Crafty

I've been feeling rather crafty today. Maybe it's because the sun WAS out, or maybe it's because my back is feeling so much better, or maybe because there is real hope of getting my van back today. ( 5 school days with out my van and shuttling EVERYONE to and from work and school has been, not bad, I mean I am so glad we DO have 2 cars, it's just been a lot of time in the car.)

So this morning I tried to once again shake up breakfast by adding blue food coloring to the pancake batter. While I was cooking it it looked so gross! Like I was cooking play dough.

Cedar really liked them, he even took an extra in his lunch to show his friends. Aspen grudgingly ate one, one crumb at a time. (I think she was holding out for the freezer kind.) And Olive found them interesting to tear apart and see the blue on the inside. Hmmm, I don't know if I'll do that again. Maybe for Cedar's birthday.

Then we were at Walmart and found candy canes for $.20. I had just seen a post over at make and take about doing candy cane words. So Olive and I tried it. It was really fun. What we did was spray a cookie sheet, because I didn't have parchment paper, unwrap the candy canes and figure out what letter we were going to make and arrange them on the cookie sheet so that all I would have to do was push them together. ; They are only movable for a minute or so. So it helps to be quick. Then put them in a 250* oven for 5 min. Make and take said 10 min, and we tried that first, but by 10 min they were very flat and cooled too quickly.
We had fun playing games with the letters in Olive's name until the E broke. I would mix up the letters and she would try to put them back in order. Once, she spelled her name totally backwards.
We made hearts too by putting 2 candy canes together. Olive is going to make valentines cards to go with them.

This wasn't from today, but yesterday's post was somehow messed up that I thought I would re-post the "cookie making" that Olive and I did last week.
I had found a scrap of fleece, and it reminded me of some play food that I had seen online that was home made. I did a little search and found some directions for making "sugar cookies." Olive has also been feeling really crafty lately so I got it all ready so we could make them after nap time. I traced circles (2 sizes of cups) onto the fleece and cut them into pairs so she wouldn't get overwhelmed.

Olive cut the circles out while I stiched the "sprinkles" on.
She wanted to try doing the sprinkles and did a pretty good job! Then I sewed the circles together. I didn't put any stuffing in them because all I had was old quilt batting and I didn't want to mess with it. I used a zig zag stitch and then I had to re-trim the circles. But the turned out really cute.
And we did have fun having cookies and lemonaid!

Catching up

It has been a while. My excuse is that my back went out Friday along with my transmission (on the van. Though, I'm sure if I had a transmission, it would go out too.) So this is what we have been doing. Photo journal style.

This was the super yummy pizza we made. Jonathon had his own wheat free version that I'm sure was equally as tasty, but not quite so beautiful! (Yep, I'm bragging.) It's the 5 a day the color way pizza. It has zucchini, summer squash, green pepper, turkey peperoni, purple onions, pineapple, pear, peach (yes, you read it right. The fresh kind, not from a can.) and mushroom. add a little cheese, put it all o">n a whole wheat premade crust and it was font>sooooooooooELLING_ERROR_3">ooooo

9am

9°F Feels Like -1°F

So, now that I've written this, I am betting that my heat will go out tonight, just for kicks so I can remember just how cold 7* is. In all honesty though, I have grown quite soft in the south. I love the snow and playing in it, but really, I'm ready for spring!

Quota

I guess fate decided that our family hadn't had our quota of the throw up bug this season so she decided to give us a healthy dose of it last night.

About midnight I hear a commotion upstairs. I was reaching for my glasses when Aspen hurries into our room saying that Olive is throwing up or something. I rush upstairs and sure enough, there is Olive covered in throw up and trying to finish up. Poor girl. It took her about 10 min. to finish. She was heaving and heave/burping and she still wasn't fully awake enough to realize what was happening. When she was finished I stripped her down and got her in the tub. She was a mess. I went into her room to get her some jammies and Jonathon had the bed stripped and taken care of. I didn't even know that he was awake, but I was so grateful that he had taken care of that. The smell was starting to get to me.

We took Olive down stairs and I got her a little drink and a cracker while Jonathon put together the cot so she could sleep in our room. I found Aspen hiding in my bed with her fingers in her ears asking if she was done throwing up. For as amazingly intelligent as Aspen is, I don't think she will ever make it as a nurse. I am so glad that she was there though. I don't know how long it would have taken me to realize that the commotion wasn't just someone going to the bathroom.

We had just gotten her bed made and put her in it (I am talking a second, maybe) when she threw up again. Luckily she didn't get it on her jammies, and luckily it didn't go through all of the layers to the cot, but up we all got again and while Jonathon got new bed sheets and Jammies I cleaned Olive and the bed up, again.

This time we didn't have to bathe her, but I did put her hair in braids so that if she threw up again it wouldn't get in her hair. I got her another little drink and cracker and we headed back to bed. This time it was about 10 min and there she goes again. Third time is the charm though. This time she got all of it in the bowl so there wasn't much to clean up. I was convinced now that this was the throw up bug so I gave her one of those magic throw up pills that we had from the trip home. Thankfully, it did it's magic and she was throw up free the rest of the night.

Now, we are waiting. Have we met the quota for this season? It seems that the smell got to Jonathon too. He had a hard time deciding if he was sick or not. I don't think he got much sleep. Olive and I took a nice nap and she seems Ok now (this is always deceitful, they always seem ok, right up until they start to throw up.) But for the moment, we are happy to be in our Jammies, playing play dough at 2:30 in the afternoon.

I want to look like you mom!

Saturday night was our night to play "beauty shop." I told the girls that they were desperately in need of a trim. Olive went first and I asked her how she wanted it cut. she said, "I want to look like you mom."

"What?"
"I want short hair, like you!"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes. I want to look like you."
In, out, breathe. Everyone knows that when Aspen was little I kept her hair pretty short and she had bangs. I wish now that I hadn't, though she was a super cute little girl no matter how her hair looked. When Olive came along I didn't even put scissors to her hair until she was 2 1/2. She has just a hint of curl in her brown hair. I love her hair! Aspen, poor girl, got my straighter than a ruler hair. She'll probably get grey hair at 16 like I did too. But Olive...That touch of curl had me. So when she asked for short hair (by the way, this isn't the first time she has asked.) I gave in. I figured that we had just had Allison take her picture and we had just had family pictures taken and her hair grows fast, so, OK. I'll do it.


She really likes it. It is easier to brush and she can keep it out of her eyes with her ears so she doesn't have to have it "done" every day. I miss the long hair though. The good news is...The curl is still there. Just a hint. Phew.Aspen is of coarse another story. She won't let a "real" person do hers. (We're not real.) It's either Jonathon or I and that's it. We can take no more than is absolutely necessary, and stay away from the bangs area. She is quite the cutey with her super straight hair and toothless grin!


****Update****
Emily, who was doing wonderfully ended up, can you guess it? Back in the ER in Rock Springs. She had another spinal tap and though her white blood cell count is back to normal there is still a lot of pressure. The good news is that she was only perscribed some medication and she was back home by the afternoon. What a ride!
(And if you didn't notice, Like I sometimes don't, I just posted another post right below this one, so keep on reading.)