Christina and Family

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

A Recital

I started teaching the children piano and Karsten started to pick up tunes by ear. The girls would also teach him little tunes they learned. So, mom taught him "How Firm A Foundation". They are learning to sing this in Primary as well. Enjoy!

Monday, March 30, 2009

Alex's rendition of our family!

Alex drew this picture of our family in church a few weeks ago during Sacrament meeting, but he would never let me look at it. While cleaning his room today I happend to find it! So I scanned it and I'll stick his picture back in his scripture carrier. He keeps EVERYTHING he gets or does at church in there. I think he has programs from every Sunday for the last year! Some of us have some long necks! I wonder what that means? haha :)

Sunday, March 29, 2009

A Few Things I am Grateful For

I love church. I told Todd that I wanted to be just like those people we consider "nerdy" because they were so churchy! I want to be like that! Why? Because I love how the spirit makes you feel and I know you can feel like that more often if you live your life to allow the spirit to dwell with you more. Had a great fast and testimony meeting today. The April Ensign has a great article on fasting. I am grateful to my Heavenly Father for all the blessings and miracles in my life. I believe that He wants us to find his hand in all things, especially in the tough times. Because He is always there.

Karsten's Happy Happy Birthday!

Karsten celebrated his 4th birthday today! He was very excited! We had Grandma and Grandpa Stailey and Aunt Lori and Uncle David help us celebrate. We missed daddy, though. He couldn't make it. Ok, well maybe mommy misses daddy the most.

Here Karsten is showing us how old he is!

Kate baked and frosted the yummy chocolate cake for Karsten.

Blowing out the candles!

Karsten got a new bicycle from mommy and daddy. He's outgrowning his tricycle, although he still loves to ride it. His tricycle has gone through three other siblings and has held up well. A good purchase from toys r us back when Kate was little. Karsten is getting so big and is so smart. He plays the piano by ear. He is learning "How Firm a Foundation". I will record it and post it when he has learned it all. He can play several songs, and bits and pieces of tunes he hears. Karsten is such a joy and such a blessing!

Friday, March 27, 2009

Can you see my tooth?

Well, I tried to get a picture of him smiling to show off his tooth, but it's too dark in his mouth to see. Oh well. And I posted the second pic because I thought it was cute. He is enjoying a Mum Mum, I think is what it is called. It is a rice rusk, like a cracker kind of, and it dissolves fairly quickly in their mouth so he won't choke. He likes holding onto it and then sticking it in his mouth and sucking on it. I've never heard of Mum mums, but saw it in the store and thought I'd give it a try.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Keeping Busy

So my husband is gone. He went to play golf. I'm trying to keep busy until he gets back. I don't want him to think I sit around and watch tv all day and do nothing! :) Keeping house with six kids is ridiculous. Especially when you have it up for sale. Luckily most everything is in storage so there is not a whole lot the kids can use to create a mess. But go figure, they will find something or do something to cause a mess. I started sewing a dress for Emily. Originally it was suppose to be for Kate, but I realized it would be too small, so Emily has inherited it. It would be nice to have a room where I could keep all my projects in and never have to put them away. I could just lock the door and kids couldn't get into it! But, that would probably require getting a bigger house, and after living in this home, I am determined to live in a smaller home. Smaller home, smaller area for kids to make a mess. Of course, I suppose my kids could use this same excuse for their bedrooms as well. "But mom, I am going to play with that later! I can't put it away now!" Anyways, that's my ramblings for now. Love you Todd!

Saturday, March 21, 2009

12 lbs!

Woo hoo! Seth is 12 lbs! Had him weighed at the endocrinologist. He is growing well. He is really filling out in his cheeks and is starting to really resemble his older siblings. Seth is nine months old with an adjusted age of almost 6 months. It's crazy to think that at this time last year all of the unexpected began.

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Funny Mishaps

November 2011

During Primary, the song leader is trying to teach a song about the Nativity. She asks, who is Jesus's mother? Someone answers, "Mary". Then she asks, who is Jesus's father? Karsten (6) replies, "Joseph Smith".

September 2011

Karsten (6) asks me "how can you tell if a baby is a boy or a girl when they are born.?" I reply, "How do you think you can tell the difference between a boy and a girl." Karsten replies, "their hair." I then tell him that pretty much all babies either don't have hair or it's really short and to think of another way. Karsten then replies, "by their eyelashes." I tell Karsten everyone has eyelashes! Trying to get him to think harder, I ask him what's different around their bottom areas. Karsten says, "oh, their diapers!" (Just for the record, he finally knows how you can tell the difference between a boy baby and a girl baby!)

August 2011

Karsten (6) comes into the house yelling for a bandaid. I ask him what for. His response: "Blood leakin'."

April 2010

Karsten (5) informs me that when it's his turn on the computer he is going to go on YouTube and look up cheat codes. Where do they learn these things? :)

March 2010

As we are driving down the road, Dane (7) sees a sign that says "Beer and Wine". He then asks, "Why does that sign say Beer and Wine?" He goes on to answer himself by saying, "It must be because after they drink beer they w(h)ine."

