Projects and Other things

Curt got a new multi-use tool and has been having a blast making things. There is a place in our basement where people throw out old furniture. He has raided it for wood and made some cool things.

Fun race car

Fancy laundry basket/sorter with wheels (have to go to the 3rd floor to do laundry)

Toy box for June (doubles as a cool crib for her dolls....and her)

Anson has joined in some fun poker games

June is GREAT at dressing up lately. Very grown up. She can put her own clothes on too (sometimes needs help putting things over her head is all)

Reading bedtime stories to her baby in her "cave"

My new toy (look forward to more posts of it). It's a burley biking/jogging/etc. stroller

June loves to pick clothes off the rack and hold them in front of her to see if they look great.

She's just too sweet.

The Winter Continues

Sweet siblings

Grocery shopping (and loving my stroller carrying both kids)

The way Anson wakes up. He can break any swaddle somehow. He also wakes up smiling, just like his Daddy always did.

Grandma Venita, June, Anson and I went to the Intrepid museum. It was pretty neat. I look forward to going back a day it isn't raining so we can check out the other decks.

Since it was safari day of kids' week they had a bunch of great crafts. June made this bird mask. She is becoming really great at crafts.

Anson at the museum

Fun treat after the museum (mommy's free pinkberry birthday sundae)

Love it when she falls asleep holding things!

Stopping for a pink donut one day. Sometimes you just have to.

Curt and I saw The Saratov Approach in the theater by Times Square (showed only 1 day). After the show the director/writer, producer, actor and 2 missionaries answered questions. It was pretty incredible. Another cool NY perk. I'd like to go to more things like this. It is so neat to talk to the creators after seeing a film.

Poconos

We went on a family road trip to the Poconos (in PA). I got a great deal for a family resort so we rented a car and took off. We were gone Tuesday morning through Saturday afternoon. Our trip was supposed to end on Friday but we had such a great time we extended it 1 night.

Listened to (and sang to) during the drive

Naptime in our room

Playing in the snow

Tubing (June was a little scared)

Ice skating on the pond

How Anson spent most of the vacation

The amazing swimming complex (this is such a small part of it. It was wonderful!)

June made a guitar at Arts & Crafts time and carried it ALL week singing. She had a lot of fans. She most often sang "Silent Night."

We entered the gingerbread wars contest. We arrived a few minutes late so they had us be our own group. The theme was "America." We got 1 slab of gingerbread and tickets to purchase frosting and candy. We had to incorporate doughnut holes and an apple into our project (secret ingredients).

Of 21 groups we won 1st place :) We have had a lot of gingerbread practice over the years as we make a house every year. Hooray for Mount Rushmore.

We ate leftovers one night. There was no way to heat it and I really preferred it warm. So ghetto...I don't know why I'm including it except that it is hilarious. The blowdryer did alright. A microwave is much better though.

Anson had a little cold when we left on Tuesday. It got worse and worse and worse. Neither he nor I slept at all on Thursday night. I was worried, he was working too hard to breathe...and we finally decided we needed to take him in. I debated all day Thursday how bad he actually was. On Friday about 6am we drove to the ER that was about 20 minutes away (of course there had been a snowstorm all night...glad Curt grew up driving in Utah snow).

Anson had a temperature (101.9) and bronchiolitis and tested positive for RSV :( Because he was still eating well and his sats were okay (like 93% I think?) they sent us home with a nebulizer/albuterol and said take care. I could be frustrated we went because he didn't need to be admitted...but the albuterol acutally made a big difference and I was able to stop worrying (we knew what was wrong and that he was on the uphill). Sometimes the unknown is the worst. The poor guy coughed SO hard and his lungs sounded terrible (I borrowed the EMT's stethoscope at the resort--hearing his lungs made me worry more than anything. He was so cheerful it was hard to believe he sounded so poor. I was glad he didn't have pneumonia.)

Fun fish nebulizer. He actually liked it.

Dessert on Valentine's (lunch when we got back from the ER...)

June's favorite activities: puppets after Arts & Crafts (pretending to sleep with them) and the toddler toy room.

  

June called this statue her "friend." He was in some random corner of the lobby and June ran to him and gave him hugs and held his hand every time.