Nit Picking - Literally

Life is all about new experiences, but this is one I could have done without.  Sunday Morning Kenna told me that she had a rash on her neck. I looked and sure enough, she had red bumps all over.  I didn't know what was causing it, but was pondering it and it hit me.  "She probably has lice."   I attribute this thought to inspiration, because I would never have thought of it on my own.  

I called her in the bathroom, and after looking at her head, sure enough LICE.  Well the ox was in the mire, I ran to the store and got some lice shampoo, and treated her immediately. Now it is a matter of inspecting all of the kids everyday, and "nit picking" Kenna's hair for 2 weeks.  I also spent part of my Sabbath doing laundry, vacuuming mattresses, and cleaning. I hope that wasn't breaking the Sabbath too much. I just really want to avoid all the other kids (and me too) getting them.   I have no clue where she contracted them.  It is a baffling thought. The school nurse checked all of her classmates, with no luck. Oh well. I hope with education on not sharing hats, combs, jackets, clips or leaning heads together, we can avoid a continual battle.   

Kenna is not freaked out about this at all. She has been very free to tell everyone around her that she has head lice.  Oh the innocence of children.  Maybe there is less stigma today that when I was a kid, but really, STOP ANNOUNCING IT TO EVERYONE!  (I just noticed the irony of my posting this on a blog, but oh well you can't get lice from the internet)

Ending on a good note, this morning Kenna handed me a note where she wrote "Dear mom you are verey talented you are verey swete and kind mom thanks for helping me with the lice love you kenna  you are the best mom"  (directly quoted, spelling and non punctuation are hers)

What can you do but love a kid that appreciates all you do. This is the only time where it appropriate to allow me to "nit pick"  :-)

Easter fun

I decided if I waited to get the camera and the computer and the time all in the same place, I would never post.  So I will have to post pictures later. 

Easter weekend was very fun. We had our regular family get together at Dan's house. We had a barbecue, Easter egg hunt, and games. Thanks Dan and Curtis for cooking in the rain. The food was great. The egg hunt had to be in doors, which worked out fine. Grandpa had fallen asleep on the couch, and we just hid eggs around him. It would have been better if I didn't wake him up by putting an egg on his tummy. But he played along, and pretended to be asleep for the little kids to find the eggs all around him.  We then played the oven mit game. Where you have to roll dice, and if you get doubles, you try to unwrap a gift while wearing oven mits. It was very fun. Grandpa ended up getting lucky, and rolled doubles right as the last of the wrapping was coming off. So he won the candy bar. The first layer of wrapping was a cut up gift bag, with a lot of tape.  We finally had to get some scissors and cut away one of the tape sections.  That was after about 15 attempts by various family members to unwrap it.  Then the kids did the same thing. It was a blast. 

Saturday evening was a ward dinner and a dessert auction for the young women's camp.  For the auction I made 2 Easter egg cakes and covered them with marshmallow fondant. They turned out really cute. I will post pictures later. The fondant was fun to make and it tasted good too!

I think the cakes brought in $85 dollars for the Young women, add to that the $73 I spent on desserts, Kelly has met most of her portion for camp (I don't even know what that portion is).

There were A LOT of desserts to auction and fewer people to bid than they were hoping for, but it worked out well.

Easter Sunday was the normal Easter action with the kids finding their "baskets" and then eating candy.  Their baskets were a combination of ice cream buckets and bowls.  I thought it was good that before lunch Don made some comment about the "candy rabbit".  I think that is a more appropriate name, so we will possibly change the Easter Bunny to the Candy Rabbit in the future.  Easter will have a more Savior related activities, and the commercial things will come from the Candy Rabbit who happens to come at Easter.

Juicery

You gotta love kids.

Last night at before dinner, Don spilled his juice on his pants. Well he started to cry to me that his pants were wet. I (not knowing about the juice) told him it was just water and it would dry. He said "It's not watery, it's juicery." hahaha

Then in FHE Andrew was being noisy and I told him to be quiet because Daddy was trying to teach him. Andrew responded, "I don't want to learn anything." It was quite funny. I doubt he did learn anything. He was not listening at all.

Happy Birthday Kelly!

Kelly last fall, but she has changed since then. I will have to get a current photo on here later.

Kelly is 12 today. She is such a great help to me. I can't believe she is 12 and starts Young Women's this weekend. It seem like just the other day I was in the delivery room and the nurse told us she bet the nurse of the mom next door that I would have Kelly first. The other woman had been in labor all afternoon. After hearing how fast Ian was born, my nurse was sure I would deliver first. I guess it is a good thing that they only bet a candy bar, because Kelly came 4 minutes after the other baby.

I had time to have an epidural with Kelly, and after Ian's natural delivery I decided that drugged is a good way to have a baby. All in all the labor was just over 4 hours. Kelly weighed 8lbs 9.8 oz. I don't remember how long she was, but she was good sized.
Kelly and her cousin Logan when they were babies. Logan is only 2 weeks older than Kelly.

Last week Kelly placed 2nd in "The Wright Stuff" category at the state Science Olympiad. She and her friend Rachel worked really hard on a rubber band powered glider. Good Job Kelly.
Kelly and Ian in fall of 1997.

Yummy Chocolate

Don and Andrew found a Hershey's bar I had put up. They thought it was really good.

Especially Don, and........




Richard. No wonder he won't eat regular food. After Chocolate baby food is gross.

Richard Growing 2

So when Richard came home I took a picture of him next to a doll. I decided to have Kelly take another with Richard next to the same doll yesterday. Here you can really see his growth. It is quite amazing. I am glad I don't grow at the same rate. Although sometimes I feel it is the same rate :-).


taken 4/9/08


taken 2/16/09 He was mad that we put him down. He really wanted to be held.

Growing Richard

I was looking at Richard and how much he has grown. I decided I would post a few pictures that show the changes he has gone through.


March 29, 2008- 11 days old


March 24, 2008 - 6 days old


January 28, 2009 - 10 months old


December 20, 2008 - 9 months old

Wow, he has really changed.

One milestone, he finally slept through the night in his own bed. YEAH. Now I need to learn to sleep through the night ;-)