Happy Birthday Kaydence!!!!!

Kaydence turned 6 this last Valentines day (14th). It was on Sunday this year so we had her party on monday the 15th. We had a blast at a great place in boise called Rafiki. Kaydence was a a little reluctant when I told her her party was going to be at this monkey jungle gym place because for some reason she thinks monkey's are for babies??? I don't know how she got that idea :) But this place being about monkey's was a complete coincidence, I haven't gone completely monkey crazy just yet :) but she had so much fun and so did all the other kids.

Her gift from us this year was a doctor's kit and was a group effort. We didn't opt for the kids pretend plastic doctor's kit... I wanted her to get the real stuff :) Everyone pitched in and loved gathering things for her. We got her scrubs, doctors bag, arm blood pressure cuff, reflex (knee) hammer, stethoscope, tongue suppressors, syringes, bandages, light pens, ect.

She has had a blast scheduling appointments and playing doctor with everyone.

a NEW baby BOY has arrived!!!

Chris and Karen (Craig's brother) delivered their son tonight and he is just perfect. a little over 7 lbs and 20 inches long. They had yet to name him by the time we left but they all have been calling him cletus for months now...hopefully it didn't' stick :) But he will be one loved Cletus if it is and will have 5 boy cousins his age to protect him from bullies.

****** HE'S BEEN NAMED**********

**Keegan Lee Atkinson**

One down.... 5 more to go!!!!

nursery update

UPDATE***

I rearranged the room and put up this new shelf I bought from Michael's and painted. I just love how this little area turned out. I can't wait to rock and sing lullaby's to my sweet little monkey right there.

I put up some wall border in the nursery. Since I got my bedding from someone on Craig's list and they no longer make that line I had to look on ebay for the border and found some. I think the room looks so cute with it. And the border really goes well with the gray walls. It really brings out the blue in the gray.

Library Silly Song and Dance

I have been taking the kids to all the Library activities a lot the last few months (because it's all free!) We usually go to Story Time on Wednesdays and they get on the computers afterwards and play games. We check out a few books and movies for the week. Then the last 3 fridays they have either silly song and dance or a Preschool art class we attend and then on the first saturday of the month they have a children's craft activity we go to. Yesterday they made valentine cards.

Here they are at a Silly song and Dance class. They seem to really be having a blast.

Oral Surgery take 2

Kaydence got caps and a tooth abstracted last spring and it was Soren's turn last week for the same thing. They're Atkinson's and so inherited the British weak and brittle teeth for some strange reason that doesn't make sense to me with perfectly healthy strong teeth, evolution should have made sure they got.

He did extremely well. Most kids cry and are cranky scared afterwards as they wake up and Soren wasn't phased at all. He said they felt weird but handled himself a lot better than kaydence who cried (screamed really) for 45 minutes like most other kids who wake up felling weird and tired and delirious with tubes and cords sticking out everywhere and a mouth full of metal. He has complained of them hurting a little bit since, and says he can't eat candy anymore because the "monster crowns" are covering his sweet tooth :)

Work Bench

Craig and our Brother in Law Derek have been working on their matching work benches for each of their garages. We finally got ours finished and installed. They both turned out really good and sturdy and should work great for all the garbage that's going to accumulate on them :)