Good Morning Eloise

Last night I went to bed with a migraine. Apparently it didn't return until I was entirely awake. I decided I had to get up when I went in to feed Ellie at 830. She already let me go back to sleep after her 5am feeding, so it only seemed fair to let her get up. She went to sleep at 745 last night.

Morning's beauty:

Scarlett woke up about an hour later. Joe tried his best to stay asleep on the couch, and was glad to be able to take back the "tent blanket". Scarlett fell asleep inside the tent. When I came out at 5 I saw her sitting up awake in the chair, tent decimated. She "weeweed on her Kiki", so I helped her into a bedtime diaper after feeding Eloise and let her come snuggle into bed with me. She loves my snuggles, and was soon fast asleep. Though brief it's reprieve, it was nice to have a break from my migraine through my sleeping hours.

Scarlett asked me this morning if we were going to school today. She already loves her new school, and she hasn't even started yet. She had her second evaluation yesterday morning at 8am. She qualifies for services in 4/5 of the categories, and will start preschool at Getz school beginning of August. She will go in the mornings, and the bus will take her and bring her home just in time for lunch Monday-Thursdays.

The therapists seem very nice and I am excited for Scarlett to get to work with them. Scarlett's favorite is Chris Schwann she is a lovely blonde woman with a welcoming smile. Scarlett instantly accepted her, and sat in her lap to talk to her. I think its a good sign that she wants to go back.

Camping, Rawlins style.

This is how we do it...

One blanket.
One big comfy chair.
One broom
One pillow pet, 3 "kiki's"
One hello kitty
One Scarlett Paige
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One heck of a time.

"Open or closed?" I asked her, "closed!" she replied briskly.

Red Dress

My friend Nina gave me some clothes from when she and her sister were babies/toddlers back in the 80s and I love them! My favorite is definitely this red dress.

As soon as she put the dress on, I grabbed my phone to take pics, so naturally She decided to hide from the camera. All photos were captured with great precision and skill, I assure you.

Though we have been unable to understand why, one of Scarletts favorite things to talk about is "daddy's red dress". No my husband doesn't sport womensware. Scarlett often calls shirts a "dress" because you get "dressed" in a shirt. Subsequently, Joe normally sticks to the color code of black, grey, navy blue and maybe brown. My Mom gave him a red shirt that she bought for my Dad but he didn't like, and it was such a startling difference, that Scarlett loves to say out of the blue, "and my daddy wore a red dress". After an evening in the nursery on a RS night, the girl watching Scarlett had to know, why is daddy in a red dress? The world may never know.

Jump up jump up, jump around!

Ellie Jane got a borrowed jumper from my Brother, Adam's wife Nikki about a week ago. It's exactly like the one Scarlett had, and she was an instant pro at maneuvering around to get all the toys... Whereas Scarlett had a hard time with those things as a baby. All the better that El is a fast study, I'm sure she will be chasing Scarlett in no time. Here are some pics.

Scarlett wanted to go to the "French fry restaurant"-- which is Pete's-- (also last week). Here's the pic from there.

Another day we met up with my sister Sarah at Chuck E Cheese, and Tyson and Scarlett cruised together in the Hydraulic Truck.

Ellie just watched and she was exhausted, though I must say it was wicked hot in there.

More sweet sisterly play has ensued.

Scarlett has had a couple dry nights but after a few wet nights, I've decided to keep her in a bedtime diaper.

The Blue Scarf

We went to VEGAS for Christmas with the Rawlins clan, and Rita bought all of us moms 2 scarves. I got this lovely blue one and a red one too. Well received for sure.

R&R

This morning, for the first time in a long time I woke up feeling fully rested. That was fantastic. Eloise woke up before Scarlett which was nice providing me time to feed her and get settled before Scarlett awoke with her own set of demands.

Scarlett and I played with her Dora Dominos, and picked up some in the living room. Eloise stayed awake for the full 3 hours between her feedings and then fell fast asleep after eating, took a nice long nap in her crib! She didn't even wake up when I laid Her down. I'm battling her cradle cap again, but dandruff shampoo definitely seems to be working. Scarlett helped me give her a bath later this afternoon. Ellie did so well, didn't cry at all.

Fed her and she fell asleep again, but Scarlett woke her 5 mins later.

Muffin Mornings, Rainbow evenings, and Rainy days.

Every day brings something new and different. Yesterday morning Scarlett and I woke up before Eloise and made poppyseed (Scarlett calls them "puppy seed") muffins. It's from a wonderful #10 can mix that wonderful Rita brought us when she came last month. Scarlett has never liked muffins prior to this.

I don't know if its because I let her help make them or what, but she would single handedly eat the whole dozen if I let her!

Eloise awoke with lots of happy faces to share.

Scarlett really likes to hold Eloise now and since Ellie is getting better at sitting up, she does pretty well with it. Of course I have to stay nearby because Scarlett doesn't realize that when Ellie tries to dive out of her arms, she is headed for a painful face-plant!!

Scarlett has several imaginary friends, one of which is "Joe" (we think from blues clues?) who has recently become "Baby Joe". Unlike most kids with imaginary friends, she acts out the "roles" of each friend, voices included. This is a picture of "baby Joe in his crib".

(apparently he is camera shy)

Here is the floor playtime, with and without Scarlett.

Last night was also the Relief Society birthday party for my Moms ward. Unfortunately she had to work and wasn't going to be able to attend, so I recruited my Sister Wendy who just moved into that ward to come with me. Luckily they had childcare so I could bring Scarlett with me as Joe was working late. The theme was The Wizard of Oz. When I was a little girl I used to watch a VHS tape recording from TV over and over again of this fine film, so my Mom urged me to attend. It was a really nice program and good food (baked potatoes are my absolute fave). I was glad I attended. They also had rice krispie treats and cupcakes too. Before we left I took scarlett to see the "rainbow" they made out of helium balloons. She loved it and I took this pic of her with it. Great Job Nikki Shum on planning it!!

I even took a shower and did my hair and makeup to attend!! Okay maybe some post soon I will stop discussing my personal hygiene but today is not that day, lol.

I didn't sleep super well last night. Scarlett didn't want to stay in her bed but then was noisy and made my quality of sleep suffer. Then add in a few feedings throughout the night (earlier than usual)... This was me in the morning...

Scarlett & Eloise.

Today was a bit cloudy and rainy. Just a sort of gray day, and so too was my disposition. Scarlett's shoe had been missing since the night before when we were getting ready to go to the RS thing, so we couldn't go to the store with Wendy, and Scarletts other pairs of shoes were in my car, at work with Joe.

He did eventually come home for work so we dropped ourselves over at W's house and spent the afternoon there. S was pleased to find they have Tangled on DVD. She loves that movie and we don't have it, much to her dismay. She also spent a couple hours playing with her cousins before she brought us back home.

I feel lucky to have my family all so close together, and enjoy the time we can spend with one another.

We made chili for dinner, and Joe brought home some M&M cookies for us. He got home early enough to get to spend some time with Ellie Jane before bed, which was great because often his work schedule makes that more difficult. Here are some pics.

Now it's about 930. Ellie's asleep and Scarlett is getting tired too, as am I. Joe is asleep on the couch. Good night world wishing you all a beautiful day on the flip side. -Red.