Pop Goes the Monkey

January is almost over…fortunately, Adam has been taking tons of pictures with his new camera.  These are just a few of the pictures but sometimes I like pictures better than reading so I will let them speak for themselves.

This year we had family come out for Christmas. My mom, dad, and sister flew out from Wisconsin to visit for a week.  The time just flew by! Hopefully they had fun as we had fun having them here, especially the kids. Cassie got a doll house from Santa and Peter got a train set that we have been having fun playing with among other new toys. On Christmas day we did presents here, then went to Adam’s mom where we were able to catch the entire family, then Kathleen’s, back to our house, and back to Adam’s mom’s again. Whoever wishes for a white Christmas must not be driving from house to house all day on Christmas.  But you don’t really want to read about it, you just want pictures! so let’s see what we have…

Can you guess what our kids were for Halloween? We started the season off by going to the Red Barn in Santaquin to buy our pumpkins with Adam’s mom, 2 sisters, sister-in-law, and niece. They take you on a little hay ride out to a pumpkin patch where you get to go find the ones you want and then you ride back where they weigh them. They also have super yummy fresh donuts with other goodies and a little country store. Adam wanted me to make sure that I mentioned he picked his right off the vine although he didn’t. The pumpkins had clearly already been cut and just set out throughout the patch. Then we had a few Halloween parties. First a week ago we did a trunk or treat and chili cook off with our ward. Thursday Cassie had a Halloween party at preschool and then we went to Adam’s work where they had more trick or treating. I am going to say that Peter is pretty much a momma’s boy and doesn’t like to leave my side but when there is candy involved he is everywhere. he wanted to stick everything in his mouth and kept wandering away. Plus he would linger at a candy bowl forever and cried whenever we put a piece of candy in his bucket and didn’t let him hold it. This afternoon we carved our pumpkins, one for each of us, and then Adam took the kids out trick or treating while I stayed home and tried to do the dishes in between the doorbell. The kids were Peter Pan and Tinker Bell which was actually Cassie’s idea originally. She loves reading books with names that she knows. She has a book called Pinkalicious that is actually really cute and the girl has a brother named Peter which she loves. Here are a few pictures of our Halloween adventures.

I haven’t been able to figure out how to save pictures from the camera onto the computer so I just had Adam load the ones from the last 2 months onto it for me. I don’t have time to put a lot up but I will put 1 or 2 up from Grandpa. My dad bought Peter a pair of overalls (I think it might be the first baby clothing he has ever bought) so here is a picture of him wearing them. (He’s holding an empty cough drop bag, I don’t really know why, and yes, our house is messy. that is the cleanest spot I could find upstairs)

So, July is almost over and we had a good/busy one. Peter’s birthday was a little over a week ago so I’m a little late on this but better late than never, right? The town we live in has Fiesta Days every July, usually right around Peter’s birthday and his birthday was the opening night of the carnival so we took the kids there. Unfortunately, Peter has been getting some new teeth so he wasn’t feeling great that day. Then on Friday we went to the parade with the McGhie’s and on Saturday we went up to the cabin for a little family birthday party. I will say that I will never again order a birthday cake from Albertson’s. I haven’t had the best luck this month with our orders. When I went to get Peter’s it was decorated wrong so they had to take off the icing and re-do it. I had ordered a Pixar car’s cake and it was a generic one. Oh well. The kids are playing together right now so hopefully I have time to pull some pictures off the camera. And of course I threw in a couple of baby ones just to show how much he has grown.

Speaking of growing, I must add that we took him to the doctor the day after his birthday and he is tiny. He was born at 7 pounds 1 ounce which was a decent size, especially for being 3 weeks early but he is tall and skinny. He currently weighs in at 18-1/2 pounds and 31.5 inches which puts him in the 4th percentile for weight and 75th for height.

So we started off the birthday celebrations Friday morning with a party outside. Since Cassie’s friends range from 18 months to 12 we just had some kids over for cake and did a pinata. Then on Monday morning Adam and I both worked that morning but had the afternoon together. We spontanoeusly decided to take her along with a couple of neighbor kids to Jumping Jacks to play. She had so much fun and hopefully Cambry and Winston did too. Then we had Grandma and Grandpa DeMarco, Ang, Sophie, and Emilie over. We finished the evening with a princess cake. I think it was a pretty good day for Cassie overall.

