Saturday, October 31, 2020

Feelings and hugs

 When I was young, I used to cry during movies.  I remember the one I always cried during was the movie Big.  Ha ha!!!  But Riley has the same emotions as I did when I was younger (and still do) when watching movies.  The other day they were watching Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and at the end I noticed she was crying.  I went over and talked to her and gave her hugs.  She said "I'm just so happy!" through her tears.  ha ha.  Then when Finley saw what was happening, she came over and hugged her.  It was really cute.  



Visit from Grandma and Grandpa

We love that my parents can come visit so often.  It's nice that they have 2 reasons to come visit Utah now that my dad's parents live here.  We really love it.  And this last visit was special because my dad was here on his birthday.  So we got to celebrate the day with him.  We started off nice and early with presents.  We also set up some streamers for him to run through.  :)  

The kids were excited to help him open the presents.  Then my mom had set up a trip to Homestead Crater to go swimming.  It's warm water and it was really fun.  We only had one scare where I couldn't find Emery for a minute and I was sure she had sunk to the bottom.  That only lasted a few seconds...but I was so scared.  Luckily, she had told ROb that she was going to the other side.  Phew.  

Swimming at the crater was the highlight of our week.  Then we hurried home and ate some pizza.  We had a great day celebrating my dad.  I even planned for my car to not start at the school while picking Emery up from Orchestra so he could come rescue me on his birthday.  He loves to tinker with things and fix things...so I was just doing him a favor.  Ha ha.  Thanks for rescuing me dad!  

Finley had been waiting weeks for them to get to our house.  When they finally made it, she was very chatty.  She apparently said something funny.  

She is always in heaven when grandma and grandpa are here to give her some attention!

On Sundays I do a singing time Facebook live video and my parents helped me that day by transforming into chin head people and singing the song.  ha ha.  

The kids helped too!

Finley couldn't stop looking at them!


The primary video turned out great by the way.  :)

Then we had the big birthday.

We all got up bright and early to celebrate and open gifts before Sadie went to school.  

He had lots of help opening the gifts. 

Here he is trying to figure out why my car didn't start.  We couldn't really figure out why, but it has only happened once again since then...

Grandpa's new shirt.  I love it.

Then we made our way to Homestead crater.  

There were scuba divers underneath us swimming.  It made me nervous thinking they were going to come up right under me.  There were bubbles coming up the whole time.  Finley loved the bubbles.  

THere was a little area sectioned off where we could sit and stand.  Finley liked this part.  Sadie and Zac had fun with the snorkels and goggles.  

Zac watched the scuba divers that were under us a lot of the time. 

After our time was up we went home and ate pizza and cookies.  

When we were done swimming, we walked above the swimming hole and across a bridge.  

Sunny family photo.

They hid some candy for the kids to find.  Here is grandma explaining the rules.  

The kids evening up the candy. 

The night after his birthday is when we had actual cake and ice cream.  In our family, this is what you call and Ultimate Birthday celebration.  Ha ha.  

Sunday, October 11, 2020

How to not entertain a 3 year old while helping other kids with school work...

A lot of times these days, Finley is left to fend for herself.  I mean, I take care of her, but while I am helping the other kids with their school work (aka most of the morning!) she has to find ways to entertain herself.  This particular morning she was pretty attached to my side.  She found a green comb and wanted to comb my hair.  She has brushed my hair many times with a hairbrush without incident, so I told her she could.  I was laying on the floor helping Emery with some math and she climbed up behind me and started combing.  

Within seconds, I felt her pulling really close to my head.  Over and over.  I just thought she was pulling my hair with her hands and it wasn't really hurting because she wasn't pulling hard, but after a few minutes of this I reached my hand up to see what was going on and this is what I found...


This happened within seconds people...SECONDS!  Seriously  It was crazy.  It was stuck right up against my scalp too.  I was thinking I might need to shave my head!

I interrupted Rob working (because this was an emergency!) and asked him to try to get it out.  He tried for a few minutes but then said he needed to get back to work.  Rats!!

So I went and found Sadie...thank goodness she was doing school from home that day!  She worked on it for a while and I was starting to think of haircuts I could get that might look ok.  But then suddenly I felt the comb come loose!  I was free!

Sadie was a miracle worker!  Thank you for saving my hair!  And never let your three year old comb your hair...stick to a hairbrush!