Easter Egg Hunt at Grandma & Grandpa Andersons

A few days before Easter we got together with my family to do an Easter Egg Hunt at my parents house. The kids always have fun at Grandma's especially when there is money and candy involved.

This year each kid had a color that was theirs. As you can see Madison was Pink of course! Claudia was Orange, Charles was Blue, and Katelyn's was yellow.

Bryce was Green and Kaylee was purple. 

All the kids had a great time on their egg hunt.

Big Girl Bed & Blankets

The baby is coming shortly so we needed to evict Katelyn from the crib. We decided to wait until after her surgery because we would also be getting rid of her blankets. Katelyn has been a thumb sucker since she was a tiny baby but as she got older the only time she would suck her thumb was when she would have her special blankets. So we slowly started taking away the amount of time and when she got those blankets. Which also lessened the thumb sucking. So we figured if we could get rid of the blankets, which now she was only getting in bed, then we could eliminate the thumb sucking. Which was only happening in bed. So a few days after surgery we moved Claudia into Charles room and moved Katelyn into Madison's room. The top bunk in Madison's room has high sides so it's kinda like a crib.  She has transitioned surprisingly well.  Although I think she may still be sucking her thumb from time to time. I guess I shouldn't worry since it's only done in bed and on rare occasion. 

There have been a few times when she cried herself to sleep on the floor. But all of the kids have done that. I'm just happy that she is still taking her nap and going to bed at the same time. 

Since we took all Katelyn's blankets away for good I decided that I needed to make her a blanket like I've done for all the other kids. So I gathered all my scrap material and put together and quilt for her. 

And since I was making her a new blanket Charles and Madison asked me to make them new blankets too since theirs were getting too small. 

Here's Madison's blanket

And this one is Charles'. 

Nothing fancy and far from perfect, but they Love them!

Surgery time!!!

Katelyn has had a clogged tear duct for quite some time now. After meeting with a specialist and waiting for it go away on it's own we finally decided to have surgery to fix it. It obviously wasn't getting better on it's own. I was a bit nervous about her having the surgery because they would be putting her completely under with anesthesia. But I felt it was what needed to be done to solve the problem. Luckily surgery was scheduled while my mom was on spring break from work so she spent the night with us so that John and I could get up super early and head to the hospital. Katelyn did a great job waiting her turn and we enjoyed the one on one time we got with her.  The surgery went really well. The clog was worse then the doctor had hoped so she had to put a stint in. 

Katelyn woke up groggy and grumpy and was pretty clingy for the rest of the day but recovered great!!!! By the next day she was back to her normal self!!!

 And her eye is back to normal. No more unnecessary tearing!!! Hooray!!!!

The doctor had use a permanent marker to mark over the eye that she was going to do surgery on. You can see it in the photo on the right. It took me two days of scrubbing to get the marker off.  I guess it's better than operating on the wrong eye!

It's becoming more Real

I Love LOVE Love hand-me-downs, but I think every New baby should at least have a few jammies of their own! These adorable jammies just arrived in the mail today! I am so excited to meet this little girl. Just 63 more days (give or take a few, probably give with my history.)

St. Patrick's Day

You may rarely find my house decorated for holidays but you will almost always find us enjoying some holiday treat.  I guess its true what they say, we play to our strengths and mine is in the kitchen. :)

For St. Patrick's day we invited my sister Janelle to join us for dinner since her hubby was out of town on a business trip. 

We enjoyed some yummy green pizza and what was supposed to be rainbow ice soda. But the colors in the ice started melting pretty quickly so the soda just started turning a brownish color. But that kids thought it was cool. And for desert we had green cookies and green rice crispie treats! 

Nothing too exciting but the kids enjoyed it, so that equals success!

Lots and Lots of Curls

Madison had to do a oral presentation on a character from a book and she chose Fancy Nancy. So we decided to dress the part as much a possible. Fancy Nancy loves EVERYTHING Fancy. We put curlers in Madison's hair before bed and TaDa! We got great curls!!! She LOVED it!!! She kept saying, "It doesn't even look like me."

 And she did Amazing on her presentation!!!!

Let's Play some BALL...it's Baseball season again!!!

One of the BEST things about our new house is living so close to family. All of these cousins play baseball at the same park. Kinda stinks that none of them are on the same team, but still fun to see each other at practices and games.