Our little girl turned 3 yesterday which seems just crazy! I have tons and tons of pictures from her birthday to post but I can’t find the camera cord right now. I did however want to wish her a happy birthday and put up some old pictures of her until I find the cord so enjoy! Hopefully I will find the cord soon to add the new pictures. I can’t believe how much she has grown from the little 5 pound 13 ounce baby to a big 3-year-old! We love you Cassie!

We went to the cabin for both Memorial Day and then the weekend after that. Most of this pictures Adam’s sister Sophie took and they are from Memorial Day. A few are from the weekend after that we took but I have to say Sophie got a lot of good ones that I hope she doesn’t mind me putting them on here. Cassie and Peter’s cousins Rocco and Reggie were up there both times too and she had a TON of fun with them. We will have to get them together again soon. Cassie got to roast marshmallows over the fire and sleep next to Angie and play the whole time. We will have to go back again soon.

So, Peter had an accident on Friday afternoon. Actually, a couple of accidents but one resulted in stitches. We actually started off with injuries last week when Cassie got her hand stuck in the side door on the van. Our van has automatic doors and it actually has sensors so she can’t get her hand stuck in the front of the door. However, she was touching the door while it closed and somehow managed to get her hand stuck in the back of the door if that makes sense. And the best part is that I didn’t realize it at first. I thought she was crying because she didn’t want to come inside and I kept telling her we would come back out later. Finally she yelled she was stuck and I felt HORRIBLE. Her hand was swollen and bleeding and scratched. Thankfully, our doctor’s office does urgent care too so I ran Peter next door to Steff’s and took Cassie to the doctor. We were lucky, her hand wasn’t broken and with the exception of her hand being sore for a few days she has been fine. She was actually most upset that Peter got to go next door to Winston and Charlie’s house and she didn’t get to.

So, then we get to this week. On Friday morning we were playing downstairs and Cassie has a little chair that had been pushed over by the coffee table. Peter has been crawling over everything later. If the chair is pushed up by the couch he can crawl up from it onto the couch. So, he was playing on the chair and I was cleaning the kitchen, not even really thinking about it, and I heard a slam and crying. I ran over and he had pushed the chair into the coffee table and banged his head. Thankfully, he just had a little bruise forming on his nose and forehead. I actually talked to Adam a little bit after it happened and said not to be surprised if he had a black eye when he got home because he had banged his head. So, I pulled the chair further from the table and we went on with our day. An hour later after lunch we were playing in the family room again. Cassie and I were playing with some toy and Peter was crawling around again. All of a sudden, I heard a large crack again and looked up…the chair had been pushed back by the table and he had hit his head again. This time it was gushing blood though.

So, I ran over to Steff’s again, this time with Cassie and went to get into the car with Peter. Then I realized I couldn’t find my car keys. My neighbor Kristie was outside and I was panicking. I asked her to come in and help me look. We couldn’t find them so she offered to let me borrow her van. THANK YOU Kristie!!! (After Adam came home it took us over an hour to find my keys…they were stuck down in the couch cushions, not too sure how that happened). I drove Peter to the doctor’s office and they cleaned him up and decided he would need stitches. I know I cried more during it than he did. Hopefully this will never happen again. Here are some pictures.

We are having a shoe party at our house this Thursday night at 6:30 (open house style) for anyone who is interested. I went to one at my friend’s Beckee’s awhile ago and found a pair of sandals that is not only cute but comfortable so naturally I now want a pair in every color. The shoes are priced between $5 and $30. I’m a little behind on invitations and didn’t get any mailed out and still have to pass out some in the neighborhood so if you didn’t get one and think you might be interested come on over. Nicole will also be here painting toenails for $3 a person. If you want to see some of the shoes click on this: http://shoeparty.blogspot.com They also have little girl shoes that are sooo cute! Hope to see you there!