Fireflies Art

i just love sage's hair.

on a hot + humid day the ends curl up so pretty.

and this little guy. he's gonna give me an ulcer. yesterday morning he woke up at 5am and was burning up! i had given him the last of the motrin a couple days before because he's cutting 2 teeth. so i headed to the store at 5am and got home and gave him some. i didn't take his temp. i kept him on motrin yesterday most of the day. at 10pm last night he woke up so hot again. i took his temp and as it passed 103 i was just sick to my stomach! it finally stopped at 104. i gave him more motrin + called the after hours nurses line. they said if he still has a fever in the morning to call the doctor. well about 5 1/2 hours after the last dose of motrin (i had set my alarm for 4am) his temp was back up to 100.4. obviously much better but still a fever. so i called the doctor and just loved the nurses answer. it's up to you if you want to bring him in! she ended up recommending that we give him motrin every 3 hours and then tylenol 3 hours after that. so we've been doing that all day. he doesn't have any other symptoms at this point. just hoping + praying he's better QUICK! i just adore him in his little grateful dead onesie.

and we have this billboard not too far from our house. and there are so many great things on there that i get to see each morning so i decided to start posting them over there on the left.

4th

i hope you all had sparkly happy 4th of july celebrations!

we had lots of fun. mostly we were thrilled to come home from the parade to find that our power was back on! 48 hours is a long time to be without. definitely realized that we take a lot of little things for granted! taking an almost 4 year old to go potty by light of a flash light was certainly entertaining though!

we had a great day.

we went to a parade. did yard work. grilled out. watched fireworks + had ice cream.

and slept so much better with the fan back on. :)

no power.

so we have no power right now.

as of last night they were estimating it will be back on SATURDAY at 11pm.

i REALLY REALLY hope it doesn't take that long.

they have a generator on at jim's work next door so i'm able to connect for a few minutes.

we had a crazy storm yesterday afternoon.

tons of pea size hail + 65 mph winds.

6 panels of fence are down in our backyard.

tons of branches everywhere.

"washing dishes makes me so happy mom!"

i only hope that i'll be hearing those words in 10 years!

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friday night i got to be in the crop room at work! here are 2 of the pages i did...

the journaling says: my little sidekick. my shadow. she loves to help me clean + do laundry. she helps me water the flowers. she loves to scrapbook with me. i love my little girl.

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michelle and the girls came over to play today...i love this picture of hannah pushing sage on the swing!

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saturday my sister in law jill + her husband came over to say hi! they brought cone world (YUM!) and a cute magnent ballerina for sage! *which she LOVES jill!*

and that night my niece nancy came over and we had pizza + watched dan in real life.

we all loved the movie! and sage loved playing with nancy.

and this local story just breaks my heart. click HERE to read it.

 

so i just love looking back and comparing pictures of when sage was emerson's age.

it's just fun to see how they are alike + how they are different.

so do you think they look alike?? :)

 

sage at 15 months

emerson at 15 months

these kids...

are really just growing up WAY too fast.

 

she will be 4 in less than 2 months.

is she not just the most beautiful girl you've ever seen??

she cracks me up all day long with her wild little imagination.

we sold her car seat today + she got to buy a booster seat.

she was SO excited. she made up songs about it all day long!

and i had to stand at back of the jeep and put it together so she could ride in it on the way home from the store!

she loves it so much she gave it a huge hug when we got home and said, "i love you booster seat!"

it's pink and says "very important princess" on the top.

and she couldn't be happier about it.

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and this kid. he is so funny too.

and i LOVE the funny face he makes when he knows he's being funny.

hopefully i can catch that with my camera soon.

but for now here is my little man on his way upstairs to get ready for bed after a bath last night.

love it.

he was tugging at his ears quite a bit yesterday...

and when he woke up this morning with this little face

(i'm talking about the red marks not the chocolate! )

i decided to take him in. and ends up he is just fine.

the mosquitos just couldn't resist his tasty little face last night.

and so since he was supposed to have his 15 month check up next week we just did that today!

he weighed in at 24lbs even (40%) and 31 3/4 inches (75%).

he got iron level retested because last week he was a bit anemic at a different appointment.

and because sage almost passed out last time she had to watch that she got to go and hang out with the nurses during that part + again while emerson got his shots.  and she LOVED that so much.

emerson's iron levels are back to normal now...it was down because of the urine in his bladder last month.

sage actually got teary eyed when we left because she loved it so much. and those of you who know sage know she has HATED the doctor for sometime now...so this is a HUGE improvement!

