Week 31: 212-218

What I am grateful for or made me happy this week:

212.  Cute Kid Christmas Programs!

213.  Thankful that my son is ALIVE!

No seriously... he should at the very least have a broken bone!

I now have a climber... a very good climber.

He is 14 months old and can climb to the top of a ladder.

We have a ladder that goes up to the top bunk for the girls.  

All of a sudden one day I go in their room and he is on the top rung.

So I got rid of the ladder & the girls have to climb up the sides now.

A few days later I wasn't thinking (obviously) and left a ladder up after I finished decorating my tree. 

A 10 foot ladder.

(I was waiting for Joey to get out of the shower to help me take it down & to the garage)

I come back in the room to find my baby up 6 rungs-

Seriously HIGHER than my head!!!!

I calmly took him down (though I am FREAKING inside) 

then immediately get rid of the ladder.

I have to WATCH this kid!!!  

But amazingly he didn't fall!

(this isn't the ladder I was talking about but you can see big sister pulling

baby brother off the ladder in the bottom of this picture

214. Christmas crafts with the kids.
It was fun... but I'm not so sure about glitter... it is ALL over!

215.  Love these!
Especially Hazelnut ones.
I had to look at 3 stores before I found these.
I only allow myself to buy them once a year.

216.  Another seasonal favorite.
I love Costco's the best.
Huge, only $6.
Must be real whipped cream though!

217.  Savannah:
"Mom, we should read our scriptures everyday.
That's what Abraham Lincoln said."
What?
"I mean, President Eyring."
Love it!
I'm choosing to be more inspired than guilt-ridden that my children
have to remind us to read the scriptures everyday.

218.  Sudoku.
Just downloaded an app for it
and now I play it a lot.
I am not very good though...
any secrets out there for me?

Week 30: 205-211

Things that made me grateful or happy this week:

205. My little boy is so cute!  

He loves to get items of clothing (anything... including underwear) 

and put them on his head or neck.

206. S made her little puppy "Bugga Boy"

into a pirate!

Complete with eye patch and sword (check out his right-our left-paw)

207.  This child has refused to be spoon fed since the day I first 

tried to start feed him solids.

Here he is acting like a big boy on a regular chair, at the regular table,

with grown up plates and forks.  

208. Can't get enough of my kid's artwork.

(Though I take pictures of them so I can get rid of them...

I can get enough of storing the artwork).

 209.  Couldn't get a good picture, 

but I am so happy about my Christmas tree this year!
Got a new pre-lit tree & some new ornaments
and I feel like I finally have a "grown-up" tree
instead of the junky one with hand-me-down ornaments
that I've had our whole marriage.

210.  Despite what may seem to be my complaining above about my old ornaments...

I love my kids' homemade ones!

I will always put them on my tree and have them help me decorate!
(and they definitely helped me decorate this one-- so it's not looking too designer, but we love it!)

As we were decorating S said several times how much she loved our family time decorating!

Me too!

211.  I adore watching the LDS First Presidency Christmas Devotional

(watch or listen here)

Love the words from our Prophet and his counselors 

and I need to bring Christ more into this Christmas!!!!