Can't Believe Peyton is 8!!

I Can't believe I have an 8 year old!!  Doesn't he look so grown up and handsome?  This picture was on the morning of his Birthday.  His school had a minimum day because of parent teacher conferences.  After school the kids went to my friend Teresa's house while Tim and I met with his teacher.  He has worked SO hard this year in school and is doing great.  We are so proud of him!

After grabbing the kids we rushed down to Petaluma.....we had told him that we were going to celebrate with Grandma and Grandpa.  He was happy with that, but he kept asking if he could invite Billy and Boss his friends that live close by.  Well little did he know Grandma and I had been planning a surprise party for him and a bunch of his friends from Petaulma were already at Grandmas house waiting to surprise him!  He was so excited they were all there....I didn't get a picture of his face but it was hilarious!  We had some pizza, cake then opened presents.  Then Tim and I took the boys to see the Star Wars movie in 3-D.  It was a great day!!      

Bianca, Boss, Owen, and Jack (Billy was on his way;)

Does that look like a face that got what he wanted?  Darthmal Mask

Matching double-sided light saber.....his face KILLS me!

Here is the cake Grandma made.....thanks for everything you did for me!!

Aren't they so COOL?

Opening a few more the next day from Grandma and Grandpa and uncle Kevin.

 On Saturday we took the kids to the Wildlife Museum at Petaluma High (where Tim went).  A friend of the family is over the department and got us an awesome VIP tour.  We had such a great time.....until they pulled out the snakes!!  The kids loved it.  Me, NOT SO MUCH!  But I was brave and still got a bunch of pictures;)  My kids apparently did not get my fear of snakes!    Thanks Grandma and Kim for an awesome day!

And thats a wrap.....WHEW!

Gethsemane

I am teaching this song with sign language to the kids in our Primary.  They have really loved learning it.  My kids also love this song and are always wanting me to pull it up on You Tube so that they can listen to it.  I think it is a beautiful song with a great message.  Very good for Easter:) 

 

To listen you need to scroll down to the bottom of the screen and pause my playlist.....

The Broken Foot Story

One day after school Peyton and our next door neighbor were jumping on the trampoline.  This was their warm-up activity before starting on homework.  I was in the house and could hear Peyton screaming in pain.....the kind of pain that when you hear it you know something bad just happened.  I came outside to see how bad it really was.  I could tell from the way he couldn't step on it, it was bad but I tried to tell him that I have done this many times to my foot, that it was just a sprain, and that he just needed to walk it off.

     Well I got him to start on his homework and was really hoping that with that distraction and a little time he would be fine.  After finishing his homework hours later, he came limping/hopping back out to the living room and I thought "OH BOY, it's bad"!  I had him sit in the recliner so I could see how it looked and by this time it was pretty swollen :(  I felt SO bad! Definitely not feeling like the mother of the year.  When Tim got home we were debating on what to do, is it fine or is it broken?  Our Bishop is an ER doctor so I called to get his opinion about that to do.  He was out and about and was really close to our house so he offered to stop by to take a look.  His advice was that since the pain was so close to where the growth plates are, he really needed to get X-rays. 

Here is the tricky thing about X-rays and growth plates.  Growth plates are made of cartilage so they don't even show up in the X-ray..... His Dr. decided that he fractured his growth plate which is technically just a really bad sprain because it isn't bone, but that it will actually heal slower than a bone does.  This green cast was his first cast and the Dr. told us to come back in three weeks to get it taken off.  So three weeks later we went back so excited to be done with this only to be told that it was still swollen and hurting where it shouldn't be hurting:(  We were SO disappointed to have to get another cast for three more weeks.....I honestly wanted to cry.  When Pey came to the realization that he would now have it on over his Birthday he just lost it.  He had big plans of going to Sky High (a big trampoline place) with his friends for his birthday.  I told him we would go to Petaulma and celebrate his birthday with Grandma and Grandpa.....that definitely helped the situation:)

Here is cast #2....since the Dr. could tell how bummed out he was to have to get another one, she asked the guy who did the casting let him choose two colors.  Originally it was 49ers colors, then he discovered that it was also Darthmal colors and thought it was totally cool:)  When we went back to get it off he was actually sad to see it go and so they gave it to him as a souvenir.  Lucky me....how do I ever get rid of that?

