Life has just kept putting along around here. I feel like we have become basically accustomed to double diabetes; though it is still not fun. But a lot of fun things have happened for our family in spite of it! I’m going to just do pictures with explanation this time around. Enjoy!
Moving when we did, we were behind on arranging things like preschool, so Helen spent the autumn at home with me. But our awesome neighbor down the street had one of her 3 year old preschool students move away at Christmastime and she invited Helen to enroll in her preschool. Helen LOVES going to preschool! She loves her teacher, Miss Karie, she loves doing show-and-tell on Tuesdays and tumbling on Fridays, she loves going on the field-trips. She LOVES everything about it! I also think it has been so good for her to have something special just for her–especially since it is her sisters just older and just younger who get ALL the attention for their diabetes.
We got a giant bean bag chair for the movie/game room downstairs. The kids love it; but not as much as the parents! Here are all the kiddos piled on top of it. Aren’t they adorable?!
Helen found the scissors one night. I don’t feel like it needs much more explanation.
Fay and I worked together to design this dress, and then I made it! I am SO amazed and pleased by how well it turned out! So frequently I attempt a sewing project thinking “Oh yeah, this will be really simple and come together easily and quickly” and then I’m completely wrong and I either ruin it and give up or it takes me FOREVER to finish it. But this one just worked out almost exactly how I expected it would. And it really did come together quickly and easily. I only worked on it for a total of about 3 hours! And believe me, nobody is more astonished by its success than me!
The first weekend of February we decided it was time to escape to severe cold and spend some time in the slightly less cold of St. George. It was a very quick trip–we arrived Friday evening at 6:00 and left for home on Sunday morning in time to make it to our 1:30 church meetings. But that Saturday we had there was basically perfectly spent! It was the perfect combination of going out and doing fun things and hanging out at our AirBnB doing relaxing things. Everybody had a fantastic time!
Since October, Fay has been practicing for the school musical. She finally got the chance to perform this month! The musical was “The Adventures of Lewis and Clark” and Fay loved being in it! We loved watching her in it! I was even THAT mom who got all misty-eyed watching my sweet girl perform!
To help Portia cope better with receiving shots all the time, we implemented a sticker chart where she gets a sticker every time she behaves reasonably for a shot. After completing one of her charts her selected reward was a frosting/sprinkles set from the grocery store and the privilege of making cookies to decorate with Mommy. Portia loves helping in the kitchen all the time for everything, so this was a total dream-come-true for her. And she’s even wearing her chef’s hat!
Valentine’s Day was lovely. We had some fancy pink and red things for breakfast with the pictured decorated table. The kids all had their parties at school. And for dinner we did simple cheese fondue, followed by a trip to Leatherby’s for ice-cream!
But my favorite thing we do for Valentine’s Day is something that lasts the whole season–there IS a Valentine’s season, right? 🙂 Anyway, we have a decorative Valentine’s mail box which we use to send little love notes to all the members of our family during the month leading up to Valentine’s Day. After somebody reads their love note we put it in another heart-shaped box decoration thing we have. On Valentine’s evening, we re-read all the notes from the month and feel ALL the love! It is such a happy little tradition!
Anyway, that’s a little taste of our past couple months. It’s always a party around here with all these cuties and their goings on.