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one last thing! sunday evening jim's cousin ry...my sister in law jennie + her friend carrie all came over + had pizza! i love having jim's family so close by. :)

i know the picture isn't in focus but it's all i got.

check this out!!!

there is an awesome giveaway going on over here...

The Secret is in the Sauce!

if you have kids be sure to check it out!

breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

good morning. we woke up with yucky noses + sore throats.

it's gonna be a long day.

funny. funny. funny.

sage says so many funny things these days and i wish i was better at writing them down!

1. this first really wasn't too funny to me but you'll get a kick out of it.

we were eating dinner last night...basically chicken with rice. only sage rarely eats any meat and never eats chicken. so she was just having brown rice. so in the middle of dinner she asks, "so you are eating the inside of a chicken?". i was done. jim got to eat my dinner from last night for lunch today. i really won't be surprised if once she realizes where all meat comes from she becomes a vegetarian.

2. a couple of weeks ago sage all of a sudden said to me, "Heavenly Father is just playing a game with us mom". and so i obviously asked for a little clarification...what do you mean sage?? "He's just moving his mouse (as in computer mouse) around running us wherever he wants to!" i have no idea where she came up with that but she cracks me up.

and why is it that because i sat down to write this out i can't remember any more! if i think of more i'll post again! :)

both of my kids are now asleep and it's 8:14pm!! it's a miracle.

long post + lots of pictures. *our yesterday*

yesterday we packed lots of stuff into our day!

the kids were both being a little sassy in the morning but we still headed over to the zoo to meet up with my niece jana + jessica and their boys! *sage was the only girl out of the 7 cousins...but she didn't even notice!* i'm so glad we went. the kids had fun. sage is so funny because jessica and jana are my age but are sage's first cousins. but she thinks it's hilarious when i say they are her cousins so she calls them her friends.

        

this is what emerson did most of the time. :)    and sage LOVED petting the goats.        

here she is crying because she's so sad     does the bear look so cuddly? :)

we had to move on from the goats.

sage and donny and schuyler all wanted to pet the sting rays and nurse shark so i went with them...

i think the boys did pet them but sage just wanted to watch me do it. and i did. *so not like me!*

the shark wasn't too bad...just kind of rough. but the sting ray=NASTY. it was like slime! i pulled my arm away so fast that i hit my elbow on the side...lol. i'm sure someone got a kick out watching me freak out.

 

here are the budgie birds. i think that's what they are called! for $1 you can buy a popsicle

stick with about a pennys worth of bird seed glued to it. but sage LOVED it. you can tell

by her face that she was totally enjoying herself!

after the zoo we all headed back to my house for pizza. thanks jana for running to get it!

i just love that i have such awesome nieces. they are such great friends too.

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after they took off my friend liz + her little boy grant came over to visit for a little while.

my kids were so tired and clingy...so we didn't get to visit as much as i'd have liked!

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right when jim got home we took the kids over to michelle's so we could go on a DATE!

this is rare. we really need to make more of an effort to get out by ourselves at least once a month!

we just headed downtown + had a good dinner + listened to the band play for a bit.

during the summer the local classic rock station does free outdoor concerts downtown.

honestly the people watching was more entertaining than anything!

and one more thing...emerson is looking like he got in a fight.

he is SUCH a busy little boy right now! he climbs on anything and everything!

last night he bonked his chin on a rocking horse...and today he bonked his nose really hard on a chair!

the left side of his nose is still pretty red + he has a little bruising by his eye! i'm really hoping he doesn't wake up with a black eye! it was so hard getting a picture! it looks worse in real life!

 

can you tell he didn't want me to take a picture of his chin? lol that's the best i could do.

anyways! yesterday was a very fun + very busy day.