Creativity! February 21, 2010

I love the creativity and imagination! The kids left the shopping cart out one night, and I guess Mike likes to play as much as the kids, so here’s what we have.

Quaid’s imagination took over the last few days. He pulled the pillows cushions off the couch and was jumping around hollering and running holding the hose of an air pump. When I asked him what he was doing I caught something about chasing. I ask what he was chasing. “I chasing monkeys and tigers with the snake!” He thought it was great fun, and has continued play the same game for three days.

I’m proud of Mikiya for passing off her first Article of Faith the first week, and is now eagerly learning the second one.

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY! February 14, 2010

This is our stake conference weekend. Since I still don’t want Kambrie out, and she doesn’t go too long without needing to eat, Mike stayed home with the kids while I went to the sat night adult session, and then he took the other kids and went to the regular session today. Anyway, there is a little story that just hit home to me. Elder Natrice told a story of growing up and being frustrated with his mom always reading the Book of Mormon to the family at breakfast. He said one day he told her he wasn’t paying attention and wondered why she even bothered reading. Her response was remembering a quote she had heard in a conference, “If you read the Book of Mormon to your children every day, you will not lose one of them.” I love this! I’ve always felt it important, but have wondered if we should be trading off what we read every day. For me, this was the answer.

I asked Mikiya what she learned in stake conference, and we now have a nice FHE lesson. There was a Dad who played hide-n-seek with his kids. He hid up in a tree and when the kids couldn’t find him he made noises and dropped things so the kids would look up. They were all happy when they found the Dad. Our Heavenly Father wants us to find Him and like the Dad, is trying to get us to look up.

Mike’s mom came to see Kambrie last week. Then today we got to see Grandma and Grandpa Gallup, Uncle Wayne, and Aunt Jenna. The kids were so excited to see everyone and just had fun.

Mikiya and Quaid had a blast making their Valentine’s cookies. Quaid kept climbing up on the counter and probably had more flour on him than the cookies did, but we all had fun. They loved the bright pink frosting and dumping, yes dumping, sprinkles on the cookies.

We are also starting to get a bunch of smiles from Kambrie, it’s so cute!

Pictures February 8, 2010

The kids, especially Quaid is ready for outside rough and tumble summer play. Since it’s not quite that warm, and our back yard is just dirt, Mike set up a little circuit for them to get them running. They ran up and down the stairs, and when they reached the bottom they did jumping jacks, and then headed for the stairs again. They did this for quite a while and loved it! Quaid was hilarious doing his jumping jacks! They also added in tossing bean bags back and forth.
I don’t have any pictures of this, but here are some others from the week.

Yeah! January 23, 2010

As sad as it is that Quaid has a double ear infection, he’s doing well taking his “super juice”. The exciting part of the dr visits is that Kambrie’s bilirubin count is going down on its own. Yeah! She’s our first child to not have to have a bili-blanket and keep going back for a zillion checks!

This is drug free week at school. Mikiya comes home showing us her sticker for the day and telling us some of what she learned. Well, at dinner she started coughing and very worriedly exclaimed, “Oh not! I hope I’m not smoking!” I couldn’t help but laugh. I did my best to reassure her that she was fine. I love that she is innocent enough to not even understand something like that.

First Week Home January 23, 2010

I was thrilled that Kambrie was doing well and we were getting to go home and have our family together. Mike was so cute to point out the temple to Kambrie as we drove by. The kids were excited to have us home, but were careful to keep their distance as they both developed fevers the night before. It was just so exciting to have a baby in the house again! Mikiya loved watching me give Kambrie her little sponge bath, rubbing lotion on her, and getting her dressed. Quaid loved taking pictures of her and reading her stories. It is all so cute!

Mikiya wasn’t thrilled at having to go to school, but it was all better if grandma could go with her. It was so cute to watch during the week as Mikiya wanted grandma for so many things; one of the sweetest to me was her request to have grandma kneel with her for her prayers. Quaid is clearly a grandpa’s boy, just being together a bunch but especially for games, or driving his new Lightning McQueen car. I got spoiled having three other adults to take care of all the cooking, cleaning, laundry and taking care of the kids. I just got to do the fun parts like snuggles.

Family Visit January 19, 2010

I was so excited to have my Mom and Dad bring the kids to the hospital! Mike went out to meet them and brought the kids in so we could have a few minutes together. I laughed when Mikiya walked in and enthusiastically said, “She does have a lot of hair!” She just had to make sure Grandma knew what she was talking about. Quaid seemed a bit shy, but grinned as he said “My Baby!” Both kids climbed up on the bed to take turns holding the Kambrie. Mom and Dad came in a few mins later and got to love the baby as well. They also took a bunch of pictures for us. As nice as it was to have everyone together, the visit wasn’t too long. Quaid had a cold and Mikiya was antsy to get going to have her lunch date out to Wendy’s.

Kambrie Sheila! January 18, 2010

Without having internet at home anymore, I’ve found it difficult to keep up on the blog. I am making an attempt to catch up a little before moving on to more recent events. So for all the goings ons of the past few months scroll through the posts that are all dated February 19.

She’s finally here! I had contractions off and on all night and headed to the hospital this morning for our induction appointment. I had to have antibiotics for four hours, so they wouldn’t do much of anything to speed things along so the baby wouldn’t be born before that point. Things went fairly quickly and Kambrie was born at 2:05 pm. She’s 7 lbs 4 oz and 20 in long. She is just so sweet and of course we love her to pieces! Everyone around is amazed at her hair.