We Got Us Some Talent

Tonight was the ward Talent show. Caitlyn and I actually performed something... Caitlyn did a dance number with a friend:


And I played Linus and Lucy (mostly from memory, so I didn't have to turn pages.)


Most of the YW (Megan included) and the Activity Day girls got roped into doing the Dancing Queen number from Mamma Mia! It turned out really fun (if you've seen the movie, they got the stake YW president to play the "role" of the older lady who drops the bundle of sticks and joins the crowd. It was highly amusing.)



The other girls had a good time, too. Alison ate (and ended up wearing) chocolate:

And Kristen basically ran wild.

It was a very fun evening.

Creativity at Work

Like last year, Caitlyn wanted to enter the KPTS story contest again. However, unlike last year, this time we procrastinated until the very last minute. This is the story Caitlyn came up with in the last three days. We got it there yesterday, just under the deadline. Hopefully, you can read the story; click on the pictures to make them bigger.

New 'Dos

We had a photo session after coming back from the salon yesterday, The girls all like their new haircuts.

You've Heard of Jack-in-the-Box

This is Cat-in-the-box:

(You can also spot some of Kristen's beautiful wall art there, too.)

More Adventures with Alison's Ear

For the whole story...

Back in December, we went to Alison's 5 year checkup. The nurse-practitioner noticed some wax buildup in Alison's ear, and tried to get it out. Alison screamed... and since she was getting shots, the NP decided that we should come back in a few weeks to see if we could get it out.

We went back in January. The NP tried digging again (actually, they got out this water contraption, and tried squirting it out), and got a bit of wax out. Alison still screamed that it was hurting... (maybe at this point we should have figured there was something wrong?) The NP told us to get some ear drops, and put them in every day, and come back in a few weeks. Which we did.

It's now February. We went back. Still digging, still screaming... the NP decided to get the doctor involved, so she came and looked at it. She said, "It looks like wax, but go see an ENT so they can see what it is. They have better, bigger tools anyway." A referral was made, an appointment was made, and off to the ENT we went today.

The ENT doctor came in, took a look at it and said, "That's not wax. It's a bead or a rock. Come across the hall and let me look at it with my microscope and get it out for you."

Yep: it was a bead. (They gave her a nice little treasure box to keep the it in. And it's dang hard to get a picture of something that small.)

Alison was very brave; there was screaming and crying, but she held still, and the doctor got it out. (Took 5 minutes, too.) He said that there's some scaring in the ear (he wanted to know how long it'd been in there; I have no idea before December...), and gave us some medicine to help with that. But now her ear's all better. (And we talked about putting things in there, though she has no memory of doing it. Maybe it was Kristen??)

And, because she was very, very brave, we got her a present:

She loves her new music box; it's something she's been wanting for a very long time.

And no more doctors for a while. Yay!

Mom, Come Take a Picture

That's what they said, and this is what I found:

Webkinz Bonanza

Caitlyn went to the school Bingo night with her friend Merry and her family. She wasn't expecting to win anything... and was even getting bored with the whole enterprise... but then Merry's mom discovered that Caitlyn WON! And it turned out to be a small chair, stuffed to the gills with Webkinz (seven of them!), clothes, toys and a mouse pad (huh?). Caitlyn, and Merry and their other friend Carly, were SO EXCITED.

They made a pact to share them all; they're trading the toys around every Friday, and made a new account they could all access, too.

I was interrupting their project of putting all the Webkinz on line, or I would have gotten a better picture...

Pizza! Pizza!

Whew, I'm behind.

Last Friday, the preschool went on a field trip to CiCi's Pizza, and Kristen and I went along for the ride. Alison (and the whole class) got to take a tour of the restaurant and make their own pizzas. It was very fun. (I even had ketchup in my bag, so Alison could eat her pizza. And she was so nice to share with Kristen, too.)






Kristen was pretty good; she was bored, mostly...

Until she found the game room!

Field trips are fun! (Well, for the kids, at least.)