February 2009 – Page 3 – Andelin Adventures

FHE #6

Emergency Preparedness: First Aid Kits

Opening Song:Children’s Songbook pg 195 “Family Night”

Opening Prayer: Jeremy

Scripture: Doctrine & Covenants 1:12 “Prepare ye, prepare ye for that which is to come…..”

Activity:Tonight we are getting out our first aid kits from the van, the purple car, the house and the 72 hour kits, and checking to make sure they are fully stocked and if not then we are restocking them. 🙂 We are also making up a first aid kit to put in the green car.

Closing Song: Hymn 303 “Keep the Commandments”

Closing Payer: Tyra

FHE Treat: Ice Cream Sandwiches (Ethan’s choice)

Ethan’s first fillings

I am so sad that Ethan has 3 cavities. It looks like he might have inherited my and Kyle’s bad teeth. 🙁 That or he doesn’t brush well enough, or maybe even a little of both. So he had a dentist appointment today with a pediatric denstist to get 2 of the 3 cavities filled. The third cavity is on the other side of his mouth and we go back next month to take care of that one. But Ethan did a lot better at the dentist than I expected. He usually doesn’t cooperate when the dentist is just trying to look at or clean his teeth, let alone do work on them. So I was really concerned that Ethan was just going to be uncooperative and cranky towards the dentist (especially since the pediatric denstist isn’t our normal dentist). But Kyle joined us at the appointment and sat in the room with Ethan, and Kyle says he did really well. 🙂

Stomach Bug :(

Well Sunday night just as we were headed to the living room to have family home evening, Jeremy just randomly threw up. So we decided to have family home evening on Wednesday night when Kyle is home, and just Jeremy and the other kiddos in bed.

Well Jeremy was throwing up all night long, and Tyra woke up and came to our room to announce that she had thrown up next to her bed. So Tyra was throwing up all night long too. 🙁 So Kyle stayed home Monday to help out, which was really good because I was feeling lousy too (I just didn’t throw up).

Jeremy threw up last around 6 AM Monday morning, and Tyra couldn’t keep even water down at all. THEN Dinah decided, just as Kyle and I were leaving for my ultrasound appointment that she was going to throw up. So all three of them were sick. Dinah didn’t throw up again after that but Tyra ended up throwing up all through the night again. 🙁

So the only people in the house that didn’t seem to be affected by the bug were Ethan and Kyle, so let’s just hope they don’t end up sick in the next week or so.

20 Week Ultrasound

Kyle and I went to the hospital today to have the routine 20 week ultrasound of the baby. Everything looks well, and the baby is just the right size for this stage of the pregnancy (which you can’t tell by looking at my belly). The baby was awake and quite wiggley during the ultrasound. The ultrasound technician kept saying ‘come on baby hold still long enough for me to measure your head’ and making other similar comments. 😛 We got 4 pictures of the ultrasound and only one of them is any good (the other three, he would try to take a picture and the baby would move or just wouldn’t get in a good position to begin with).

Ethan’s 1st School Project

Well Ethan has been assigned his first school project. He was to make a Velociraptor dinosaur model. At first we made up some salt dough for him to use, but the recipe that was included on the instructions seemed too flimsy, and would NOT produce a standing dinosaur. So we looked up a recipe for salt dough online and it called for an extra cup of salt. So we tried that out and Ethan made up a dinosaur. He used some popsicle sticks as a ‘skeleton’ for the arms and legs so they wouldn’t break as easily.

We left the dino on the kitchen table to dry (didn’t think about making up on a cookie sheet or something like that till after he made it). But it seemed to crumble more than it dried. As it dried it just seemed to be falling apart. Ethan was getting really frustrated during the making of the dinosaur, and then this whole falling apart business…..Ethan was almost in tears saying ‘a lego dinosaur would have been easier’. So Kyle went and bought some legos and came home from work early so Ethan could make a lego dinosaur:

Kyle made the yellow one as an example for Ethan, and Ethan made the rainbow dinosaur. The little boy sitting on the dinosaur is supposed to be Ethan, he wanted to ride his Velociraptor.