5 little monkeys: September 2009

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

First Day of FALL

Fall is my favorite season and I am so glad it is here. Here are the reasons that I love Fall:

-I get to decorate my house if beautiful oranges, greens and reds!

-The weather is not too hot and not too cold

-I get to burn my yummy pumpkin spice candle

-Thanksgiving

-Malia turns 2

-Beautiful Fall leaves

-Green grass

I love this season and can't wait to get more of it. Go outside and enjoy FALL!

Thursday, September 10, 2009

A New Baby and More of Baily's Infected Eye

Hip hip hooray! I have a new nephew! He is the cutest little guy ever! Tami was able to start into labor on her own (3 hours before she was scheduled to be induced) and she had Spencer Jay Higbee at 1 am on Wednesday morning( 9-9-09). She labored so well and we were all so impressed with how she tolerated the pain. I am so proud of my baby sis.

Spencer was 8 lbs. 1 oz. (pretty good for 12 days over due) and has the most adorable blond hair. It was such a privilege to be able to see him come into this world. I can't wait to get to know him!

Baily woke up Tuesday morning with her eye looking like this.

It was 10 times worse. I took her back to the doctor and they diagnosed her with orbital cellulitious, an infection that gets into the tissue around the eye. There is risk of it getting into the optical nerve or even into the brain. But heaven was looking down on us because it could have been a lot worse and she didn't have the usual pain and fevers with it.

The doctor gave us a stronger antibiotic...when I say strong I mean an $80 antibiotic...all I have to say is that better do some serious bacteria killing! Her eye looks sooooo much better, and she is going to be just fine. Thank goodness for prayer and medicine!

Monday, September 7, 2009

Labor Day Fun

The thing I love most about living where we do is the amazing mountains that are within walking distance to us. We started the morning off with a hike and had so much fun. The weather was great and we are all so content to be in the mountains. Even Baily strapped on a backpack (filled with one apple that she ate as soon as we started hiking). Here are some pictures of us having fun.

Good thing we did something fun in the morning cause the rest of the day was spent in the doctors office with Baily and her infected eye, and then driving around trying to find a pharmacy that was open. The doctor said it was some kind of allergy that got into her eye, that turned into an infection. Poor girl. It's her left eye. The picture doesn't show how red and swollen it is, but you get the idea. (Notice her cute hair cut! Kylee got hers cut short too.

Happy Labor Day!

My Kids Say the Dardnest Things

5-13-14 Dalin (3): " Mommy Willey (the cat) bit me. I think he's a vampire.'
11-1-10
Tyler was talking on the phone to his cousin Austin and Austin made a really loud noise and Tyler said,
"Whatever noise you just made was SO loud it sounded like you sent little men with sticks into my ears to bang on my ear drums!"
7-14-2010
Tyler: "Do you know you're cute?"
Malia: "Ya!"
Tyler: "Do you know I love you?"
Malia: "Ya!"
6-27-2010
I have been crocheting a blanket for the new baby and Baily was watching me one day, and this conversation happened.
"Mom, you crochet faster than a chicken!"
"Really!? I have never seen a chicken crochet before Baily, have you?"
"Yes! Once, when I was at the Zoo and I was lost all by myself I saw a chicken crocheting."
"Oh really, and he was crocheting with his feet?"
"Ya, He was crocheting with all of his feet! But he wasn't as fast as you Mom!"
5-2-09
Baily- "How old will I be when I get baptized?"
Me- "Eight."
Baily- "Are you 8?"
Me- "No, I am 29."
Baily- "Wow! I will never be that old!"
5-1-09
I was explaning to Baily how to say her personal prayers. I told her she gets to talk to and tell Heavenly Father anything she wants. Then she said,
Baily- "I can't talk to Him, He isn't here!"
Me- "Just try to picture him in your head as you are talking to him."
Baily- "I just can't do it Mom, Heavenly Father is just too far up there."
We where discussing what everyone wanted to be for halloween, when we got to Baily I said, "And you get to be a tinker! (tinker belle)
Baily- "No...I don't want to be a tinker toy!"
Baily- "Mommy, I want a fruit number" (she meant fruit leather...it took me a while to figure that one out)
Mom -"Tyler, I can't believe you are old enough to start Kindergarten!"
Tyler- "I know! I just learned and learned and learned and learned...it took a long time for it!"
We saw Horton Hears a Who for the first time yesterday and this is what I over heard today as Kylee and Tyler were playing...
Kylee- "Let's play Horton Hears a Who. I get to be Horton." and without even stopping to think Tyler quickwittedly responds,
Tyler-"I get to be 'hears a who'"
We were at the zoo the other day and my sweet, curious Tyler says,
"I always wondered what it would be like to lick a zebra, but remember that time that I licked Alley (our cat)...It was not fun."
It's true...we were getting cat hair off his tongue for days!
Baily and I were sitting on the couch and she looks up at me with her big green eyes and says, "Mom, guess what...Jesus died for us!" Talk about an unbelievable parent moment!
We went to the fish farm and let the kids catch some trout. Kylee caught her first fish and was freaking out as it was wiggling on the line. She was screaming, "It wont stop vibrating!"
Tyler picked his fish up and looked it in the eye and said, "Good bye fish...we will see you at dinner!"
The tooth fairy was 2 days late to pick up Kylee's tooth (oops!) and when she woke up the second morning and there was still a tooth under her bed and no money she said,
Kylee- "Maybe she was arrested from breaking into all of those kids houses."
I put Kylee's plate of food in front of her tonight and after seeing what it was (spaghetti with meat and zucchini in the sauce) she said, "Is that all you can do is make me sicker and sicker!" Guess who had to eat an extra serving of zucchini! I know, I'm mean! Can you say, "Attitude!"
I walked into the living room when I heard Malia hysterically laughing and I said,
"Baily, why is Malia laughing so hard?"
Baily- "I'm sitting on her."
Me- "No Baily! We don't sit on babies!"
Baily- "But she likes it!"
Tyler- "Mommy, how many days are in a week?"
Me- "7"
Tyler- "How many weeks in a year?"
Me-"52"
Tyler "Good Job Mom!"
Tyler- "I was in a play today at Primary, and I got to be Nehi...I mean Lephi..."
Daddy- "If a snake has round eyes it is NOT posionous, and if it has slit eyes like a cat it IS poisonous." Kylee- "So if I see a snake I will pick it up, check its eyes, and if they are slits I will drop it and run!"
Baily- "Mommy, I am so happy now, 'cause I am bigger and I get the potty train!"
Baily (3) - "I'm Big now mommy, remember. I'm 4!"