Growing Up

We took the kids to the doctor for check ups. I took both kids on the same day. That was an ordeal I don't know if I would do again. I was just glad that Jeremy was there to help me. Olivia had to get 5 shots to get ready to register her for Kindergarten and Garrett had to get one shot. Plus they had her pee in a cup and prick her finger to check her iron level. They are both 100% healthy. On Monday, Feb. 27th I will register Olivia for Kindergarten at the school that I currently work at.

Olivia weighed 40 lbs and is 45 inches tall
Garrett weighed 30 lbs and is 35 inches tall. Garrett is also in the 90th percentile for the size of his head. (Maybe that is why I have a hard time getting shirts over his head)

Olivia has reached a big Milestone in her life. SHE CAN TIE HER OWN SHOES!
(It just takes her a really long time. : )

Our gifts to each other

Robin and I didn't want to spend a lot of money this year so we both told each other that we didn't need to get each other gifts for Valentine's Day. I knew that I wanted to get Robin something to at least show her that I was thinking about her. Before leaving for school I decided that I would make her some paper hearts with love notes on them and buy her a couple of healthy snacks and leave them in her van while she was at work. I grabbed the extra set of keys so I could unlock the van while she was teaching and put the stuff inside.
At about 10 o'clock I told my principal that I was going to leave for a few minutes to put the surprises in Robin's van. As I opened my door to get into my car, what do I find? A bag of surprises from Robin! I had to laugh out loud. I guess either we both know each other way too well, or great minds think alike!

Our Valentine's Morning

For breakfast we had strawberry shortcake.

Olivia is all ready to go to preschool with her box.

Happy Valentine's Day

Olivia has been very excited about Valentines Day. She has been making cards and talking about it for over a week. This morning as we were getting ready for work, Olivia pauses for a second and then asks Robin, "Mommy, are you happy?" Robin says, "Yes. Why?" Olivia matter-of-factly informs Robin that "You have to be happy today because it's Valentines Day and the cards say 'Happy Valentines Day'." We think she is so funny. I'll post some pictures in a few minutes.

Picky Eater

Garrett is such a picky eater. He won't hardly eat anything. You wouldn't think that he would weigh over 30 lbs. I am now buying him 3T clothes. Yesterday I found something that he liked. I made grilled cheese sandwiches for dinner. I gave him some. I always try to give him food we eat but he never wants it. He usually spits it and says, "Yuck" He actually ate the whole sandwich. We cheered the entire time he ate his dinner.
Here is what he likes to eat.
Pizza
Crackers and pretzels
Cereal
Apples
Bananas
Yogurt
French Fries
Anything Sweet like ice cream or candy
He loves to drink milk.

*Any suggestions on how to get him to eat more types of food?

Who?

Who likes to wear necklaces?
Who likes to sleep with a baby?
Who likes to get toenails painted?
Who likes to play with doll houses?

Need more clues?

Who likes to read books?
Who likes cars?
Who likes balls?
Who likes puppies?

Garrett-That's Who!!
(The joys of having an older sister who loves all these things too.)

Little Scrapbooker

Olivia got a disposal camera for her birthday. She took all the pictures in one day. In January we started to scrapbook together once a week. Olivia and I do "projects" together. I take my pictures and she takes her pictures and any pictures that I give her from my stack and we work together. We do this while Jere is still at work and Garrett is down for his nap. I have even let her do a couple of pages that I put in my albums. She actually does a pretty good job. She is so creative. Plus this gives me time to work on my scrapbooks which I wasn't finding time to do before and it gives us some good mommy-daugther time together. I may need to go and do some scrapbook shopping so she can have her own stickers and papers.
Yesterday she called me the best mommy in the world because we do "ojects" together and she loves "ojects". She can't say the pr sound very well.

Snack Attack

Robin had the yummy idea to make cookies for a family home evening treat. Of course the kids had to help. I was helpful too -- notice how I'm taking pictures. :)


Robin makes the best peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. For our sakes, Robin gave a lot of them away to her visiting teaching families.