Oh no.. It's quiet.. Where is Dailey?

If it's quiet than I know something is going on. Dailey is in full swing of the mischief that comes at the age of two. I find lots of little messes involving the bathroom toilet paper, soap, baby powder, paper towels, popcorn, diapers, markers. You name it she is into it and throwing it all around. Did I mention she likes to take off her pants and underwear too. Oh Dailey. Whatever happened to the little girl that just wanted to sit on your lap and cuddle. Ha. ha. She still will at times. which I love!

This is a picture after I cleaned up her baby powder mess.

Lucy's First Tooth...

Lucy got her first tooth on Sunday. She is almost 9 months old! I have been feeling in her mouth for awhile thinking she was getting one soon. And it finally broke through. She has always had a lot of drool. But man lately it has been out of control. She drools so much it is hard to keep her stitches dry.

Lucy's Cyst...

Lucy has had this bump on her chin for months now. She didn't have it when she was born. It came about a month or two later. But it looked like a great big red zit on her face. It didn't seem to bother her but I finally went to have it checked out. The first Dermatologist I took her to was a young doctor and she said she had never seen something like that before. She took pictures and said she would call me after talking with a colleague of hers. She never got back to me, which bothered me so I went to another dermatologist.

We saw the other dermatologist and he said it was a cyst. He wanted to take a biopsy and test it to make sure everything was ok. He was very great, and he reassured me that's all he thought it was. He left and came back with two staff members and they held Lucy's hands and legs while I held her head. He numbed her first. Which was really sad. She was screaming. Blood was coming out. Than he took another little thing that made a puncture in it and all of a sudden this white stuff just started squirting out of it. It was pretty gross. It just kept coming and coming out. The doctor was so great. Though and I was really trying not to freak out. Because I was the one holding her head. But I could not believe all the stuff that came out. He put it in a biopsy container. Than after they got all the stuff out, he started to sew her up. She got a little stitch. She is our first child to have stitches! The Doctor was great. He said ok Mom you can pick her up and I picked her up and hugged her. Poor girl. The whole time her little eyes looked at me wondering why I wasn't helping her. Oh it was so sad. But she did great and we go back in a week to get the stitches out and to find out results. The doctor thought the cyst should now go away on it's own but if it doesn't we would need to see a plastic surgeon. He said it was pretty deep. Hopefully it just heals up and goes away now.

Locked Out..

Today we came home from a very easy trip to Costco. Not sure if anyone has ever been able to say that. :)
I came in the house and brought Day inside. I usually come right in and hang up my car keys. Today was no different. I went back out to grab Lu and the groceries. Cole ran ahead to go inside. He yells back the door is locked. Yes, Day has locked us out. This has happened before. But she quickly unlocked the door last time. This time, she ran away from the door. Cole is sitting there yelling at her. He has to go to the bathroom!! She comes back to the door and she is laughing.
I am trying to talk to her calmly through the door. Cole chose the yelling approach, but in his defense he had to go! This goes on for a little while. I am explaining to Day why and how to open the door. Oh she knows how to open the door, alright!
It's been five minutes and I finally think to say, If you open the door I'll give you Ice Cream! And just like that the door is OPEN! WaaaLaaa!

Oops. I never followed through with the Ice Cream Promise.

I know that my Redeemer Lives...

I was reading a few articles in the news today. There has been a lot of articles written about Mormons due to Mitt Romney and the Presidential Campaign going on. As I read some of these articles I found it interesting how some people view the "Mormon" Religion. If only, they knew what I know.

Tonight, I was singing a few songs to Cole before bed. We usually sing primary songs, but I sang the hymn I know that my Redeemer Lives. As I sang the words, tears rolled down my cheeks. I again had that overwhelming power come over me, testifying of the truthfulness of the gospel. I love these tender moments, especially when they happen with my kids. Cole had tears in his eyes, and He got up from his bed and gave me a big hug.

It's Finally Friday...

Can I just say that I am so excited that tomorrow is Friday! I was thinking back through my week and well I think it really hasn't been a bad week. If you don't count Tuesday. For some reason, Tuesday was a day, I tell ya. That evening as I was relaying my day to my good husband, I was trying to think what had made it such a long, exhausting day. Than visions of myself chasing a naked 2 year old around the house came back to me (she keeps stripping her clothes off, I must of redressed her 20 times), the toilet clogged a few times ( I have a 5 year old who I am pretty sure has abnormal bowel movements) Okay they are probably normal but when he puts half the roll of toilet paper in the toilet while it is still connected to the rest of the roll. (Gross) One poop is one too many! Ha ha.

The other days were actually really great. Another reason this week may seem longer is that Kevin really didn't have any early nights this week. His early night was him coming home at 9pm.
I new he was coming home. So I let the kids stay up and he walked in the door and they jumped all over him. He is a rockstar in this house. They wrestled with him and tickled and laughed and played.
Sidenote: I read an interesting article about how healthy it is for kids to rough house with their Dad's.

These extra hours are not just hard on me. Sometimes I forget that. We were on the phone with Kevin Monday night and Cole says to him" Dad, I wish you had your old job back, I miss your old job"
As much as that broke my heart, I know it broke Kevin's. It is very hard for him too.
It really isn't that bad. Especially since I know it is for a short time. I am not sure how people do it on a regular basis. Wow. My heart goes out to them.

On the upside. His work is having a family, company party tomorrow. We are going tubing at Solider Hollow ski resort. We have never been to a work party, and tubing, how fun!

Sunny Day to Snow Day...

On February 1st it was such a nice sunny day. We stopped at the park. We actually only played for about 10 or 15 minutes because the sun was a little deceiving. The next morning we woke up to snow. Since we have not had a lot of snow this winter and the times we have had it, it seemed like we were all sick. I decided we better run out and play in it before it all melted away. Sure enough by the afternoon it was pretty much all gone. We had a good time while it lasted! Speaking of lasting Dailey wasn't out long. I ran in and got her to come get in a photo when our snowman was complete.