What A Tripp!

4 Weeks

Caemlyn saw the Ortho today and he said her leg is looking good.  He gave her the green light to put full weight on it and walk on it.  He gave her 4 more weeks with the cast though.  Her next appointment is on February 19th - and if all looks good on the x-ray, she will be FREE!

Monster Bag

I just finished this very cool Monster Messenger Bag that I started for Caemlyn before Christmas.

It’s crocheted with 2 types of yarn to make it fuzzy. The eyes and teeth are crocheted as well. It has an adjustable strap, is fully lined with inner pockets and is large enough to hold a 3-ring binder and then some. I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out.

I think Caemlyn likes it too. I know Ada was beyond excited about it while she was watching me put the lining together this afternoon.

7 Months

Tyghe is 7 months old today! He has made amazing strides over the last week or so. He can now sit and doesn’t fall over nearly as much. He’s also getting quite interested in feeding himself. Oh the messes we’re in for! He’s getting more and more like a little boy and less like a baby. Crazy.

And for comparison, all of the kids at 7 months.

Homemade Christmas Fudge

We have many friends who made the holidays special, but the giggle award goes to the Andersons. They have 2 little boys and were leaving town the day before us. She showed up one afternoon about a week earlier with a box of brownies with a bow and the following poem:

(Sing to the tune of dashing through the snow)

A Day or Two Ago,
We thought we’d make a treat,
For all our special friends.
A Christmas gift to eat.
Our intentions were top notch,
But our schedules would not budge,
Hence, here’s this year’s edition of
Homemade Christmas Fudge!

Hope it brought the same giggling smile to you that it did to me. (Posting about this now cause I just pulled the box out of the cupboard to make for the kids tonight to have as a treat with the babysitter.)

Cousin Jammies

Thought I’d share pics of the jammies I made for the Stubz cousin pj exchange this Christmas.

(I usually have a favorite each year, and this one is it for this year.)



(the dog food bowl is actually a pocket and has his name written across it)
We also gave to baby Amanda, but I didn’t make them.
Oh, and new this year, all of these jammies, and the skirts I made my girls (below) come with ribbon tags!

Under Megadaisy it says handmade.

Thinking Caps

For Christmas this year, one of the gifts we sent was to Justin’s sister Monica, and her family. We got them a game (some brain game, I don’t remember the actual name), but decided they needed thinking caps to go with it. So, I made some. I got the kids to model them quickly before we wrapped them and mailed them off. I hope they enjoy them.

(my personal fave)

Nigh, Nigh

True to being a child of mine, Tyghe isn’t making great strides in the gross motor skills department.  He can sit up now for a good stretch of time, but we still put pillows around him since he hasn’t learned how to fall yet.  However, along with his standard babbling of mamama, dadada and screaming, he also says nigh, nigh.   I will be putting this down as his first word, since he says it when he is tired and wants to go to bed/sleep.  He has done it at least a couple of times now that I have caught and made the connection.  It’s so cute.

Knees

I think Caemlyn found out on Tuesday how nice knees are.  She got her full leg cast removed and a new cast put on that ends below her knee.  It took her a bit, but by the end of the day she was feeling great that she could bend her knee again, and finding out how much more she could do with her leg.  She is also allowed to put a little weight on that leg.  She goes back to the ortho on the 22nd for another follow-up, at which point the ortho said she will probably be able to put full weight on the broken leg.

Snow Day

So we’re having a snow day.

We had rain most of the weekend with a bit of snow falling last night. Sent the kids off to school this morning and was even contemplating a trip down to Santa Fe. But, the snow picked up and was falling steady, so no trip to SF and the kids got released from school at noon. Thank goodness for 4-wheel drive! The road were a mess and several inches deep with snow. Trucks aren’t getting up to the grocery store, so some of the shelves were pretty bare (not much dairy at all). Bad enough that the lab even shut down at 2pm, along with a slew of other places around town.

Anyway, now that the drive is shoveled, I uploaded some of the pics I took of the kids on Sunday. I neglected to take pics of them in their Sunday Christmas clothes, so they wore them for me yesterday so I could take pics.

I made the girls skirts (no pattern!) and crocheted all of the little flowers (mom helped me sew them on last minute).

I love this one of the boys…Zeph’s goofy smile filled with holes and Tyghe doing his new favorite thing.

ExpressJet

For anyone considering flying in the future, I highly recommend ExpressJet. We flew out to CA on Southwest, and they were fine and good about accommodating Caemlyn’s unbending leg, but nothing special to speak of. We flew with ExpressJet on the way home, and they were great! When we checked in they moved all of our seats together and gave Caemlyn a row to herself so she’d have room for her leg. It was a tiny plane with only 2 seats on one side and 1 on the other, but even so, our family basically had the last 3 rows of the plane to ourselves. After the seatbelt sign was off, most of the kids played musical seats throughout the flight. They had free XM radio, so the kids enjoyed listening to a variety of stations. They gave us lunch (nothing fancy, but a sandwich and cookies/crackers), drinks, additional snacks, water and a mint as we were landing. One flight attendant did it all, and she was great. I was very impressed with all they offered and loved that it was a non-stop flight. They only fly to/from a limited number of cities, but worth checking out if you can.