Ellie Belly had her 15 month old Dr. Appt with Dr. Fruin on Monday. Ryan is working in Ogden this week training so he wasn't able to make it to the appt. Thank goodness both girls were really good for me. Sometimes I think they listen to me better and are easier when Dad is gone. Why is that?
These are Ellie's stats at 15 months:
Weight 21lbs 14oz- 35%
Length: 32 1/4"- 95%
Head: 18"- 45%
The poor girl also had to get shots. She wasn't happy about that at all. I talked to the Dr. about her not sleeping. She suggested benedryl! That made me laugh.
I noticed on Tuesday that Ellie has tooth coming in on the bottom left. Maybe that's why she isn't sleeping? Although the Dr. tells us it doesn't hurt bad enough to wake them up. Wish I knew.
Kailee had school on Wednesday at the Baileys house. She is actually to the point that she likes to go to school. As soon as she woke up she said "yeah, it's time for school. It's time for school!" Yeah! It's so much more fun to take her when she is happy and excited about it! While she was at school Ellie and I ran errands. We sold some baby clothes to Once Upon a Child (and made $40!), dropped some other stuff at the DI, and stopped by Old Navy. When we picked Kailee up from school we stopped by Downeast, grabbed lunch from Sonic and headed home. While I was trying to get the girls to sleep I watched the the funeral for an Ogden cop on TV. While I was watching it on TV, Ryan was watching it from the street. The motorcade drove past the Ogden office so he was able to go out and see it. It was both the saddest and neatest thing to see. I kept thinking about his poor family and how their life has been changed. When I hear or see stories like that I always pray that that is never our story. It would be hard to have Ryan leave for work and never come home. Sad, sad, sad! Anyhow. After sitting on the couch for probably an hour trying to get the girls to sleep I gave up and moved to the computer to try to get my Activity Days lesson prepared. What a frustrating experience! I had an idea to do journal jars but was having a hard time getting it put together. I searched and searched for something else, but couldn't find anything. The time was getting short and my frustration was growing. I had two little girls who needed and wanted my attention and 15 activity days girls who needed an activity planned for them. The two other leaders that I work with had failed to give me advance notice that this week would be my turn for the activity so my frustration for them started to grow too. I finally just decided to go with the journal jars and worked as fast as I could to come up with a lesson about journals, topic ideas to put in the journals jars, and tried to find a store that sold some inexpensive jars. Then I still had to get to the store to buy the jars and then to the copy place to print everything out. I was waaaaaaay beyond frustrated. Frustrated with the girls, frustrated with the other leaders and frustrated with myself for not being able to handle a simple calling and my life. Ryan kept calling during all of this and thankfully was very supportive. He hurried home as fast as he could and stopped and picked up the jars for me. Unfortunately the place I chose to go to make copies was totally unhelpful so I had to backtrack and go to another store. I ended up being 15 minutes late to the activity and extremely overwhelmed and frustrated. I was even more frustrated that my day turned out like that because we were having such a good day. After that activity I made a promise to myself that that situation would never happen again. My children would never have to experience that again either. I would plan the activity the week or days in advance. I refuse to have another day like that. It. was. horrible!
On Thursday we got up, showered and headed to Tawnie's house. I had planned to leave there around noon, but ended up staying a lot later. Ryan, Kailee and I had dentist appointments beginning at 3pm so we went straight there from Tawnies. My wet, slicked back hair and all! This was Kailee's very first dentist appointment. Ryan went first and had his teeth cleaned so Kailee could see what to expect. When it was her turn, she was a little hesitant, but she warmed up quick to the hygenist. She let her look at her teeth, clean them and floss. But, she wouldn't let the dentist look at her at all. There is just something about other guys. She doesn't want anything to do with them right now. When the dentist was trying to look at Kailee's teeth, Grandma Colleen walked in. She had an appointment at that same time. So she was able to be there and try to encourage Kailee too. It was fun to see Grandma there.
When Ryan got home from work on Friday we went to Apollo Burgers for some fries and a shake and then to Kneaders for sandwiches! The girls were wild and out of control, but it was good food! Afterwards we decided to try to be brave and went over to the mall so we could go to DownEast. On our way to DownEast we walked through Dicks Sporting goods and saw a lady working out on the elliptical machine. At first we thought maybe she was just trying it out, but then we noticed she was doing a full on workout. Haha. The cashiers said that she goes there a few times a week and uses the machine. We laughed that someone would actually have the idea to do that. Eh, free equipment, no contract! Oh, the things people do.
On Saturday we took Ryan's twin bed down to Tawnie's for Thomas to use and then went out to Gateway. We had dinner at CPK and then went to a store to get the girls a pair of Toms. I should have taken a picture of them wearing them because they are so stinkin' cute. Kailee got a pair that are pink and sparkly and Ellie's are sliver sparkly. Cute, cute! As soon as we made it home, Ryan's mom called to say her furnace wasn't working. So we headed back out! Ryan cleaned out the furnace a little bit, got it working and we headed back home.
Ellie has started to climb up on the counters this week. When we got home from Grandma Colleens, it was late, we were getting things put away and settled down and this is what she wanted to do!
Other 'happenings' this week:
Last week we noticed that Kailee woke up every day with a dry diaper so this week she wore underwear to bed. She only woke up wet once. She came into our room crying and saying "I'm soaked, I'm soaked." Cute girl.
As mentioned earlier, Ryan was doing some training at the Ogden office all week. He really enjoyed working up there and it seems like they enjoyed having him there. They even told him that they would like it if he was their permanent trainer. That was nice for Ryan to hear. I think it gave him a boost in confidence and helped him feel like he is doing a good job. Of course he is, everyone likes Ryan.
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