Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Friday, January 30, 2009
Firsts
Lately there have been a few firsts at our house and I thought it would be fun to show you with pictures. About a week ago the twins had their first pony tails. They looked so cute. They hated me putting them in, but after that they left them alone.
I had more fun with the twins hair. I put Tori's bows in their hair. Adrienne did not like it much, but Sofia did not seem to mind. It will probably be a while before they are wearing bows that big in their hair.
Tori has recently learned all the sounds of the alphabet thanks to The Letter Factory movie. We have now moved onto The Word Factory. She is still figuring it out, but she has learned how to spell and write cat. She is very smart and amazes me every day.
These last pictures are not a first but they crack me up. When we say our evening prayers we all kneel in a circle on Tori's floor. After the prayer, we let the twins sit on the floor while we tuck Tori into bed. Because the floor is wood, the twins push with their arms and slide around on the floor till they get stuck under something. One day Sofia got stuck under Tori's bed, Adrienne got stuck under the rocking chair, and Tori had to crawl under her bed so we could get a picture of her too. What funny girls.
I had more fun with the twins hair. I put Tori's bows in their hair. Adrienne did not like it much, but Sofia did not seem to mind. It will probably be a while before they are wearing bows that big in their hair.
Tori has recently learned all the sounds of the alphabet thanks to The Letter Factory movie. We have now moved onto The Word Factory. She is still figuring it out, but she has learned how to spell and write cat. She is very smart and amazes me every day.
These last pictures are not a first but they crack me up. When we say our evening prayers we all kneel in a circle on Tori's floor. After the prayer, we let the twins sit on the floor while we tuck Tori into bed. Because the floor is wood, the twins push with their arms and slide around on the floor till they get stuck under something. One day Sofia got stuck under Tori's bed, Adrienne got stuck under the rocking chair, and Tori had to crawl under her bed so we could get a picture of her too. What funny girls.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Freezing Cold
We have had the privilege of being in St. Louis when it reached the coldest temperatures in 10 years. Luckily, for me, I stay at home with the girls and don't go out too much. At least I thought I was lucky. I keep my house pretty cold because our gas bills are crazy expensive. Since I keep the main floor at 65, I am used to being cold. However, last Thursday I felt even colder than usual. I went and looked at the thermostat and it read 55. I tried to turn up the thermostat to see if it would do anything and it didn't. Our heater went out on the coldest day. I called Trevor and he came home and looked at the furnace with no luck of being able to do something. We then called my brother Derek to see if he had any good advice. Derek was able to diagnose the problem, but it wasn't anything that we could fix. Trevor then called our landlord who told us that he wished we had called earlier, as if I sat in a freezing house all day but waited until after hours to bother him just to be an inconvenience. Our landlord sent over an HVAC man and he agreed with Derek's diagnosis but wasn't able to get the part that night. Luckily, our landlord offered to put us in a hotel for the night. My only criteria was that there be breakfast in the morning. He found a room for us and at 9:30 at night, we took our cold children outside into the freezing cold. The hotel room was nice and we turned the heat way up because we could. The next day after they fixed our furnace I came home to a house that was about 30 degrees. I sat their for a while and then decided we couldn't sit and wait for our house to get up to heat so I went to a friends house. At 5:00 p.m. our house finally got to 58. By the next morning we finally got our house up to heat. We have all thawed out and survived. The pictures are of the girls at our house in the cold before we left for the hotel.
Tori at the hotel Friday morning.
Sofia and Adrienne with Tylenol bottles. These are their favorite toys right now. They fight over them if they don't have their own.
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Christmas with the Smobes
The following are pictures from our Christmas adventure the past two days. They should be mostly in chronological order. Hope you enjoy!
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Tori Stories
It has been a while since I have posted any new Tori Stories. It's not that she hasn't done funny things, it's just hard to remember them when I get the time to play on the computer. I will try and do better in the future. Today I have only three stories.
#1: On Saturday day night Sofi was sick and so I ended up "sleeping" with her in our rocking chair. Our upstairs gets really hot while our main floor is 60 degrees. It was in the middle of the night when I made the move, and because I was going from desert to the south pole, I put on a sweatshirt so I would not freeze. When Tori came downstairs in the morning she promptly noticed that my sweatshirt was on inside out and backwards. She came up to me and said, "Mom, please look at the tag!" She pointed to the back of my neck and said, "The tag goes right here. Mom, pleeeeeeaaaaasssse look at the tag." She sounded like she was pleading with me to do the right thing. She sounded so disappointed in me. I will try and do better!
#2: All of our girls are currently sick. I didn't realize how much more fun 3 sick kids is than one. It is practically guaranteed that at least one kid will be up all night. Last night it was Tori. In fact, she kicked Trevor out of our bed and sent him to hers so that she could sleep with me. In the morning Trevor came back in for a few minutes after Tori was awake. Tori had an itch and she was begging Trevor to please scratch her. Trevor asked her if she could scratch her own legs. Tori looked at him and said, "No Dad. I'm too busy." Later today Trevor asked if she would like some pretzels. She replied, "I'm too busy." What a stressful life for a two year old. Too busy for pretzels.
