Grandmere' Mary and Papa Dan came down for the weekend to watch Libby's dance recital. She told me she was a little nervous because Grammy and Papa had never seen her dance before. All in all, the girls did a great job! They have two more shows: The Spring Show and a pregame show for the Cedar Rapids Kernels!
This has been a busy month! At the beginning of the month Iz loved playing on her side. She would be able to roll over if she would just lift her head! Her entire body is on her front except her head.
So Jason and I are watching one of our programs that we record Sunday evening. During a commercial break I decide to use the restroom. As I was walk back toward the bathroom, I step into something wet. I immediately blame the dog and assume she peed on the floor. If it was dog pee, man, she must of really had to go!
After some exploration, we discovered water all over the basement. Jason opened the storage room door and we were greeted with a quarter of an inch of water all over the floor! What the...?!@#* Of course it had been raining all weekend! After some further investigation, Jason discovered that the outlet the sump-pump was plugged into wasn't working. (We had some wiring done for free and the breaker in the box was labeled wrong!).
With the help of our neighbor Jeff, we began taking pictures and sucking up as much water as possible as well as moving everything to higher ground! I called the insurance company as well as Service Master. What a racket!
Service Master said they would be at our house at 7pm. They didn't so up until 10:30pm and wouldn't even tell us the rough pricing of anything. It was...do you have insurance?...and ...sign here. Needless to say when the insurance adjuster came the next day, we crapped! We were looking at $5500.00 at a minimum! That's right FIVE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS! What the...?!@#* We (by we I mean Jason) took matters into his own hands and began doing most of the work himself. Thanks to Jason's awesome handyman skills and his cousin Tyler's connection in flooring we are looking at about $3000.00. $1997.81 to dry our carpeting and remove 5 garbage bags of padding, and the rest in new padding, relaying of the carpet, and tile flooring. Hard to believe the drying cost more than the padding and tile!
We got lucky in the storage room because Jason was in the process of turning that into the toy room, so we actually didn't have anything in there! We caught it soon enough to get everything to higher ground, so none of our things were damaged. VERY LUCKY!
We celebrated Grama Shari's birthday tonight at our house, complete with pizza, presents, and a Dairy Queen icecream cake! Just for the record, my Dad's present to Grammy is in the Santa bag! Squizzy had her first bite of icecream cake. After the first initial sock, she was grunting for more!
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Part II of this recital was originally scheduled for Friday February 13! There was a freak snowstorm and the show was canceled! What do you expect for a Friday the 13th?!
Unfortunately Daddy and Papa Ed were unable to attend this show :( Libs was a little sad, but was cheered up instantly when her brother gave her a flower!
Their new dance they are working on is Fabulous from High School Musical 2! All of the girls need a purse and a pair of sunglasses. I wonder which of Libby's 10 million purses she will choose? (That girl has more purses than anyone I have ever seen!)
Tonight was Maison's Blue and Gold Banquet for scouts. The theme this year was Jurassic Pack. The boys had Dinosaurs all over our tables. It was really cool. Everyone in Maison's Den received their Wolf badge for completing all of their Achievements. At the end of this school year he will graduate to a Bear. I have lots of patches to get sewn on his shirt! I am behind the ball! They also had an official uniform inspection and Maison received a 100%! He was the only scout to have official Cub Scout socks! I should get a gold star for my efforts as well! Below is a picture of Maison making his best wolf face! Pretty scary!
Here's our little Izzy McSquizzy. She is such a good baby! (All of our kids have been great babies! We've been extremely lucky!) I was somewhat disappointed when I took Iz to her 4 month check-up. Don't get me wrong, she has been great and super healthy, but I really was thinking she has been our chubbiest baby to date. Maison was 2 months early and still doesn't have an ounce of fat on him and Libs is exactly the same. Izzy on the other hand actually has baby fat. Her skin actually folds over her socks and it is hard to tell where her chubby legs end and her butt begins. It's pretty cool. She is not fat by any means, but I was hoping around the 50th percentile. Masion wasn't really ever on the chart for weight and Libs always hung around the 2% to 5% for quite a while.
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Libby had her Valentine's Day party yesterday at school with her school friends. Both of the kids worked very hard this year on their Valentine's. We bought sticker kits that had to be assembled. They looked like little postcards. Libby received lots of cards and lots of candy! (Mommy hid all of the candy, but not well, because I noticed the bag is holding much less candy than it should. Soon it will be empty.)
Maison had his class party today at school. Libby and Izzy were both invited to attend his party as well. At school, Maison had been studying the food pyramid and choosing 5 or 6 servings of fruits and vegetables everyday. So as part of their party one of the parents supplied a heart shaped meatloaf and the students provided the fruits and veggies. It was an awesome turn-out and they had a fruit or vegetable from each color: red grapes, strawberries and apples; orange carrots, cantaloupe, and peaches; yellow pineapple; green peppers, celery, beans, grapes, and honeydew; blue berries; purple grapes; white mashed potatoes and bananas.
I was in charge of organizing the class party which also included an activity. We first had everyone make airplanes out of Smarties (the body of the plane), Big Red (the wings of the plane), Lifesavers (the wheels), and a rubber band (wrapped through the wheels and over the gum to hold everything together). We finished the party by making tissue paper hearts.
Maison and Libs had a great time with Maison's school friends. Izzy even got lots of attention from mostly the girls as well! All in all it was a great Valentine's Day and weekend!
Maison's school went to Windmill Point today to put on a little show for the residents who live there. They sang a few songs, passed out Valentine's cards, and helped make tissue paper flowers with/for the residents. It was a lot of fun and the residents really enjoyed having the kids there. Maison was a little apprehensive at first, but ended up having a great time. Izzy was a hit with the little old Grandma's. Her cheeks were quite red after all of the pinching.
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We bought Iz a new seat called a Bumbo. It's absolutely great! Jason decided to try it out tonight a feed Izzy some cereal for the first time. I don't know what was funnier, watching Izzy trying to eat for the first time or watching Jason trying to feed her. (He was opening his mouth every time Izzy was suppose to open hers, he even went as far as sticking his tongue out like her!) She seem to enjoy what cereal she managed to swallow!
Libby had her 2nd dance recital tonight during half-time at the Solon High School Girls Junior Varsity game. They did a great job despite having a glitch in the music. Their next performance is February 13, 2009 where they will finish the second half of their dance.
Jason has been working in our storage room this winter trying to turn it into the toy room for the kids. It is coming along rather well. Libby has been his dedicated helper through most of the project. It's hard to tell from the photo's but she fancied up her tool belt by using her pink sparkly belt to make it more girly!
with screws. She was handing Jason one screw at a time. It must have taken at least 5 mins. per screw. She had to dig in her pouch for just the right one, hand it to Jason, and wait for him to ask for another. She couldn't possibly get one ready, she had to wait until he asked! Poor Daddy, I think he only got one sheet hung the whole afternoon, but Libby loved every moment of it!
January has been a great month for Iz! She spent her first New Years with us and her Grama Shari and Papa Ed. She wasn't much of a party animal and almost made it until Midnight.
