Let me read you a story

Yesterday Ashton was "reading" a bunch of books and Abbie crawled over and was making a mess of the books he was trying to read. Instead of getting mad at her, he said Abbie let me read you a story. It was the cutest thing to see them together "reading" a book. I had to grab my camera for a couple of quick shots I'm so glad that all of my kids seem to like books and reading, because I love a good book. I read to Lexie as baby and ever since and it has paid off because she is a good reader and really likes to read. It was wonderful the day that she finally learned to read well enough to read a real story to Ashton. It has been much harder to find the time to read to Ashton and especially Abbie, but Ashton loves being read to and apparently likes reading to people. Abbie likes a good book too, usually to eat, but we are working on that.

The Good New is...

Abbie is feeling MUCH better. The bad news is that she has acquired a few new skills this week that keeps me busy chasing her. For those of you who don't know, Abbie was diagnosed with RSV and a double ear infection last Sunday. After a couple of days on antibiotics for the ear infections, and albuterol to help her breath she was back to her old self. Here is a look at all the mischief she has been getting into this week since starting to feel better..
She found the toilet paper dispenser
Caught red handed!! "What? Am I doing something that I shouldn't?"
And making it all the way to the top of the stairs for the first time..
at the bottom... and then the top

Oh what to do.........

I am not very happy about my little experiment with trying out the other blog that I started. I was so excited about it at first because there were so many things to do with it, but now I just don't know anymore. It is a lot harder to find the time to make entries (I can only do that with my Mac, which is upstairs in the office that isn't baby friendly at all.) and I'm not completely sure that anyone is even making the effort to go there since it isn't quite as blogger friendly as this site is. So do me a favor and answer the poll on the side about what you think that I should do. Thanks.....

Abbie 8 months old

I just made this cute picture from the ones that I took today. I thought I would share because I thought it was so cute.

This Sucks

I have been thrown-up on 4 times in the last 24 hours...all of which required a total change of clothes for me and whichever child it happened to be, not to mention the floors, couch and beds. Both Ashton and Abbie are sick, we were up all night, I am exhausted..............poor Jake had to go to work. This is the second round of sickness we have had since Thanksgiving, what in the world is up??

New Site Continued

I tweaked the new site a little, I figured out how to add comments to the new blog and also to the photo pages so that is there now. Just remember it is a work in progress for me........

The new site...

Its finally ready..... It wasn't that it was hard, it was really easy, there were just so many choices that I had a hard time sticking to one theme. The first day I changed the home page about 25 times til I found something that I was happy with. Then the next time I tried to work on it I messed with changing the home page again. I had to leave it alone and just do the rest of it. Once I got doing the rest it was so easy I could do it holding Abbie. I am starting really love my Mac. Just wish I had my picture editing software for it, I should have bought it when we got the Mac (thought I would try what came with the mac which is really good for a basic program) but I really like my Photoshop Elements. Here is the link to the new site, I will still keep this one and put stuff on here occasionally but most new stuff will go there.... http://web.me.com/jakennikki

Hope you like it!!!!!!!!!!

Thankful Turkey

So I have been a blogging rut lately. Not that we haven't been doing stuff, just really nothing has felt blog worthy. The kids asked me why I hadn't put our thankful turkey on our blog, so I decided to do it since I haven't had anything else to blog about. The other night for FHE we made a thankful turkey, I have seen many different kinds of thankful turkeys and I have never been very impressed with the finished product but when I saw this one in a magazine I decided I really liked it and it could be on our table all month long. The kids really had a good time coming up with things to be thankful for and I wrote anything Ashton said, Lexie wrote her own. I think the best part is going to be next year when we get to go back and read all of the things that we were thankful for this year....

For Sara

I guess I will be tagged and actually participate, mostly I ignore tags...Here is my fourth picture in my fourth folder.... does it matter which computer??? cause its different on each one. This is from my PC. Abbie in July (6 weeks old).

From the mac...the kids at the Ogden train depot.

And finally from the lap top...Ashton at 3 months just after a bath.

I tag whoever wants to go along with it.

Ouch!!

Who wins when you are running down the hall and you slip and fall into the door frame??

Not Ashton.....




We were visiting Grandma June and Grandpa Larry last night, getting even more candy, we were just getting ready to leave and Ashton decided that he needed to say goodbye to the cat (why? I'm not exactly sure but he thought he did did) and took off down the hall. The next thing I hear is one of those terrible cracking sounds that you hate to hear as a mother when you don't know for sure what has happened but you know that it can't be good, and then Ashton screamed. I then knew that it was going to be a very LONG car ride home. On the bright side, it did not break the skin and he wasn't bleeding so he wasn't going to need stitches, but his eye starting swelling and he was screaming hysterically. He calmed down after a few minutes and we were able to get some ice on it to help with the swelling. Poor guy. He has been a trooper though, and although I know it must hurt he hasn't complained at all. He just looks like he had been in a boxing match.