Bailey Family

It was so beautiful that there were over 100 files (pictures and videos) to transfer from the camera tonight! We started last night when it got so thick and pretty, and continued through early afternoon – it is mostly gone tonight with only the thickest areas still having snow. Chloe and Alee’s first snow…Alee didn’t care. Kristen has a cute video of Chloe jumping for joy…here she’s tasting a little. and some hot chocolate and a fire were nice too :)

The twins turned 3 on Saturday (stake conference for us and Rob had to help someone move, so he was gone most of the day...) So, we let them open their together present Friday night, and sang to them (all of us that were in Columbia) on Sunday...but they wanted to eat the cake on Saturday before I left for the meeting that night. (I screwed up on the cake so it looks awful and was way too dense...please ignore! I was cooking a lot that day!) So, just me and the other two sang to them Saturday so we could cut the cake for them to have some...and we just sang again Sunday with 1/2 the cake missing - but candles intact! :) Birthdays are really low key around here...can you tell? :)

I weighed myself this morning for my weekly weigh in (much happier this week - last week I went up, this week I went down...whew!) and the girls wanted to be weighed too... Their ages are 3, 3, and 5...their weights... 27.2 for Natalie, 36.8 for Kaitlyn, and 46.1 for Carolyn... wow! Kaitlyn is nearly 10 pounds heavier than Natalie - no wonder she feels so much heavier! (I have some charts for weight/height like the pediatrician has - we'll check at the appt next month, but my guess by my chart is that Natalie is around the 10th percentile - an improvement for her! and Kaitlyn is around the 92nd percentile - faster growth for her too)

Between two kids snotting, one crying whenever she's awake, my sore throat, kaitlyn's busted lip, and a wreck (b/c we reorganized, but putting it all back together is hard without cooperation) of a house... I think I feel the same way today! Today's Rob's birthday...he had thought about taking the day off...I think he made a wise choice going to work! Better chance of it being a 'happy' birthday there! lol

A few laughs for the day: The kids asked about why someone was dressed like the statue of liberty on the side of the road the other day...we got to talking about taxes/tax returns, and in trying to explain to Seth what a tax return is (because we pay "too much" money to the government everytime Daddy gets paid), he realized something..."So that's why we don't have much money!" (being denied every request at the store means not much money) Natalie likes to talk about hair color - who has hair like who - she likes that my grandma used to have red hair like her when she was younger...so in this discussion of hair the other day, she informed me..."Jesus had red hair like me." Kaitlyn, used to seeing her daddy wear pants, asked at his wearing shorts..."Why do you have legs?" Seth got sent to the corner last night, and Kaitlyn seeing which corner he went to, said..."Hey! That's where I live in the corner!" :) (S...

The girls were watching videos of Alee at the computer just now, and when we got to the last one (actually the first in time), it was her temperature being taken right after she was born (you can guess where)...I said, as the video zoomed to the ...um, thermometer, "Oh, we're not going to watch that." Carolyn, "I want to watch that!" (denied) ...now, why on earth did someone take a video of Alee and her rectal temperature moment?? I'm sure she'll appreciate that someday! Sorry, no picture or video to go with this post...we try to keep it G-rated!

Lights at the Zoo pictures: New Year’s Eve: Alee was tired before we even got there (after 9), so she was fussy, and went to sleep Kaitlyn was not far past her! Natalie kept up her endurance by eating about 100 cheese puff balls…she was drooling orange by midnight! Carolyn and Natalie loved playing with a little girl whose name I can’t remember. If I got this right, I think she is their 3rd cousin, twice removed! She’s a distant cousin! :) Seth was hardly seen most of the night (he was with Conner and other boys) And Carolyn loved the party attire! Starting off the new year with a baby blessing: (Mom smocked the dress…probably the last blessing dress for the Bailey babies!) Isn’t she gorgeous? (I’m only a little biased) and matching Uncle Will and Seth That’s actually an adult sweater that Will shrunk in the dryer! And this was just too funny! (I am putting this in the weekly email too!) The brown door is our front door (th...

I so forgot to put Santa pictures from the primary activity! Plus, there’s a family picture of us that I just realized we had! Seth thinks a while then decides on a wish, Carolyn thinks a little longer, then decides on a wish… Natalie just goes for the candy, and Kaitlyn asks, “Mommy, can you get my prize?” And a picture of all 7 of us – the first, and so far, only one!

Some of the fun Christmas stuff this year: We went to see The Living Christmas Story put on by Union United Methodist Church – that was SO neat – the kids loved it…they even wanted to go back, but of course, it ended (was only 1 weekend) – and it was drive through, so it was warm. We just went to lights at the zoo this week  - always fun. Our ward put on a “Night in Bethlehem” and these are my pictures from it – they wanted all to dress in Biblical attire, so I through together some costumes from the sheets/curtains I found at Goodwill: (The kids look for the Baby Jesus upon arrival in “Bethlehem”) They made a craft and We had food from the “local Bethlehem cuisine”: The inns were full so we sat on blankets to eat (not Christmasy, but cute) One Saturday after Rob got a pair of overalls to work in…Seth got ready too: The kids got a trampoline for Christmas (yea for good deals after Thanksgiving!) And we went to my dad/mom’s: Alee chilled (sadly, this wa...