Ta Da!

Nyah showing off her ballet skills.

Looks so smart huh?!

Dress Up!

My sister Angela sent us some clothes. The girls loved the dress up clothes. Emma would wear fancy clothes all the time if she could. Unfortunately she has a mom who is not fancy in any way. I don't even know why I would wear a dress.

Emma has worn the fancy skirt every since we got it. Even over her pajamas in sleep.

Emma.

Nyah and Emma

Nyah

Emma

Nyah's 1st Shriner's Appointment!

We had plans of getting Nyah to Shriners this summer. The only problem is that she is in pain. As she grows her arm seems to bend even tighter. She is getting bed sores that cause even more pain. She often moans and crys due to the pain. We were able to rush things with Shriners. They will be seeing her on the 20th of January. I am assuming that surgery will be soon. We will keep you updated.

Toys or Boxes!

The girls have a million toys, but an orange box is more fun than anything else. They were fighting over the boxes until they decided to share them.

Emma and Nyah

Melody with the kids.

Melody's Birthday!

Kids in Training!

Jeremy and Jordan have taken it upon themselves to train Emma and Nyah the appropriate way to do push-ups. It was so funny. I wasn't able to get great pictures, but here is what we have.

They also are training them how to be like a pig. You really don't want to know what else they are training them (Jeremy). It is very interesting raising little ones with older siblings. :)

Day Time Potty Trained!!!!

God is so good to us. Emma is now day time potty trained and is on her way towards nap and night time. She is doing so well. I decided to drop the diapers during the day, after reading my cousin Leeann's blog of how she potty trained her daughter. Her daughter is about a month younger than Emma. So we did it. No diapers! We had several accidents the first couple days, but after that she did great! When we get to no diapers we will go get icecream and a toy. Emma is so excited about this.

Nyah is doing well in this too. She goes when Emma does and tells us. The only problem is that she doesn't quite know how to tell us every time. You might remember that while we were in China Nyah would say "wuh-la" to tell us she needs to go. We of course did not understand this at the time, therefore we messed her potty training up. Now she says wuh-la while she is going. We are improving though.:)
Nyah and Emma like to have their blankets around their heads. They say that they want to be Mary. So here they are, the double Mary's.

Snowy Weather

Jordan and Riley Blowing on the window!

We have had quite the snowy weather here. During the Christmas break we had over 4 feet of snow fall in a short time. Due to this we had two snow days before Christmas Break. The only problem with this is that Melody's school district only allows for 2 snow days. Following Christmas we had more snow, rain and then more snow. School was open for 1 day and then we had another snow day due to structure concerns from all of the snow. The next day the weather rose to 47 degrees. This caused another snow day because we had too much snow melt and flooding was a concern. HMMMMMM... We will now loose flex days and be adding to the school year. OH! Did I mention that we are barely into January and the snow is just beginning? Welcome to North Idaho.:)

During the Christmas Break we were stuck at Jim and Lori's for a while. We needed to get the snow off of the roof. This is the roof that Riley is standing on and yes, that is the snow we had the kids shovel off.

Adam not happy about this little chore that we gave him. He is standing next to the deck that is usually 3 feet off the ground.

Jesse

Zach standing on the roof.

Jordan on the roof.