Random Pictures/Updates

Just catching up - 

Laying in bed, cuddling with the girls - I look over and see that they are holding hands - too cute!  The girls love each other so much - not to be confused with the fact that they still fight like sisters at time, but they really are too cute together!

 We converted the crib into a toddler bed for Paisley at the beginning of February.  We never had to do this with Emery, but felt it was time with Paisley since she climbed out of her crib and fell on the floor during her nap time - crazy kid!  It's been a few weeks and the funny thing is that she never gets herself out of her bed.  She will climb in herself, but when she wakes up and is ready to get up, she still calls for Ivan or I.  I guess it's a win-win for us!  I can't believe how big she is getting .. sad!

 Paisley would go through about 35 outfit changes/day if we let her.  99% of the time, she dresses up in Emery's clothes.  If I could just get her to put them all away where she got them, I probably wouldn't care.  But, clothes are usually all throughout the house and when she cleans them up, she puts them all into the dirty clothes hamper - causing a ton of unnecessary laundry for me ..

 I got daring and took the girls to a Dr appt with me.  They were really good and behaved well, thank goodness.  So cute!

This was from the beginning of February.  Emery was sick with a cold and had spent most of the day in our bed.  Apparently, at one time when she was awake, she was playing with silly putty.  Then she fell asleep and the silly putty ended up in her hair.  Not a good thing!  As soon as we saw it, my heart stopped, thinking I was going to have to cut her hair.  I never said it to Emery, but I think she knew, hence the look on her face.  Oh, she was also mad that I waited to try to get it out while I took a picture.

Lucky for us, we have google.  I googled how to get silly putty out of hair, and it said to try baby oil.  After just a few minutes and just a little baby oil, it was out of her hair.  Whew, we got lucky on this one!

Paisley just being her cute little self!

 Another outfit creation by Paisley ..

 We took the girls bowling one Sunday afternoon.  We all had a great time ..

 Can you guess who picked the outfit??

 Paisley's first experience at Fun Dip - we won't however, mention that it was blue and she just may have opened it in Emery's room and spilled it on the carpet.  For the record, Fun Dip does stain carpet ..

Valentines Day Celebrations

We had a great Valentines day this year.  Since Emery was in school, it was the first year of doing Valentines for her classmates.  This is all new to me - who knew the pressure haha!  The girls and I have all been sick, so I just picked up some Valentines for Emery - I chose Brave, with pencils to go with them.  I had Emery write out all of the Valentines (there are only 5 other kids, which is good) and it was a 2 day project.  She did really good with writing out all of the names of her classmates though.  Unfortunately, Emery had Croup the day of the Valentines day party at school, so she had to miss it.  Her teacher was nice enough to keep her bag of Valentines and then she handed hers out when she went back.  All of the Valentines Emery got from her classmates were written out by the parents - is that normal?  I guess if Emery had like 25 classmates, I would have helped, but I left it up to her for just the 5 that she needed.  

 We also made some yummy Valentines cupcakes - Emery helped me with every step, of course!

 I baked them and Ivan helped the girls decorate them ..

 Yummy!  Paisley demanded to be fed her cupcake - she didn't want to get her hands dirty - silly girl!

 Emery ate hers carefully as to not get any of the frosting on her lips/face.

Emery Starts Preschool!

We have had a lot of changes in the Gallegos family over the last few months - I'm hoping to bring back the blog.  All of the changes have been for the good and we are excited about the positive impact the changes have made.

We were finally able to get Emery into Preschool.  She started on February 1st and goes two days a week for 2.5 hours/day.  She is going to a little Preschool at the Cottonwood Heights Rec center - there are only 6 kids total in her class, but she is loving it!  After her first day, I asked her how it was, she said it was good, but she didn't learn anything.  I have a mid-year assessment with Emery's teacher in a few weeks, so I will see how she's doing then.  I think she's fine from an academic perspective, but I really wanted her to experience Preschool and learn the social skills that she would need for Kindergarten.  

After 3 days of attending school, Emery was diagnosed with Croup.  It was only her 2nd sick kid visit to the Pediatrician in her entire life.  I'm sure along with the fun and learning of Preschool, we will have the opportunity to experience all kinds of new germs and sicknesses.  Can't wait!