Happy Halloween!!!

Jonas - MummyJaden - Wizard Kanani - Sparkle Fairy

E'en was an Orange Alligator. (Actutally a dinosaur but I didn't want to make another costume so I convinced him it was an alligator)We let Jaden and Jonas decide what to carve in the pumpkins this year. Of course they chose what they were being. A wizard and a mummy.

Hope every one had a

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Happy Birthday Kanani!

We can't believe Kanani is already 5!

She said she loved everything about her birthday,

but her favorite was the

Surprise

that she's going to have a

baby sister!

Kanani has been asking me to "make her hair black" for over a year now. So I finally decided to let her do it as an early birthday present. I know it's a little crazy to let your 4 year old dye her hair, but I thought it would be fun. My friend Amber got me the stuff and then gave me instructions on what to do. I was a little scared but attempted anyway. I think it turned out pretty good, an she absolutely loves it!!! I also think I did a pretty good job, especially for never dyeing hair before.

Must have been the good instructions.Getting ready to startPutting the dye inGot most of the dye in her hairWaiting for the dye to processAll done, our dark haired little girl!

Days of the Week according to Jaden

While we were in the car the other day Jaden said,

"Oh I know how all the days were named."

then he explained.

SONday = The SON, Jesus Christ

MONday = is all the MONey wicked king Laban stole

TWOsday = The TWO wicked brothers of Nephi

WHENsday = is WHEN Jesus was baptised

THIRDsday = on the THIRD day Jesus rose from the dead

FRIday = Is when french FRIES were invented

and

SATurday = Is when everyone just SAT all day.

I love the things my kids come up with!

Asthma Attack

Saturday night Jaden came in our room around 10:30 and told us he couldn't sleep. We could immediately tell he was struggling to breathe so we headed to Primary Children's Hospital. As soon as we got there the nurse took us right back they checked his oxygen and with in minutes he was getting breathing treatments. They gave him a triple dose of albuterol, that took about an hour. His breathing still wasn't improving any so they admitted us to the hospital. They deep suctioned him to do testing and make sure he didn't have the swine flu or any other type of flu. ( Which I thought was unnecessary because he had no symptoms of that. He never had a fever or any other signs of sickness.) And around 4:30 we finally got settled into a room upstairs. At 6:00am they took us to get x-rays to make sure he didn't have pneumonia or fluid on the lungs. Every thing came back negative, so they have no idea what triggered such a bad asthma attack. By this time we were exhausted. We weren't able to sleep all night or at all the next day. Albuterol makes you wired so Jaden just couldn't settle down enough to sleep. He was getting breathing treatments every 2 hours and still wasn't improving so they put him on oxygen, which only kept him on the borderline. After 40 hours of no sleep we finally crashed. We were so tiered we didn't even mind the uncomfortable beds. Jaden slept through all his treatments and monitors alarming. I was very grateful he was finally getting some sleep. Monday afternoon he was improving a bit so they let him come off of the oxygen to see how he'd do. He was able to breath okay all day and through the night so around 2:30 today we got discharged and got to come home.

Jaden didn't want to leave, he loved staying at the hospital. They did lots of crafts with him and he loved getting served what ever he wanted when ever he wanted. His nurse was awesome and such a great help. He'd take him on walks and take him to play so that I could shower or take quick naps, we couldn't have asked for anyone better. Jaden also kept pushing the call nurse button every 5 minutes and his nurse was very patient with him. I actually think he enjoyed it a little, they became good little friends pretty quick.

PS. Any of you girls I hung out with Friday or Saturday you have no need to worry. He was never sick or contagious with anything. He just had a really bad asthma attack.

A day with the Duckies

Yesterday when Kanani got home from school a Momma Duck and her 7 babies came wandering across the street and into our front yard. We couldn't figure out where they would have come from because there is no water anywhere around us. We called animal control and they said they wouldn't come and rescue them, they were actually really rude and said if they get killed oh well. We decided we weren't going to let that happen and that we would take them to the pond. The babies were easy to catch but Momma Duck wasn't cooperating. We filled up the kiddie pool and let the babies swim while we tried to catch Momma. The kids had so much fun playing with the ducks all day. We let all of them hold them and pet them. They were so much fun we even considered keeping one of them.

(Sorry about the pictures, our computer is acting up and ruining them)

Four hours later Jerm got the idea to lure her into our garage. We shut the door and about 10 minutes later Jerm and Danny came out with Momma and babies in the cage.

They had to throw a fishing net on her to get her into the cage. We took them to the Bountiful pond and let them go.It was so fun watching them swim away at the pond! And we were so glad we could help them make it there safely.

Dumb Animal control Jerks.

Way to go Kanani!

We tried teaching Kanani to ride a bike last fall, but she just didn't want to try. She would ride up or down the entire street by herself and then at the end she would burst in to tears and cry that she just couldn't do it. She could ride just fine she just didn't have the confidence. But today she decided it was time for her to be a big girl and ride her bike. It did take a little bribing at first but once she went she was off. I didn't think she'd do it so she's wearing a dress, and 2" clogs.

After she actually did it and kept going I made her change.Now there's no stopping her, she's riding all over the place. She's even doing sharp turns and can already turn around while riding when she gets too far up the street. Pretty impressive for the first day.

Still can't believe she's doing it, I never thought this day would come.

Love how her tongue is sticking out because she's concentrating.

(all of our kids do this, I actually do it as well, but don't tell anyone.)

Road Rage

Wednesday night we made a trip to the Insta-Care. Jonas and Jaden were going to go on a bike ride with Danny and the young men but Jonas crashed hard about 2 blocks into the ride. He hit his head pretty hard and had amnesia (luckily he was wearing a helmet or he would have been a lot worse off). It was scary, he didn't remember what had happened and kept asking the same questions over and over. He skinned up his face and both his front teeth went through his upper lip. I thought for sure he was going to have to get stitches but when they cleaned it out they said it was sticking back together and he wouldn't need any. He skinned all the skin off of his knuckles on his left hand and they thought it might be broken, but after probing around for about 5 minutes they decided it was fine. They also checked for a broken nose but we ended up with nothing too bad. Just some really bad cuts and a concussion. They watched him for a couple of hours just to make sure his memory was coming back and he was acting more normal. These pictures were taken the morning after and he's already looking a lot better!

Things I love about spring.

I love the warm weather!! And sun shine!Love playing with the kids outside.I love spending all day outside. I love that Kanani can wear cute skirts

(that I made by the way and her matching hair bows)

and bare feet. Love Laying in the soft green grass!Love being able to feed the kids outside! Less mess to clean up inside.

I love all the pretty flowers (even in our ugly yard)

a few other things on my list.....

riding bikes, going on walks, going on hikes, skipping rocks, picnics, flying kites, playing at the park, barbeque's, I could go on and on....

What do you love about the spring?

Yoga Girl!

We got a Wii fit and Kanani LOVES doing yoga. It's so cute to watch her. This was her very first time and I think she already had pretty good form for a 4 year old.Sun Salutations Tree pose The warrior

She tells me every day she needs to do her yoga to stay healthy, so cute!