My Little Clowns!!

Last Friday night was the annual Chili Supper for the school my grand kids go to. The theme this year was "A Night at the Circus"! My project for the week was to make clown costumes for three of them. I made Nicole, Sylvie and Sydney's costumes.

Here are all my little clowns!

Emily:

Peyton:

He won the "best dressed" prize for his category!

Natalie: (she didn't want to be a clown, so she was a popcorn girl)

My sad little clown, Nicole:

A couple little boys made fun of her and ruined her night! I told her to ignore them, but it didn't work.

Sylvie:

Sydney:

I didn't get a picture with her face painted. It was actually already washed off when she arrived!!

And, last but not least . . . .

Kami:

Her mommy didn't dress her up, but isn't she cute?

Here they all are together:

Priceless Moments In Time

I've been carrying my camera around with me constantly the last few weeks, trying to catch some good shots of my grand kids. I really need to get some good closeups for an idea I have. Easier said than done with the younger three!

I did get these three. Four to go!







And here's our little Laker!



And here's his big sis!



I went to an amusement park with one set of grand kids last week. We had a blast!




That evil look in my son-in-law's eyes is directed at me! We were getting ready to leave, the rides were all closing down and the girls were just dying to ride one more ride. This was the only one that was still open. I assured him that I didn't think he would get that wet! How did I know that the kids waiting for him to come around knew him???



He got soaked!



But the girls had a blast!



And poor little Sydney spent the day in her stroller. She was so happy to briefly touch the ground!



In case you don't know, I love being Grandma!!

My Favorite Sign!!

I picked this up a few months back at Hobby Lobby.

It was half off so I couldn't resist.

It's one of my favorites!!

Day 21 Challenge - You Pick

I fully intended to come home from work this evening and organize something. Anything.

But, instead, I watched this little man! His daddy and big sister are down with the flu, and his mommy desperately needed to run to the store.






We played hide and seek around the recliner . . . .







. . . . and snuck some of these Valentine's Day cookies I made last night for his Uncle Nate and Aunt Jen! Sometimes the organizing just has to be put off for more important things.














After he left, I packaged up the cookies (and a few other much needed items) to mail to my son and daughter-in-law who live in Luganville, Vanuatu. They probably won't make it there in time, but hey, it's the thought that counts! My thoughts just need to come a little earlier!!

I hope everyone enjoyed the 21 Day Organizing Challenge as much as I did!

New Grand Baby!

I arrived home a couple of days ago from helping my daughter, Ruth, adjust to her first child and my seventh grandchild.




Isn't she a doll? She is a week old in this picture.

Kami arrived on October 6th. Mom and baby are doing well.

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Sydney Rose

I'm currently staying with my oldest daughter and her family while she recuperates from the birth or her fourth daughter, Sydney Rose! Sydney arrived on June 28th.

We've been doing pretty good, until last night, that is!! I think Mommy ate something that didn't agree with baby, so baby kept Grandma up most of the night!

Here's Sydney when she was a day old and still in the hospital.

We're so glad you're here, Sydney!!

A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

I posted this picture on my cake blog.

Then I just had to post it here.

It's not a great picture - probably too dark to be very good if it were made into a print.

But I love it!!

It's probably going to be one of those "grandma" pictures I'll treasure most.

We were celebrating my oldest son, Bobby's, thirtieth birthday.

Natalie, the one with the plastic cast on her hand, was born on his twenty-third birthday.

Happy Birthday, Bobby & Natalie!!

Pictures of Our New Grandbaby

I just had to share these pics!! They're of Peyton, our brand new grandson. He's eight days old here.

His angelic pose!!

Enough with the pictures already!!

And big sis, Emily, came in at the end of the photo shoot and just had to give her baby a kiss. Isn't that sweet?

These were taken by Naomi, my oldest daughter.

Another Favorite Grandkid Picture!!

Here's another of these 'favorite grandkid pics'. It was taken by my daughter of two of her daughters in the midst of an altercation.

Isn't this hilarious? They are so intent! And this was taken at church, no less!!

My daughter gets asked all the time if they are twins. The four year old is small for her age and the two year old is big for her age. And they have the same dark hair and eyes.

Just thought I'd share another of those priceless 'grandma' moments.

Just Gotta Love Those Grandkids!!

Our grandson, Peyton Nathan, arrived a little after midnight on Wednesday, January 6.

Here's a picture of Peyton and his big sister, Emily.

You can't really see the baby, but it was just soooo sweet that I had to post it! And it was taken on a cell phone, so the quality isn't the best. That's daddy holding both of them.

Peyton's mom and dad had another middle name picked out prior to his birth, but his Uncle Nathan left for Santo, Vanuatu just five days before his birth and won't return for two years, so mom and dad decided they wanted to name him after his uncle.

They got on Skype last night at the hospital and let Uncle Nate meet his namesake. Isn't modern technology wonderful??

Congratulations on a beautiful baby boy, Bobby and Kelly!!

I Made It!!

I did it!! I survived fifteen days with three of my granddaughters!!

I had planned to chronicle all fifteen days, but then we encountered computer problems. And who has time to take care of computer problems with three little kids running around?

Anyway, here are a few pics taken while the girls were here:

An evening at the park.

