Reflect on Reflections: Crafty - Film Video 2015

This is one of my all-time favorite entries the kids have done. Crafty is just a great film-maker! Even when she was younger, you can see her attention to detail and her desire to create something really special.

This one just has so many of my favorite people in it doing the things they love. Drama Queen has been so busy lately compiling all of these videos for me and for us. I hope you find them as fun as I do.

Classic Fun Center Was So Fun!

We just started our last week of off-track for Curly and Baby Doll. That reminded me that we still need to tell you about one of the major adventures we had that very first week.

Baby Doll is working on her Soaring Leader Award and that requires her to plan a fun and free family outing. We talked about all the usual things like a picnic or a trip to the park to play softball, but honestly, that was two weeks ago when it was still pretty cold and the weather was dicey. So we pulled out the coupon envelope to see what we could do.

Twizlet had never been on skates before.

That is when we spotted the coupons for one free activity at Classic Fun Center and I had a bunch of them! We called Teach and Twiz and Bossy's family and they were all excited to join us at Classic. Most of the kids wanted to visit the bounce houses in the jumping area, but a couple of the older boys opted for the arcade.

After our hour was up, the kids enjoyed the skates and the scooters that Bossy brought and Teach rented. I used to spend many hours on skates, but my kids have hardly had the opportunity to use them. I even took my turn pushing Twizlet around the track on the scooter.

We had an amazing time without spending any money. I only cracked right at the last moment when they announced they were clearing the food cases and pizza was 50-cents a slice.

Thanks, Baby Doll! We needed a fun, free night out. I think we were all ready to flip out!

Little Squire

On Saturday, we had the opportunity to visit our 2 new grandsons. Yesterday I posted about Polliwog, and I promised you pictures of our sweet Little Squire. Since he was born 3 weeks early, his lungs weren't quite developed, and at just under 6 lbs, he has struggled to learn to eat. The NICU staff has told Beauty and The Beast that they will not be able to take him home until he eats his full rations for an entire day. Then he must wait for another 48 hours...

That probably won't happen until midweek at this rate although today he was supposed to eat 48 oz and he ate 44, so we are getting close. He still wears a feeding tube, and the additional milk is simply fed straight into his tummy that way.

And now without further ado, may I present Little Squire...

 

 

And Now for the Encore... Please Meet Our Newest Family Member

Princess and The Frog went into the hospital this morning just after 6:00AM and by 1:00 they had delivered a healthy little 8-lb guy we are naming Polliwog. We drove over this afternoon to see first our new Little Squire and then down to Utah county to see Polliwog. Little Squire is still in the NICU and I'm going to post pics of him tomorrow just so they don't get mixed up. Both boys are sweet and tiny and smell straight from Heaven.

Princess looks just like you would expect from royalty; unruffled and calm, and totally in control of her situation. It looks like if things stay happy and healthy that they will be allowed to go home tomorrow.

Her MIL brought Tadpole over so he could meet his new little brother. We missed them, but The Frog sent me some cute pics so I could share them with you. Princess said Tadpole was so sweet and gently patted Polliwog's face.

I just love having these new babies come into our lives. I always knew with all these kids that we had the potential to have two grandbabies born in the same week, but I never thought it would happen so soon.

We are incredibly blessed.

Such a cute little family!