Weekly Update...

Abby went from walking a few steps, to walking everywhere this week! It's so funny when they make that transition from mostly crawling, to all walking. To see this little person just walk into your room, it cracks me up everytime! She is hilarious! Ever since I took that trip to Idaho with just me and her, she has to take a shower with me! On the trip, she had to be in the bathroom with me, because I couldn't just let her crawl around without me watching her, so now she is obsessed with being in the shower. She has shower radar! She can be on the opposite side of the house and I'll get into the shower and a few minutes later she'll come walking in and start banging on the shower. Here she is sitting in her rocking chair, she loves this chair!

I've been doing a ton of painting projects this week, I went a little crazy!

Jacob put the lock on it and then lost the key. We had our nice home teacher come and saw it off for us this week.

We had a huge rainstorm come through yesterday, it was like hurricane winds and torrential rain. It was awesome!! We were driving somewhere and the rain was hitting the ground so hard that it looked like there was a mist on the ground, or a low lying fog like in the scary movies. It was cool!

Jacob had his staple removed this week by Rick, it was really easy. The dr. gave us the removal tool and it was painless for him, his head has healed up great.

Daddy and Jacob matching for church.

The Arizona Early Intervention lady came over on Wednesday and of course she passed with flying colors! She ate like a champ!! This was both frustrating and a blessing. We are hoping that she will start eating like a champ from now on, but so far not so much, haha! The lady thinks she is just being stubborn, she just loves to nurse! So we are on our own, and working on it everyday. I have yet to make it through a sacrament meeting without needing to nurse her, it's my goal to be able to sit through sacrament without her tugging at my shirt and screaming. Wish me luck!!

Weekly Update!

It's been quite the eventful week and it's only Thursday! On Sunday, Rick took Abby on a little wagon ride, she loved it!

On Monday night the kids were getting ice cream for a treat and were putting the ice cream away in the freezer when the pancake griddle fell off of the top of the fridge and hit Jacob in the head and Ashlyn on the shoulder. It freaked them both out and I rushed Jacob to Urgent Care where he was a brave little boy and got a staple put in his head! Ouch! Little guy was worried about going to school the next day with his big bandage on his head, but he did great. It also happened to be picture day!

All ready for picture day!

Abby is obsessed with cars, so I got her this adorable hot pink car! She loves it!

On Tuesday I took Abby to her first appointment with a feeding therapist. I was supposed to bring her hungry and bring food for her to try and eat. Well she fell asleep in the car on the way over, so we had to wake her up in the office. She wasn't very happy about that and of course she's super shy around everyone so she didn't want to eat. She did manage to dip in a toy that they gave her into some pudding that I brought and so they saw how her tongue automatically pushes everything out. She said that from her observations that her tongue hasn't learned how to move from side to side yet, only front to back so when she eats and when we put food into her mouth, her tongue pushes it forward. She suggested that we put a cheerio in her cheek so that her tongue has to go and get it. I tried it and it still came straight out. She's also referring us to Arizona Early Intervention where some people will come out and observe her and hopefully be able to help do therapy inside our home where she will be more comfortable. The therapist said that it usually takes a few months and then they are good to go, so we will see! For now, we are still in the same phase, still nursing every 2 hours and trying to feed  her food that just comes straight back out. Frustrating! I do see a light at the end of the tunnel though, so that keeps me going! Update: The AZ early intervention people are coming on Wednesday right after school, so we'll see how that goes!
Friday was pirate day, so Abby and I dressed up! ha!

 I also made another little craft, these banners are seriously so easy!! Just cut some burlap into the banner shape, stencil on your letter and thread some twine through it! Love it!

 After school we headed over to Krispy Kreme's and waited in line for an hour to get a free dozen for each kid, so we got two dozen donuts just for dressing up like pirates! Abby and I didn't dress up, we didn't have enough pirate stuff. Of course I found a bunch more pirate stuff when we got home, oh well. The kids had fun!

 Jacob got some hand me downs from a boy in our ward and he was so excited to wear his first suit!

Week in Review..

Somehow I missed posting last week, so I'll let you know that Rick and I both spoke in Sacrament the last weekend of August. We were both extremely nervous about speaking since it had been a few years, just a couple for me but at least 4 for Rick! We are so glad to be done and we hope to be good for a few years:) This last Monday we had a huge rain storm come through, it had been a long time since we had rain so it was quite exciting! We woke up on Monday to a flooded back yard, this is drained away throughout the day, but it shows you how fast the rain came down and piled up.

Our retention basins filled up nicely, so the kids went for a swim! This is usually just grass! The kids loved it!

I've started babysitting again and right now I'm watching a 2 yr old and a 3 month old, so I got out our little bouncer and Abby still fits in it! She didn't even squirm out of it, she was just chilling in it. So cute!

I was in charge of a craft for our RS craft night and I made a birthday banner, but I didn't actually get to craft because I was in charge, so the next day I made this cute Family banner.

Ash and Haley went to a free cupcake class that they had at our craft night, and brought this one home. Super cute!

Ash found my phone!

This is what the Happy Birthday banner looked like, but instead of Happy Birthday, we made one that said Ashlyn. Haley and Jacob ended up making their names too and then Haley made one for Abby, they're pretty easy!

Jacob and Ash playing with my phone...

We took the kids to Sportsmans Warehouse last night to check out all of the dead animals. Ashlyn was freaking out because Haley made her touch a bear!

Abby has her feeding therapist appointment on Tuesday, so I'll hopefully have good news to report next week!

Week in Review....

I took Rice Krispy treats to Jacobs class because he has a gluten and nut allergy in his classroom, I figured those were safe. He came home with a crown and a certificate! He has happy to be 7!

He requested spaghetti for dinner, he loves it! We invited Ricks brothers family over for an Italian Cream Soda party! It was our first time making these and they were really yummy!

He had donuts for dessert! He got walkie-talkies, which was really all that he cared about. He's been on them ever since he got them, they're the REAL ones, he's always telling us!

Abby enjoyed the spaghetti, at least she "tried" it. Poor girl, still won't eat.

Lovin their sodas!

We are so happy that Jacob is in our family, he is such a fun little boy!