Tech savvy

It is amazing to me how technologically minded the new generation is. They are so much more advanced than we. Corbin has been using the computer independently to play games on PBSkids for more than a year now. It is one of his favorite things to do. He has gotten quite good at navigating the website escpecially since he can't read yet. So almost every afternoon I let him play while Madalyn takes a nap and then they play and drink their milk until she is ready to play with him.

I know that in a couple of years he will be showing me how to do things with electronics. And I will be ever so grateful for that. I need all the help I can get ;)

Animal Crackers

When I was little I had a tape with children's songs on it and one of them went like this: "Animal crackers in my soup, monkeys and rabbits, loop the loop, gosh o gee but I have fun, swallowing animals one by one". And another line went something like this "When they're inside me when it's dark, I walk around like Noah's Ark". I like that line :) It is an interesting mental image. So my kids were having lunch and I gave them some animal crackers and they started playing together and singing with their animal crackers. It was so cute! This was when Corbin was still recovering from his hives so it was a while ago. Sorry, school has been eating up my time.

His poor cheeks! But at least he wasn't suffering.

What a cute kid!

He looked so bad with those hives. Poor itchy kid.

My beautiful princess! We just love her :)

The Spotsies

Do you ever have those weeks where everything seems to go badly? Well, we had that this past week. It all ended up working out fine, but there was no end of frustration while it was happening. So here is what happened to us on Thursday. I had plans to work on some preschool things with my friends and have a playdate. I was having it here because our dishwasher was supposed to be delivered and installed. So the kids got up a little late, around 7 (aren't you jealous?!) and I had to get their milk from the downstairs refridgerator because we were all out upstairs. So I put a box of butter and a bag of bread out to take upstairs with the milk, and then I proceeded to put a movie on for the kids. While I was setting up the movie Corbin tells me that he is kind of itchy. So I turn around and I look where he is scratching. His wrist is all covered in red spots. Then I see that they go all the way up his arm. I followed the spots up to his face where they were much darker and scarier. At first I thought they were mosquito bites, but there were far too many of them for that. And they didn't look anything like mosquito bites on his cheeks. My next thought propelled me to action. Could they possibly be chicken pox???
Oh no! Please no! He had only been to school for ONE day! How could he have chicken pox? So I immediatley rushed upstairs and called Nate, and then the Pediatrician. Of course, neither one was available to chat. So I got online and tried to figure out what they were. Well, some of them kind of looked like the beginnings of chicken pox, but others not so much. They didn't look anything like a rach caused by poisonous plants either. So I called the Dr again and made an appointment. Luckily they could fit us in that very morning. But I had to cancel my playdate plans.
Oh and do you remember the milk and bread and butter I left out downstairs? Well it would have been nice if I had remembered them. They got left out for 2 hours while I was running around like a crazy person. In fact the kids found them and put them away in their toy kitchen which was pretty cute, and if I hadn't been so stressed out I would have taken a picture. They even put the milk in the play dishwasher :) So cute.
So we go to the Dr and she says that she thinks it is an allergic reaction to the pennicillin he's been on for more than a week for his strep throat. I was floored. He's allergic to pennicillin??? That's really annoying. I just hope I can remember to tell all the right people that now. Oh dear.
But at least it wasn't chicken pox! I was already starting to calculate how much money it was going to cost us to keep him home from school for 2 weeks. So I was very grateful for that. Here are some pictures from that morning and when we were at the Dr's office. I know the close ups aren't too good, I'm still learning how to work this camera :)

I wish you could have seen this in person. It looked much worse than the pictures convey.

This is the first place I noticed it. The spots go all the way up and around his arm. They also extend to his chest and back.

Hives, hives everywhere, and not a drop of Benadryl (ok so that isn't entirely true, I just wasn't sure I could give him any, it says on the box not to use it on chicken pox).

He looked so bad an miserable, the poor guy!

He did so good though. He only complained a tiny bit. And he still played happily the entire time. He called his hives "the spotsies". It was so cute. "When you are sick you have the spotsies right mom?" Love this kid!

Here we are at the office waiting for the results. This is also a great example of his silly rabbit smile.

Yay! It's not chicken pox! Wuhoo! We can all breathe a sigh of relief! I am also grateful to know at this point in his short life that he is allergic to pennicillin. Hives we can deal with. Anaphylactic shock? Not so much. I tell you it has been one difficult situation after another this week but the Lord has provided an easy way out every time. I am learning a lot.

Corbin's First First Day of School :oD

Well, it finally happened. My little boy grew up! I think it must have been overnight. I still can't believe he is old enough to be in school. He goes three days a week and has a wonderful teacher; Miss Hill.
He wanted to wear all Spiderman. It was the theme of the day. He had a hoodie, a shirt, shoes, and backpack that were all Spiderman. He was so excited to show his teacher all of his new things.

He was so excited that he didn't even wait for Madalyn and I, he just started walking up to the school. It was a foggy morning, as you can see.

He was asking me something about the wall that I didn't understand, and I was trying to get him to look at me so we could take the picture. So this is what we ended up with.

This is going to be a frequent stop for us :)

He looks so grown up standing there.

He is so excited to start school! Poor Maddy was a little concerned. She wasn't sure what was happening.

Here is Corbin's class. He is on the middle right, behind a little boy's head. Sorry he moved when I was taking the picture.

One thing I love about Corbin is his ability to talk to anyone. Here he is trying to make a new friend! It warms my heart.

Good job listening and being attentive, now if only you could do that at home ;)

He is getting ready to walk in with his class. The teacher asked the kids to turn around and wave good-bye. She had to remind Corbin twice. He was so excited that he didn't want to have to turn around and say good-bye. At least he isn't crying and throwing a fit.
Yes I did get a little teary at this point. It was a big moment! I would have been remiss if I hadn't.

Maddy and I spent the morning shopping for things for her preschool that we are dong with some friends in the ward. Here she is checking out the bug superhighways while we wait to pick up Corbin from school.

Poor Miss Hill had her hands full trying to keep these excited kids from bolting to their excited parents. I couldn't wait to hear how his day went.
All he would tell me was that he loved it and he wants to play with the knight toy on Friday. Ikind of expected that though :)

The first thing he did was run up and give Madalyn a big hug and tell her that he missed her! How cute is that???

I just love these guys! They are so great together.

I asked for smiles and got growly faces. Go figure.

Then I got tiger claws to go with the growly faces! Raarrr!














All in all, he had a great time. I found out after school that he didn't listen at recess and got left outside with another class. We need to work on his listening skills. But no harm done. He passed his preschool initiation with flying colors :)

The End of a Chapter

Our baby girl is growing up :( She decided the last few days that she was not going to stay quietly in her crib until I came to get her. Oh no. She decided to climb out. Well we can't have that. So we took down her crib and upgraded her into a Big Girl bed. Mommy isn't ready.

These are the last pictures of her crib :(
"Hey mom, could you just take this old thing down already???"

I was sad that I didn't get to document her last night in her crib, so we faked it with this.

Ok, enough.

Here is Corbin helping with his Super hero claws to help us with the plastic wrap. Rarrr!

In the process...

Not too concerned about it.

Daddy's little helper.

Concentrate, buddy.

I spy Corbin!

It's gone!

Here's the newest one!

We're almost ready!

Wow! She looks so much smaller in this bed than the crib. Even though the mattress is the same size. Hunh.

Corbin wanted a piece of the action too. They had to pretend to be alseep in their beds for the pictures. Ha ha.

Now she feels like a princess. Oh wait. She is a princess ;)

They are just so sweet! They wanted to snuggle up together in her new bed.

I love these guys! The best kids ever!

Muaw!