Dr. Seuss' Birthday

March 2, 1904 Theodore Seuss Geisel was born. He was  the most imaginative children's writers who ever lived. We have been celebrating his birthday for the last few years and it is so much fun.

Target had a special event for his birthday and read some of Dr. Seuss' books. All the kids got a fun bag and some treats too.

Of course we took some pictures in front of the fun storybook.

McKenna stayed home with Daddy, but she did not like the mustache at all.

We had a crazy colorful lunch to celebrate and it totally threw the kids off. Finally they realized that it tasted the same as regular mac n' cheese and ate it.

I decorated the kitchen for lunch with balloons and streamers. It was fun.

Some of our favorite books of Dr. Seuss.

We also did a crazy hair day! Brooklynn loves it!

My little Cheeser!

McKenna didn't want anything to do with the wacky Mac so she just had plain old orange.

Watching Horton Hears a Who!

For dinner we had One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish! YUM!

The kids liked this one.

We made twirly colorful chocolate suckers.

We had a fun colorful bubble bath. (Pinterest). You start the bath with bubbles and then put glow sticks in the water. It was Awesome. The pictures don't do it justice.

The kids LOVED it!

At bedtime the kids got a new book to celebrate reading!

We had a great Dr. Seuss Day!

My little ♥Sweethearts♥

My little cuties!


For the kids Valentine cards we took their
pictures!
Brooklynn's says 'Be My Valentine'
Cameron's says 'Don't be a Nerd, Be My Valentine.'
McKenna's says 'Lil' Sweetheart'

Ryan's poster board Valentine from me. Kinda "nerdy" but oh well.

The kids got some little gifts from us for Valentines.

 They each got a new shirt, $1 sunglasses(love Target's one spot)

They got a new book and a little something extra as well. Cameron, as you can see got underwear.

My favorite Valentine hairdo is the heart shaped little bun thing. So cute!

It was fun being at Brooklynn's class helping with the games. She had a lot of fun and liked having me there. I enjoyed being there as well!

That night we decorated some sugar cookies!

They all enjoyed eating them! YUMMY!

♥I am so thankful for my cute little family and my husband whom I have loved for a very long time. This was our 11th Valentines Day together and I am more in love today!♥

Random January-February

In the winter we read lots and lots of books. Especially on cold winter days. McKenna loves books like the rest of us do.

Dressing up is always a fun past time at our house.

We celebrated the Chinese New Year again this year with some home-made Sweet and Sour Chicken, white rice, egg rolls and poki sticks. YUM! One of our favorite dinners.

For the Chinese New Year we also watched Mulan and talked about chinese traditions.

Cameron was still recovering from surgery and then he got sick with the flu. It was horrible. Poor kid threw up so much. Luckily he learned what to do and usually made it to the bathroom. He was so dehydrated. He watched a lot of movies.

Brooklynn changed from morning Kindergarten to afternoon Kindergarten. She did so much better and made a lot of friends the first day of school. With in a couple days she was even riding the bus by herself. So proud of her and glad she is doing better in school.

Hard start to the new year

Our new year started out with some bad news about my cousin. She had passed away. Although she grew up in California and I am 3 years older it was still devastating. The one thing I always noticed about her is she was always smiling and happy. It was a very unexpected death and hard on her family and friends.

Brooklynn was so sweet and they had flower petals to put on the grave for the kids.

My dad and his 4 brothers and 1 sister haven't all been together in one place in over 11 years since my grandma passed away. (Patricia, Tim, Randy, Grandpa Dennis, Dad, Larry and RD)

Me and my girls at the funeral. Ryan had to work and Cameron had just had his surgery so he stayed with Grandma and Grandpa Oldroyd.

My grandpa Budd also had some hardships and ended up in the hospital. To my family, my grandpa seems like he would just live on forever. He is 92 and this really is the first time he has not been able to do all his normal stuff like mow the lawn, drive himself to doctor apts or even the store and so forth. Since this visit to the hospital in January he has since been to the hospital 2 additional times.

My grandparents love is eternal and a love that is so sweet. I have always looked up to them. We love you guys!

I remember when these two events happened I said that I had a feeling this would be a hard year. A lot has happened, but we have gotten through it all. My grandparents health are both not doing great and I lived with them from the time I was 10 years old until I got married. When my parents had to work my grandparents were always there taking care of us. When I came home from school because I was sick, my grandma would come and get me. Over the last 7 years I have sat for countless hours talking with them about WWII and my grandpa has worked with me to get his story told. It has been a joy and I have loved seeing his face light up when ever we would read over what was written. I love them so much!

Cameron's surgery

Cameron had some problems sleeping for awhile. We had seen a few doctors and they decided to take out his tonsils and adnoids and possible SMR. A few days before his surgery my fingernail accidentally scratched Cam's eye. I took him to the Insta care and poor kid did have a scratch.

He was so brave and since with the prescription I got a free gift card at Target Cameron picked out a new toy.

Cameron had to have his surgery at Primary Children's (not Riverton), since he was so young and his surgery involved breathing issues. He loved the little playroom while we waited.

And of course found toys everywhere we went. Poor Cam did not want the medicine (Versed). Poor kid screamed and cried. Since then (about 5 1/2 months ago) he will not take any medicine. Sad for him and me.

He did calm down and watched Finding Nemo while he waited.

Surgery went well. They did have to do the SMR (It's like a rotor rooter for the nose). The Allergist and the ENT both said that he will probably have more SMR surgeries in his life since he has some allergies. (I will get to that in another post.) Poor kids hated this. Right when he woke up he just freaked out and ripped out his IV. I came in about a minute later and he was calm by then, but just started crying when he saw me. It is so hard for someone so little who just didn't understand.

Cameron recovered really well. He did way better than Brooklynn did with hers. The next day he was eating potatoe chips. The doctor said it was fine as long as he felt okay with it going down. He pretty much ate normal except the fact that he ate small amounts and just several times in the day. Cameron would not take any medicine at all. By the 3rd day I was injecting it in his jell-o, applesauce, cereal... whatever I could. He always ate it all and then the next time he wanted to eat wouldn't eat it again. For example if I put it in apple sauce the next time he was hungry he would say, "I hungry, I not want applesauce." After a day or so he could eat it again. I think it was the after taste or effects, since it made him sleepy. But he sure is my tough kid.

He would fall asleep all over the place. The weird thing is he didn't sleep as much as he did before surgery. Because he had big adnoids and tonsils he had sleep apnea and couldn't breath. So his sleep was constantly interupted so he was always tired sleeping about 13 hours at night and 3 hour naps during the day. Now he was sleeping 11-12 hours at night and about 1-2 hour naps.

Seriously I love this kid!

He hated his medicine. I am not exactly sure what was happening in this picture. I think Brooklynn took it. I am so glad he is doing better now and about 5 months later is now sleeping 11 hours at night and about every 2 days he might take a nap for an hour or so.