Madi reading

Madi's grandma Kathy left us these little books that are pretty simple to read when she moved. There are about 7 or 8 of them and Madi just loves reading them (or memorizing). She has read them 3 times tonight and I was very impressed. I'm just glad she has taken to reading more than I do!

Early Friday Morning...

At about 1:30 am Friday morning I heard some really loud screeching wheels close to our house. Then I heard some police sirens right after. I asked Cory if he had heard it too--of course not he sleeps way better than I do! Anyway, the next morning Cory headed to work (we live on a dead end street with only 3 houses on it--at the end of the dead end there is a fence that is next to the middle school). Cory hops the fence every morning to go to work. Well Friday morning he calls me and tells me it's no longer there! (he thought I was crazy when I told him what I heard in the middle of the night--) Yes there was a high speed chase right next to our house.  

Above is where the road met the fence.

This is picture of the fence ripped off the poles and the tracks of the vehicle that went through it.

That is our neighbor's house and part of there fence that is now gone.

This is the pipe/pole that goes along the top of the fence. 

Cory asked his principal about it and she hadn't been told anything about it. Today is Sunday and it looks just the same as it did on Friday. We thought we lived on a quiet street!

Christmas Time and The New Year

Madi's Birthday is Dec. 20th and this is what she got in the mail from her Grandma Montana--she loves this little baby nursery. I don't have other pictures of her Birthday because I forgot my camera when we celebrated--I will have to steal my mom's camera to get those pictures.

Madi sat  next to Quinton and goes "Mom, take a picture."

Our kids rarely let us sleep in--they love to play in our bed in the morning--Madi's hair is the best!

Madi opening her stocking.

Quinton eating his stocking!

Madi and one of her new pictures of the temple to put in her room.

After Christmas at our house we went to my parents and  Madi was so excited about this purple coat they gave her (she loves pink and purple).

Madi's new book Courderoy

Quinton and some of his gifts from Grandpa Elmer and Grandma Kathy

Madi got this nice bear and cute blanket that Grandma Kathy made her.

Notice Quinton is prefers to chew on the cardboard instead of the toy.

(Great)Grandma Hammerquist and (Great) Aunt Dyanne came down the day after Christmas (I forgot my camera when we opened some presents with them)--it was nice to get to see them for a little bit.

Madi (on our trip to Dillon Montana)--she got this present from Grandma Kathy and Grandpa Elmer--it reads each page of the books to her--it kept her busy the whole trip! 

Madi and (Great) Grandpa Orr are ready to eat breakfast!

Above is Dec 29, 2011 and below is Dec 23, 2009--if you look close you can see that Quinton has my green phone in the picture above and Madi has my pink phone in the picture below

I was fixing breakfast and (Grandpa Orr) Jim came and took Quinton out off my hands--it was so cute to see him talk to Quinton and hold him (while he squirmed everywhere).

Quinton always takes his socks off and chews on them (especially in his car seat and crib). Well he did this today and I was able to grab the camera fast enough to take a picture of it. He must get it from Cory or something.  

Quinton is always crawling (army crawling) everywhere and today he decided he was going to crawl over and through things--like this hippo toy! But he got stuck--as you can tell by his face his started to get a little mad that he couldn't make it through.

Santa Video

My sister sent me this link today--it is so awesome. I did it for Madi and she loved it--she wanted to watch it again!
www.portablenorthpole.tv

Funny

So this morning when I was taking a shower, I heard Madi making little whining noises...so I stepped out of the shower to see what in the world she was doing. Well below is a picture of just that...

She was in Quinton's walker and pretending to make baby noises.

Funny things Madi has said today:

Me: I need to go back and get something. 

Madi: Are ya kiddin me?

earlier tonight

Madi's comment to Cory: "You tricked me kid."

Clothes and things

So my kids have always been a little thinner...my sister was here not too long ago and said she couldn't believe that Quinton was still in 3 month onesies (he is almost 8 months old). The thing is, is that he fits in to 9 to 12 month pants. Well I decided to have Madi try on one of his 9 month onesies--and it fit her (she is almost 3 years old)

 These are the pants that go with the onesie--they don't quite fit her.

Below is a video of how she felt about taking off the onesie

When she is leaving the room she first says "whatever", as she starts to run down the hall she says "I'm going bye, bye." When she gets into her dad's arms she says "daddy's holding me." Then of course she wines because she doesn't want to take it off. She kept it on all day long!! I figured it wasn't worth fighting about.

Below is a video of Madi running around in a circle and Quinton is trying to keep up by either rolling over or running in place with his legs!

Socks!

Our kids like socks (Madi above at about 6 monts Quinton below at 7 months)

 Quinton is trying to eat the camera!

 I put Quinton in a basket--Madi says "I want to get in"-- I told her to get in the other one because there wasn't enough room (I was just afraid she would smash Quinton and they would probably fall over as well).

We were doing some much needed cleaning today and the kids were a great help--when they both took a nap that is!