Whipple Family Blog

I am now a mother of a seven year old!! Am I really that old? I can't believe it has been seven years since Teralyn was born. Well, it's been worth every minute! I have to say though, as most of you know, I wasn't sure at the beginning. We had a rough six months, but when she grew out of that, she has been the sweetest girl in the world. Seriously, I don't know if they come sweeter. I sure feel lucky to have her. Tera shares her birthday with her teacher Ms. Martin, so this morning she spent making her a bracelet. When she got home we had her favorite dinner (stuffed shells) and a little family party (her friend party is on Saturday). Brian joked with her all week that she was getting a yellow m&m from him, so that is what she got... (: Her face was pretty funny when she really did get it. Anyway, she also got a Web Kinz(stuffed animal that you can feed and take care of on the Internet) and a password journal. We had a fun evening. Some fun things about Teralyn Favo...

My little Ashty finally made it to preschool! She has been asking about it for months now, mostly because we used it as a bribe for potty training. Well, potty training has come and gone and still no preschool. I think she was beginning to think it was all a bluff. It finally came yesterday and she was so excited! This last Tuesday we had "meet the teacher day". Ashty and I got to go together to see her class and meet her teachers. We had a great time. It's always a little nerve racking to see if your child will adjust, but there were no problems. Oh, expect that I basically had to pull her out! After Tuesday she has asked me multiple times, "when do I get to go to preshool without you momma?". I guess she didn't enjoy my hovering. (: The older girls didn't have school yesterday (Rosh Hashanah) so I packed all four girls into the car to see Ashty off on her first day. Ashty went running in and I basically had to yell to her to say goodbye to me. When I c...

I hope I can laugh at this someday... So this morning I headed to the grocery store with my two little girls. When I go with both Raegan and Ashtyn I don't expect to get much because, well, I just don't have room. Ashty insists on sitting on the front and I put Raegan in her car seat in the cart, so I have about three inches on both sides of Asthyn and about two inches on both sides of Raegan. Well, today I thought our trip would be great since Raegan had just woken up from a nap and was fed and happy. First of all, I headed to the deli counter, thinking I would get some meat and cheese for a quick meal tonight. There were two people in front of me, so Ashty, Raegy, and I all waited patiently. After a while of waiting, Ashty got a little impatient and started yelling for polka-dot cheese (Swiss). I told her we needed to wait our turn. Well, we waited and waited to no avail. Just then a third person showed up to wait in line, and Raegan started crying. I bent down to put the Bin...

I can't believe I forgot to blog about this! This last Saturday morning we found our van had been broken into! The night before we had been out late and came in in kind of a hurry. As I was grabbing Raegan, one of my girls, asked me for the keys to open the house. I gave it to her without thinking about it. We quickly got our girls to bed and cleaned our house. Bri went outside to get something on our porch and found our keys in the door. Ahh! I have done this many times, so I won't be too hard on my little girl. (: Well, the next morning Bri went with the girls to move a piano and found our van in quite a mess. We had our GPS holder on our wind shield we think that may have been the motivation. Things were pulled out of our glove compartment and drawers and were thrown everywhere! So scary! Luckily, we didn't have our GPS in our van at the time. It looked like they were in a huge hurry because they didn't even bother with taking our DVDs or our headphones for our DVD p...

Yes, we have a roller. I think what motivated it was that her binky fell out and she tries to roll to get it back in. Well, it worked, and now she won't stop. I guess that's the end of leaving her on the couch huh? This last Sunday, I had primary by myself. At least I thought I would. Kathy was at Blue knob, Nicole had her baby, Jen was in Hawaii, Felicity moved this week, and Kelly was in Utah. Well, bless her heart, Cami took over sharing time for me, and Kelly turned up from Utah. It was actually a pretty easy day and no major disasters... can you believe it? Yesterday was labor day and I went shopping! It was great to be by myself for a change and I actually got some new clothes, oh and caught up on back to school shopping for my kids too! It's so nice not to have to shop in the maternity section anymore! While I was out, Bri took all four girls swimming. I met up with them when I was finished shopping. Ashtyn got to go down the big water slides and she was thrilled! So...

So I'm playing catch up again. It's been a busy, crazy, but fun month. We had cousins out for a week and then the next week we were all so sick! Not fun at all! Especially since Raegan had it too, she is just barely getting over it (some stomach flu). Well, after our week of sickness and a fun, but busy, primary quarterly activity (carnival), we had a week visit from my wonderful in-laws! It was probably the first time that I have spent so much alone time with them and it was really fun to get to know them better. My girls especially loved it because of course they got spoiled (they only get to see them about once a year). They made it clear right from the start that they didn't want to wear us out, but mostly wanted to spend some time with us. That was great to know since my kids were still struggling with the sick. We decided to take each day as it comes and hopefully coincide with the weather. Here's a summary of our week. Saturday night we spent our time reacquaint...

The Coombs family (Brian's oldest sister, her husband, and four kids) came to visit last week and we had a great time. Let me recap our week... On Wednesday we picked them up and had a relaxing evening at home to give them a chance to rest. We also had a yummy BBQ and the girls were reacquainting themselves with their cute cousins. On Thursday we went to Sandy Point and played in the beach! It took a little while for the kids to get excited about it all, but after a few hours, we were ready to go and the kids seemed to be just getting started. I was a little nervous to take a newborn to the beach (I've had a few bad experiences), but Raegan did wonderful and hardly made a peep! When we got home, we had some yummy stuffed shells, a tradition in our family for visitors, and then all the kids had baths. The girls all slept downstairs and of course they loved that. It took them a few hours to fall asleep, but you just can't beat a good sleepover with cousins right? Friday we we...