July 12 2014

Potpourri

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This round of potpourri has a lot of pictures of Madison looking cute.

She looks cute in her Dad’s arms:

And in her Mom’s arms:

And in Brooke’s arms:

And in Caroline’s arms:

And even in Spencer’s arms:

She looks cute holding a baby:

And wearing the crowns that Brooke and Caroline like to make for her:

Crying pictures are cute, too, right?

Such a sweet little baby:

Here’s someone in disguise:

Here’s Caroline wearing cones on her extremities:

We had our annual ward talent show. Dallas had the brilliant idea of putting Brooke’s stop motions on a disc and playing them on a loop so people could watch them. I loved seeing Brooke so proud of her movies. She kept a constant eye on the TV and just beamed when she saw people stop to watch them:

I’ve been getting some family movies from the library for us to watch and have enjoyed exposing the kids to stories that aren’t just cartoons. I got Dolphin Tale a little while ago which is the true story of Winter, a dolphin, who had to get his tail cut off. The people in the story fit him with a prosthetic tail. Brooke drew this picture after watching it:

(The boy off to the side is saying, “You have to Winter” meaning he has to wear his prosthetic tail, and the girl in the water is saying, “Wear that Winter.”)

Spencer and Caroline made a huge road for cars out of all our pens and pencils:

Brooke learned how to ride a bike without training wheels! Kind of. She got the hang of it really fast but stopping is still a bit of a problem.

Brooke is very excited to go to college ever since I told her she gets to live in a dorm.

Brooke: “You mean I can decorate it however I want?!”

Me: “Yes!” (and thinking…”Don’t you already decorate your room however you want?”)

She compiled a list of things she will need (translation in green):

Brooke’s future roommate, whoever you are, good luck.

I believe this is the first piece of artwork featured on our blog that Spencer did. He colored this police car and I thought he did such a good job using lots of colors and staying mostly in the lines:

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One day Madison decided to use her noodle as floss:

Madison’s first time writing her name:

We went to a fun park and played an intense game of Sardines:

Brooke made Madison look like Poppy from the movie Trolls:

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I’m really working hard to get our blog up to date by the end of the year which means picture dumps are in order!

Dallas accidentally jabbed a WD-40 straw into his eyeball. He was unable to keep his eye open for any length of time, so he went to the eye doctor. The eye doctor put a contact bandage over the injury, and in a few days he was as good as new. Phew!

Brooke wakes up E.V.E.R.Y. M.O.R.N.I.N.G. with the craziest bedhead I have ever seen. What is she doing in her sleep?!

Speaking of sleep, Spencer and Caroline have turned into sleepwalkers. Spencer’s episodes seem to be tied to needing to use the bathroom. I think he wakes up enough to realize he needs to go, but once he’s awake and walking, he loses all sense of where the bathroom is and what he should be doing. We have to guide him to the bathroom and then back to bed so he doesn’t wander all around. He’ll also do this weird thing where I’ll hear him moaning/whimpering/crying, but when I open his bedroom door, he’ll start to giggle uncontrollably. I ask him if he’s okay and he says yes while giggling. I close the door and in a moment he goes back to whimpering again. It’s so strange.

Then there’s Caroline. She sometimes wanders into our room and acts awake. We ask if she’s awake and she gets mortally offended and grumps that of course she’s awake. We’ll ask questions she can’t answer in her dreamy haze which further frustrates her until we finally usher her back to bed.

The other night I heard commotion outside our bedroom door. I assumed it was someone sleep walking/mumbling again and was about to ignore it when I heard Brooke confront the sleepwalker. Turns out it was Caroline who was up and wandering about. She had decided to go open our garage door. At 11:30 at night. Luckily Brooke heard the garage door open and told me what was going on and thankfully Caroline didn’t go stumbling about outside in the freezing cold. I can’t handle these nighttime escapades!

Madison got in this position and started giggling and yelling, “I’m flying!”

Last year the girls were in their school play, “Cinderella.” Brooke was a townsperson and part of the palace staff. Caroline was a maiden and the cheese steward.

One time I told Caroline that I wanted to give her the middle name, “Kimberly.” She took that bit of information and fully embraced it:

Brooke realized that if you lick Cheerios they stick together and you can make things out of them:

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Dallas and I get to go to scout Roundtable every month. In uniform.

This was Spencer’s birthday. I was helping in his class and got to be there when they sang to him:

Brooke’s drawing:

Dallas won a photography award:

Madison is kind of a bully:

While running errands I heard Madison say, “Oh! Look at that lovely plant!” I thought it was cute that she so appreciated this little bit of greenery amidst the office buildings: