Poor Gunner

Here is Gunner's latest owwie. We were at the mall getting Malia's pictures taken and of course it was raining. Ian unbuckled Gunner from his stroller so we could just run to the car and get in really fast. Well about 10 feet from the car, Gunner decided to dismount and jumped from the stroller. He landed on his head as you can see. He's a little trooper though, only cried for a few seconds, and I think it was more because his hands were wet. The pictures almost don't do it justice either. The bump stood out about a half inch off his forehead. But atleast so far he is doing just fine.

Good Dad

Ian is such a good Dad. Malia and Gunner love playing with him! It's usually hide and seek. It seems to never get old, atleast for the kids. This time they were playing Little Red Riding Hood, the Hunter and the Wolf.

Another One

Malia came running to me almost hysterical. I told her to take a deep breath and tell me what was wrong. After almost a full minute later she proceeded to tell me. "I was brusing my teeth, and I was playing with my favorite elastic (don't know why it was her favorite at that moment, she has about a million other ones like it), and I dropped it in the sink, and it went down the THROAT!

Funny sayings this week

I decided I need to do better at writing down the funny things that Malia says, because I know she will love hearing about them later. So since I am always blogging, I will just record them here until I actually get them in her baby book.
Ian and I were talking about cutting his hair on Sat. and trying to decide if we dared do it while the kids were still awake, or wait until they were asleep.
Malia: "Dad, don't cut all your hair off!"
Dad: "Why, won't I look good?"
Malia: "No!"
Dad: "Why not?"
Malia: "Because you will look like a...a...a...Style Freak!"
Don't ask...
Also, some of you may know, most of you don't, but I am starting a new job at St. Vincent Hospital ER in admitting. It's an on-call evening job. Just a way to earn a little extra cash. Well, I had to do a new employee orientation during the day. So Ian was going to have to get the kids up and Malia ready for Pre-school by himself this morning. I told Malia we were going to have to teach Daddy how to do her hair and show him where her pre-school was. So she went up to Ian and said "Dad you are going to take me to preschool and we are going to have to teach you how to do my hair. And if you do it crooked you are just going to have to do it again!"
Well, they all survived one day without. And thanks to my friend Rochelle who tended Malia and Gunner in the afternoon!

Thanksgiving

We had a good Thanksgiving. We ate at Ian's parents house. It was the last night we would see his sister Andree for 18 mos. She left Friday morning to go to Utah to the MTC. She will be serving in the Pitsburg, PA mission. We will miss her! But we know she is serving the Lord, and will be an awesome missionary! I also contributed a little to the dinner this time, makes me feel a little more grown up. :) I made these rolls, and they turned out actually pretty good, or atleast I thought so. I just need to work on shaping them, they don't quite look as perfectly formed as my mom's, but maybe one day! And these cups are Gunner's favorite thing to play with at Grandma's. He loves his uncles!

Little Diva

Malia got these dress up clothes for her birthday and keeps wanting to do a "show". I was trying to teach her how to pose, (since I am the expert), and she started strutting her stuff. Then she insisted on taking my picture too, definately not top model material.

Nightly Routine

This is the nightly routine lately. Gunner loves to play horsie, and will just jump on you spontaneously saying hee, hee.

 

 

Experiment

Malia inherited my stick straight hair so we decided to try something different. I was actually surprised that she left the braids in overnight because she usually wants her hair taken out to sleep on. It turned out a little more kinky than curly, but still looked pretty cute.

RUN!

So I was not a good mom this day. I noticed Gunner running around with his pants off AGAIN, and also that his diaper was down to his knees about. After chasing him around a bit, I took some pictures, changed his diaper and then he ran to the bathroom to show me what he had done. You can tell by the look on his face that I wasn't very happy. Then I reminded myself that it's just toilet paper (granted it was a brand new roll), and that I just needed to laugh it off. I am trying to do better and not get so upset over stupid things, and maybe I am the only one, but it is hard sometimes!

Christmas Music vs Eggnog

Ian and I had a deal. He had to wait until after Thanksgiving to drink eggnog if I had to wait until after Thanksgiving to listen to Christmas music. Well, YEAH! He broke it yesterday and drank some, so I get to listen to Christmas music 4 days early. I am not usually into music so much, until it comes to Christmastime, then I have music going all the time!

Attic Pipe

 

So you may all realize this is not something you want to see in your attic. Just another fun thing about owning a house, not that I don't love our home and am so greatful that we have a nice place to live, but it was always nice to be able to call a manager to deal with things such as this. Luckily I have a handy husband who spotted the problem before it got too bad and was able to fix it in no time. He spotted just a little water damage coming through the ceiling in our bathroom, so we headed up to the attic to see where it was coming from. We kind of have a cool attic, or atleast I think so, and it was cool to be able to go up in it by pulling down the stairs from the ceiling, like in the movies. I always wanted to see what was in our attic growing up, but it was too hard to get to. So we found this broken pipe after digging through the insulation and we had no idea what it was for. There was only a little bit of water that came from it. So Ian went and bought some new pipe and fixed it right up. I tried to get Malia to look up in the attic, I guess because I always wanted to see growing up. She just kept asking "but who lives up there?" It took a few days for her to be brave enough, and after taking Gunner up there, she finally dared. All she said was "Oh" I guess the fascination of an attic is cooler if it is unknown.

Mayhem around the house

 

 

 

 

Gunner and Malia have been playing so good together lately. This is wonderful for me, but not so good for the house. These are some of their favorite things to do...rearrange the table chairs and couch cushions. I go in and ask them what is going on, and Malia says "But Mom, we are just trying to make you upset!" Lovely. :)

Fun in the Leaves

It's not fun to rake the leaves, but it sure is fun to play in them!

Halloween

We went to Ian's parents neighborhood to go trick or treating. Gunner did not like his head part on, but after we got walking, he didn't care and was more worried about getting more "nana" (candy). He would not let anyone hold his bucket, and I felt so bad for him walking because his monkey feet were so big he had a hard time. But they had fun, got a lot of candy, and it was a beautiful night!