We visited Micah’s family for Thanksgiving. The kids were great travelers in the car, and although the drive was long, it was really quite nice. While there we had a great Thanksgiving dinner, played a lot with cousins, had a fun after-thanksgiving turkey trot, went to Tristan’s baptism,
launched rockets
played with Grandma’s train set. (Jackson’s favorite)
got adjustments,
took some great baths in Grandma’s cool bath tub,
did a cousin christmas pajama exchange, had the family gift exchange, and finally the main reason we were there…
Grandma Hawley’s 90th birthday celebration and Hawley reunion! We had a great time and were grateful to Jared and Debbie for giving us a place to stay!
A couple days ago I tried to put Lacey down for a nap. She usually takes a nap about 3 times a week now, but I still give her a chance to nap every day. On this particular day I laid her down and heard her talking, playing, and screaming like she usually does. After about 20 minutes, she started screaming “I stuck in here!” over and over! I decided to check it out. I thought maybe she crawled under her little toddler bed and got her head stuck (she did that one time a while ago). I walked in and I couldn’t see her. She was quiet at this point, so I began to look around. She had taken all the clothes out of her closet and thrown them on the ground (as usual), but there was still something on the shelf … Lacey!
She was laying there stuck on the shelf!
Well, yesterday we skipped naps because of church, but today I tried to get her down for a nap again. She screamed and screamed, and I went in about a million times to get her off the shelf and put her back in bed. Finally it was quiet, I poked my head in to check on her, and she wasn’t on the floor or in her bed… she had fallen asleep on the shelf! Great! Now I had to decide whether I move her (which would probably wake her up), or take the chance of her falling off the shelf and getting hurt. So I decided to move her and of course she woke up, but quickly fell back to sleep in my arms. As soon as I laid her down she woke up but I decided to let her scream and see if she would go back to sleep. Not too long after, it was quiet again. Again I poked my head in, guess where she had fallen asleep? ON THE SHELF!!! You’ve got to be kidding me! Well, I turned a movie on for Jackson, gave him a couple cookies and milk, and I decided the girl needed sleep since she didn’t sleep Saturday or Sunday. So she slept on the shelf while I sat by her to catch her when she fell…which she did about 20 minutes later, and she wasn’t too happy because it woke her up! I caught her, sat with her until she fell back to sleep, then laid her back in bed, and she woke up! Dang! So we went out and watched the movie with Jackson… so much for nap time! What a funny girl… she is so full of her own personality and ideas! Her favorite phrase right now is “I DO IT!” (forcefully) and “I DID IT!”
She doesn’t let Jackson get away with anything.
Here she displays her eye shadow done with washable markers.
A long time ago I used to love arts and crafts. I haven’t really done anything since I made a bumper for Jackson’s crib right before I had him. I usually make up excuses like: I don’t want to spend the money, I’d feel bad spending the time, I don’t have a good place to do it, I can’t think of anything to do, I’m not good at arts or crafts anymore, etc, etc, etc!
Well, I decided to put those things aside and just do something. I’ve really enjoyed it, and although you all probably think none of these are anything great, I’m quite happy with how they turned out. I also feel like I’ve been more productive in my spare time. I used to think, “how do you do crafts when you have kids?” The answer… you don’t work on them when they’re awake… and if you do, its during they younger ones nap time, and you give the older one glue, scissors, paper, and any other material they want to make their own craft, and let them help you where they can. Jackson has really liked our craft time.
Anyway, here was my first little craft, made from cheap fabric from the fabric store and a few accessories. Its not my usual style, but the price was right and its growing on me.
The next one, I got really ambitious and thought I could make 8 in a few days… well, it took about a week and a half of a few hours of all my free nights to whip all these out! But Jackson and Lacey LOVE these little skeletons! I think the people I gave them to liked them ok too. It’s a fun decoration for Halloween.
I finally finished this wreath last night… I took a little time to get the bow put together. I collected the pine cones in Pinetop at the cabin the last time we were there. I took this picture late last night, so the lighting isn’t the best, but I was excited to get it done and see the final result.
Thanks to Erin, my sister-in-law, for all these ideas!
I have a few projects I’m getting started on soon, and I’ll post about them when/if they come together.
I’ll spare you the ultrasound video this time (since I didn’t get a copy anyway)and get right to what you want to know…We’re having a GIRL! She looks healthy and everything is right on track!
