Andrea's New Look

We got a letter from Andrea's school a couple weeks ago that she failed her eye exam.  We thought she might just be shy or didn't know what they were asking so I asked her what they did.  She told me that she could only see the big shapes and not the little shapes.  My heart sunk.  I have horrible eyes and have been praying that none of my kids would get my eyes.  Well, Andrea seems to have gotten my horrible eyes.  She has one really bad eye and one that is just a little off.  Because of this we have to have her wear a patch a couple hours a week on the good eye to get her brain to use the bad eye again.  I can tell it is going to be a struggle.  I also need to get a different patch for her eye because the one I found was way too big!

Andrea before

Add some purple star glasses

The new look!

Looking a little smarter!

This is Jeff's new toy that we got the same day as the glasses.

Trying out the patch in her sister's shoes.

My Little Pirates

Ben observing all the craziness!

He's finally growing

Ben is starting to look like he is gaining weight.  His arms and legs are still really skinny but his face looks fuller.  He is starting to grow out of his newborn clothes because he is getting too long!  He still fits in the newborn diapers but we are almost out of those so he will soon be moving to size 1!!!

Josh LOVES his brother!!

Labor Day Weekend

We made a trip up to Utah over Labor Day to bless Ben.  We LOVED the cooler temps and playing outside all day in my parents backyard.  My brother got a bunch of pictures with his nice camera so I didn't see the need to take my own!  I will post them when I get them.  I did take these pictures.......

Chris and Jennifer showing off their firefighter hats that my kids wanted them to wear.

Will and Josh.  Somewhere there is a photo of Samantha and Isaac (Will's brother) that looks similar only Samantha looks like the giant....the only difference is that Samantha and Isaac were 3 days apart (he was 3 months early) and Will and Ben are 7 or 8 months apart.

My dad trying out the wiggle car.

Ben relaxing outside.

Jeff watching the BYU game with his dad and the kids.

First Day of School

The craziness of school has started once again.  We now have two kids in two different schools that are 25 minutes apart.  In case you are wondering, mornings are crazy at our house.  I have to have all four kids out the door by 7:40 AM because Andrea's school starts at 8:00 AM.  After we drop her off we drive Samantha to her school that starts at 8:40 AM.  We get home from that a little after 9:00 AM (unless we have an errand to run) and then get back in the car at 10:15 AM to go pick Andrea up (kindergarten is only 2.5 hours).  We get a little break after that and leave at about 2:45 PM to pick Samantha up.  We get home at 4:00 PM to do homework, eat dinner and go to bed so we can start again in the morning.  Did I also meantion that I have a newborn that eats every 2-3 hours??  I feel bad for Josh and Ben because they spend way too much time in the car!

Andrea did awesome on her first day of school...especially since I severely miscalculated the masses of people that would be driving their kids to school on the first day so we barely made it as her class was going into the classroom!!  I felt like a horrible parent to have to basically throw my child into her class and rush off to take her sister to her school.  We never got any pictures at her school...oops!!

Despite the fact that she didn't want to go to school this year, Samantha LOVED her first day and was excited to go back!