Which Loved Best?

Which Loved Best?

"I love you, Mother," said little John.

Then forgetting his work, his cap went on.

And he was off to the garden swing,

Leaving his Mother the wood to bring.

"I love you, Mother," said little Nell.

"I love you more than tongue can tell."

Then she teased and pouted half the day,

Till Mother rejoiced when she went to play.

"I love you, Mother," said little Fan.

"Today I'll help you all I can."

To the cradle then she did softly creep,

And rocked the baby till it fell asleep.

Then stepping softly, she took the broom,

And swept the floor, and dusted the room.

Busy and happy all day was she

Helpful and cheerful as a child could be.

"I love you, Mother," again they said.

Three little children, going to bed.

How do you think that Mother guessed,

Which of them really loved her best?

By Joy Allison

I remember hearing this poem when I was a little girl and loved it!  We used to get together with a couple of families and have a family night together.  (It was the Richards and Keeleys).  I remember Brother Keeley who was the seminary teacher reading this to us.  Do any of my siblings remember this? Anyways I was trying to hunt down a copy to share with my kiddos......and finally found it.  I really wanted to put it on my blog so that when the hard copy gets lost I will always have it somewhere!  My kids loved it and let me just tell you, it is a great one to share when there is a lot of house work to be done ;) ;).  

Really Random

So here are some random things that the Kelly's have been doing to keep busy.....

Peyton played soccer

Peyton's school took this picture on 9-11....I thought it was pretty neat!

 Everyday Max lets Stella in about 15-20 times and I tell him that she can't come in because she is too dirty and stinky......so I came into the kitchen to find him with wet wipes.  He said "Tella tinky mom, I wipe".  I thought it was so funny that he thought her belly was where she is stinky:)  I love two year olds, exhausting YES but so cute! 

Another thing Max does on a daily basis is he will go into our closet and pull down a few soft shirts, or he will look around our house to find anything that he can cuddle up with....bed skirts, pillow shams, anything he can pull out of anywhere.  Then he will find me and usually lay down where ever I am, and grab on to my pants with one hand and put his fingers in his mouth with the other hand and just lay and chill for a while.  In this picture he got three of Dads shirts out of the closet and laid on the floor next to me while I was writing an email......I looked down when I finished and here he was sound asleep at about 10 in the morning! 

Max is getting a lot of commentary, but he just cracks us up!  Every Friday night we have Family Movie Night.  This movie was called Little Bigfoot, when we got to the place in the movie where we finally saw the Little Bigfoot, Max was acting really scared and then disappeared around the corner.  A few minutes later he comes back out with this gun and just stands in front of the tv and shoots him until he feels better about the situation:)  It was hilarious!! 

 Every Wednesday Addi goes to her dance class with a bunch of her preschool friends, it is her favorite time of the week.  (Although piano lessons comes in a very close 2nd)

 Addi got this doll from Grandma and Grandpa Kelly for her Birthday last year and has grown very fond of her.  She even shares her pillow with her at night and when Addi comes in to sleep with us in the middle of the night (which is almost every night these days) she says her dolly is just crowding her out of her bed!!  Go figure, I try to explain that she can have her doll sleep on her little throw pillow, no apparently she has to sleep on her Mommy's pillow!  I also have to promise to take care of her and feed her snacks while she is at preschool everyday.  She is going to be such a good mommy!

 I guess this is what happens when your best friend is your older sister....you will do anything she tells you to do!  The thing that kills me is that if Peyton would have ever dressed up like this we would of had a heart attack!  It's so hard being the oldest.....when you are the youngest all that mom does is grab the camera!