Cuteness

I love hearing cute kid sayings. The girls (as all kids do) come up with some hysterical things. So today while the girls were opening presents I thought it might be fun to jot down some of the cute sayings. Later I will upload photos as that might help you visualize what they were talking about a little better.

Merry Christmas!!!

Beginning with Fun Emi Sayings:

Kaida has just finished opening a Ballerina Mat that plays music and talks you through different ballet positions and moves. Emi stands side by side puts her arm around Kaida and says, "Ohhh Kaida!!!! We can share it!!!"

Emi opens some chocolate that has a Santa and 4 bunnies (I think) pulling his sleigh and says, "Cute Choc-a-liki, choc-a-liki"( pronounced leaky)

I am busy trying to take pictures of them opening their presents and Emi had one she wanted to play with, a Tupperware baking set. She put her hands on her hips and said "Mommy stop clicking the camera, we gotta to the the bakery kitchen."

Now our Kaida!!

Kaida had a small toy cell phone that had the hole like one would use to take pix, she says "I'm take a picture like 你 (meaning "you" in Chinese)

Kaida while unwrapping a present was checking out the wrapping paper and very excitedly exclaimed "look it's a snowman, 跟我的一样 (meaning "the same as mine") while looking down at her pajamas.

Both the girls were given an M&M candy figurine with mini M&M's inside. Kaida opened hers and while inspecting and eating them said "这是一个small M＆M 跟我的一样small" (this is a small M&M, small like me)

Aunty Mindy gave each of the girls a dress up fairy kind of outfit, a tutu type thing with a wand and a tiara. Kaida while trying to hand it to me says "Here you go. Stretch your hand."

There were also many "Wow this is gorgeous, I love it. This is beautiful. Thank you_____."

I love the simplicity of the kids especially mine. No huge fancy gifts and grateful just the same.

A fun morning!!!

We had a fun filled morning!! We went and saw Santa, rode the Carousel at the mall, saw Despereaux and went to the park!! Kaida was very proud of herself for not crying with Santa. In fact she started to cry because she didn't get to say good bye so I took her back to say bye!
I highly recommend seeing Santa and going to the movies the day before Christmas as there isn't hardly any line!!! We tried on Monday and it was a NIGHTMARE. I will have to post that experience sometime this week!! In the meantime enjoy your holidays and this cute pic of my kiddos!!!

You can click on the picture to make it bigger so you can see the kiddos a little better.

Toothache

So I have notoriously bad teeth (and I think Kaida has gotten my gene on that one, sorry Kaida). Anyhow my teeth have bothered me forever and even though I had numerous trips to my one up North nothing seemed to be resolved. We thought it was due to him changing out some of my old silver fillings for the ones that are more of your teeth's color. He even got me a mouth guard specially made because he thought that my nighttime grinding was making it so the nerve was sensitive. This was all almost a year ago and lasted for a few months. I have just dealt with the pain. Forward to now....about 4 nights ago my tooth started aching like a mo'fo'. So bad it kept me from sleeping. Being pregnant doesn't help cause you are limited to taking Tylenol. Well I finally said forget this mess and on Wednesday morn called the dentist. They gave me a same day appt for that afternoon. I waited around for authorization to do an X-Ray from my OB doctor. They were smart enough to say let's just do an oral exam and go from there. Well the Dentist got in there and tapped around on a few teeth and on the #2 tooth I nearly came flying out of the seat it hurt so bad. He said he was pretty sure I needed to have a root canal done. They sent me on my way telling me they would get a referral for an Endodontist and would follow up with the OB regarding the X-Ray permission. Well first thing in the morning as promised I got a call saying they had approval for the X-Ray and the referral and to come by to have the X-Ray taken. I immediately called the Endodontist and scheduled and appt for Tuesday. I went by the general dentist in the afternoon and had the X-Ray taken. They had all the paperwork ready for me to take to the Endodontist along with prescription for antibiotics and Tylenol with Codeine!! I took them to Target to fill them and began taking them right when I got home. Finally some relief!!!! I didn't sleep well and felt even worse throughout the morning. My kids come at 7:30 so I was already a grouch by the time they got there because the meds weren't helping that much!! I called the Endodontist right at they opened to see if they could get me in before Tuesday. I didn't think I would last that long. I couldn't even swallow without pain as my tongue would bump up against my tooth. So I haven't eatne for a while. Bless their hearts or the doctor who said he would take me!!! They were able to get me in today. I would have ended up in the ER over the weekend I just know it. So he did the procedure and noted that not only was the root a problem but the infection had spread to the tooth AND had abcessed. He said he couldnt believe I lasted this long. Anyhow by the time I left the office about an hour later the numbing meds were wearing off and by the time I got home I was almost in tears. I tried to lay down and that made it worse so there I was crying in pain. I got up and drank some cup of soup so I could take my pain meds and not have it upset my stomach. Once that finally kicked it I felt like a new person. It is tender but not excrutiating anymore. I am going to keep myself doped up, every 4 hours Tylenol with Codeine baby!! Good thing Jason is a night owl, he can wake me up and keep me on schedule! I just can't take the chance of putting myself over the edge and having everyone else suffer cuz of it. I also don't want to ruin our weekend. I am hoping to pull out the Christmas decorations as well as go get a tree. I would hate to put that off or jip the kids. Most of all I would hate to miss church. I love my ward down here. If we get things all set up this weekend I will try and post pix in the near future!!

Thanksgiving

A few things I am thankful for......

my wonderful husband who is supportive, creative, silly, funny, helpful, kind, thoughtful, patient, tolerant, super smart and much much more

my children who are each their own fun little person and keep me laughing, are creative, are loving, play well together, are helpful, get jazzed about the little things, are enthusiastic, happy, smart and the list can go on

a home to live in

being able to learn new things (such as bowling!!)

having a good steady job with great aides

living in an area that is culturally rich

good food

being able to go home for Thanksgiving and share such a good time with my family!!!!

(even though it took us 11 hours to get home with each kid puking once on the way!)