Cortney's Crew

So on Thanksgiving, Aric decided he was going to call Scarlett "Pickle". His reasoning is that she looks pickle shaped when she is laying on the floor.... Her nickname so far has been Mimi. It started out as My Baby and somehow with "baby talk" has turned into Mimi. She responds to it or Scarlett, so I guess she's safe unless she starts responding to Pickle. He also gave her a super hero name...I think is was vominator (not positive - it had something to do with vomiting). She was quite the spitter upper that day! She did really like Aric though. She kept staring at him all day. She's become quite the mimic too. She blows raspberries all the time especially if you do it first. When you shake her baby doll at her, she shakes her head the same way - Dean said she's gonna give herself shaken baby syndrome. And then on Thursday Aric was laying down and he'd raise one leg up and then lower it. She would watch him for a while and then she'd ...

I have been wanting to do this for a while now, but hadn't felt up to doing it. I guess you can say my meds are definitely working!! I'm even amazed at all I'm getting done. Feel free to click on the link and follow my new blog! http://cortneysjournaljar.blogspot.com/

This week has been a busy yet super fun week! We had the whole week off of school! YAY! On Monday we had a planned play date for the mall. We were there when it opened and they have story time with Santa right when it opens. It was cool. He read them 2 stories and sat and talked to them. Then they all got back in line (in the order they'd been in, so we were #1!!) and they got to go sit on Santa's lap. It's so funny with the girls, because we've never played Santa, so I don't really know what they think about him. But he was a GREAT Santa. When they would say what they wanted he would repeat it loudly so the parents could hear. Alexandra wants a Webkinz (check) and Riley said a German Shepherd Puppy. She told Santa that it would be able to help out her Daddy at work. When he asked what her Daddy did and she told him he was a Deputy, he told her to make sure she told him that Santa says thanks for all that he does. I thought that was cool. They wouldn...

This week was incredibly busy. I have still been on my clean/organize kick! I'm definitely starting to feel more like myself. In fact on Saturday I woke up thinking of all the things I wanted to get done....not that most of them happened, but I woke up planning! Tuesday Dean went in for the big "snip-snip". It was actually a really short appointment, and he has healed super fast. Dean decided that he was going to be the one to be "fixed" instead of me. I just seem to have so many complications with anything, that we decided not to risk it. We are definitely done, per my doctor. And we feel extremely lucky to have the 3 healthy girls that we have. I just have WAY TOO MANY complications, and really should have been done after Alexandra, but now it's official! Thursday was the last day of Junior Achievement. I've been helping one of the other mom's in Riley's class teach it. It is 5 interactive lessons that volunteers teach in classrooms (if the tea...

Here is my update of all the pictures I have taken since I posted last. Alexandra had a field trip to the zoo. Trying to get Scarlett to smile for the camera....she's getting to really not like the camera. Field Day First Laugh! I only managed to get the camera on at the very end. Riley had a field trip to the butterfly pavilion . She's much braver then me, there is no way I'd let a spider crawl on me! New hair cut! Alexandra had a field trip to the pumpkin patch. This is what she did to make me laugh on the bus. Some of the cutest girls in Kindergarten! Some of the cutest boys in Kindergarten! Halloween - well the ward Trunk-or-Treat. Everyone was sick on Halloween, so no trick-or-treating. Just a random picture Riley took. Alexandra's pikachu pumpkin Riley's vampire cat pumpkin Our big snow storm. I think the total was 22 inches. The girls were out of school for 2 days. Alexandra's class Halloween party. Riley was running a temp of 102 that day, so no p...