Christina and Family: Odds and Ends

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Odds and Ends

I miss being around everyone I have ever known. It is going to be so great in Heaven because then we'll get to see everyone and traveling won't be a problem! I wish I could live everywhere! Yes, I have very mixed emotions about military life. It is a love/hate relationship. I love having the opportunity to live in so many places, but hate having to move away from friends. We don't have any orders yet, but know the time will come some day. Sniff, sniff.

We are working on getting Seth into a Speech/Language development preschool for next school year. It is great because our elementary school has one and it is only two or three days a week, just what I am looking for. I know I am going to have to probably fight for this placement, but I will just leave it at that. Very frustrated with certain things, but trying to look past it and know that in the end, it will all be just fine.

The children are so antsy to be getting out of school! Four more school days left! Kate is going to Girls' Camp for the first time this year. She missed it last year because we went to Utah. Alex and Todd will be going to Scout Camp that same week, so it will be just me and the four younger children.

We just had our first annual dinner and Auction to help raise funds for the Scouts. It was so much fun and we raised more than anyone first imagined! Emily got herself an MP3 player from it, Todd and I will be enjoying a three course home cooked meal from a sweet Sister in the ward, and sometime this fall we'll be joining a couple of other families to enjoy the weekend at the beach in Ocean City! For me, the most amazing thing in helping to put this whole event together was seeing the ward come together with so many service donations. It has been a great experience.

Alex has finally hit the 100 mile mark on his walking chart! He likes to track his walking and measure his distance with my phone. Actually, it is great that he does this because he cannot cheat! We go out together, but because I jog most of it, we aren't together, so I just look at the map of the route he's taken and know for sure how far he's gone. Monday night it was funny, Alex had walked 2.13 miles. I told him he just needed to walk a tiny bit more to make it a full quarter mile and he could mark off another square on his chart ( one square equals a quarter mile on his walking chart). I told him to walk down the street and back and that it would make it be over a quarter mile, but he didn't want to do that. So then I told him just to walk around on the road in circles and he would eventually get to 2.25 miles. So he did! It was kind of funny watching him walk around our cul de sac in circles. He had to do six or seven times, not to mention that is was nearly ten o'clock at night! The neighbors were probably looking out there window wondering why Alex was walking in circles! Oh well, he did it! And now he has been bugging me to take him to the Thrift store. So, we have a trip planned for tomorrow.

Kate has begun the process of getting the pendulum she will will have to wear for a few months before she has braces put on, today. Two small plastic things were stuck between two of her teeth to start making room for a metal ring to go around the teeth. The plan for Kate is to push her back two molars back so we can pull the remaining front teeth in to correct her over bite. She has no wisdom teeth, but she also has two baby teeth that have no adult molars under them. These will be pulled and a spacer put in place so she can have implants put in sometime in the future. I am a little hesitant about this, but the concern is that these two baby molars have such large fillings from cavities that the orthodontist doesn't expect them to be viable long enough to be worth keeping. I am still concerned about having them removed and having nothing there for several years, why not leave them there until they really need to come out? I think I will discuss that with them, but my guess is that if we don't remove them and make plans for implants and wait to pull them when they have to come out, it will mess up all the orthodontic work they are doing now. If Kate marries a wealthy man, I will forward this dental bill to her later! :)

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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.