and that seems to have done the trick.

i am very happy to report that we've had at least 5 decent sized full diapers since saturday night.

ok, enough poo talk.

 

of course, despite the snow, matt had to work thurs and fri, but his class did get cancelled for thurs night, so that's kinda nice. :) that's the first 2 classes cancelled because of weather. works for me!

 

on friday i had the kids help me and we blitzed the whole house. chris did the basement, lex helped me on the first floor and then they both cleaned their bathrooms.

it was awesome.

then sydney came over (i think i'm kinda liking this friends with license thing!) with movies in tow and thus proceeded the great chic flic marathon of '13. they watched (and when i say "they" i mean sydney, lex, chris, and matt and i when we were around) legally blond 1 and 2, bring it on 1, 2, and 3 (and were prepared for 4 and 5, but ya gotta sleep sometime!), the last song, he's just not that into you, and some weird scary one after we went to bed.

 

on saturday matt went snowboarding with his navy group. he got a great deal and it's the first time he's gone this year, so i was glad he could go "fill his cup." christian should have had his ham radio class and addie should have had gymnastics, but like everything else lately, they were cancelled.

around 2 i took him to his friends house and lexi went over to peter's and the girls napped and for a little while it was quiet.

ahhhhhh. :)

 

i got everything ready for church on saturday night - bags packed, clothes ironed and laid out, everything. and sunday morning went really smoothly and we got to church on time. maybe there's something to this whole "preparing ahead of time thing." ;)

jk, that's what i always have to do, i just don't typically do it for church which is prob the most important thing i should do it for.

 

anyway, church was good, then after our presidency we got some training from the stake rs. chris also had a meeting so he stayed with me. as we were leaving i saw that matt had called and they had been locked out. chris and i had left through the front door, so we had left the garage door locked. oops! thankfully lana took them in and fed them lunch. nice to have nice neighbors. :)

and note to self - go to lowes and make like 10 extra keys for all of our keychains.

and maybe give one to a neighbor. :)

 

then we got home taught, matt went home teaching, and then chris went home teaching.

(can you tell it's the end of the month?:)

 chris was in charge of the lesson and he read it and had ideas and then made brownies to give his families and companion. just love that sweet boy!

 

when matt got home at 5:30 i was pooped and asked him to make dinner, but then the girls were so tired that we fed them a quicky chicken noodle soup dinner while matt made chicken parmesean for the rest of us. then after he put them in bed (he's a keeper!) we had a really nice "grown-up" dinner with the big kids.

 

as we read scriptures delaney crawled around to each of us and gave us each a couple of her famous hugs. there's not much that's better than seeing that your children love each other.

and peaceful meals.

and peaceful scripture study time.

 i was just thinking how grateful i am, my heart is full!

my heart is full.