Yearly Archives: 2010

Six Weeks

I can’t believe I am at the six week mark again! I won’t grow sappy again like I did with Virginia. But I will admit that I am sad and I still hold that the newborn stage goes by too fast! It especially has with Lulu because she is getting so big so fast! Virginia was 9lbs...

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One Month Old!

I can’t believe Miss Lu is already one month old! She is such a chunk. I love her. She’s so squishable!

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Eloise Afton is Here!

Please join me in welcoming Eloise Afton (Lulu). Lulu was born on Friday July 2nd at 4:20 am after a 31 hour induction at University hospital. Her birth is quite the novel and I am still working on the story a month after her birth. I hope to post it here eventually, but suffice it...

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Catching Up- Again!

I simply cannot believe what has gone on around here in the last two months.  We have had hospital visits, surgeries and of course a birth of a new daughter. I think the simplest way to do an update on everyone is to give an update on each child separately.

Xander- Now age 14, Xander has...

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Catching up!

Wow, the last few weeks have been insanely busy for me! I feel like I haven’t even had time to breathe.  May 14th-15th Rani performed as a fairy attendant in Cinderella, a ballet presented by Mountainwest Ballet. She really had a wonderful time. Her dancing ability improved and she ate up being in the spot...

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A Perfect Mother’s Day

Every year I say or think about the fact that I hate Mother’s Day.  I always hope that sometime I will have a Mother’s Day free of fighting. I always hope to have  clean house and I always hope to have sweet children and a husband who pampers me and gives me gifts and serves...

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It’s Dance Recital Time!

This year’s Starz Unlimited dance recital is just a month away! The kids have been working hard all year in their classes. Rani has been taking ballet and clogging and Oliver and Finneas have been taking clogging.  This year the ballet classes are doing Alice in Wonderland and Rani is a flower.  For clogging, Rani...

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Nose to Nose and Knees to Knees -Success!

A big THANK YOU to Emily for her suggestion of putting my kids nose to nose and knees to knees when they fight. Upon reading her suggestion I went in to the kitchen straight away where Rani and Ollie were fighting and told them they had to sit that way until they apologized.  Rani thought it...

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It’s not working

OK it has now been a full month since we stopped using screens constantly in our house. Since April 6th 2010 my kids have only been allowed 1/2 hr of screen time per day if they asked me (most of the time they haven’t) and they have been allowed to watch TV/play the Wii on...

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30 weeks!

And the countdown to baby begins! I can’t believe I am already 30 weeks. I am sooo not ready for this baby! I have so much to do to get ready and I can’t seem to get started. I did go in for a 4d ultrasound yesterday.  Lulu was transverse at my pelvis again! That’s...

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