Bye Bye Uncle Matt

Helping Uncle Matt play baseball
Pucker up! No more girls for 2 years

Cora Eric Matt Jodi Lesley
My brother Matt left at the beginning of May for his LDS mission (San Fernando CA) and so we thought we'd post some pictures in honor of Matthew. We also want Lisa (who is currently serving a mission and won't have seen Matt for 3 years by the time he comes home) to see some pictures of Matt.

We love our Uncle Matt. Jodi loved talking to him on the phone while he was out at school and won't have the chance for a while. Cora also decided to officially walk by herself the last night Matt was here. We got a video of Cora walking to Matt. She'll be 3 when he sees her next. My guess is she'll be doing more than walking at that point!

Cute Kids

Here are some quick tidbits about my cute girls. :)

1. Cora is very good at imitating the car alarm of our neighbors car. (One of many less than desirable noises heard in our neighborhood often!)

2. When Cora puckers up for bedtime kisses her whole face seems to turn into a pucker to give Daddy his good night kisses.

3. This morning while eating pancakes Jodi kept telling me that I needed to be nice to Daddy and that I needed to say sorry, "Be nice a Daddy okay?" What have I created? I wasn't being mean to Daddy just for the record, she had been reprimanded for not talking nicely earlier in the day and I suppose this was her rebuttal.

My poor little girl!

Sunday while Eric and I were at church meetings Jodi tripped and fell onto my parents fireplace cutting her bottom lip and mashing up her upper gums. We decided stitches would keep her beautiful little face with the least amount of scarring.

Here are the pictures from right when we came back from the ER. She was hungry so she got some yogurt (which you see on her face) and you can tell by her eyes that she is exhausted. We got home after 10:30p.m. just a bit past bedtime. She got 4 stitches in her bottom lip. She was a good sport, mostly. The princess stickers when we left made it all better.

Here are the stitches. Its lookin' a whole lot better!

Great closeup of her dirty face! Doesn't anyone ever clean this kid! :)

And the bathroom drags on!

Jodi pounding away
Cleaning up the dust - plenty of that stuff!
Eric finishing the exhaust fan (well the part before drywall)
Eric putting in insulation - itchy pink stuff
Don't mess with a crazy woman with a drywall gun!