Hemangioma

For those of you who have seen this ugly thing on Emma's head and wondered who dropped her, it's a hemangioma. I took her to the doctor today because it's been getting bigger. He said that is normal and it will continue to get bigger and uglier before it gets better and goes away. Her body will get rid of it on it's own between the ages of 1 and 2. He listened to the sounds in her head, her chest, and by her liver (where they can also develop) and there are no signs of more or this one interfering with her brain development. He felt her skull and it is not in a place that will interfer with her head growth either. While it's ugly, it doesn't hurt her in anyway and will disappear soon enough.

Celebrity crushes

Karen--James Roday aka Shawn Spencer on my new favorite show, "Psych"

Mike--Lisa Edelstein aka Lisa Cuddy on "House"

Hee Haws

For our FHE activity this week we went to Hee Haws to pick out a pumpkin for our front porch. Ethan was so excited and couldn't wait...

But he did have to make a pit stop first.

This was his first experience with a port-a-potty and all he could ask was, "Does it flush automatically?" Those toilets really freak him out.

After he felt better, he found the tire swings that looked like horses. He was very excited about those.

Emma couldn't have cared less, but she looked pretty cute.

And here's my Farmer Ethan. Grandpa Callister would be so proud

A good habit

Yesterday at lunch, Ethan sat down and said a prayer, without being asked. Mike and I looked at each other and Mike said, "Hmm, a good habit to have." I think we just might be doing something right...

These are yummy...

And Ethan begs for them for breakfast too.

What do 4 year olds do when general conference is on?

They build the temple out of blocks during Saturday morning's session (with a little help from Dad)

And they play with the new batcave (they got for their birthday from Grandma Herrington) during Sunday morning's session.

Couch potato

This is how I found by baby last week, chillin' on the loaf-a-sofa with her bottle not too far away...Dad's pretty close too.
(I don't know what happened, her eyes are a little deamonish in this picture, but she's really sweet! I must need to switch something around on my camera.)