Some light reading

On our last trip to the Provo DI Samantha figured out how to take the price tags off the books (she loves stickers) and put them on her face. We left quickly when I noticed her face covered in .50 cent stickers. :)

Samantha loves to 'read' the books with her face shoved into the middle but, only after carefully selecting the one with the most intriguing cover.



She threw a big fit as I was trying to take her out of the store-she is getting really good at these lately. Her fits usually go something like this: first she slowly lowers herself to the ground (as to not hurt herself) and then she kicks her legs and waves her arms and of course cries really loud. Then if it is really bad, she rolls on to her stomach (again, slowly) and kicks her legs and hits the ground with her fists, continuing with the crying. **I keep telling her this is not allowed until AFTER her second birthday which isn't for another 3 months!

Goose Egg Club

I was just talking about how most kids Mantha's age fall and get hurt all the time, and thinking to myself 'their parents must not watch their kids very well'. Well, today Mantha tripped pretty bad and joined the 'goose egg' club. So sad. Am I a bad parent?

We love to wii

We got a wii from Benj's work for Christmas and love to play it!
It was so fun to watch Grandma and Grandpa Anderton bowl and box each other, they are pretty competitive and would yell at each other and the T.V., Grandpa got a birdie on his first hole when he golfed!

Wii lovers come in all ages!

PINK!

Samantha has the cutest pink hooded towel that was hanging in her bathroom one day and I thought to myself 'that would be a cute color on the wall'. By the following day I had purchased, prepped, and halfway painted the bathroom that color: pink.

Here it is. In no way am I trying to show you how good I am with decorating, in fact, I'm quite sure once you see this you will know how much I lack in that department. (Jen and Elisa got all those genes, by the time I came along they were all used up.) I am just still a little proud of myself for being so spontaneous with choosing the color. I am going to decorate with yellow and blue and hopefully it will be a bright, fun bathroom for Mantha!

Work or Play?

I just had to post these of my Dad!
He goes out every snow storm and plows the driveway (which if you have seen it-well it's long), then he plows many of the neighbors' driveways and the circle. It takes him several hours to plow. One time he even drove his 4-wheeler down to Elisa's house (about a mile away) on main street and did her driveway for her. He is always doing things like that.....love ya Daddy.

Our quilt...as promised

Here are the pictures of the quilt we made as promised. Elisa did the quilting, that is the best part I don't know if you can see it on the pictures. It was a very long day. But, it turned out pretty cute don't ya think?

Mantha's sleeping pill

Benj had to work 24/7 this weekend and I took Mantha up to my parents to get out of his way. We made a beautiful quilt in less than 24 hours (from buying fabric to quilting) for my cousin (Jevonne McDonald's) wedding shower. Elisa quilted it on her new quilting machine. (I will post a picture soon.)
The first night we were in Farmington I put Mantha on my Dad's lap when he got home from work so I could cut fabric out with my Mom, and before we knew it she was sound asleep! The next two nights she climbed up on his lap while he watched some sporting event and stayed there until she was asleep. My Dad was so proud, he called himself Mantha's "sleeping pill". He was concerned when I left about me being able to put her to sleep without him. I told him he would just have to come live at my house for the next few years. He sure enjoys his grandkids and is so good with them. My Mom says that he always scares them at first and then they get used to his weirdness, and remember when they see him 'oh, Grandpa is just weird'. She sure loves him.

Messy Pro-biotics

Samantha has a yogurt a day to keep the infections away. :)
She has had some pretty serious infections get into her gut (one in particular called C-Diff) and once it's been in there it can come back very easily. So she needs to get pro-biotics every day either by pill (Culturelle) or by yogurt. This has been routine in our house for a long time and hasn't been messy until she has started to feed herself which has just been in the past few months. I have been awaiting the time for her to want to feed herself and not that it's here: feeding takes a lot longer, multiple baths a day are no longer the exception, multiple outfits a day are common again too (I thought that was just an infant thing), but we love watching her learn and grow. How can you not love this kid, she is so darn cute!!!

Cabelas

We love to go to Cabela's, not to shop but to see all the animals, and teach the little ones how to shoot them.









They even sell pink guns for kids! Yea!!



Born and raised Delta boys and their sweet little girls gettin' some target practice.


This is a REAL "antler" shot of Samantha as a joke, big no-no in photography and one of my biggest pet peeves (when an object is sticking out of someone's head in the background, and makes it look like they have antlers though usually is a pole or something.)

Love the Snow

We don't take Samantha out in the snow nearly enough, when we do, she loves it! She just keeps walking around tripping every few steps and sticking her hands in to eat some. She tries to climb the slide and get in to the swing (that is her favorite when it's warm), and she gets frustrated that it isn't the same with snow everywhere. She never wants to go inside once we've let her out. After we've been out for a while we take her back in cause she is freezing and she screams for a long time! Every time!

Nebulizer

Sorry I haven't posted for such a long time! Our camera broke right after Christmas and it took us a while to get another one....ya know that silly money stuff.
Samantha was also sick for like 3 weeks in January. I just thought it was normal cold stuff that kids get at this time of year. When I took her in to her 18 month well visit her doctor said she had a very bad ear infection and her lungs sounded very bad. She had Mantha do a treatment there in the office to see if it would help her lungs (which took 15 minutes and Mantha SCREAMED and KICKED the entire time.....I was sweating after the longest 15 minutes of my life.) Anyway, it did help her lungs so she sent us home with antibiotics and a prescription for a nebulizer to continue the treatments at home 3x/day.
Samantha soon got used to it and if she watched a movie during treatments she was very calm, I think she could feel that they helped her breathe better.
Meanwhile we started her antibiotics and predictably they gave her diarrhea, so we added some aniti-D meds while the doctors hoped that she was absorbing the antibiotics.
Can I just say that I love our pediatrician Marcie Conner in AF. She watches Mantha so close and when something happens like this, even though it might not be a big deal for most kids, she calls almost nightly from her home to check on us. It has saved Mantha's life before and she catches things that others would miss.

New Years

Our good friends from Ogden came to our house for New Years and the girls spent the night playing games and the boys spent the night playing 'Rock Band'. We took turns with the kids, but they played pretty well together.
Here we are at midnight yelling "happy new year" and watching the firworks....ya the kids stayed up too.











We also exchanged gifts for Christmas and they gave Mantha this cutest dress!

















The next day Rusty made us BBQ chicken wings with special sauce (from Wingers) they were soooo good!




This is my first video clip on my blog! Yea!

Harper and Mantha:
She knows just what she is doing, you'd think her Mom sat her down every day and did this to her or something.