Family Fun Part 2...

Ahhh more family fun. Rich and I decided it was the time for some R&R (remember it's been a month since the aquarium trip LOL) so on a whim we decided we needed to go to the Great Wolf Lodge, an indoor waterpark about 35 min from here. We stayed the night in the hotel and had a blast. We arrived Sun afternoon and went straight into the waterpark for a few hours. Madison, not surprisingly, didnt really like it too much at first, so I kind of had to force her to do things. Juliana however loved it! They have a toddler area where there's lots of water spraying, buckets dumping, etc. and she loved it. Afterward we took the girls over to my sister in law's house, who lives 10min away how lucky for us, and Rich and I came back to the park so we could do the grown up slides and stuff. It was really fun! I was worried about having the girls in a small hotel room with us, but they were so tired they fell right to sleep. The next morning, we ate breakfast, and then went back to the waterpark for a few hours. We stayed until Juliana started getting really cranky, and then we packed up and headed home. I'd love to go again and stay 2 nights but it is definately spendy. Totally worth it though...

Chillin in the lobby...

Very tired girl...

Family Fun...

I'm really behind on my blogging so I'm going to make an attempt to catch up here. About a month ago, Rich had a week off so we decided to take a trip up to the Seattle Aquarium. The girls had a lot of fun looking at all the sea life, and then we went to eat at the Spaghetti Factory, yum! Here are some pics from that adventure...

Playing with the felt board

Not sure about this mom...

Cool...

I'm an octupus...

So tired at the end of the day...

Just some pics...

Painting with flour/water/food coloring. They HATED it LOL.

Seriously mom?

Kindergym!

Daredevil...

Yum!

The wiggly eye incident...

This was a couple weeks ago, I know I know I need to catch up on my blogging.
Anyway, for Christmas, Madison got a tackle box full of art supplies, including some packages of wiggly eyes. Apparently she opened them without us knowing...and...
She had gone to bed, and was quiet until suddenly she screamed bloody murder. I went in and she said "my nose, my nose" I figured it out right away, and of course when I looked in her nose I saw this wedged in there.

I have no idea what posessed her to stick that in her nose, except that her nose was stuffy and had really been bothering her. So Rich and I held her down on the bed, and attempted to get it out with tweezers, but she had stuck it in there so far, that that was impossible. So guess where I got to go at 9:30 at night? Yep that's right the ER. The first thing the ER doc did was try to get her to blow her nose. Like I didnt think of that! She can't do it, she doesnt get how to blow her nose! Anyway, they got it out with these skinny tweezer things that unfortunately are all too familar to me. Madison was very good during the whole thing. She even got a stuffed bunny.
Too bad we had to go to the ER to get it out but hey it makes a good story.

For those of you who dont know or dont remember, this is not the first time Madison has stuck something up her nose, it is the 4TH TIME! She stuck rocks in her nose 3 times in 1 month when she was about 20months old. That was super fun. At least all those times the pediatricians office was open. Oh well...Here's another pic to put the size of the wiggly eye in perspective

Juliana's Check Up!

Juliana had her 15 month check up yesterday so I thought I'd write about it. Yes I know, she's 16months old, I'm a little late here ok! LOL.
Anyway, she weighed in at 21lb 4oz, which is actually 2 oz less than her 1 year check up but the doctor didnt say anything so I guess its okay. She measured 32 in, which I think is either 2 or 3 in growth since her 1 year check. So I guess she's putting everything into her height. She is in about the 80th percentile for height, she sure doesnt get that from me!
Her weight however puts her in about the 12th percentile. (You wouldnt know it by looking at her LOL, she's still a chunk). Oh well, Madison was like that, started out high on the charts and then slowly went down until she fell off completely. But she was off the chart well before 1 year old so Juliana's got that on her.
The doctor told me that I should try to get Juliana to drink 24 oz of milk every day. Yeah right. I'm lucky if she'll drink 2. She does love yogurt and cheese so I'm not worried about this.
This in combo with other little things makes me think maybe its time for a new pediatrician.
So that's my little update. I've got new pics I've been meaning to post, maybe I'll get to that someday.

Christmas 2008 part 2...

On Dec 29th we headed over to Eastern Wa to visit my side of the family. We had an adventure trying to find chains for our van, they were sold out here in our city thanks to all the snow we had. As we got close to North Bend we heard on the radio that chains were required in the pass so we were really desperate to find some then. Luckily we found some in North Bend so we were able to head over the mountain. Which by the way, was not that bad at all, just some compact snow on the roads. When we got to my parents they told us there had been a blizzard that morning, so the storm must have been just ahead of us. Thank goodness. Rich and I have done some scary drives over the mountain (like in the dark with it snowing hard) but I don't like to involve the girls in that! We had a great time at my parents. They had a ton of snow so we played in that, and we also took the girls bowling. Here are some pics from our visit...

My parents backyard

Madison wanted to swing so Grandpapa dug the swing out

Christmas 2008

Hard to believe another Christmas has come and gone. It was so much fun this year, only because I have my girls! Madison understood a little more this year, and that made is more exciting. She didnt even cry when I took them to see Santa. Juliana did of course, but she calmed down after a minute and we got a decent picture.
Christmas Eve was spent at Rich's parents with his siblings. We had pizza and opened presents. We were supposed to go to Grandmas house on the water, but the roads were too bad unfortunately. Christmas day was spent mostly at home. We got up, opened some presents, had a big breakfast, then opened more presents. It took until noon to finish all that. Maybe we should buy less presents next year LOL. After that the girls took their nap, and then we went over to Rich's uncle for Christmas dinner. After all that...I got to go to work LOL. But that was okay. I did get a mom in around 10pm, who'd been having contractions about every 20 minutes all day. She said she was really not wanting a Christmas baby. She had a sweet baby girl at 1:06am the day after Christmas LOL.