She Really Did it This Time!

Some of you may already know that Nicole can be a bit of a hand full. She's an active little girl, to say the least. She was walking at 9 months and climbing everything shortly after. She has had several falls, skinned knees and arms, and bruises all over.....but now she's really done it....she fractured her left collar bone! On Monday she jumped out of her crib. She had done it once before but didn't hurt herself, it just scared her. I thought the first time taught her a lesson, I was wrong. I originally didn't think she broke anything. I thought if she broke a bone she'd be screaming in horror for hours or something. But after the fall she just cried for a few minutes and shortly after fell asleep for her nap. I began to notice that her arm/shoulder seemed to be bothering her so I took her to the doctors on Tuesday. The doctor checked her out and didn't think she broke anything either. He said she probably just bruised a muscle and she should feel better in a couple of days. Well, today rolled around and she was still pretty bothered by that arm. So I took her into the doctor again this morning to have an x-ray. Sure enough, her collar bone is slightly bent with a little fracture. But the doctor said that collar bones heal very quickly and he just put her in a little sling. But he also said that if she falls again on it before it heals it could snap! So I'm a little on nerve about her running around! She's in pretty good spirits and is still trying to be a dare devil!

Now I'm paranoid to go out with my 17 month old in a sling for fear people will think I'm a negligent mother! Just look at my poor baby girl!

My plan is to convert the crib into a little bed this weekend. No more jumping out of the crib!

Look who's Talking!

Nicole is really starting to add to her vocabulary now. She has a good sized list of words/phrases that she can say now. Here are a few:

NO, No Way, down, owie, uh-oh, cookie, ball, bubble, eyes, please, thank you, outside, patches(our cats name), cat, bicycle, papa, mommy, I don't want(mumbled together).......

She seems to be at a point where she really tries to say a word when you ask her if she can say it. I love being able to have little conversations with her!

Weekend at Bear Lake

We just got back from a short but fun trip to Bear Lake in Garden City Utah. It's been forever since I've had any sort of trip so this was a nice get away, even if it was just for the weekend. We went with my sister, Amber, her son, Zaiden, my brother, Allen, and my Dad. We rented a small cabin that turned out to be smaller than we expected but it worked out just fine.

Here's a bunch of fun photos.....

The Cabin

The Lake

Enjoying a camp fire.

Nicole was soo good for the long car ride!

Basement Update

The basement is really coming along now. Dave has been working down there with almost all of his free time...I'm beginning to miss him! Pretty much all of the drywall is done and he has almost half of the tape and mud done. I had tried to convince him to hire someone to do the tape, mud, and texture, but there was just no talking him out of doing it himself. Hopefully we'll begin painting in 2-3 weeks.

(Living Room)

(Bedroom)

(Bedroom/Closet)

(Laundry)

Books, Look, Books!

Nicole loves her books, maybe even more then her toys. She brings me books to read throughout the day. I was curious about how many books we read in a day. So yesterday morning I started setting aside the books that we read, and at the end of the day this is what I had......

This is pretty much an average day. Some days more, some less, and some times it's the same two books over and over again. But I was surprised to see that we hadn't read either of her two favorite books; 1 2 3 Jigsaw Book or Discover the Day.

Home Garden

I think one of the great things about having your own home is being able to grow our own food! Unfortunately I haven't paid much attention to our garden, so our strawberries, raspberries, and onions aren't doing very well. I think we have a snail problem back there. But our tomatoes and peppers seem to be doing great! Our pear tree is always overloaded with pears, hundreds, and we Never eat any! Last year we had a couple neighbors come over and take them all. If anyone has a good recipe with pears let me know! We also have a plum tree but we always have problems with it, which sucks because the few good ones that it produces are so yummy.
This year my focus has been on fixing up our flower beds with new shrubs and flowers and laying down garden fabric and mulch to help with weeds and grass. But next year my focus will be on the garden, I hope!

We have a couple of grape vines and they aren't quite ripe yet but Nicole insists on eating them whenever she remembers that they're there. I don't know if you know what an unripened grape tastes like but it's not very good and they're very sour! But Nicole takes a bite, cringes, and then says "Mmmm". And she'll do it over and over again. It's pretty funny.

































And, on another note, I think I have a Tom-Boy on my hands. If Nicole has a choice on what shoes to wear she always chooses her tennis shoes, not sandals. And if she chooses a hat, it's always her cap and not the sun hat. And, as you can see, she prefers to wear the hat backwards.