It's just so sad....

We brought a bin of Elasta Girl's old clothes out today, to see if any of them would fit Roo.

Elasta Girl started to dig through and found one of her favorite shirts, held it up in front of her and said:

"It's just so sad."

What's even sadder, is that Elasta Girl grew out of said shirt about a year ago, and it's gonna fit Roo in about a year. They are not 2 years apart, they are 5 and a half years apart.



It's just so sad.....

It's all the rage....

Elasta Girl found a Chinese Jump rope in her Easter basket.




She was totally obsessed - for about 2 weeks.

Roo was more interested in the potato bug she found.

Very interested.

Mr Smith was VERY interested in jumping. What a good sport.

The bug. I think it's dead.

Crazy? I was crazy once...

How do you do your kids hair for school? If you're me, and Elasta Girl is your daughter, you do this...




It was crazy hair day at school. She was a Celebrity in the halls and was truly in hair heaven.

Elasta Girl and I have been "planning'' this head since we found out about "crazy hair day" last week. Liberty spikes.

I've only done one other head in all my hairstyling days and, to tell you the truth, I think Alzabeth did most of them. I can't quite remember. They were on her friends head, I must have blocked the whole experience right out of my brain.

I don't claim perfection, I just claim "CRAZY".

On her sides, I french braided.

YES. I did.

Tomorrow's the last day of school.

The END

What a STAR....

Elasta Girl is my favorite child.

Mr Smith took his little sister, Meghan, and Elasta Girl camping over the weekend. Before he left, he gave me the plague. I still have it, and this morning I was not looking or sounding that spectacular. Elasta Girl woke up, got her self ready for school, made her lunch and got her and Roo some breakfast. All while I was sleeping. I woke up during the breakfast eating time and was so excited for myself.




(a self portrait)

Then, she finished getting her self ready for school, tidied up her room and made her bed. And after that.....here comes the best part....she started cleaning up the house. She put all her stuff away first, then she picked up their breakfast dishes and LOADED THEM IN THE DISHWASHER! Elasta Girl is my favorite child. She folded blankets, straightened her bathroom, cleaned off the coffee table and put away the clean dishes that I had hand washed last night. Elasta Girl is my favorite child. I asked her why she was doing all this cleaning, she just said "because I want to, you don't feel good and I wanted to help"

YUP, favorite child indeed.

(another self portrait)

That other child has yet to earn her stuff back.

My other childs room...

looks like this. Elasta Girl is awesome.


Her and I cleaned out her room a couple of weeks ago. (I'm kicking myself for not taking "Before" pictures) It took the better part of a Saturday to clean, but it looked - oh so sparkly - when we were finished. It was also loads of fun to spend all that time just with her.

She's nearly missed the bus a few days cause she has to make her bed so delightfully. I don't make her do it, my bed is never made unless I wash the sheets.

And, she is now collecting "M"s for an "M" wall. Alzabeth started the trend with the white metal one she gave EG for Christmas this last year. So if you find a cool one let us know.

Her perfectly decorated dresser. The drawers are equally neat and tidy.

The closet, with room to spare.

Shoe shelves! And it wasn't even her birthday. Where is the fairness in that?

Elast Girls room has been spotless ever since. I am so proud of your cleaning skills Girl. You truly are a super hero. Perhaps you could teach your sister a thing or two. That is, if she ever gets her stuff back.

By the way, I did not make Elasta Girl clean out her room. She has been not happy about it for weeks and asking for help to clean it out. So, what was I to do?

By the other way, Roo no longer hates her parents. She says "I love you Mama, but you still took my things away".

The END

Follow the Yellow Brick Road...

Bailey came over to play on Thursday, we went to the Castle for a snack. The Castle is the convenient store at the bottom of the hill by our house. It's name is "the Castle" because when it was being built, and before the gas bays were up, Roo said they were building a castle for us. It had that Dental molding around the top of the building and a big opening for the doors that looked like a castle door could have been installed. So "Castle" stuck.





Anyway, Bailey introduced me to my first taste of Funyuns. They weren't awful. In fact, they were delicious. I should have never tried one. Naughty Bailey.

The girls started playing dress up, which turned into a fashion show, with me as the audience. Little Jessica knows all about these shows. Her and I have been invited to many. The first fashion show looked like this:


Bailey as Scarecrow, Elasta Girl as Dorothy with a Toto in her basket and Roo as the Wicked Witch of the West. They were so cute and creative with our dress ups.

I didn't take any more pictures of them but the fashion shows soon turned into mini skits. One with EG as a pirate and Bay as the beautiful rich girl that the pirate stole from then made walk the plank - a cardboard box lay ed out flat. Another skit was Bailey as a Celebrity and EG as a crazed fan. They were pretty funny. Bailey and Elasta Girl are the best of friends, EG and her are all giggles when they are together. I'm so glad they have each other. I hope they are friends forever.

