Making Cookies

Lauren and Rachel came over to help us decorate Halloween cookies this week. I should have made the cookies first so they were all ready for Lauren and Emma to decorate, but they had fun helping, it just made a really big mess!









Emma's finished product

Sick Day

Jack was so good, he slept in the swing most of the day!



Finally.... some sleep!

Yesterday Emma had croup again.  This is the fifth time she has had it since June, so I am really sick of it!  The poor girl usually is fine when she goes to bed, and then wakes up in the night barely able to breathe.  It is so sad.  Anyway...this time I set up a tent, put the humidifier and a dvd player in it and Emma hung out in there for most of the day.  When she first woke up in the middle of the night she was hysterical, which makes her breathing even worse.  I tried to get her to eat a popsicle or ice cream or frozen orange juice (cold things can help make the breathing better) but she was too upset to have anything.  So I took her for a drive which sometimes calms her down, and the cold air is good for her too.  We went to a Mac's and got a slurpee, which she also wasn't too interested in.  She's only had a slurpee once before, this past summer with her cousins, the Boston Kelly's.  So I reminded her of that, and told her that Maren, Dallin, Spencer and Lauren all liked slurpees and that she should try it.  That convinced her.  I also helped her say a prayer asking to help calm her down and get feeling better.   In the morning when she was feeling a bit better, the first thing she said was "Mom, can you get up and get me ice cream?" and then " Where is Jesus?  He made me feel better."  It was too cute.  She also really enjoyed her "sippee" (that's what she thought the slurpee was called.)

Sunday

                                   

                                                      I love Emma's face in this photo

jack

                              Jack's blessing day, this is the best family photo we could get
                                                         first little smile on camera
                                          not too happy, but looking cute all dressed up
                                       the kids dressed in some cute Halloween clothes

Just to be fair, I thought I should add some pictures of Jack too!  

This photo was suppose to be with the last post, but I couldn't get it to download for some reason.  

Little Miss Princess

Emma has definitely entered the Princess phase.  She is obsessed with Ariel, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and anything to do with princesses.  She would like to live in a princess dress.  She likes to eat, sleep and play in them.  I love it, I think it is so cute seeing her all dressed up, although she is not as sweet and angelic as she looks.  Actually, she's kind of a monster lately... so it's a good thing she's cute!  I've always wanted to take her to Disneyland while she is little, now I can't wait. She would have so much fun meeting the princesses.  Hopefully she is still in the Princess phase by the time we can actually afford to go to Disneyland!  In the meantime, the Cinderella and Little Mermaid dvd's are helping to keep me sane.