Elizabeth lost a tooth

Her tooth has been loose for a while and it finally just popped out this afternoon. In the close up smile you can see that the new adult tooth is already starting to grow in. She is very excited about the tooth fairy coming and leaving her a surprise tonight.

I Forgot to put pictures with my post and talk about Abby. Here are our costumes at Halloween and the other picture is Elizabeth and Abby at AIM. Abby goes to preschool there 3 afternoons a week and has a great time.

Hello blogging world!

hello blogging world!
I am going to try blogging again at least once a month. I'm coming back now because my Aunt Barbara posted a message on facebook that she wants to see more blog posts and I am off work this week because I hurt my foot. Once again I rolled my foot (like the post from June of 2009) Last Saturday I was playing tag with Chris, Steven, and the girls at a park and there was a dent in the grass I stepped into it and fell twisting my foot in the process. Chris took me to Kaiser on Sunday because it got all swollen we thought it might be broken but no, the good news is it is just sprained. Hopefully my recovery will only be one week and not two weeks like the last foot injury. So I am keeping off my foot as much as possible and icing it to make the swelling go down.
So now I will try to update things from 10 months ago. I am still working at AIM with children with disabilities but because of budget cuts we are not getting the children refered to the center program and all of our classes have gotten smaller. So to make up more hours and serve more children I am now also a home teacher meaning I go to the homes of the children and work with them there. It keeps me busy. Chris is still working for Caltrains in the swing shift so we can trade off work schedules. He is very good and walks with Elizabeth to school every morning so I can get ready for work. In August Elizabeth started kindergarten and is enjoying school. For Halloween the girls and I were princesses and Chris was our prince. Well technically he was a thief because he was Eugene (Flinn Rider) from Rapunzel. We went to Visalia, CA for Thanksgiving to be with Chris's parents and brother Craig and family. We stayed in San Jose for Christmas with my parents and family. Then drove to Visalia again to spend Elizabeth's 6th Birthday and New Years Eve with family there.

This is a picture of the wood on the beach and the girls in their Easter dresses. Enjoy :)

Easter 2011

It has been a while since I blogged, only about two years!! So I will try to not have it be another two years after this entry. Elizabeth is now 5 and Abby is 2 and a half. This Easter weekend Elizabeth got the opportunity to go camping with my parents up at Mt. Madonna. She had a great time, my Mom said she is quite the little camper. My Dad helped her find 15 banana slugs on their nature hike.

Abby stayed home with Chris and I and so she got to dye eggs by herself and spend some good quality one on one time. She talks a lot more without Elizabeth around. Then Saterday afternoon we went up to Mt Madonna to join family for the egg hunt and picnic lunch. The girls had fun finding eggs in the trees and hidden with leaves. Then we went to Rio Del Mar beach. We were just going to go look at the wood that has washed up on shore but Elizabeth wanted to put her feet in the water. Soon we all had our shoes off, pants rolled up and jumping in the waves. The water was very cold but once your feet got numb it was fine.

July Review

Hello everyone sorry I have not blogged in a while. I will let you know all that happened in July. So in the begining of July we drove to Blackfoot Idaho to visit with Chris's parents and some friends. We got there on the 4th of July and enjoyed the fireworks at a park called Jensens Grove with our niece Ashlie who had been staying with Grandma and Grandpa Dixon in Blackfoot for about three weeks. The rest of the week we spent visiting and doing fun things. We went to a small zoo in Idaho Falls, saw the Titanic exhibit at the museum also in Idaho Falls and took a tour of BYU Idaho in Rexburg. We drove home on the 11th and took Ashlie home to California with us (she lives in Visalia, CA), she was happy to be home and entertained our girls on the way.
Then on the 16th Abby tuned one year old and we had a party for her at my parents house on the 18th. It was a water party and Abby had a great time on the slippin slide a little blow up pool with all the big kids.
On July 26th it was my Birthday and we just had a small celebration with my parents and brother and sister in law.
July 31st we went to see the local baseball team the San Jose Giants play. Elizabeth loves the mascot Gigante and Abby loves being outside. Both girls sat throughout te entire game and had a great time! So that was our fun month of July.

My foot story

Hello so some of you have been wondering what happened to my foot from the comments on facebook so I decided to do a post on our blog to give more detail. Well a little over two weeks ago I was at my parents house outside on their deck. My Mom was holding Abby and Abby started wiggling and she looked like she was going to drop so I ran over to where they were and missed the deck step. I fell and my foot rolled under me and then I landed on it squishing it. So the next day I went to have x-rays and it was not broken but very ouchy just the same. They wrapped it in an ace bandage (the second picture), gave me crutches and pain pills perscription with the thought that it would be about a week recovery. Well it's been over two weeks now and I am still not fully recovered but I am better. After two weeks I went back to Kaiser and got a walking shoe so I could limp around better (the first picture). I also wanted to say thank you to everyone who has helped me during this recovery process. Especially my Mom who lent me her wheel chair and shower chair, and my wonderful husband Chris who pushed me around and helped out as much as he could. I am very glad that I am getting better and able to do more things everyday.