#3:When either Trevor or I am holding the twins and we ask Tori to get something for us, she runs and grabs her twin baby dolls and says, "I can't. "I'm stuck." (You can guess who she hear's this from all the time.) I am amazed at how far she will go to get her babies when sometimes the object that I want her to get for me is an arms length away. I suppose if anyone should understand it should be me. When your babies need you, they need you.
#1: On Saturday day night Sofi was sick and so I ended up "sleeping" with her in our rocking chair. Our upstairs gets really hot while our main floor is 60 degrees. It was in the middle of the night when I made the move, and because I was going from desert to the south pole, I put on a sweatshirt so I would not freeze. When Tori came downstairs in the morning she promptly noticed that my sweatshirt was on inside out and backwards. She came up to me and said, "Mom, please look at the tag!" She pointed to the back of my neck and said, "The tag goes right here. Mom, pleeeeeeaaaaasssse look at the tag." She sounded like she was pleading with me to do the right thing. She sounded so disappointed in me. I will try and do better!
#2: All of our girls are currently sick. I didn't realize how much more fun 3 sick kids is than one. It is practically guaranteed that at least one kid will be up all night. Last night it was Tori. In fact, she kicked Trevor out of our bed and sent him to hers so that she could sleep with me. In the morning Trevor came back in for a few minutes after Tori was awake. Tori had an itch and she was begging Trevor to please scratch her. Trevor asked her if she could scratch her own legs. Tori looked at him and said, "No Dad. I'm too busy." Later today Trevor asked if she would like some pretzels. She replied, "I'm too busy." What a stressful life for a two year old. Too busy for pretzels.
#3:When either Trevor or I am holding the twins and we ask Tori to get something for us, she runs and grabs her twin baby dolls and says, "I can't. "I'm stuck." (You can guess who she hear's this from all the time.) I am amazed at how far she will go to get her babies when sometimes the object that I want her to get for me is an arms length away. I suppose if anyone should understand it should be me. When your babies need you, they need you.
Friday, December 19, 2008
Family Pictures
Today we had the joy of getting family pictures done. All in all, I think they turned out pretty well. Of course, we ended up getting more pictures than we had planned on but we did get a CD with all the pictures on it. By the way, if we ever get it together we might be sending out Christmas cards with our family picture enclosed, so act surprised when you get it. 
Friday, December 5, 2008
Time Goes On
Well, it has been quite some time since I last posted anything. We have been lucky to have lots of visitors this month. My mom came out for 9 days and we had fun doing anything and everything. 
It's amazing how much more fun it is to do things when you do them with someone you love. I was also very thankful for her coming out when she did because Sofia was put on a medication that has wonderful side effects such as: fussiness (she's already my fussy child), reflux, and problems sleeping. She had about four nights when my mom was there that she cried at least 4 hours at night. I thought I was going to die or that I was going to shake Sofia. I have never been so frustrated before. My mother, being the great mom that she is, took one night with Sofia, allowing us to get a full night's rest. I was a new person the next day. Just so you all know, Sofia is doing much better on the medication and no one was injured.
After that wonderful week with my mom, I had one week to get ready for Brett and Cali to come. It was fun to have them here and fun to finally get out and see St. Louis. 
It really is a pretty fun city, so if anyone wants to come and visit let us know. I am sorry to say that I am not going to write about all the pictures I posted. If you want to hear about all of our activities while Brett and Cali were in town, please refer to Cali's blog, because she is much better at staying up on things. Tori has been sad to not have anyone besides mom around again. She loved having her grandma and Brett and Cali around. Now we are trying to get things ready and in order for Christmas. It will be our first Christmas by ourselves, and I am kind of sad. Christmas to me is always about family and I will miss everyone dearly. I am not sure what we are going to do. I suppose now it is time to think about what kind of traditions we want to start.
It's amazing how much more fun it is to do things when you do them with someone you love. I was also very thankful for her coming out when she did because Sofia was put on a medication that has wonderful side effects such as: fussiness (she's already my fussy child), reflux, and problems sleeping. She had about four nights when my mom was there that she cried at least 4 hours at night. I thought I was going to die or that I was going to shake Sofia. I have never been so frustrated before. My mother, being the great mom that she is, took one night with Sofia, allowing us to get a full night's rest. I was a new person the next day. Just so you all know, Sofia is doing much better on the medication and no one was injured.
After that wonderful week with my mom, I had one week to get ready for Brett and Cali to come. It was fun to have them here and fun to finally get out and see St. Louis. 
It really is a pretty fun city, so if anyone wants to come and visit let us know. I am sorry to say that I am not going to write about all the pictures I posted. If you want to hear about all of our activities while Brett and Cali were in town, please refer to Cali's blog, because she is much better at staying up on things. Tori has been sad to not have anyone besides mom around again. She loved having her grandma and Brett and Cali around. Now we are trying to get things ready and in order for Christmas. It will be our first Christmas by ourselves, and I am kind of sad. Christmas to me is always about family and I will miss everyone dearly. I am not sure what we are going to do. I suppose now it is time to think about what kind of traditions we want to start.
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