Sorry to those who may be tired of our recent video dump, but I just can’t help but post two more that I took today. 
Here is a video of Charlotte singing a song about Ila while Ila accompanies her on the rattle:

And here’s a video of Ila laughing:

Posted on July 31st, 2010 by Kathleen
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This is a picture of Charlotte in the kid-size doll house at the Oak Ridge Children’s Museum. The kids had a great time running around in this thing.

Posted on July 30th, 2010 by Zach
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Posted on July 29th, 2010 by Kathleen
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I heard some noises that made me think Nicole was having some trouble, when I opened the door to her room, this is what I found:

Posted on July 28th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Ok people, I want some advice.  What do you do about nose picking and has your solution decreased the frequency of this behavior?  I think anyone with a kid who has both fingers and a nose will at some point find the fingers in the nose.  It’s embarrassing and gross.  One time in church one [...]

Posted on July 28th, 2010 by Kathleen
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The process of getting this van completely ready for me to drive has been a little frustrating, but we’re almost there. Its a 2002 Ford Windstar.  We ended up with a newer model of the same van (we had a 1995).  We didn’t plan to get the same thing, it just worked out that way [...]

Posted on July 24th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Here is a song that Charlotte made up about her sisters this morning.

Charlotte talks about sisters

Posted on July 24th, 2010 by Kathleen
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I took this video of Nicole using her walker this morning

Later, I turned on So You Think You Can Dance while I fed Ila and Nicole just got up and started dancing in circles without her walker

And finally, this last one is just for fun.

Posted on July 23rd, 2010 by Kathleen
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Awhile ago I was evaluating our books to determine which ones to keep and I came across this tattered old book.  It was missing all of the little characters that slide into little slots throughout the book.  It seemed like the perfect candidate for the trash, but I got an idea to adapt the [...]

Posted on July 20th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Lets face it, that hour of Sacrament meeting is challenging on Sunday morning when you have young children, possibly when you have older children too, but I don’t know about that yet.  I spend a lot of time and energy fretting about how I can keep my children in their seats behaving well and [...]

Posted on July 19th, 2010 by Kathleen
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For some reason, Charlotte has advanced the following theory more than once, but this last time that she said it, I wrote it down (maybe two weeks ago).
“Ila thought I was a boy when she was in your tummy and when she was born and saw me walking, she was so happy to see [...]

Posted on July 15th, 2010 by Kathleen
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I finally got around to scanning this picture. This picture shows the break best, but you can see more here.

Posted on July 15th, 2010 by Kathleen
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I was trying to take a new video of Nicole moving around with her new cast on, but she didn’t really go anywhere.  She just kind of wiggled around.  I did however capture her trying to read this book filled with addition and subtraction problems. 

I didn’t know that she recognized numbers yet, but whether [...]

Posted on July 14th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Charlotte and Paul have been the best of friends.  They have played together almost continuously since Paul arrived. They shared some frosted cookie.  Charlotte told Paul that if you mix the blue frosting with the yellow frosting you would get green frosting.Their fingers and mouths were not the only thing that became that bright blue [...]

Posted on July 14th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Here are some videos that I took of Nicole learning to move with her leg splint:

Here she does some climbing:

Here is a still picture with her cast: So far she seems much happier in the cast.  I think it’s less painful for her.

Posted on July 12th, 2010 by Kathleen
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We’ve been on the phone detailing injuries to families for the last few days, but I know we have some close friends and family members who get their updates here, so for the benefit of them and for our written record, I will write the details of the injuries sustained during our car accident on [...]

Posted on July 11th, 2010 by Kathleen
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