Grammy & Grumple: COSTCO and Crafts

My parents came in town to celebrate Halloween with us. Scarlett was so thrilled when she woke up and Grammy and Grumple were in our home!

My dad went to Canada for business during the week.  Jaide helped him finish up some work when he got back in town.

Scarlett is hilarious!  She is always making us laugh!

• At dinner we give her a choice: to pray folding arms to to pray holding hand in a circle.  She always picks holding hands.
• This past week she's started praying on her own without us helping her.  It's so sweet to hear what she prays for: "thanks for this day.  thanks I can play with my blue balloon."
• "I can't feed the babies. My boobies are broken. Yours have milk. My boobies don't have milk."
• "Really?"
• "I welcome." For you're welcome
• "You turn the sun light on tomorrow and the peek a boos?"  no idea what this means...
• Tonight I heard her singing a night time song in the living room.  I went to check on her and she had covered her owl backpack with a blanket and was putting it to sleep.  Then she read it a story!  CUTE!
• My dad taught her how to do "cheers!" with our cups at dinner
• She calls her unicorn dream light an "acorn"
• I found her little plastic pony that's been missing for awhile, she ran up to me and gave me a big hug and said "you found my pink pony! you are so big right now!" haha!  That must be a very high compliment indeed!

We went to COSTCO (of course).  We stocked up on lots of baby jammies and mass quantities of food.  Siena had a blow out and had to be changed in the car.

 Jake and I put the twins in Scarlett's strollers.  They immediately grabbed each other's hand!  DARLING!

The girls love Baby Bath Time!  See how the baby in the white tub is more submersed than the blue tub?  Well we were rotating them so they both had equal time in each.  But Jake realized that Siena would scream every time she was in the blue tub, but Jaide doesn't seem to mind.  So now they stay in this order.  The squeaky wheel gets the grease!

Scarlett is able to play with her Aunt Jami across the US...

The babies love to play with their dad...

While my mom was here I was able to finish a couple of craft projects.  I like the states but I think I need to redo Connecticut.  The state boundary goes through the Long Island sound but I think I want it to show the coast line...  And the pictures above the piano I've been working on for awhile.  My friend Amy P. gave me those wood frames.  They were oak and didn't have anything in them - no back or glass or anything.  So Jake painted them black for me.  I found some foam board to fill them.  Then created a few silver accents to go in them.  Oh - and we used these command strip picture hanging things to hang them - AMAZING!  No nails - super easy!!!

I got some sort of eye infection on Saturday.  I thought it was allergies cause they were red, swollen and itchy.  Lots of Benadryl and 4 days later I called my doctor.  They couldn't get me in to see her but she called in some eye drops to help clear it up.  2 days after that my eyes were still gross and they were stuck closed in the morning from all the gunk.  I finally went to instacare and he said it was a form of pink eye and gave me stronger stuff.  It is just now starting to look and feel better.  8 miserable days hung over from Benadryl and I had to throw away 3 bottles of eye drops and 1 contaminated mascara.  Not a fun week for my face.  Plus my lips broke out in a million cold sores 'cause my immune system was depleted.  And my eczema broke out all over my torso.  One night we ate citrus and my top lip got huge and swollen from the juice.  Ugh!  "My body is finely tuned like a microchip, and [any illness] is like a grain of sand.  It could literally shut down the entire system."  (ten points for whoever knows this show this quote is from - we just discovered it and watch several episodes a night!)