March 2010

Karsten (4) tells me, "Mom, if you type in the password for the computer, I'll let you play with me." The next day he comes up with this one: "Mom, I'll give you this if you let me play the computer." I ask him, "What do you got?" Karsten replies, "An M&M." Apparently, my son has been trying to bribe me to let him to play the computer lately.

August 2009
Dane (7): Mom, I'm bored.
Me: Why don't you take a nap?
Dane: I'm too tired to take a nap.

May 2009
At Walmart I tell Alex (11) he can get some crystal light. So off he goes to find some and brings back every flavor they sell! Needless to say we did talk him into choosing just two. And later on that same trip I tell the boys they can have a Hot Wheel. Alex took down almost all the cars off the racks looking for a police car. Never let Alex shop alone!

May 2009
At Matt and Denise's house, I ask Karsten (4) if he wants a frozen burrito for lunch. He replies, "No, I want it cooked."

May 2009
As we are traveling down to New Mexico, I look in my rear view mirror and see Karsten (4) with his finger in his nose. I asked him if he was picking his nose and he said, "No, I'm just checking."

April 2009
I asked Karsten (4) to open up the washer and take the clothes out and put them in the dryer. (We have a front loader.) So he goes into the pantry, opens up the washer, grabs a few clothes, and asks, "Where do I put them?" I tell him, "In the dryer." He then asks, "This dryer?" As if there are two or three dryers in the pantry and he has to ask which one to use!

March 2009
Karsten (4) was spotlighted this past Sunday for his birthday and was sung to as well. His birthday is this upcoming Saturday (the 28th). Well, since they sung to him he insists that he is already four years old and no one is going to convince him otherwise.

March 2009
Karsten (3) is obsessed with light sabres. Everything is a light sabre. Only he calls them light savers. So, I tried teaching how to properly say light sabre. I was telling him to say sa-bre. And he was thinking I was telling him to SAY ber. So he would just say ber. Ok, if that really didn't confuse you, then you get the joke. It was quite funny.

February 2009
Emily (8) wakes up and tells me her stomach hurts and she doesn't want to go to school (like we've never tried this). I tell her that she needs to get up and get ready for school. She wines a little and complains about her stomach, but we moms know better. I tell her to get out of bed again and she then says, "Well, Kate got to stay home on Friday." (Kate faked sick the Friday previous.) I then tell Emily, "Yes, and she had to clean all day too." Emily jumps out of bed (miraculously healed somehow) and gets ready for school. Can't pass the "my stomach hurts" one on this old pro!

February 2009
We recently got a handicap parking pass for Alex so we can park in the handicap spots now. Every where we go Karsten (3) has to point out the handicap spots. The funny part about it is that each time he sees one it's like he's never seen one before. He sounds so amazed when he points them out.

February 2009
Karsten (3) has been sick with a cold and it has gone to his eyes. When he woke up this morning I told him that I was wondering if he had pink eye. He then goes into the bathroom, looks in the mirror, and says, "No, they're still blue."

December 2008
Karsten (3) is getting himself dressed and puts his shoes on without socks. I tell him to take his shoes off and put his socks on first. He looks up at me and says, "Mom, can we pretend that I am wearing socks?" Who can't keep from laughing with a response like that!

November 2008
Alex (10) is playing with the neighbor girl. She tells Alex that her dad caught a mouse and put it in a jar. They go over to her house and get the jar with the mouse in it. They bring it to our house. Alex wants to see if Moses could catch the mouse. So he gets Moses and then lets the mouse out of the jar. Moses chases the mouse into Alex's bedroom where it quickly disappears. Needless to say, the mouse was found later that night in Alex's dresser.

October 14, 2008
I am in the bathroom doing my hair. Seth (4 mos) is lying in his crib and Dane is happily watching him. All of a sudden Dane (5) runs into the bathroom and yells, "Mom! Seth said his first word!" I then ask him what Seth said. Dane replies, "Meow".

October 14, 2008
Todd and I are sitting on the couch when from behind I hear Karsten say, "Look, I have nipples!" I turn around to look and Karsten has placed an open hamburger bun on his chest. Now I've heard of a coconut bra, but a hamburger bun bra?

September 23, 2008
Todd and I are talking to Kate (9) and discussing human anatomy when we ask her if she knows where babies grew inside the mommy. At first she replies, "in the kidneys". Then she thinks about it for a minute and then says, "oh, the uterus, I thought that was the name of a planet."

September 2008
On the way to school, Kate (9) and Emily (7) are discussing what they are learning in school. Kate mentions that they are learning about the water cycle. Emily comments that she has already learned that. Kate has to flaunt her newly acquired knowledge by asking Emily if she knows what condensation, evaporation, and participation is? I couldn't help but laugh and asked her if she meant precipitation.