Roo thinks those two are WEIRD.

Oh, by the way, I painted this red, it used to be white I think it needs something more though. Maybe a black rub over the top. Any suggestions from anyone crafty?

Holy lobes...Hannah Montana

Yesterday, was FINALLY the day Elasta Girl has waited for ever since that pesky foreign nurse in the Tonsil area called her a "HE". I KNOW. The nerve of her .

Ear Piercing Day 2009.

It started off not so good. Roo woke up feeling REALLY ever so not well with a pesky cold, and it was looking like we were going to have to postpone. Which threw Elasta Girl into a weeping fit that rivaled the "Moo Cow" days of her mother. The trauma was fixed by my saintly parents, who came down to watch Roo, while we went on our day.

First, lunch at Village Inn, a cheese burger with the smallest particle of cheese that I have ever seen, hash browns (EG's FAVORITE food on the planet) and PIE. Yes, those are hash browns under all that Ketchup.

Eating her hash browns in (almost) under 90 seconds.

Next came the lobe holes.

Grandma Snyder told Elasta Girl before we left that she might want to take a TYLENOL before she went because her ears were going to hurt so much. Grandma Snyder has never had her ears pierced, so I ask you, how would she know?

After we were finished piercing, Elasta Girl said: "Grandma doesn't know what she's talking about". "It hurt for 2 seconds and now they just fell weird". Silly Grandma, bless her heart.

The cute earrings. I knew as soon as I saw all the choices she was gonna choose these ones.
Tiny little "diamondy" flowers with "blue topazish" middles.

After that, we went to the new Hannah Montana movie. Can I just say, it wasn't lame. I thought it was so cute and I usually don't enjoy that girl. It was cute and funny and a little heart warming all at the same time. We might even wanna see it again.

Dutifully cleaning the new ear holes just before bed last night.

TA DA.

The END

Tonsil update and Gifts...

Today, Elasta Girl is doing VERY, very well. Yesterday, and those other days before yesterday, she was worse than crummy. In fact, she said on Friday that she wanted her golf ball tonsils back because having them out hurt too much. Pitiful, I tell you.

I believe she is doing so well because my cute Dad came down (with my equally cute Mom) last night and gave her a blessing. He blessed her that she would get better quickly and be able to eat and drink and take her medicine easily. Some may not think this is a big deal, but if you had been around Elasta Girl the past 3 days you would know that drinking, eating and especially taking her medicine was not an easy task for anyone. I have been (up in the night) worried about her getting dehydrated so bad that she had to have an IV because she wouldn't drink. Today she was a whole different sicky. Today, she didn't cry and refuse to take the pain medicine. And she actually ate and drank, a lot. So much that I asked her: who she was and what had she done with my daughter? Thank you Dad (and Mom) for driving past your house on the way home from Heed and Patty's to give EG a blessing. It worked!

By the way, that picture up there ^ is not upside down. I was standing above EG (behind the couch) while she was watching The Karate Kid with Meghan and Roo today. I just liked it, so there it is.

And now for the GIFTS...

I have the greatest friends. So does Elasta Girl.

First, my parents drove down on Thursday to pick up Roo from pre-school (about the same time we were finished with Tonsil surgery and driving home ourselves-oh well) and brought EG a super cool craft book (wrapped with ribbon and everything) that I fully intend on using for Activity days.

Thursday night my friend Natalie ( she hardly EVER blogs) came over and brought Elasta Girl a hand made get well card, some Popsicles, and a word search book.

Then Friday I called my friend Jessie (you can't look at her blog because she has a strict "no weirdo's" policy) to see if Roo could play with her daughter. She said yes, and that Roo could stay as long as I wanted her too. She also picked up Roo to play, and brought her home! And while she was watching Roo and her girl play, she drew this charactature ( I can't even say it right, let alone spell it right) of Elasta Girl. We're totally getting it framed for her room.

That night Elast Girl's best friend Bailey and her mom came by and brought her Jell-o, stuffed animals for her and Roo, Popsicles and made plans for Bailey to come and hang out on Saturday. While they were visiting, Jimi (she barely blogs) and her boys brought her and Roo super cool Lifesaver Popsicles. Saturday, Bailey came to "play" with EG and brought her a TV tray and another stuffed animal. We love that kid.

Sunday (that's today) Meghan came down to visit and delivered flowers for the girls, from Aunt Kennon and Aunt Chris all the way from Indiana.

For Elasta Girl... Doesn't she look better?

For Roo... She doesn't know what it means to "hold still" so this is what you get, cute but spazzy.

