GO UTES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just had to rub it in a little for all you Y fans out there!

Kung Fu Panda

You know in the movie where Po is training with his master and his motivation is food?  Well, Ryleigh's motivation to move forward on her stomach is food too.  She is finally making forward motion in the form of a lunging push up.  But only for snacks.  I place little Gerber snacks out and she goes for them.  Maybe by Christmas she be crawling for real.  We are excited to see everyone in Salt Lake this week.  McKenna is counting down the days.  See you soon!

How in the world?

So we took a trip to the urgent care yesterday afternoon. Let me tell you the whole story. We had just returned from a friend's house and Kenna said she was thirsty. She got a plastic cup out of the cabinet and put a restaurant lid on it after filling it with water. Then she stuck a Halloween straw in it from last year I think. She drank and then gagged and spit the water out. She yells "It's stuck, it's stuck!!!" She starts gagging and spitting up spit. I race her to the bathroom where she proceeds to lose her lunch (literally). I, thinking she just choked really bad on the water, don't really believe her when she keeps yelling "It's stuck in my throat!!" She is hysterical at this point. Still gagging too.

Me- "What is stuck?"
Kenna- "A piece of plastic is stuck in my throat!"
Me- "What???!!"

I grab a flashlight and look down her throat. Low and behold... something is stuck in her tonsil! I thought it might be a plastic shard. At least that is what it looked like. Dan thought I should try to take it out myself. Nothing doing. Kenna is screaming and freaking out and making me stress out. I tried to get down there but could barely see it myself. So I grab Ryleigh out her crib and off we go to the urgent care. Once there, I tell the receptionist, "my daughter has a piece of plastic stuck in her throat." A nurse comes rushing out and he shines a light down her throat. We rush into a room and four other people (doctor and nurses) come rushing in. The nurse grabs an instrument for the doctor that look like really long needlenose pliers. Now the doctor thinks it is plastic too so she says if she can't get it out, it means a trip to the ER because they don't want it to go further down her throat. Luckily, the doctor got it out on the first try. Kenna did beautifully when the doctor when in after it. It only took a second. And this is the culprit...


A piece of grass seed, the kind that sticks in your socks. How the heck it got into her straw we do not know. The pointy end was stuck in her tonsil. McKenna was totally fine after it was removed. But the drama! Sheesh! Dan's theory on how it got in her straw was that she was playing with it outside one day a long time ago and even though it was washed in the dishwasher, the seed stayed put in the straw. And when Kenna went to drink, it shot out like a dart and into her throat.

Talk about stress, but I have to say that that was the fastest I have ever been in and out of an urgent care facility. GO TEAM!

The clapper

Trick or Treat!

We had a fun Halloween. The weather was really nice. A little cold but not freezing. We set up our cooking station and Dan fried up the doughnut holes that I made that afternoon. We rolled them in sugar and they were delicious. Kenna and I hit the houses in our neighborhood. We only have three streets in our neighborhood so it was pretty easy. Since we live on the corner, we kept going back to visit Dan to see how he was holding up. We had to break for a bathroom emergency. Then I got Ryleigh dressed and she finished trick or treating with us. She was really mellow and just enjoyed the stroll. By 8:30pm we were out of doughnuts and candy. I say we did pretty good, but next year I think I have to buy more candy.

My studly hubby getting ready to cook.

Sizzling away!

My cute girls!

Ryleigh caught with her hand in the "cookie jar."

She even tried to eat some still in the wrapper. She is my chunky monkey or cow in this instance.

Pumpkin pics

Dan and McKenna's painted masterpiece. The lips are supposed to look like mine, that is what Kenna keeps telling me. I guess I have a big mouth.

Kenna's sketch of the carved pumpkin.

I was the lucky one who got to clean out the pumpkin. Dan had the easy job of carving the face.

Ryleigh was supervising.

The finished product!

SPOOKY!!!

Poor Baby!

Ryleigh has been sick this week with a stomach bug. Poor girl! She doesn't really want to eat all that much, which is a huge change from when she is healthy. She threw up a couple of times, once in the bucket of toys. That was fun cleaning up. She is gradually getting better, but not as quickly as I'd hope. This week has been a challenge, what with cleaning up vomit, poopy diapers, and forcing her to eat something. She is also really grumpy and whiney.



Ok...on to the happy news. We have been having fun with pumpkins this week. Friday night, we went to the pumpkin patch and corn maze with some friends. Unfortunately, I left my camera at home so I didn't get any pics of Ryleigh in a pink snowsuit shoved into the snuggly. She looked like a pink marshmallow and couldn't move a muscle (like in "The Christmas Story.")

Kenna had a blast looking through the leftover pumpkins and picking out a small baby one. The kids went down slides and jumped in a sandbox filled with corn (cornbox?) The maze was shaped like Obama and McCain (birdseye view.) We went through Obama because it was shorter. Saturday, Dan and McKenna painted a funny face on her baby pumpkin. We were going to carve our big pumpkin Monday night for FHE but found that it had gotten squishy on top. It sat in the garage for too long. We ended up buying a new one and carved it Wednesday night. We are getting ready for a funfilled Halloween. We have a parade at Jodi's in the morning and doughnut holes to prepare for the trick or treaters' parents. We stole a Halloween tradition from Dan's aunt Connie. We made scones for the parents last year. This year we are going to try doughnut holes. We had a pretty good turn out last year and this year our neighborhood has had a lot of new families move in. Dan is our frier and I take Mckenna out trick or treating. I hope Ryleigh just goes to bed early tomorrow.

I would have pictures of our adventures from this week, but Dan took the camera to work. I will post them once I get the camera back. TTFN!