Ridin' the horsey, as Sylvie called it!

Hot roddin'!!

Watch out for those crazy drivers!

After the trip to the park, runaway bubbles!!

Day 5

A quick Day 5 update.

Boy, am I glad I had my kids when I was young!!

My hat is off to those of you who are in your forties with small children.

We have friends who have kids our ages . . . and have kids our grand kids ages! I can't imagine!

Anyway . . . other than being dead tired, everything is going fine. I talked to my daughter in India last night, and she is terribly homesick. She only has twelve days to go!!

I fully intended to update everyday, but we're encountering technical problems. Both laptops and my desktop were all down at the same time. Since my husband has to have a computer for our home-based business, he went and bought another laptop. And the "a" key won't hardly work. I mean, you have to push it about ten times harder and maybe it will work. So it's back to Best Buy tomorrow. I told my husband he better just get a new one . . . it's not good sign when you start having problems with a computer that's only a couple of days old!

Back to the kids. Today their grandpa took them out for ice cream and a trip to the park. They came home with a swimming pool and water balloons!! But it kept them outside all afternoon and I got a whole lot done.

Yesterday morning when I was leaving for work (my daughter watched them for the day), Nicole, the three year old, told me, "Grandma, you can't go to work. You have kids now!" It was so sweet! Then she told my son when he left, "Remember, Nathan; I love you!" Isn't she just the sweetest thing?

Well, I have to go supervise bath time. Grandpa is covering for me while I finish this post up, and there is just no telling what he will let them do!!

Day Three

Today is Day 3. Nap-time is just over. Sylvie is currently screaming because her six year old sister has decided not to let her wear her new flip-flops.

Oops!! Hang on!

Sylvie had another accicent.

Must find the puddle! We're regressing on the potty-training, I'm afraid.

We actually went to the mall today. Just to run to Old Navy to buy the girls some flip-flops.

Then we made it through Wal Mart without any mishaps.

Had to visit the bathroom, of course. Nicole, who is three, has to visit the bathroom everywhere we go! If I remember correctly, it's a thing with girls that age!

Right now, the older two are watching Princess Diaries, which will no doubt lead to another round of dressing up as princesses (and fighting over who has to be the prince this time!).


Here are a few pictures from Day 1:







Natalie dressed up as a Princess. That's the throw off my couch. This girl has an imagination, let me tell you!!














Sylvie with her tiger ears on.


Natalie and Nicole fell asleep during their bedtime story. Sylvie did too, but I had to put her in bed so I could take a quick pic of these two.




Day 1 held quite a bit of excitement for the girls. During the evening, we had a storm blow through and we had to run to the storm shelter. After it was over, everytime the girls heard thunder, they wanted to run back to the shelter!

Day 2 was a busy day with no time to post! We had another storm in the evening. It hit just as my youngest daughter was taking the girls home with her for a few hours. The girls got soaked while running for the car, which they thought was great, of course!!

Unfortunately, they didn't fall asleep during story time this time, so it was a bit of a fight getting them to settle down for the night.

I have to work tomorrow, so my daughter is taking a turn. Should be interesting. She always tells me that she is going to remain childless after she babysits for a while!! Says watching them is great birth control!!

15-Day Odyssey

My daughter and son-in-law left today for a 15-day excursion to India. They left minus the girls. All three of them.

So today is Day 1 of my 15-day odyssey with three of my four granddaughters! They are six years old, three years old and 21 months old.

As mommy and daddy drove off, Nicole, the three year old, was sobbing uncontrollably, Natalie, the six year old, was suddenly very sober and Sylvie just wanted out of her car seat!

So we came home to my house, put their clothes away, watered the garden, then made a trip to Sonic. This seemed to brighten their spirits considerably.

The next hurdle? Nap-time!!

Big Announcement!!

During the Memorial Day weekend, we had a big surprise. Our granddaughter, Emily, showed up at our house wearing a shirt with a message. She's going to be a big sister!!

I was busy cooking and didn't notice the shirt, so they finally had to tell me to read it. Our newest grand baby will arrive around the first of January. We're definitely thinking blue!!

We had her pose for this picture so I could show you the shirt - she wasn't too happy about it! And her skirt is missing - sorry!

She is so dramatic!

She wouldn't smile for anything. We worked with her for about five minutes just trying to get her to stand still.

Then her cousin, James, who is seventeen, showed up, and she instantly became a different person!! He simply told her to smile, and she did!! Not fair!

I chased her all over the place trying to get a good picture of her bow to show you!!




Her mommy makes these bows and supplies several stores in our area.

Since Emily's mommy makes bows, she is very rarely without one. She has got so used to wearing them that she notices immediately if it's missing. And she knows better than to pull them out of her hair!

One Sunday morning during worship service, Emily crawled under the pew to retrieve something she had dropped and knocked her bow out of her hair in the process. She felt for it on her head, looked around for it in a panic, and when she couldn't find it, she proceeded to yank the bow out of her cousin's hair (she's two months younger than Emily), who happened to be standing next to her, and stuck it on top of her own head!! Needless to say, it caused quite a ruckus!!

Emily's mommy is going to sell bows on Etsy in the near future. I'll post about it here when she does. She just has to get past the morning sickness first!!