A few hours after Meghan arrived, Mr Smith's Mom, Heidi, came down. She came bearing gifts for everyone. She brought 3 books (all wrapped, with ribbon) for Elasta Girl. A book for Roo (wrapped with ribbon) a whole mess of DVDs ( about 30) for us to borrow, and a dish of Key lime bars. She and Meghan stayed for a very glamorous lunch of Bean with Bacon soup and grilled Tuna and cheese sandwiches. Which Elasta Girl ATE, and ATE and ATE. Yippee.

So, after that long, long, LONG post I say Elasta Girl is feeling better today and I think our friends are the best around.

THE END...

By the way, let me explain my last post title "The Puny Party" . My mom has said for years, if someone was sick, that they had the "punies" so after her surgery, Elasta Girl said she had the punies. I said that was what my tonsil post should be called. It made her smile, but only for a second. So there you have it. Puny = sick

The Puny Party...

Tonsils - check

Adenoids - check

Elasta Girls surgery was a success. She is doing as well as you can after getting such monsters taken out.

Before surgery:

Comfort from the TOTO.

And after the surgery:

The surgery only too about 30 minutes from the time they wheeled her away to the Dr coming to tell me how it went. I was getting a bit worried after the Dr came and left and then 15, 30, 45 minutes went by. Apparently Elasta Girl was having a hard time waking up and then, calming down. The poor little crumb was in the recovery room without her mom and said she didn't want to bother anyone to ask for me to come.

Every one was so nice at the Surgical Center and Elasta Girl said the other patients were even nice. There was a man having surgery there too that talked to her and cheered her up. She said he made her laugh. She just kept saying how nice everyone was. On the table by her bed were come comments cards that said "oops" on one side and "Wow" on the other. She made me leave a "Wow" comment for them and the whole way home said she couldn't believe how much she liked it there.

From her bed she could see the stickers they gave the kids after surgery, she saw some Dora the Explorer stickers (Roo's FAVORITE TV show) and said: "oh Roo would love those" So we asked the nurses if we could take one home for her. The nurses were so amazed that after how rotten she felt she was thinking about her sister. They gave us 4 stickers. She is the sweetest child I have (wink wink) and am lucky to be her mom. She even said "thank you" every time I gave her an ice chip or a bite of Popsicle!

She is doing pretty good now we have her pain meds. One thing I am finding is she is HUNGARY! She asked last night if she would gain some weight after her tonsils were out. I'm thinking, yes.

Wanna see her tonsils? If you don't, then don't look down.

The End...

We're off...

Just a quick post to say we're on our way to remove the tonsils and adenoids.

Elasta Girl and I have to be at the Surgical Center in Provo at 7 am. The weather is suppose to be awful so we are leaving a bit early. (about 6:15 early)

I've been up since 4:30 this morning, which is silly because I am not the one having surgery.

We'll let you all know how it goes and I'm sure I'll post pictures of E in her cute hospital gown.

Elasta Girl is still not at all nervous. She came home yesterday from school (bouncing off the walls) and said "I wish it was tomorrow!"

That's all, have a nice day.

And another thing...

Only 3 days left until the "bigger than golf ball" tonsils come out.

Elasta Girl has been actively counting down since about 2 weeks ago, and it is finally very very close. She isn't nervous yet but I'm sure she'll be soon.

3 days. Yippee.

This week's happenings......in pictures

When you're sick and going to the Doctor, what do you wear? Elasta Girl gets decked out in her most fashionable attire.


And red shoes.

I took her to the doctor for the 4Th time in 5 weeks on Monday. She had a nasty strange cough and someone at church had me paranoid about pneumonia. The Dr didn't think it was pneumonia, but he couldn't tell because Elasta Girl couldn't take a big enough breath for him to check her lungs. Good thing those tonsils are coming out on Thursday.

Hi there.



St Patrick's Day 2009

Elasta Girls sneakiest leprechaun looks. Her red nose is a cold sore gone north.

Roo's sneakiest leprechaun looks

Mr. Smith's birthday extravaganza.

Cute cute Elasta Girl while Dad opened presents.

Crazy Roo while Dad opened presents.

Mr Smith with one of his presents. A mini green house to go on the back patio. Roo thought she could fit inside.

My parents and the girls while the green house was constructed.

How do you get rid of the RED EYE...

Like this...

I don't know what Elasta Girl thought was so stinky. But it was the last picture I took so I thought I should put it on.

Pee-you

The End

The rest of the silliness..

More cute girls.

Elasta Girl showing us she really lives up to her name. This hurts me.

Roo showing us how bendy her neck is. Not her body, just her neck. Have I mentioned she wants to do everything that Elasta Girl does?

Ppsstthh on you. From: a cute little unibrow.