Fire Drill

Novalee recently had a section in school focused on fire safety.  

It must have roused her curiosity a little.

We moved in November.

  She was the one to point out that there aren't smoke detectors in her room and instigated the discussion on where our meeting point will be if there is a fire.  

Fast forward to last week.

Novalee asked if she could go bike outside.  (Yay for sidewalks!)  

After I told her that was fine she ran into the garage to get her helmet.  

Well a few minutes later,longer than it should have taken now that I think about it, she came back out and causally put on her helmet and started putting on her shoes.  

Then just as casually as she put on her helmet she said, "Mom, while I was in the garage I "accidentally" set off the fire extinguisher."

!!!WHAT!!!

Accidentally?  Yeah right!

So I go to investigate, thinking I might need to clean up a little. 

So I open the door to the garage and a big white cloud of dust pours into the laundry room.

At this point minutes have passed since Novalee had been in the garage.

So this must have not just been a little squeeze of the trigger.

After the cloud settled this is what met my eyes.

(This Canopy is normally dark green.)

Dust over everything!  

Seriously!

  (Only a few things weren't touched by Novalee's "curiosity." )  

It's funny now but boy it wasn't then.

I'm pretty sure this is going to go down as one of those stories I will tell all of her friends, boyfriends, her future husband and children if they ever ask (or I just feel like sharing) how she was during her childhood.

After cleaning it up (okay I supervised her cleaning it up) I've earned it.  :)

Trained!

This one.

In what way?

This way.

No more diapers!  Yay!

Be careful though she might say to you and I quote, "I shake my bum at you!"  :)  

(Here's to hoping  for no regressions.)

Steps

Kinsley took 8 steps in a row just now without holding onto anything!  

Almost 9 and a half months old.

Why was six afraid of seven?

Because seven ate(eight) nine!  Haha!

Jared and Novalee are at a really fun age where they come home from school and share with us funny jokes they've heard.

Anyways,


Six...Seven....Eight....Nine.


Those are the months that Kinsley turned and I never blogged about.

I'm awesome. ;)


So here is the run down.

Month Six

 Just before turning six months she started trying to sit up on her own.

 We finally started feeding her real food.  Out of all our kids, we waited the longest to feed her solids.  She seemed so content without it and we were a little lazy about it.  She was SOOO happy to finally have it.  Probably because she was so old when we started feeding her, she took to it like a pro.

 Yummy!

 She picked up the sitting up on her own pretty quickly.

 She was in 6-9 Months clothes.  Just perfect.

 Yes, she's chewing on the bag of extra christmas lights.  Don't worry I took it from her.  Isn't her face so clean?  ;)

 Wes and I are suckers for outfits with ears.  

So cute!

Month Seven

 I think she was a little grumpy about wearing dolly's skirt on her head.

 Around seven months she started to do this downward dog pose and look between her legs.  So cute.  I don't think any of the other kids ever did that.  We also noticed around this time that even though she can't really say any words, she will mimic you while you sing to her (mumbling and grunting only of course.)  She likes to hear "I'm a child of God."  

 We spent Christmas at Grandma and Grandpa Crockett's house in Arizona.

 Where it was nice and warm.

 Santa brought Kinsley a bear for Christmas.

 All the excitement of her first Christmas wore her out and she fell asleep on the floor while playing with a new toy.  :)  Haha!

 She turned seven months on Christmas day.  She also started pulling herself up onto things around that time.

 Snuggles from Grandma.

 The lucky little girl and three other lucky little ones, got to go to Disneyland for Christmas.

 She had fun!  So did we!

Can't beat being able to hang out on California sand in December!

Eight Months

 She fell into/onto the drawer of the entertainment center and gashed her face.  So deep, probably permanent. :(

 She went on her first bike ride.

 Here she is at Eight month exactly!

 With her squeezable sisters.  (Ohhh how I love that Sadie is such a little poser.)

What in the world?  Oh yeah, Sadie dumped out all the markers again. 

Nine Months.

 Somewhere between eight and nine months she graduated to 12 month clothes.  She also showed her "assertive" personality and absolutely refused to eat baby food anymore.

Her eyes also started to change color.  They were at first very olive brown and now they are starting to look more red brown like the rest of the brown eyed crew in the fam.

 Her first time touching grass and not crying.

 What? Markers again!  Oh Sadie...you're killing me. :)

 She recently started using her food for hair conditioner.  

I wish I could say she is the only child of mine to have done this.  

I seriously wish.  :)

 Sunday, one day before nine months at Daddy's birthday.

 She is busy and she would rather move around and explore, than snuggle.  But she is also reserved and she doesn't just smile for anyone, you generally have to earn it.  She seems very sure of what she wants and lets you know.  And she loves her big brother and sisters.  

Standing all on her own!  She's been doing it for probably a few weeks now.  Every now and again she will get brave and try to take a step and fall.  At this moment she is trying to climb up onto a children's activity table.  Yikes!  She's so ready to be a big girl!  We're not ready for it though.  

Framed

I wanted to have a mirror in our bedroom but didn't want to pay the price of buying a new one.  So I thought I would try and make my own.

About 3 months ago I found this one at Thrift City for 50% off $9.99.  Not bad.  

 (It looks like it was a mirror originally attached to a dresser.)

So I went to Lowes and bought trim, stain and sand paper.  

I stained the trim the color I wanted and cut it to the size it needed to be.

Then I took the old frame off the mirror.  

Here is a mid step, where I was checking to make sure I cut the wood to the right size.

Then I hit a snag.  I couldn't figure out how to make the frame hold together.  I stabled the back, I wood glued it, liquid nailed it, put nails into it and still once it was attached to the back of the mirror, the frame would separate in the corners.  So annoying and time consuming!  (I even gave up and one point just hung it up with huge cracks in the corners.)  I  guess I was just too lazy to ever look online at how to do it right.

Finally Wes suggested L brackets.    

 It worked!  Holy Hallelujah   

I'm not sure there was a huge savings after adding up all the materials to make my own framed mirror.  And holy cow it was a headache!

But you can't beat being able to look at something and saying, "I made that."

Would I do it again?  You bet.

Cuz I made that!  ;)