Reese's heart murmur...that almost gave Mommy a heart attack.

We found out that Reese had a heart murmur a few weeks ago. I don't know when I've ever been so scared of 2 words: heart murmur. It just sounds doomed. We were fortunate enough to take her into Primary Childrens Hospital (aka the best place in the world) to see a Pediatric Cardiologist. When the cardiologist came in and listened to her heart, she kept listening...and listening...and listening. She said that some things sounded a little out of the ordinary and that they wanted to do an Echocariogram. My stomach dropped into the floor and I started bawling. The cardiologist assured me that she thought everything was fine, but just to make sure, let's do the EKG. She also told me that she's never made anyone cry by telling them that. Glad I could be the first. The EKG (which is just an ultrasound) took about 40 minutes and Reese was an absolute peach. The ultrasound tech said they have to sedate some patients because they aren't able to be controlled. Sooo glad Reese was cooperative. Once they got the reading back the cardiologist came in and said that everything looked perfect. There was no need for follow-up appointments and that her murmur would eventually be outgrown. The word relief dosen't even touch what I felt. The whole experience just made me grateful. For so many things. For having such an amazing hospital less than an hour away, for having proper medical insurance and the ability to give our daughter the best care possible, for healthy children, for a loving and supportive family, for having the priesthood in our home. For all these things, it warms my heart.

During her EKG

Being an adorable patient.

Yawn

Prince Charming and Sleeping Beauty

Feeling Lucky?

Someone looks like a leprachaun.

Apparently it's not easy being green.

The girls had so much fun with St Patty's Day this year! It all started with the green party the twins had at pre-school. I asked them all about it and all they would tell me was "Well, we had green cupcakes." I would pry and pry and that is all the info I could get out of them. I found out later that they had a green picnic with all green foods, and that the leprachaun came to the school and messed up a bunch of toys. Naughty.

On the morning of St Patrick's Day the girls were shocked to see that a leprachaun actually snuck in their bathroom and toilet-papered the entire place, dumped out their clothes hamper into the bathtub, and had actually used their potty and didn't even bother to flush (we figured that out since the toilet water was green.) He took the girls on a scavanger hunt and left them little Tangled coloring books that were just his size. We thought that was the end of his antics, but oh no, there was more. Green pancakes and green milk for breakfast? Shocking. After breakfast we got ready (Taytum refused to wear green. She didn't care how many times she was going to get pinched, she wasn't going to wear a boy color.) and went and watched the Childrens Sociable. When we returned home that little stink had been at it again-he had taken all of the couch cushions off and just threw them wherever he pleased, then left some Sprite and green pudding in their place (I think grammy put him up to it.)

We finished up the day with a non-green dinner (I guess the leprachaun was pooped) but did have green pudding for dessert. The best part of the day was that the girls kept saying things like "Look mom, he must have left Taytum's shoes in the middle of the floor!" or "That little stink must have dumped out my toys and played with them." when really it was the general mess that it always is. But it's always good to have someone to blame the mess on, right?

Anyone have a steak?

Another post about a black eye, huh? Please don't call CPS. Reesie was running up the stairs at my parents house when she tripped and hit her eye. It started out as a "cawpet buwn" and the next morning was a full blown black eye. She loved the attention she got from it though. Ellie was the official spokeswoman about the whole situation. She would walk up to a complete stranger and say "My sissy got a cawpet buwn, look" and Reese would shove her little face right next to said stranger. Apparently black eyes are front page news.

A Day in the Life of Fancy Dancy

9:00AM

10:15AM

12:30PM

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2:30PM

2:32PM

6:30PM

8:00PM

Before

After

It's not easy being fancy...for mommy or her diva.

February Funnies

Ellie:

"Look mom. I take black Play-doh and I take white Play-doh, I mix it together and POOF! I made gray!"

You were apparently playing Waitress because you came running into the kitchen yelling down to your sisters "2 cold pancakes coming right up."

You calling Eggos waffles "cold pancakes."

"Mom, do you know when I say 'Oh mom' it means I think your crazy?"

During a dinner prayer "Please bless all our our dreams will come true."

You LOVE drawing and your specialty right now are skeletons.

You are so good at writing all of your letters that you have started making letter games for everyone to play. You write a bunch of letters really big on the paper then add in really small letters between them. You get a kick out of it when Grammy can't find the really small letters.

Reese:

Calling your tank top a "laptop"

We were talking about kangaroos and I said to you "Reese, did you know that baby kangaroos are called joey's?" You replied "Yeah mom, my leapster already taught me that." Good job leapster.

On the way to school: "Mom, did you know that all of the planets are called a solar system?" Ellie piped up "Yeah, and when the sun goes around the earth it's called orbiting." Such smartie pants.

Grandma Linda was babysitting you and said "Come on, let's go play with some toys." You said "Ok, but we need to make sure to clean up after or that wouldn't be choosing the right, so we would be following Lucifer." Thanks Scripture Stories!

Taytum:

Beck climbed onto the open dishwasher door and you yelled "Beck, get out of the dishwasher, you know better!"

You were pretending to paint my toes and when you took off my sock your eyes got wide and you said "Whoa, that's a big, big, big huge toe."

You grabbed a bottle of cherries off of the door of the fridge and asked "Mom, now are these blueberries or ketchup?"

You were combing my hair and said "Wait, I need to get the hairspray...don't move...your not cute yet." Ouch.

We were getting ready to leave and I told you to put your coat on. You said "Mom, I'm just too busy." while you were sitting on the stairs doing absolutely nothing.

Beck:

You survived the Crying it Out Method! You are officially a big boy that now sleeps through the night. You only cried for about 40 minutes the first night and 20 minutes the second night. From then on you have completely slept through the night-usually from about 10pm-6:30 am. You have a little snack and fall back asleep til 8:30 or so. Thank you, thank you, thank you!! I thought it would be hard for me as you are my baby, but it wasn't at all!

You got tooth number 5, 6 and 7 thing month! You were pretty cranky for a while...nothing a little Tylenol wouldn't fix!

You are such a happy baby! Everywhere we go people can't believe what a big smile you always have on your face.

You have started giving big, sloppy, open mouthed kisses-my favorite!

I am more in love with you this month than the last month...and the month before that...and the month before that...