Abby is 10 months

Messy ice cream face at whimsicle, I couldn't resist the bowl hat.

getting in trouble under the kitchen table

So I had to post some cute pictures of my cute ten month old. Abby is now crawling fast and getting into troubles. She can pull to stand and stand by herself for about 30 seconds. She has not taken what I would call her first steps yet but she is getting close. She also says mama and dada and waves bye bye very cutely.

Family full of Love

Last Sunday Elizabeth had the opportunity to give a short talk in primary. She talked about our family and how we are full of Love. She talked about the different things that she does with each member of her family and really had fun doing it. On the way home from church she was talking about it and said that my tummy was full of hearts because we are full of love then she added hearts and milk so I guess hearts and milk go well together. It was fun to have her give her first primary talk she is getting so big. She is past the toddler stage and into being a little girl. She is also mostly potty trained (ya!!) It's the mostly part that we have to work on now. but I am soo proud of her. The pictures are of us being full of love. In the top picture Chris was giving the girls horse rides but the horse got tired by the time the camera came out and the second one is us on our porch after we played with bubbles.

Abby is 9 months

She is creeping around and loves to jump when someone holds her. She likes real food and will not eat baby rice cereal. Abby is mostly patient when Elizabeth takes toys or knocks her down by acciedent of course. We love having her in our family. She makes us smile!

More Easter fun

So I was going to do a post about the girls easter baskets just because it is fun. The top picture, is a picture of Elizabeth keeping her loot from Abby, oh the joys of sibling rivalry. Elizabeth couldn't wait to get the candy, so she opened and ate the candy in the bathroom where the Easter baskets were hidden. Abby had fun discovering what was in her basket. She liked her yellow ducks to chew on.

After we colored the eggs we went up to Mt. Madonna and had an Easter picnic (Togo's sandwiches) and an egg hunt. It was loads of fun as always.

Elizabeth knew just what to do and went about collecting eggs, and had a wonderful time filling her basket. At one point the basket had gotten pretty full of eggs so Chris offered to carry it for her but that would not do because it was her basket and she wanted to carry it. So he let her carry it and she tripped and all the eggs spilled out but they had fun picking them up as fast as they could. The top picture is of Elizabeth and Grandpa looking at a bannana slug (you'll have to enlarge the picture to see it). Elizabeth has just touched it and is wipeing her hand off on her shirt, it was "too squishy". My Dad always did like bannana slugs for some reason. We ended the afternoon with some candy and a nice quiet ride home as both girls were tired from all the fun.

coloring eggs

Hello so I am finally posting some Easter pictures. Abby had fun spilling die and eating the egg (with the shell still on of course) Elizabeth had a great time coloring the eggs and her hand. Chris looks soo cute with his two bunnies, to bad we do not have some bunny ears for him.

Like to paint?

So this afternoon Elizabeth wanted to finger paint so I said okay. I knew she would get messy so I told her to take off her dress. She had fun painting then I thought well Abby might like to finger paint also so I stripped her down to her diaper. They were both having fun painting on paper untill Elizabeth decided it would be fun to paint on Abby's arm so I eventually just put them on the mat and let them be creative. They had a nice soappy bath afterwards and are not painty any more. I am glad that I only buy nontoxic washable paint!

8 months old

Abby turned eight months old on Monday. I was going to post a blog but I ran out of time. Abby is a sweet happy baby. She is begining to get up on her hands and knees and move around more. She is so surprised when ever she manages to move anywhere. She has the cutest giggle laugh when beining tickled or finds something funny. Abby has four teeth (two on the top and two on the bottom) and loves to bite and chew on anything she can get her hands on to get that sensory input in her mouth and new teeth. She is very happy sitting on the floor playing with toys and mostly enjoys playing with Elizabeth. We are so blessed to have Abby in our family.

Sacramento Train Museum

I think that Chris had the most fun at the train museum. We went on the tour in the begining and Elizabeth did very good at listening with her stuffed monkey George. When we were by the display of the mountians being blasted to make room fo rthe train tracks Elizabeth started singing her own made up song pointing to the words on the sign like they were the words she was singing. There was an older gentelman standing behind her and I appoligized for her blocking the sign and he just nicely said "oh that's okay mam I like the singing and I'm guessing that the men who worked on building this railroad would have liked to hear her singing as well" so I thought that was nice. We also go to go inside some of the old trains and see how they ate and slept on the train and learned all about the different engines and types of trains made from the 1830's to 1950's or so and the history. On the second floor they had toy trains, electric trains set up that you could watch go around a small village as well as the history of toy trains with lots of display cases full of trains. They also had two train tables set up with Thomas trains that kids could play with and Elizabeth had fun doing that.

Synchronized Swimming

So last weekend March 6th and 7th we had the opportunity to go to Sacramento to see our niece Alexandra Metcalf proform in synchronized swimming. We got there on Friday afternoon and Elizabeth had a great time watching them practice and running around on the grass. We were able to see her proform in a trio (three girl synchronized swimming together) with her super gelled hair and fancy suit with matching head piece. It was fun to watch. That night we went to Chevys for dinner and just relaxed at the hotel. The next morning (Saturday) we saw her swim in a duo and visited some more. Then in the afternoon we went to the Sacramento train museum.