Christina and Family: Playing Catch-up

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Playing Catch-up

It has been forever since I last blogged. And I'm not very good at keeping family and friends up to date on all the happenings around here. I will begin with Dane's birthday, which was before Emily's birthday, but for some reason I posted about Emily's birthday and not Dane's.

Dane got a pretty cool remote control helicopter It's pretty tiny, but he's gotten pretty good at getting it to fly steady.

Alrighty, so I already posted on Emily's birthday, so we are going to skip to Kate's. The morning of Kate's birthday, we took her and Alex to the temple to do baptisms for the dead. Even more special, Grandma and Grandpa Stailey were able to come with us!

Then that evening we had cake and ice cream with the family.

Grandma and Grandpa Stailey got Kate a couple of books, which she read in about four days time. Kate is a huge reader. We have at least 200 hundred books in our house and she has read them all. We check out books from the library almost every week. We are always picking up books at the thrift shop as well.

A rare photo of Alex. He doesn't like his picture taken. You have to take it when he is least expecting.

This is usually what happens when you take a picture of Alex. He makes that all too characteristic smile of his and turns his head away. That is why this one is fuzzy!

Teeth are still broken.

Uncle Bret and Aunt Tammy and baby Jackson drove up on Kate's birthday to be here for Dane's baptism. We were happy to have them come!

Me holding Jackson and Seth.

Saturday was Dane's BIG day! He was getting baptized!

Dad and the baptism boy!

Uncle Bret being silly while waiting for the baptism to start. (Aunt Tammy and baby Jackson) Disclaimer: I have no control of my children when they have a camera in hand!

Our family and friends who came to help us celebrate!

(Bob Stanford, Bret, Tammy, Jackson, me, Todd, Seth, G-ma Stailey, G-pa Stailey, Silvia Stanford,

Josie Thomas, Dane, Kate, Nadia Emily, Karsten

Sabrina, Dalton, Kady)

One more thing I wanted to post:

BEFORE

AFTER

Got his teeth fixed! Unfortunately, in one week he will have a root canal done on the right one. The left tooth is looking ok. We'll just keep an eye on it.

Ok, funny story I just remembered, but I don't want to forget! After Dane's baptism, Karsten got left at the church by mistake. He had taken his shoes off in the gym, and when it was time to go, he went to the gym to put his shoes on. The rest of us headed out to our cars to head home. Because we all came in three different vehicles, I suppose no one thought about making sure everyone was accounted for!

We had been home about 45 minutes when a police car drove up our driveway and out jumps Karsten! I was so scared when I realized we'd forgotten Karsten! Apparently, he had taken so long putting his shoes on, that everyone at the baptism had left. Karsten went outside the chapel, saw there were no vehicles in the parking lot, so tried to get back in the church. Unfortunately, it was all locked up. So he crossed a six lane road to head home! He knew how to get home, we don't live that far from the church, maybe a three minute drive. He said he had waited for the road to clear before crossing. Apparently by the time he got all the way across, someone had spotted him and stopped and asked him if he was lost. He said yes, and the driver called the police to help. Karsten couldn't remember his address (until he got home and I reminded him that is was 621 and he finished the address for me! I had him repeat our address several times in the past, but did he realize that was the address of his home? I don't know, maybe he was just too nervous and forgot.) He told the police officer that he could show her the way, and he did! Scary, scary! Thank goodness there are still kind and caring people that Heavenly Father has sent to watch over our children!

4 comments:

Sandra said...: Oh my so much to say... Please tell Alex that I said, "Hi Cutie" and that I love to see him in picutes. He looks taller.

Congrats to Dane. Think I would rather have a root canal than a broken bone, but as of yet, 29 and counting I've had niether. Looks like the baptism was fun too. Dane you look so grown up!

I've got a story like Karsten's, lucky it was my brother and not my child. hahaha jk His story was truely a miracle. I'm glad Karsten was able to get home safe. I think there are many more people out there who do care to help than the news would have us think.

So I didn't say everything that I wanted to but it's saved for a phone call in the future. =) Love you all. OXOX

WV:miedner; March 20, 2011 at 6:31 PM
tammy stailey said...: I love your disclaimer! I have no idea what I am looking at! I am so happy that we were able to come up and be a part of Dane's special day. It was lots of fun!

I cannot believe that happened to Karsten! I am so happy that everything ended up good!; March 20, 2011 at 8:50 PM
4Garrisons said...: OH MY GOSH! How scarey! See, i worry like mom and all i could think about was what bad things could have happened!!! Glad he made it home ok.
That's why i will not have any more kids...2 is easy to account for!! hahaha :)
And i have to add that Seth looks a bit like Ryan!; March 21, 2011 at 9:55 PM
Kathy said...: That is so scary. I'm so glad he made it home safely. My daughter is a little bit of a wanderer and we' ve had her walk away from us a couple of times. It is so scary. Looks like you've had some good days. Is your daughter now in young women? That is so crazy.; March 31, 2011 at 12:17 AM

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.