Thanks for Coming Madsen Cousins

In the beginning of Sept we got the privilege of watching the Madsen cousins for a whole weekend. This was truly a treat for my kiddos, they were in heaven! We started off our party with homemade pizzas which turned out was a HUGE hit.

We then went to aunt Meggie & Blake's gender reveal party. We had fun busting open the pinata to find out that they are having a blue flavored babe.

I admit the kiddos got to bed a bit late on Friday but it didn't dent any of the early morning Saturday fun. We had 5 out of 7 up before 7am the next morning.

On Saturday we had several fun things planned, but most of it involved going out in the rainy day so instead we mainly played x-box, memory and snuggled up to watch shows on the computer.

Saturday later afternoon however we taught our fun cousins what it means to be in our house on a Duck game day! We had cheerleaders, fun go duck drawings, Lego Trophies for the Duck being winners... 

...& of course LOTS and LOTS of touchdown push-ups!

Upon special request/demand we had pizza again on Saturday night and homemade caramel corn while we watched our movie!

The next morning we went to church where we all got to enjoy my kiddos primary program. 

Josh and Kye were the funnest little potty buddies, they never went once the whole weekend with out the buddy, in fact I heard them more than one ask if the other wanted to go potty together. It was super fun for Josh to finally have another little boy in the house, he is always surrounded by girls. We all had a ton of fun with the Madsen kiddos and I have to say I was actually sad when they finally had to leave for home. Hopefully, we will get to have more fun cousin sleep overs in the future!

The Twiners First Day '13

So right after Labor day the our two crazy twiners finally got to start at their preschool. We had a fathers blessing for them the night before which they are super excited about since they just had seen Phoebe get one to start her school the week before.

The next morning , bright and early we started in on picture time. These two kiddos were MUCH more difficult to work with than the older Phoebs.  I was jumping and yelling(a lot of yelling) and everything else short of standing on my head to get cute pics.

The dude had a really short attention span for this and I had a hard time getting cute pics with him not trying to cross his eye, yes just one eye, in the pics.

Right as we were getting in the van to leave I remembered the cute back to school pencil sharpeners grandma Fergy gave me to give the kiddos.

When we got to the school all the kiddos lined up for first day of school pics in Mrs. Becky's house. I missed Cami, but here is a pic of Josh holding his sign.

After school Mrs. Becky gave all the kiddos fun and VERY messy cupcakes with a card that said my first day of school was a piece of cake!  Too cute, the kids absolutely adore their teacher and LOVE LOVE LOVE school!

Pre-Labor Day Parting 2013

As is our Fergy clan tradition every year the night before Labor day we had a yumm-o roast in grandma/pa Fergy's back yard. We roasted hot dogs over the fire pit, which Phoebe always has fun doing.

We then have an AWESOME smores bar with every fixing possible!

Some of the older cousins gathered after dessert, the effects of too much sugar I suppose, and taught Phoebe and Afton some slick dancing routins.

When the sun began to set Grandma turned our party into a no car drive -in complete with popcorn!

My kiddos had some extra sugar to burn off, however, and decided to have their own dance party out on the basket ball court.

This roast out is a fun little tradition that always marks for me the end of another summer of total Fergy fun!

Cami's Traumatic Dental Appt.

In the end of August Cami had to go to the dentist to get two cavities filled, a first for all of my kiddos. To make the ordeal as painless as possible the dentist gave Cami some loopy medicine  before we even got to the dentist with worked really well, Cami could't even sit up in a chair or stroller no less walk. When we got to the dinist they then put on a movie for her and gassed her which made her really easy to work with she didn't even flinch when she got the shots. The first easy a breeze and went really quickly.

When it was time for the second tooth something went terribly wrong and she seemed to have immediately sobered up in a second. The second tooth involved me laying ion her to hold her down then when that still wan't enough the dentist had to get a body board for Cami to keep her still, I didn't even know this thing existed outside of mental institutions. Cami was screaming so loud they had to shut all the doors and brought no other patients around until we finished up. 

The second they took the mouth props out of her mouth she stopped screaming and was happy again in fact all she wanted to do was just go play in the play room out front, but after only 1 minute of playing she realized she was just too tired and laid down, so I packed her up and we headed home.

On the way home Cami unfortunately, was still quiet numb om her bottom lips and didn't realize she began biting her lower lip very hard and when we arrived home she was so bloody we couldn't tell if she needed stitches so I called the dentist and immediately had to take her right back to the dentist. He said she her lip was okay, no deep gashes, however, she bite her lip pretty badly. Cory and I thought it looked like a piece of chewed on steak, these pics didn't do the damage she caused herself justice. Her lips were almost immediately so swollen she couldn't close her mouth for days.

The next day she got huge ulcer like scabs on her lip and that took almost a week to disappear. I have to admit it grossed me out to look at it, it looked highly painful and she was on a salt free easy to mush diet for many days.

Luckily, one of the purposes of the drug that the dentist gave Cami before he even started is to cause forgetfulness. If you ask Cami how she liked the dentist she says "pretty good" doesn't remember screaming only that she has fun and they have a play room. Hopefully this won't need to ever happen again!