Katie's FHE

Katie taught Family Home Evening on Families are Forever. All we have to do is "follow directions"! Classic! I love her stick people--their hands and feet are perpendicular lines.

Mane Tamer

Here's what we've been up to while we wait out cabin fever. Everyone's been sick, sleep deprived, and stir crazy, but I guess this can count as entertainment.

Brett has loved the girls' long locks, but since he's had to do a bit more hair duty while I take care of a newborn, he finally agreed that it's time for a haircut, and not just a trim. Katie, who hates having to take care of her own hair, actually agreed (somewhat naively). I felt the anxiety as I took the scissors and cut off about 5+ inches! But it's really cute!! And I'm surprised that it actually does well even when I leave it mostly down. (With long hair, it pretty much only went down on Sundays).
Here is before. . . .

. . . and after!
Poor Katie was sick with a fever so her pictures show her less than excited, but she's more enthused about it now that we're feeling better.
This is how we were entertained--pbskids.org.

Really helped to keep them at least looking in the same direction!

And this is only Amanda's second haircut in her life. She has a little bit of curl a the bottom of her hair and I've been afraid to cut it off.
Amanda Before:
TV and sucker helps Amanda! :)
and. . . . .After!

Very cute, and refreshing, if I do say so myself!!

Valentine Door Ditching

The girls each got a Valentine annonymously left on the front door. It's a box of chocolates with a tiny teddy bear attached to the front. Katie spends five minutes trying to figure out how to get the bear unattached from the celophane package. Amanda (who shiffs out food anywhere) ignores the bear completely and tears off the celophane wrapping and starts popping chocolate into her mouth! If that doesn't describe my two oldest girls, I don't know what does!

Do we love pink or what?

We've succombed to the pink, and I'm very okay with that. People still ask me if I wish we "could" have a boy. I've never had a son, so I don't know, but I can tell you one thing (or two)--I LOVE my girls! And they are so much fun! And I really don't feel limited because I have three daughters. We play baseball and trains, we watch the Superbowl and crash cars, we get dirty (girl style) and yet I don't have to worry about cross dressing or bugs!! It's really great. Long story short, I can't imagine not having any one of my daughters. I love them each and they are beautiful and lovely and special! Here's to princesses!

I just can't get enough

Mommy's girl and loving it!

It's enough to make one baby hungry, even right after having a baby! Perhaps this is to remind me for next time! :)

Firehouse

Law Partners usually has an annual tour of the Firehouse for their Children's Hour. This is one of Katie's favorites. Each time we drive by this firehouse, we check to see if the fire trucks are "home", or out helping people. It was especially meaningful for Katie because she'd seen the fire at the Provo Tabernacle, sparking many discussions about fires, fireman, fire safety, etc and they had a plaque with pictures of the Tabernacle fire displayed at the firehouse.

This year it was on Valentine's Day. We had a fun tour and then the fireman lifted each child up and set them in the firetruck. You can see that Amanda didn't really approve of the fireman picking her up and leaving her high up in the truck! It was fun. Thanks firemen!

I'm a Cowboy

Horsey joined us at Christmas time. Amanda loves to ride him. (Usually she rides and plays the flute seen at horsey's feet). The other night, right at bedtime, Amanda came running down the stairs with her hat on. She kept calling, "I'm a cowboy! I'm a cowboy!" We don't really do much cowboy play at our house and we've rarely even talked about them, but she seemed to make the connection that cowboys wear hats, and since she'd refound her hat, she's a cowboy!