The Kelly Family

Laurel went running this morning and all of the girls were playing around in our room. Savanna came up to me and told me how good of a helper she was by wiping Emma's nose (Emma has been a little sick). She then told me how Emma had a little scratch on her nose. I told her that I would take a look. Both Savanna and Madalyn discussed that it would be a good idea to put a bandaid on it. I laughed and told them I would probably just put some petroleum jelly on it. Savanna looked really confused. "What is trolum jelly", she asked. I smiled and told her I would show her in a minute. A few minutes later I caught up to Emma to wipe her nose. As I was struggling to wipe a moving target, I noticed that it wasn't a scratch on her nose, rather a little bloody booger. As I continued to try to wipe it off, Savanna asked, "Do you want me to go get you some jam?" I was royally confused, "What?" "Jam...that is what you said before." I laughed, ...

So, I thought I would let you all know how Emma was doing with her nudity issues. The pinning works really well with the sleepers with zippers, however when I put her down to nap in the afternoon, she likes to take it all off, and this week she pooped in her crib and played in it before I realized she had taken everything off. She also has a night gown that she loves to wear that she can't take off because it buttons too tightly to pull over her head, but she can still get the diaper off. Last night she took it off and pooped in her crib again. I think I will have to tape the diaper when she wears those pajamas. She also likes to strip down during the day, especially when we go to someone elses house. Good times. It is a good thing she is so stinking cute. Speaking of cute, she said something that really made me laugh. She loves to say her prayers, except she doesn't really copy much of what you say besides "amen". Yesterday when we were saying her prayers, w...

So, if anyone has any great ideas on how to keep a kid from stripping down, please let me know. Emma likes to take everything off when she is put into her crib. It is awfully cold for her to decide she likes to hang in the nude. Wendi, what got you to decide not to sleep that way? ha ha

I have a couple of Emma stories. Last night, a little while after I put Emma to bed she started to cry, but I just let her cry it out and it seemed to work. About a half an hour after she stopped crying I thought I would check on her and cover her up with her blanket, the usual stuff I do after she falls asleep. Well, when I went in to check on her she was completely naked and laying in a fetal position on her belly! She had unzipped her pajamas and stripped down, taking her diaper off as well. Everything was thrown over the side of the crib and in a pile on the floor. (Luckily she hadn't pooped.) She hadn't gone to the bathroom in her crib naked so I pulled her out and got her dressed again, (however she refused to wear the same pajamas as before so we put her in a different pair, ) and put her back to bed. She went right to sleep, and Nick and I had a pretty good laugh. It was very unexpected to find her that way! Tonight Madalyn came into the kitchen as we were cle...

I was forwarded this in an email. I thought it was hilarious......now, why didn't I think of it?

Savanna wanted to chop off her hair so yesterday we finally did it. I think it turned out really cute and she really loves it. We won't be able to do as much with it, as far as braids and pony tails etc., but it should be so much faster to wash and brush. (Which I think is a big reason why she wanted to have it chopped. She doesn't like to spend the time on long hair.) I didn't do a before picture, but here are a couple after shots.